Below is my column on Fox.com regarding the declassification of material related to the origins of the Russian collusion investigation. The same figures are again in the news as the public learns about the real Russian conspiracy. Filling out the cast, the same media figures are again telling the public not to believe their lying eyes.
Here is the column:
The release of declassified material has shed new light on the creation of the Russian collusion investigation and many of the names are crushingly familiar. Indeed, Congress is moving to “round up the usual suspects” in light of the new revelations. It is the story of the real Russian conspiracy: how high-ranking officials in the Obama Administration seeded this false claim with the help of an eager, unquestioning press corps.
Not surprisingly, the media (which spent years repeating the false Russian collusion claims) is doing a full-court press to kill the story. Yet, many of these key figures are retaining counsel in anticipation of the unfolding investigation. Many previously secured contracts with MSNBC or CNN, or book deals, where they doubled down on the false claims detailed in these new documents. Here are just a few of the usual suspects:
John Brennan, Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Brennan is arguably the most at risk in the new disclosures, which allegedly contradict his prior testimony before Congress. On May 23, 2017, Brennan testified that the infamous Steele dossier “wasn’t part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. It was not in any way used as a basis for the Intelligence Community Assessment that was done.”
However, the new material shows that Brennan was the key figure insisting on the inclusion of the Steele dossier in an intelligence assessment, suggesting that the Russians did influence the election in favor of Trump.
Brennan not only intervened to include the dossier but overruled the CIA’s two most senior Russia experts, who said it “did not meet even the most basic tradecraft standards.” One analyst recounted how “[Brennan] refused to remove it, and when confronted with the dossier’s main flaws, [Brennan] responded, ‘Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?’”
Notably, it was Brennan who briefed Obama in 2016 about Hillary Clinton’s plan to create a Russian conspiracy “to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service.” Months later, it would be Brennan who would actively incorporate the dossier secretly funded by Clinton’s campaign.
James Clapper, Former Director of National Intelligence
James Clapper, former DNI under Obama, is expecting the worst and said that he has “lawyered up.” Clapper was in the briefing in July 2016 when Obama was told that Clinton was planning to create a Russian conspiracy narrative. In November 2016, Clapper received an assessment from the intelligence community that Russia was “probably not trying … to influence the election by using cyber means.” He also received talking points from staff on December 7, 2016, “Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome.”
On December 9, 2016, another report stated that “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure.” That Presidential Daily Brief was scheduled to be published on December 9, 2016, but CDNI Clapper’s office stopped its publication “based on some new guidance.”
Clapper later joined Obama with John Brennan, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe and others, in a meeting where a new assessment was ordered that would detail the “tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election.” Brennan then reportedly handpicked the analysts who seemed to flip the earlier assessments without any credible intelligence.
In a 2018 interview with the Harvard Gazette, Clapper continued to spread the false narrative, referring to the high-confidence judgment that “Putin directly ordered the hacking and election interference.” He added, “I think they [Russians] actually influenced the outcome.”
Clapper later added to his tarnished legacy by signing the letter with more than 50 former intelligence officials dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 presidential election as likely “Russian disinformation.”
James Comey, Former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
James Comey would use this contrived intelligence to green-light the investigations that overwhelmed the first Trump term. The FBI was aware early that the Steele dossier was an unreliable political hit job funded by the Clinton campaign. Moreover, the CIA told the FBI that Trump associate Carter Page was a U.S. intelligence asset, not a Russian spy. The FBI ignored such countervailing intelligence, violated protocols, and lied to a federal court to maintain the Russian investigation.
In an interview with Fox’s Bret Baier, Comey was asked about the lack of evidence of “Russian collusion.” Comey dismissed the question by saying “collusion’s not a word that I’m familiar with.” Putting aside the lunacy of that statement, Comey then says the question is whether Americans were “in cahoots with the foreign intelligence activities.” It appears “cahoots” is a word he is familiar with. He then denied knowing, in April 2018, that the Clinton campaign had funded the report. Comey often appears unfamiliar with terms or facts that contradicted his investigation of Trump, even years later.
