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Trump challenges Sessions to investigate Obama, Democrats on RussiaPresident Donald Trump, after being criticized for his response to Russia's election meddling, challenged Jeff Sessions, his attorney general, to launch an investigation into the Obama administration for failing to do enough to stop the 2016 election foreign interference.
The tweet is the latest in a series where Trump faults former President Barack Obama for not doing enough to stop Russian meddling, but the first time Trump has suggested that Sessions -- the man he picked to lead the Justice Department -- wasn't doing enough.
"Question: If all of the Russian meddling took place during the Obama Administration, right up to January 20th, why aren't they the subject of the investigation?" Trump tweeted. "Why didn't Obama do something about the meddling? Why aren't Dem crimes under investigation? Ask Jeff Session!"
Trump misspelled his longtime supporter's name: It's Sessions, not Session.
The Justice Department is tasked with investigating crimes committed in the United States, making Trump's tweet a suggestion that the former Obama administration committed a crime by not stopping Russia.
The Justice Department declined to comment on Trump's tweet.
Trump and Sessions were in the Oval Office together on Tuesday during an event honoring law enforcement officials. The two, according to a source, did not interact much while taking photos.
Trump and his top aides, in an attempt to protect the President and the White House from a steady stream of stories about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into election meddling, has started to fault the Obama administration for not doing enough when the former president was in control.
"He has been tougher on Russia in the first year than Obama was in eight years combined," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said during Tuesday's White House briefing.
While Trump and even some Democrats have criticized the Obama administration for not speaking up enough on Russia's actions before the election, Obama did take some steps to reprimand the country.
Obama confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in China in 2016, something Trump has yet to forcefully do in meetings with the Russian leader. Trump and Putin discussed election interference in Hamburg, Germany, in July 2017. Trump later said he thought the Russian leader was earnest when he denied any election meddling.
During his last two years in office, Obama also imposed sanctions on Russian individuals and entities for election meddling, kicked out 35 Russian diplomats and closed two Kremlin compounds in the United States.
Trump has yet to impose sanctions overwhelmingly passed by Congress last year and missed deadlines to identify which Russian individuals and entities would be on the sanctions list. Last month, the Trump administration decided against implementing the sanctions against Russia and instead published a list of already prominent Russian oligarchs.
Sanders suggested on Tuesday that more action to confront Russia was soon to be released.
Long overdue, I'd say. Despite CNN's snark about Trump and Sessions' name. I'm sure they did the same every time Obama or Hillary did a mispronounciation or minor speech error.  It could have just been a typo.
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Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation, because he had the most superficial meeting in a crowded room for a few seconds with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., over which Sessions recused himself to eliminate the slightest appearance of conflict of interest. Would that other compromised partisan Democrats and other FBI and DOJ officials would similarly recuse themselves.
I have no problem with Sessions' recusal. My only problem (and Trump's as well, no doubt!) is that Sessions did not appoint someone else beyond reproach, to investigate the clear Christopher Steele/"Russia dossier"/insulating law firm/Hillary Clinton campaign/Comey/Rosenstein/FISA warrant-and-surveillance-on-Trump connection.
As well as the compromised Hillary Clinton state department, that signed off (in exchange for foreign Russian donations to the Clinton Foundation, and for an exhorbitant speaking fee to Bill Clinton visiting Russia) on a deal that gave 20% of the U.S. uranium supply to Uranium One and Russia (through the guise of Canadian company).
As well as the Loretta Lynch/Bill Clinton meeting on the tarmac on his private plane, days before James Comey made all the charges against Hillary go away. And that Loretta Lynch advised Comey to call it a "matter" instead of an "investigation.
As well as the Clinton Foundation and its 150 million or so in foreign donations in exchange for State Department influence while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. And all the evidence on computers, cel phone texts, and elsewhere that Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills were deeply incriminated in. All of which the FBI and DOJ allowed them to destroy, and gave them immunity in exchange for nothing! Which renders the FBI and DOJ accomplices, and warrants their investigation by someone outside the FBI and DOJ, who clearly cannot be trusted at this point to investigate themselves.
As well as Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server that compromised national security to Chinese and Russian hackers EVERY DAY she was Secretary of State. That gave them a map of everyone she spoke to in real time, what priorities made the U.S. act internationally, and potentially allow Russia or China to outmaneuver the United States in a war.
There is certainly plenty to investigate. And the DOJ and FBI clearly cannot be trusted to investigate it. And if Hillary Clinton had won the Nov 2016 election, it would have all been corruptly swept under a rug. That is clearly what Comey, Rosenstein, Lynch and others in the FBI and DOJ and Democrat leadership were counting on.
Rather than the 15 month witch hunt for evidence to incriminate Trump that has yielded no evidence, it's time to investigate where the evidence actually leads: Directly to the Hillary Clinton campaign. And Hillary operatives in the "Deep State" secret society inside the DOJ and FBI.
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Lol, it's pretty pathetic but not unsurprising that Trump is down to trying to force his own appointed toadies to do politically motivated investigations.
Fair play!
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In YOUR political partisanship, you absolutely refuse to acknowledge the OBVIOUS corruption of James Comey, Rod Rosenstein, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe (and wife), Bruce Ohr (and wife), Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Christopher Steele, and its blazing neon trail leading straight back to Bill and Hillary Clinton, and the Clinton campaign.
Trump is just calling on his attorney general Jeff Sessions (who recused himself to avoid the slightest appearance of conflict of interest) to provide equal scrutiny under the law to the MOUNTAIN of evidence that Democrat/Deep State officials are trying to pretend doesn't exist.
Apparently only you are blind to the clear bias and conflict of interest AND CRIMES of the players I just cited.
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I honestly think if there was any legal merit to your accusations the GOP would have been well on their way already. Your party is in control at least till 2018. I think the guy who ripped out his first wife's hair and raped her, the guy who spent over a year rutting in birtherism, the guy who can say he believes Putin over our own country's intelligence findings is probably just being the person he's always been with this tweet.
Fair play!
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Now MEM, isn't it enough for you that the guy's asking his own people to investigate his own campaign in what I'm certain will be a diligent and unbiased search for objective truth?
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