Obama led 'Trump-Russia
collusion' smear job
Wednesday, April
3, 2019
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Michael F.
Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com)
Former United States
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper attested in a CNN interview
that President Barack Obama is responsible for spearheading the
Russia-collusion probe against President Donald Trump.
While attempting to defend his former boss’s legacy against
Trump’s assertion that the Obama administration took no action about Russian
meddling in U.S. elections, he actually affirmed that the former president is
responsible for the allegations made to spur the Trump-Russia collusion
investigation.
Two years of conspiracy down the drain for Dems?
The accusations have embroiled and plagued the president while
tying up investigators in Washington for two years – claims that U.S. Special
Counsel Robert Mueller recently debunked to the chagrin of Democrats and the
anti-Trump media.
Clapper explained that Obama’s effort to smear Trump led an
enduring effort in Washington to tie the president to the Russians.
“If it weren’t for President Obama, we might not have done the
intelligence community assessment that we did that set off a whole sequence of
events which are still unfolding today – notably, special counsel Mueller’s
investigation,” Clapper told CNN, according to WND.
It was indicated that the ongoing probe was set up to prove
meddling and collusion – rather than investigate whether or not such unscrupulous
activity was actually taking place.
"The intelligence community assessment to which [Clapper]
refers addressed Russia meddling in general, [and] that was the special
counsel’s task, as well,” WND noted. “But it’s clear that Obama officials –
including Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan – were promoting the
Trump-collusion allegation … and that claim was the focus of Mueller’s
probe.”
Clapper’s response regarding Obama and the probe was questioned
by CNN’s Anderson Cooper in the interview.
“The 2017 assessment that the president says he now agrees with
– that was done while you and then NCI Director John Brennan were still in
office,” Cooper said, setting up his inquiry. “So, how can we reconcile the
president attacking you, but apparently, after a very long time finally,
allegedly … saying he agrees with the product of the intelligence community
that you, yourself oversaw?”
Clapper then directed the attention away from himself onto
Trump, before trying to shed Obama in a positive light.
“Yes, well, this is – yes, as we’ve come to know the President –
he is not a stalwart for a consistency or coherence, so it’s very hard to
explain that,” Clapper responded. “One point I’d like to make, Anderson – that
I don’t think has come up very much before, and I’m alluding now to the
president’s criticism of President Obama for all that he did or didn’t do
before he left office with respect to the Russian meddling – if it weren’t for
President Obama, we might not have done the intelligence community assessment
that we did that set off a whole sequence of events which are still unfolding
today … notably, special counsel Mueller’s investigation.”
He then credited Obama for masterminding the probe orchestrated
to incriminate Trump.
“President Obama is responsible for that, and it was he who
tasked us to do that intelligence community assessment in the first place,”
Clapper continued. “I think it’s an important point when it comes to critiquing
President Obama.”
As a byproduct of the false Russia collusion allegations against
Trump, key Democrats were found to be conspiring to undermine Trump’s run for
the White House in 2016.
“While Mueller concluded the Trump campaign did not collude
with Russia, the House Intelligence Committee and investigative reporters have
turned up evidence of collusion between the Obama administration, Hillary
Clinton and the Democratic National Committee to prevent Trump from winning,”
WND pointed out. “A key line of inquiry is the story surrounding the dossier of
unverified, anti-Trump ‘dirt’ funded by the Clinton campaign and the DNC. The
document – the House intel panel found – was used by the Obama Justice
Department and FBI to obtain warrants to spy on the Trump campaign.”
An inquiry into the exact origins of the collusion allegation
was launched by Sen. Lindey Graham (R-S.C.). in the wake of investigative
reporters John Solomon and Sara Carter’s groundbreaking coverage about the
Obama administration’s central role in pushing the collusion narrative.
Holding Trump and friends accountable
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders urged
Congress to call officials of the Obama administration – including Clapper,
former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan – to
testify.
“[These Obama officials] perpetrated this absurd lie [that
President Trump was a] foreign agent [for Russia], Sanders proclaimed from the
White House lawn, according to Fox News.
After defending his commentary as a CNN national security
analyst, Clapper addressed Sanders’ remarks, insisting that she was
misrepresenting the matter.
“Clapper … responded by suggesting that Sanders was
‘confusing’ collusion with Russian interference, telling Anderson Cooper that
he was ’tasked’ by then-President Obama to put together the reports on Russian
interference in the 2016 election,” Fox News’ Joseph A. Wulfsohn explained. “He
insisted that he had been ‘consistent’ shortly following Trump’s inauguration
that ‘we didn’t have enough evidence’ at the time and that the Mueller probe
would ‘resolve it once and for all.’”
With the Mueller phase of the investigation concluding Trump’s
innocence regarding the Russian collusion allegations, the floodgates to find
those responsible for the attack on the president’s loyalty – to keep him from
the White House and then to impeach him – are now wide open.
Trump is at the forefront of spurring efforts to expose Obama
and his officials for framing him for collusion charges.
“President Trump retweeted a link about a Wall Street Journal
op-ed saying the Obama administration must account for ‘abuse
of surveillance powers,’” a USA
Today op-ed recalled.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) also made a call to bring Obama and his
administration to justice regarding the probe.
“Time to investigate the Obama officials who concocted and
spread the Russian conspiracy hoax!” Paul tweeted.
Former spokesman for the George W. Bush administration, Ari
Fleisher, asked what USA Today opinion columnist James S. Robbins called “the
ultimate question” when addressing the two-year fiasco.
“What did Barack Obama know and what and when did he authorize
it?” Fleischer tweeted.