Comey repeatedly testified to a lack of memory on key decisions made in the Russian investigation. However, documents show that it was Comey who pushed back on a planned statement by Clapper, stating that they had not determined the dossier to be reliable.
Andrew McCabe, Former Acting FBI Director
Andrew McCabe, now a CNN contributor, was fired after career Justice Department officials found that the former acting FBI director not only lied to investigators but deserved to be fired. That recommendation was reportedly embraced by the career officials in the inspector general’s office. He was accused of lying four times, including twice under oath.
Not surprisingly, McCabe makes appearances in the new disclosures. He is not only present at critical meetings, but it also appears that McCabe was allegedly responsible for blocking congressional investigators from interviewing the FBI analysts who supported Brennan and the drafters of the controversial ICA. Congress alleged that McCabe walled off at least 30 FBI employees associated with the dossier.
These and other names are not new. As the media was spreading the false narrative of Russian collusion, many of these figures knew that there was no evidence of such collusion. They said nothing.
Instead, after Obama ordered a new assessment, effectively flipping the conclusions of the earlier assessment, anonymous sources leaked the false narrative to the media, which eagerly ran with the story.
While leaks of the false narrative were rampant, none of the actual facts were leaked to the media. In the meantime, figures like Schiff continued to claim, even after the Special Counsel rejected evidence of collusion, that he had secret evidence to the contrary in the House Intelligence Committee. Schiff never revealed that evidence, and the public now knows that the intelligence community rejected the collusion claims from the outset.
The public is now learning about the real Russian conspiracy and its key players. It was the most infamous — and successful — political hit job in history. The same media that pushed the false claims are now, again, imposing a news blackout as they did with the Hunter Biden laptop. The problem is that the truth, like water, tends to find a way out. That trickle just turned into a flood for the architects of the Russian collusion hoax.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
I don’t like the idea of federal prosecutors deciding who is lying. Why? Because that means they have the power to decide fact from deceitful infowarfare. If the USG is the one waging the deceitful infowarfare, are they going to indict their own mouthpieces? No. They’re going to find that their detractors are the ones lying.
This is why our Founders (Jefferson) insisted on a 1st Amendment blocking government prosecution as a means of policing the political infospace.
Much better to have The People be able to confront and deter Public Frauds through civil lawsuits. The USG cannot stand at the Court Clerk’s door and block such lawsuits. The government’s role in civil proceedings is neutral, providing a courtroom and a Judge. A jury of 12 Americans are the ones deciding fact from artful fiction.
That is how Nicholas Sandmann prevailed over CNN and WaPo’s vile and repugnant campaign to paint him as an Indian-hater. That is how the Sandy Hook parents took down Alex Jones for spreading vicious lies accusing them of a hoax (not really losing their child to murder). That is how Dominion Voting Systems put a stake in the heart of Fox News’ false accusation of the company assisting election cheating.
The only piece missing is, these lawsuits were possible because the big lie had the impact of defaming someone.
What about political whoppers carefully crafted to skirt defamation? Hunter’s laptop, WMDs and Al Qaeda in Iraq,
Trump winning in 2020 by a landslide?
If we can expand defamation civil lawsuits to cover Public Frauds in the political sphere, then this is the correct way to handle the Clinton-Obama cabal. And the time to handle it was when it was first pitched to Buzzfeed in Jan 2017.
We have a future to think about. Are we sheep willing to be manipulated?…or independent-minded citizens who demand honesty from our elected leaders (and candidates) — and can back it up in a court of law with consequences?
We’re going down the wrong path with prosecution as the tool. That will put too much power in the hands of President and AG. And you have to assume another generation of leftist liars are waiting in the wings to assume power. We have to think beyond the current lineup.
ODD, did you post this info when Biden was in charge?
So how. I think not.
More bad news for you dem/libs.
I’m loving it.
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The Wall Street Journal has released a new poll showing that Democrats have received the lowest rating from voters in 35 years.
Specifically, their polling shows 63% of voters disapprove of Democrats, which is the highest disapproval since 1990.
Excuse me, its only the WSJ. They have no credibility you realize.
Annony moron, it is not only the WSJ. It is also the CNN own poll, https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5406294-democrats-lowest-favorability-in-decades-poll/
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!
