This morning’s post mocked a certain current POTUS about a recent attack by the Trump political operation blaming former President Barack Obama for allowing the Russians to influence the 2016 election in favor of well – that same current POTUS. This is not a joke. See the Black Ink post of this morning,
I had forgotten the details about whether and why Obama might have done such a thing. But in reading the comments just now, I got a reminder, which I’m hereby passing along for the benefit of those who may not read the discussion threads.
President Obama had intelligence indicating that Russia was using various efforts to help Donald Trump win. He wanted to make it public, but was concerned that, as a Democrat himself but also the POTUS and the most important recipient of such intelligence, it would look partisan and unseemly to make the intelligence finding public unless he had backing to do so from congressional leaders of both parties.
Mitch McConnell, the leader of Senate Republicans, refused to sign a statement condemning the Russian efforts. Obama, for good or ill, chose not to go public.
Politico ran a recent piece that goes over the matter. It quotes then-Vice President Joe Biden, who was in the middle of the effort to get bipartisan condemnation.
Biden said that soon after Election Day, more intelligence clarified how extensive the Russian effort had been, and suggested that if that intelligence had been available sooner “we may have done something more,” to expose what the Russians were doing.
Thank you, commenter Brian Mann for alerting me to that piece of the story.
Mitch McConnell should explain why he obscured Russian ...
Now McConnell's pre-election move to obscure Russian interference will .... Obama and the Democrats should have gone ahead with the statement, .... Ex-UK football player mailed $8,000 connected to drugs, feds allege in claim for cash.
Mitch McConnell tries gaslighting on Obama, Russia | MSNBC
Mar 26, 2019 - That said, for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) ... McConnell argued that the report shows that Obama was ... Obama White House's attempts to call out the Russia interference efforts ahead of the 2016 election.
This is the pet answer of all the paranoid republicans who question the FISA warrant. On the one hand Obama should have done more and on the other hand he was guilty of a conspiracy to throw the election. Thank you for acknowledging that he should have done more.
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