President Trump ordered an investigation into whether his predecessor’s FBI “infiltrated” his 2016 campaign, pointedly asking what then-President Barack Obama knew about that action – while confronting with former CIA boss John Brennan, Fox News informed.
After the revealed reports that claim that an FBI “informant” contacted with members of the Trump’s campaign, the president announced that he would request a DOJ probe to investigate whether agents surveilled the campaign for political reasons, and whether any such demands came from the Obama administration.
While the DOJ rapidly requested the department’s inspector general to manage that review, the president turned the spotlight to Obama on Monday .
“The Wall Street Journal asks, ‘WHERE IN THE WORLD WAS BARACK OBAMA?’ A very good question!” Trump tweeted.
He was referring to an op-ed urging Obama to explain “his administration’s surveillance of affiliates of a presidential campaign.” The report from James Freeman stated that Obama was likely “fairly well-informed” about his law enforcement agencies, but said if he was unaware of the Russia investigation’s full history, “then it would seem a public explanation is also in order—about his management, and about just how far the ‘deep state’ went without specific presidential approval.”
In the meantime, another dust-up between the president and Brennan took shape as the former CIA director, and now MSNBC/NBC contributor, issued warnings to Republican leaders in Congress not to “enable” Trump, in response to his call for a probe.
“Senator McConnell & Speaker Ryan: If Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path, you will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy. You do a great disservice to our Nation & the Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump’s self-serving actions,” Brennan tweeted, while also quoting Roman philosopher Cicero: “Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”
Trump fired back by quoting, at length, former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino on “Fox & Friends,” as Bongino accused Brennan of sparking the entire Russia probe and taking part in a politically motivated investigation.
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