OOOOOOO- so it’s only good when they attack Prez Trump. Right
I too wonder why Obama/Clinton (Soros) were excluded – the damage done by them and their associates from the start is incalculable. Had we not turned a corner last November, it’s likely we’d have gotten to or at least be well on our way to the point of truth tellers (including the likes of the Professor) being actively persecuted beyond smearing or intimidation, and a great many of us have seen the truth from the beginning.
We’ve only pressed pause; there is still a long way to go. This is all a good start, though. Our modern left is without question, a corrupt and lawless regime, and the masks are nearly fully gone. It’s madness.
PS – what has been done to Trump was intended to be all of our fates for dissidence, eventually, IMO
James,
Could it be they are going after the little fish to see if they can get them to flip on the bigger fish?
This is not surprising given the partisan characters involved. But how did the Trump administration not expose this more fully in his first term? And have the relevant statutes of limitation not run on potential crimes by these bad actors?
“But how did the Trump administration not expose this more fully in his first term?”
Most of DC including the Republican establishment were against him. One example, his attorney general was a joke who rolled over for everything. Guess who recommended him? The establishment. Guess who wouldn’t allow Trump to fire him for not doing his job? The establishment. Nice trick there.
“And have the relevant statutes of limitation not run on potential crimes by these bad actors?”
Two words: continuing conspiracy.
Look at the history of the House Intel Report of 2018 and you’ll have an answer to your question. Democrats and deep state partisans used every trick imaginable to keep its contents out of public view. That report shows that much of what is contained in the document dump by Gabbard was already known midway through Trump’s first term, but the return of the House to Democrats in 2018 virtually guaranteed suppression of facts, reports, and investigations. And what was it that caused the return of the House to Democrats? Well, that would be Russia, Russia, Russia. It’s a feedback loop to maintain the status quo.
Why did you leave out Obama??
I just hope “truth like water will leak out!” I am not optimistic. Dug in libs will never listen to the facts.
People rarely listen when you’re attacking their religious beliefs. Remember, for leftists, politics is their religion.
The list of people criminally involved in this dangerous episode of Espionage is very long, like in the hundreds to thousands (if you count the propaganda operation). It even includes Judges assigned to approve Search & Seizure Warrants………..
Criminally involved? Before call it criminal you have to prove it is. Can you do that?
Really? You need to prove that a crime occurred? That’s news to folks like George Papadopoulos, can anyone actually name what actual crime he committed? General Mike Flynn, what crime did he commit? Seems to me that if the target is on the right, then crimes are optional before the show trails start.
Prove it. In their cases it was proven.
What was “proven”? I’m asking seriously, here. Other than being guilty because they worked for Trump, what crimes did they supposedly commit? Hounded by federal criminals into pleading out to worthless process charges in order to get their lives back, what were the predicate crimes? You’ll try to answer some smoke-screen garbage, but here’s the real answer: there was no crime. Just like the garbage Trump trials, it’s all “find the man and we’ll find the crime” and people are sick of it, and we’re sick of people like you. We reelected Trump because we saw through your lawfare. I sure hope that stings.
Yup
Let’s pick at nits, shall we?!
You first.
Why, do you need help in removing your lice? In most pharmacies in the first world, you can get a topical medicine for that. Beijing or Moscow or Lahore, I can’t help you there, ask your boss.
“to vilify Donald Trump . . .”
Part of the Left’s smear campaign against Tulsi Gabbard is the following:
That by releasing the Obama corruption files, she is harming the reputation of America’s intelligence community.
You know what wrecks the reputation of our intelligence agencies? —
Politicizing intelligence. Propagandizing intelligence. Using “intelligence” as a pretext for lawfare. Using spy agencies to destroy the political opposition — as did the Soviets. As does Putin. As did Brennan, et al.
And the corrupt formula is always the same: Start with an end or desire (to “get Trump”). Then use any means necessary to satisfy that desire.
P.S. Great summary and analysis, JT. Thank you.
Sam
Remember when O-dumber used the IRS to go after folks who had broken no laws.
Sam,
Great comment and spot on!!
CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT FROM YOUR USUAL SUSPECTS RISK ASSESSMENT: HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON – who set the whole ball of garbage oozing downhill (with the significant help of FUSION GPS/GLENN SIMPSON et al) prompting Brennan, who then “briefed Obama in 2016 about Hillary Clinton’s plan to create a Russian conspiracy “to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service.” The focus now is preoccupied with OBAMA’S role, whereas H.R.CLINTON has moonwalked backward into the bushes … again.
Well said. That lady was a malign influence on everything she touched. I liked the apparent Russian reports that she was “somewhat” out of control during the campaign of 2016. She certainly seemed in an up and down psychological state. I noted that in 2016 but being a practicing physician then ethics prohibited me from saying it since I never treated her. I am no longer so constrained. Besides it was apparently the Russian assessment and I am only “agreeing” now.
Thank God HRC was never elected president. President Autopen was bad enough but HRC with almost unbridled power and no ethics. What a catastrophe that would have been.
Ĥillary Clinton’s co-conspirator in the attempt to take down Trump was Perkins Coie lawyer and hidden conduit for Steele Dossier funding Marc Elias, in violation of New York Election Law 17-152.
Elias, no longer associated with Perkins Coie, has been painting himself as some sort of savior of democracy.
If you know the coordinates of where Putin is, Ukrainian generals would like to know.
They have a Neptune missile with his name on it.
You can contact them at:
https://mod.gov.ua/en
Have you asked Hillary Clinton? She might have more American uranium to sell him. What was her email again? Hillary @ illegal server dot com?
Anonymous 7:56AM. 30 thousand pound bunker buster would be better. It always pays to be sure.
Why would any of us citizens know the location of Putin? What a dumb comment.
If Putin had half the power attributed to him by Dems, he would be king of the world. Yet no one knows how he handled the US sinking a Russian submarine in 2000;https://youtu.be/cNB7-KBU1ZQ?si=zgVj3cB34ZGIhM7u
If there was ever any doubt about how stupid and inept is the legacy media, look no further than their refusal to report on these allegations, allegations they should instead seize upon and report fairly and truthfully as redemption for their past failures. They are beyond irredeemable.
Nothing stupid and inept. Intentional. Do you get that?
Remember: To the legacy media, the 9 year old Russia hoax is too old to bother with. They want to focus on Trump’s association with Epstein, which ended over 20 years ago.
Michaeldix2f64102fb2,
But what are facts to Democrats?
Once again! No consequences for criminal political shenanigans.
Ad you said: shenanigans. That a crime? Only in the MAGA code of laws.
They faked intelligence. They committed crimes. Everyone knows it. You already admitted that they’re guilty of criminal acts, but they’ll never be held to account because of democrat partisanship.
Everyone? Prove it.
You admit it, so that’s one. I’ll get moving on questioning the rest of humanity after I finish breakfast.
They will not be held acountable because they can not be convicted in a DC court – particularly not by the very judges that aided and abetted their crimes.
It shouldn’t be too hard to prove that one of their illegal acts occurred in a jurisdiction that actually cares about the law, unlike the blue area hellholes which only care about the Democrat party.
18 U.S. Code § 241 – Conspiracy against rights
18 U.S. Code § 242 – Deprivation of rights under color of law
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States,
These people were inarguably acting as lawful authorities. There actions inarguably subjected many people to deprivation of rights priviledges, and immunities protected by the constitution and laws of the US.
Carter Page, George Papdoulus, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Donald Trump and many many others were investigated, in some cases prosecuted and even convicted in furtharance of a Hoax being perpitrated by them using their powers under the “color of law”
I have repeatedly criticized those on the right who call this treason – treason is defined in the constitution. And this is NOT treason.
But it is not that surprising that so many people rush to Treason – as it is very very close to treason.
In addition to the crimes listed above – as well as repeated perjuries – and even the lies to the public – a lie by a govenrment official to the public is not typically a crime, but lying to the public as a government official for the purpose of undermining the lawful govenrment of the united states AND illegally depriving numberous people of their civil rights under color of law – that is a very serious crime.
