Senate Republicans break with Trump over ‘Obamagate’https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/11/senate-republicans-trump-obamagate-249734Quote
Trump allies have honed in, in particular, on a Jan. 5, 2017 meeting of the outgoing Obama national security team during which the Russia investigation was a topic. Obama attended the meeting, along with then-Vice President Joe Biden and other senior intelligence and Justice Department officials. Flynn’s calls with Russia’s former ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak were a subject of the meeting, according to multiple accounts by participants shared with investigators.
“I don’t know who they consulted with, who they got permission from, and some of the revelations that I read including conversations with Comey and Sally Yates and others are very troubling,” Cornyn said.
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The president's 'Obamagate' theory has been around for a while in Republican circles — just not under that namehttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-barack-obama-obamagate-a9509501.htmlQuote
Republicans in Congress have been saying for years that the FBI unfairly targeted Trump campaign and administration officials over the course of its Russia investigation — even though special counsel Robert Mueller found that many of them had indeed met or corresponded with people affiliated with the Russian government during the campaign and transition.
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who was his chamber’s Judiciary Committee chairman last Congress, applauded Mr Barr’s decision to let Mr Flynn go and predicted “other shoes to drop.”
"He was entrapped," Mr Grassley said in an interview with Fox News last week.
"Entrapment is unconstitutional. It's a violation of your due process. Secondly, this thing would not be exposed if it hadn't been for Barr taking the bull by the horns and knowing something was wrong and going in and knowing where things were wrong, how to straighten it out. We haven't heard the end of Bill Barr's good work because everything that's going on with the Durham investigation is another example of still other shoes to drop,” Mr Grassley said.
Mr Grassley also suggested that “maybe there should be people prosecuted” over the treatment of Mr Flynn and others.
Republican lawmakers for years have accused the leaders of the FBI’s Russia probe of letting political bias influence their investigation, a position that was not substantiated by a report last year from DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
Mr Horowitz’s report does, however, highlight a rash of issues with how the agents conducted the probe, including problems with their FISA warrant applications.
Mr Barr, the leader of the DOJ, has tasked US Attorney John Durham with probing the origins of the 2016 Russia probe and whether it was conducted legally.
That probe began as an administrative review but has since become a criminal investigation.
If he's on schedule, we will be hearing from John Durham, soon. Things might get a bit interesting.
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