Senator Rand Paul: ‘Time for Congress to investigate’ Obama

John Bowden 4 hrs ago

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that lawmakers should investigate President Obama, suggesting that he could have played a role in the years-long Russia investigation that concluded over the weekend.

In a tweet, the senator suggested that Congress should probe the origins of the now-shuttered special counsel investigation into Russian election interference and the Trump campaign, seemingly suggesting that Obama was involved in the FBI probe that predated it.

“I agree with @kimguilfoyle Time for Congress to investigate. What did President Obama know and when? How did this hoax go on for so long unabated?” Paul asked.

Obama reportedly was informed by the FBI in 2016 that it was investigating Russia attempts to interfere in the 2016 election, but according to multiple news reports was warned against going public with the investigation by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who warned that Republicans would see it as a partisan move aimed at helping Hillary Clinton.

There’s no evidence that the former president ever ordered an investigation into the Trump campaign itself, as the FBI’s probe of the campaign began following comments George Papadopoulos reportedly made to Australian diplomats about Russia’s theft of emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in May of 2016.

The New York Times reported in 2018 that Papadopolous’ comments lead directly to the formation of the FBI’s Russia investigation, which evolved into the special counsel probe after President Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey in 2017.

Trump and his allies have repeatedly attacked the Mueller investigation as a corrupt effort to delegitimize his presidency.

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The Mueller investigation was a corrupt investigation in an effort to take over the government before and after Clinton lost.

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