Trump: Obama Committed “Biggest Political Crime in US History”; Obama Officials Involved in Flynn ‘Unmasking’ Declassified; New Documents Are ‘Smoking Gun’; Obama, Biden Are ‘Scared’ the Truth Will Come out
By Morgan Phillips. President Trump on Monday escalated his feud with former President Obama, insisting during a news conference that his predecessor committed a “crime” but refusing to dive into details.
When asked by a reporter in the Rose Garden what crime he is accusing Obama of committing, Trump responded: “Obamagate, it’s been going on for a long time, it’s been going on from before I got elected, and it’s a disgrace that it happened. You look at now all of this information that’s being released and from what I understand that’s only the beginning.”
When pressed for details, the commander in chief told a Washington Post reporter, “You know the crime. The crime is very obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers, except yours.”
Trump on Sunday quoted a tweet that accused Obama of using “his last weeks in office to target incoming officials and sabotage the new administration.”
The biggest political crime in American history, by far! https://t.co/m5nPdUHt4u
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 10, 2020
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By ABC News. Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has declassified a list of former Obama administration officials who were allegedly involved in the so-called “unmasking” of former national security adviser Michael Flynn in his conversations with the former Russian ambassador during the presidential transition, a senior U.S. official tells ABC News.
Grenell, who remains the U.S. ambassador to Germany along with being the acting DNI, visited the Justice Department last week and brought the list with him, according to the official.
His visit indicates his focus on an issue previously highlighted in 2017 by skeptics of the investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia, specifically allegations that former officials improperly unveiled Flynn’s identity from intercepts of his call with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Grenell’s visit came the same week that Attorney General William Barr moved to dismiss the criminal case against Flynn following his guilty plea for lying to the FBI about his conversations with Kislyak.
Barr has said that new information revealed in recent weeks about the conduct of FBI officials involved in the interview of Flynn showed that their investigation was not “legitimate.” (Read more from “Any Obama Officials Involved in Flynn ‘Unmasking’ Declassified: Source” HERE)
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Chaffetz Says New Flynn Documents Are ‘Smoking Gun’: Obama, Biden Are ‘Scared’ the Truth Will Come out
By Fox News. The internal memos released from the FBI’s investigation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn represent a “smoking gun” against the FBI under James Comey’s leadership, former House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz said Monday.
“I do think it is the smoking gun,” Chaffetz told “America’s Newsroom’s” Ed Henry.
Chaffetz recalled a meeting – before President Trump was inaugurated – involving President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates in which they discussed matters “very specific to General Flynn.”
Chaffetz also said FBI agents went to the White House to interview Flynn without clearance and without abiding by protocol.
“It’s hard to believe that there is anything other than direct acknowledgment and direction from the president of the U.S. to the FBI director, who then does things a couple of weeks later that is totally unprecedented in storming, in that the White House, putting this ambush together, and going after General Flynn like we’ve never seen before,” Chaffetz said. (Read more from “Chaffetz Says New Flynn Documents Are ‘Smoking Gun’: Obama, Biden Are ‘Scared’ the Truth Will Come out” HERE)
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