Politics –
Blame-Game:
Trump Blames
Obama Over Russia
If anyone expected Donald Trump to ever have a “The Buck Stops Here” moment and accept responsibility for ANYTHING, prepare to be disappointed once again. Â This time, “The Donald” is playing the blame-game with Barack Obama by calling him responsible for Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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“The reason that President Obama did NOTHING about Russia after being notified by the CIA of meddling is that he expected Clinton would win … and did not want to ‘rock the boat.’ He didn’t ‘choke,’ he colluded or obstructed, and it did the Dems and Crooked Hillary no good,” Trump tweeted.
“The real story is that President Obama did NOTHING after being informed in August about Russian meddling. With 4 months looking at Russia … under a magnifying glass, they have zero ‘tapes’ of T people colluding. There is no collusion & no obstruction,” he continued.
Trump then tripled down on his blame-game and demanded that Mr. Obama should apologize to HIM for the current investigation of collusion that is dogging the Trump presidency!
On Monday, Trump dispatched White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer to further his blame-game claims that the Obama administration’s actions on Russia raise questions about the former president’s motivations.
“They have been very clear, they’ve been playing this card about blaming Trump and Russia,” Spicer said during a briefing at the White House where cameras are no longer allowed. “And yet at the same time, they were the ones who, according to this report, knew about it and didn’t take any action.”
“So the question is, if they didn’t take any action, does that make them complicit? I think there are a lot of questions that need to get answered about who knew what and when,” Spicer said.
Trump’s shift of blame to his predecessor comes after last week’s revelation by 2 top intelligence officials that Trump tried to convince them to publicly declare there was no collusion between his campaign and the Russians.
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers each described their interactions with Trump regarding the Russia investigation as “uncomfortable,” which only adds more fuel to the fire of the Trump investigation.
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As President of the United States, Barack Obama naturally learned of Russia’s meddling before anyone else. Â He is also on record as saying he chose not to make the information public prior to the election so as to avoid any implication of attempting to affect the outcome — particularly amid Trump’s claims at the time that the election was rigged.
“I actually think that the president thought that since Trump was saying the election was rigged, he didn’t want to seem like he was putting his thumb on the scale,” Sen. Al Franken said of Mr. Obama during an appearance Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Still, that is not good enough for Donald Trump. Rather than admit or accept his own (or his team’s) role in Russia’s meddling in the presidential election, he’d rather shift responsibility and play the blame-game.
“Since the Obama Administration was told way before the 2016 Election that the Russians were meddling, why no action? Focus on them, not T!” Trump tweeted. Â “It’s an amazing thing. To me — in other words, the question is, if he had the information, why didn’t he do something about it?” Trump added.
In a logical defense, a former Obama White House official called the Trump administration’s attacks “a transparent effort to distract…,” which is the frequent standard for them.
“This situation [Russia’s meddling] was taken extremely seriously,” the official said, adding that Mr. Obama chose to raise the issue directly with Vladimir Putin, directed a comprehensive intelligence review, shut down two Russian compounds, sanctioned nine Russian entities and individuals, and ejected 35 Russian diplomats from the country.
For months, Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the Russian hacking accusation (validated by 17 US intelligence agencies) and allegations of collusion between his campaign and the Kremlin was a “hoax” perpetrated by Democrats upset over Hillary Clinton’s election loss. However, his recent string of tweets now seems to suggest he is finally acknowledging that Russia did play a role in his election victory.
Just last Wed or Thurs. I expressed my astonishment at how easily this pathologically twisted fool continues to *play* the news media at will, 24/7. Most of cable news, in particular, is just pitiful these days. They hang onto his every word no matter how outlandish and/or patently false his statements or tweets…repeating his crap ad nauseam as if any of it is has any relation to Truth or Facts. It's all pure *reality-show* BS to keep his base fired up and keep the media distracted. Of course Pres. Obama didn't "collude" with the Russians in any way, shape or form. He did, however, allow *politics* to guide his handling – or rather MIS-handling – of the situation. And that was a monumentally costly error in judgement on his part. "It Took Two to Make Russian Meddling Effective" Excerpt: And then there was Obama’s mysterious reluctance, as described by many… Read more »