(RedState)
For years, the Obama administration has claimed that they were completely hands off regarding the Trump-Russia investigation. They’ve worked hard to build a wall of deniability based on nonsensical assertions the they didn’t even know about it.
Ben Rhodes, the former President’s foremost Obama bro, tried this line out a few weeks ago.
“No, no, I cannot be clear enough about this. We didn’t even know there was an FBI investigation of Trump. I didn’t. President Obama didn’t, like, we actually abided by the firewalls between – if there were any investigations that took place, those decisions were made in the Justice Department, in the FBI, not in the White House,”
This was obviously a lie because a revealed text from Peter Strzok, the disgraced former FBI agent who was leading Crossfire Hurricane, admitted that the entire investigation was being running out of the White House. That would obviously make sense as there’s just little possibility that Clapper, Brennan, and Comey all just didn’t bother to brief Obama on what they were doing. Read more