The people Turley is identifying were NOT acting as private citizens. Nor were they acting as elected or unelected members of the political oposition. They were acting as part of the US federal government and they were doing so in defiance of the law, the constitution, and the rights of numerous individuals.
Yes, these are very serious crimes. Further this is a criminal conspiracy which the president of the united states was deeply involved in and could not have occured but for his direction.
Trump is correct, Obama should be greatful for the supreme court presidential immunity decision – as it most definitely applies to him in this instance.
Obama lead these people in an attempted soft coup against the president elect.
To my knowledge no president in US history has done anything so egregious.
And VP Joe Biden was right there in the middle of it all.
These people are revolting criminals of the worst type.
But what is also disturbing is that for those of us who actually excercise critical thinking – none of this is new.
Nothing that has been made public recently does anything beyond confirming officially reporting that those of use with reasonable intelligence were aware of almost 10 years ago.
It is not mere shenanigans when the power of the US government is being used, when law enforcement is being used to target people to advance a KNOWN HOAX.
These are very serious crimes.
They are NOT treason – but they are actually extremely close to treason.
I am not sure if Obama is not at risk. His orders and actions sort of danced back and forth between his role as President and his Role as leader of a conspiracy. I don’t think leading a conspiracy to bring down an elected president is one of his defined acts. The difficulty would be unwinding the protected and immune acts from the unprotected and non immune acts. Unwinding and proving it was not protected would be difficult.
The only person who came close was Arron Burr and he failed but didn’t get convicted of Treason.
John Say,
Great comment!!!
This could all have been settled in 2017 if we had an actual attorney general then, instead of the hopeless Jeff Sessions. He was so freaking inept at this game, someone had to be blackmailing him.
Inept, or intentional?
The appointment of Jeff Sessions, who Democrats convinced with little effort to recuse himself from anything have to do with the Russia allegations, was one of 2 critical mistakes DJT made. The other and IMO more damaging error was allowing James Comey to continue as Director of the FBI. Trump could have fired him just after the inauguration with good reason for the actions he took related to the investigation of HRC’s private server and the deleted emails. Any political fallout would have been minimal. Those 2 mistakes were critical in the continuation of the assault on the POTUS and the crimes committed against the USA by the Obama administration.
You’re not wrong, though Comey was only the tip of the iceberg. Even if Trump had fired him from the start, existing players such as McCabe and Lisa Page, etc, would have continued the effort to bring down Trump.
“ Even if Trump had fired him from the start, existing players such as McCabe and Lisa Page, etc, would have continued the effort to bring down Trump.”
Another wonderful result of Democrat skullduggery, every incoming administration will now routinely fire the upper levels of all federal agencies.
All roads — and by that is meant ALL thoroughfares, paths, trails, freeways and turnpikes — lead back to the guy who claims to have been born in Honolulu and “thus,” purportedly, a “natural born Citizen” as intended by the Founders. Really?
Oh, what a tangled web…. and steaaming hot mess in the middle of the road.
Stupid comment.
Yep, just like every comment you leave here. You’re not particularly bright, and you’re just terrible at trolling. Have you considered an actual job?
The anons are at it again. You go Karens.
You have clue what “Karen” means, do you? Does it not translate into Mandarin?
Yeah…the one who has a Connecticut Social Security number (that belongs to a long dead man) that has NEVER been explained.
Yet, the psy-op to make Trump the bad guy worked. The Left has a knee jerk reaction that anything Trump says or does must be awful. They won’t even look at him on tv. Immediately turn the channel in disgust. TDS was an actual disease that spread, not a hoax like some other diseases I am not mentioning. And I’m betting not a soul involved with this will be punished. And if anything were to come of it, nothing can excuse all the abuse that has been and continues against President Trump. The media is complicit.
You really think TDS applies just to libs? I suggest folks like you too suffer from TDS, thinking everything he does is to save humanity. I disagree.
I’m sure that this seemed smart to you when you wrote it. It isn’t. You’re welcome.
Ok Karen, noted.
Karen ^^^
You have no idea what the term “Karen” means, do you?
OK, then either shut up or explain.
It’s really that easy.
You are really not very good at this. Your reflexive TDS is ginormous and taints every post you scribble.
