President Donald Trump suggested on May 27 that President Barack Obama took no action to thwart Russian interference in the 2016 election in order to secure a victory for Hillary Clinton.
“Why didn’t President Obama do something about the so-called Russian Meddling when he was told about it by the FBI before the Election?” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Because he thought Crooked Hillary was going to win, and he didn’t want to upset the apple cart! He was in charge, not me, and did nothing.”
Amid the wide-ranging counterintelligence operation, the Obama administration never alerted candidate Trump that his campaign was the target of foreign interference.
The Department of Justice announced on May 20 that it is investigating whether anyone in the Obama administration engaged in infiltrating Trump’s campaign for “inappropriate purposes.”
The origins of the Russia investigation are now under scrutiny since at least one FBI spy infiltrated the Trump campaign much earlier than the official start of the Russia investigation on July 31, 2016. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has stonewalled congressional and White House requests to learn more about the spy and the origins of the investigation.
The DOJ presented at least some documents pertaining to the spy to members of Congress and officials from the Justice Department and the FBI on May 24.
“If they don’t show us these documents, well, we are just going to have to say no,” Giuliani told Fox.
“We are more convinced, as we see it, that this is a rigged investigation,” the attorney told CNN in a separate appearance. “Now we have this whole new ‘Spygate’ thing thrown on top of it, on top of already very legitimate questions.”
To date, seven Obama administration officials who played a role in the surveillance operation on the Trump campaign have been referred for criminal investigation.
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