Mr. Turley, somehow you forgot Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton in your rouges gallery.
Epstein?
Squirrel!
Lying under oath…weaponizing government to attack political opponents. All in the service of the lust for political power, the narcotic of politicians. And aided and abetted by a disingenuous, fawning mainstream media.
Makes Watergate look like a dog and pony show.
Who will pay for these abuses of power, this betrayal of The People, and what will be the price ?
It will be interesting to see who funds the attorney expenses for them. I followed Watergate closely and you are right. By comparison, those in Nixon administration were amateurs.
“And aided and abetted by a disingenuous, fawning mainstream media.”
It’s been said that you have to vote Republican because we need to have an adversarial media, and the media just won’t do their job against Democrats.
I remember (every-day) when CNN would say BREAKING news on the Russia story. But it wasn’t new at all, just the same story from the day before. With a little twist in the story.
How does one get a Pulitzer for reporting on a story that didn’t exist? We’re really gone full post-modern.
The Russia matter is really competing with the various Biden dementia related matters for the title of worst political scandal of all time. Both of them absolutely dwarf Watergate, which was enough to bring the Nixon presidency down and send multiple people (likely including Nixon if not for Ford’s pardon of him) to prison.
You can’t bring down a president that has been out of office for over 8 years. But there should be consequences for the perpetrators of this travesty. Yet almost any trial would end up in Washington DC so there would not be a fair trial and they would all get off as not guilty. DC votes somewhere between 95-97 percent Democratic. Where are you going to find a nonpartisan judge and jury in Washington DC? Remember the Sussman trial?
Michael Sussmann was tried in 2022 for allegedly lying to the FBI about his representation of the Hillary Clinton campaign during a meeting in 2016. He was acquitted of all charges, with the jury concluding that he had told the truth to the FBI
– BBC
That statement is almost hilarious at this point. The FBI was lying.
There will be no “trials” for the blood thirsty MAGA crowds, everything that has been put forth are just allegations. Smart DC lawyers can handle anything MAGA throws at that crew. Just congressional hearings. So cam down, no blood.
So you’re admitting that they’re guilty. Noted.
They had him dead to rights that he lied to the FBI. He even charged the Clinton campaign for time and material. The jury concluded nothing except that Sussman was not guilty because Democrat.
It may not be possible to bring his Presidency down, but information can be added to the record so that historical records will more accurately reflect his true legacy. A century from now, all the usual suspects will be long dead and gone.
It is frustrating and frightening to witness the Potomac Two Step. These characters are slick.
“We select a jury of our peers to determine who hired the best lawyers.”
E.m.
That right there. Likely they will not be able to bring Obama’s Presidency down but with this evidence, his legacy will be in shambles. Just like the current Democrat party is, as recently stated by Democrat strategist James Carville. I would like to see more evidence, the DOJ to charge those involved, them to go to court, for all the evidence to be presented for the American people to see, watch how MSM and the DNC attempt to gaslight, lie or ignore the evidence and if the jury finds them guilty for the record to be set straight.
The question I have is are these people that much TDS zealots that they will be willing to fall on what should be Obama’s sword just to protect him? Or, as more and more evidence comes to light, will they make a plea deal to save their own skin and turn on others? Based on the evidence so far, the prosecutions case is looking pretty strong.
Nixon grew up a poor Quaker and had a well deserved hatred for the “east coast establishment”. A major plank of his re-election campaign was to reform and reduce the power of the Deep State bureaucracy. He won re-election in a landslide.
However, a highly ranked FBI employee then conspired with the Washington Post to take him down. Sound familiar?
History does not repeat, but it rhymes.
It has been noticed more than once that Trump is the 2nd coming of Nixon. Similar policies, and similar reactions from his enemies.
Watergate was a leftist fever and ultimate wet dream. They brought down Nixon. But the Left has no desire to bring down anyone associated with Barack Obama so Dems and their media stooges will vehemently fight to skip right past the Obama scandal even though this ultimate scandal makes Watergate look like the Keystone Kops break-in it actually was.
Yes and some of the same people who attacked Nixon were and a few are still around to attack Trump