Posted on 05/21/2019 10:08:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former President Barack Obama knew his FBI director was going to "blackmail" incoming President Trump in January 2017, attorney Joe diGenova said.
Last week former FBI General Counsel James Baker admitted the bureau was worried that former FBI Director James Comey would appear to be “blackmailing” the president-elect at the end of a Jan. 6, 2017 briefing at Trump Tower when he divulged some of the most salacious claims in an unverified dossier about Trump's ties to Russia.
Appearing on Fox News late Sunday, diGenova noted this briefing happened one day after Obama met with top officials in the Oval Office, including Comey.
"What were they discussing? The counterintelligence investigations against incoming president of the United States. Barack Obama knew that James Comey was going to blackmail the incoming president of the United States," diGenova said.
On Fox, Joe DiGenova says: "Barack Obama knew that James Comey was going to blackmail the incoming President of the United States" pic.twitter.com/Xc7sUAPrXb — Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) May 19, 2019
President Barack Obama had an Oval Office meeting on Jan. 5, 2017 with Comey, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, national security adviser Susan Rice, and Vice President Joe Biden to discuss how much to tell Trump about Russia's election meddling.
An email Rice sent herself on Jan. 20 — the day of Trump's inauguration — that said Obama “said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.” The email caught the attention of Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., last year and they wrote Rice asking her to further explain why she sent the email and if it pertains to her involvement in the Trump-Russia dossier.
Rice's attorney Kathryn Ruemmler said the meeting did not address the dossier.
DiGenova, a former U.S. attorney, served as an independent counsel in the 1990s for a case on former President Bill Clinton's passport before he was elected. Last year, it was announced diGenova and his wife and legal partner Victoria Toensing were joining Trump's legal team for the federal Russia investigation, but that plan was nixed within days.
He had been highly critical of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, claiming that Trump had been "framed" by the Justice Department and the FBI. Mueller found no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Executions are in order...after a public trial and conviction, or course..
I have suspected for a long time that Comey was in cahoots with Obama to make trouble for Trump. Trump sensed that and his instincts to fire that disloyal dog was the right thing to do.
Is anyone of the swamp creatures in jail yet? Didn’t think so.....it’s all talk and no action! Gotta hand it to the evil demonKKKrats, though, at least they are on a hard march to get trump come hell or high water, one way or the other while our team just looks on! Pathetic!!
The Comey action was supposed to have occurred a week or two ago, right?
So far... {{crickets}}
Their side is sinister. Our side is inept.
Considering all the made-up stories going around about our president & the excuses as to why he should be impeached, shouldn’t Barack Obama (with what is actually known about him)be at least tried, convicted, & sentenced before now?
Just remember the text from Horse Faced Hooker: "POTUS wants to know everything we're doing."
Nothing happened that didn’t intimately involve Clinton and Obama.
That includes using law enforcement and national security assets, colluding with foreign spies for hire, involving a private security firm, using money from the campaign and covering it all up ... but, you know, Watergate is still the worst scandal ever.
Oh, Please tell me Obama is going to hang for this. Please!!!
Democrats have learned the best way to infiltrate a government is to use all their tools bribery blackmail lies fear and even murder.
Vince Foster kicks box ten times.
Obama with Comey brings shame to Obama’s presidency. He knew.
Don’t forget....Valerie Jarrett lives with the Obama’s in their DC home.
The trail is going to be the hard part. How do you get 12 people to understand what they did when they will hide behind clever nuanced wordsmithing like ‘matter’ vs ‘investigation’ or ‘careless’ vs’ ‘negligent’ or the ever popular ‘that depends on what is, is’
Convictions will be very hard and if the perpetrators skate on this, it will blow back on Trump as a persecutor of political enemies and retribution for the Mueller probe.
“Don’t forget....Valerie Jarrett lives with the Obama’s in their DC home”.
That’s right. That She Devil is the brains behind it all. She orchestrated the whole Coup, IMO.
He would appear to be doing exactly what he was doing.
“Appearing on Fox News late Sunday, diGenova noted this briefing happened one day after Obama met with top officials in the Oval Office, including Comey.
“What were they discussing? The counterintelligence investigations against incoming president of the United States. Barack Obama knew that James Comey was going to blackmail the incoming president of the United States,” diGenova said.
On Fox, Joe DiGenova says: “Barack Obama knew that James Comey was going to blackmail the incoming President of the United States” pic.twitter.com/Xc7sUAPrXb — Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) May 19, 2019
President Barack Obama had an Oval Office meeting on Jan. 5, 2017 with Comey, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, national security adviser Susan Rice, and Vice President Joe Biden to discuss how much to tell Trump about Russia’s election meddling.”
As for discussing “how much to tell Trump about Russia’s election meddling” - shouldn’t they have told Trump, or at least senior officials in his campaign, that the Russians were “meddling?” Unless, of course, that was utter crap (which we know it is). I cannot think of the prior administration that would not have briefed a candidate from a major party during an election campaign that they were being spied upon/manipulated by some hostile foreign power. THAT is the big question that the (Ene)Media has utterly failed to ask - but you can be sure that they’d be on it like flies on crap, 24/7, if a Republican administration said nothing about such a situation to a Dem nominee.
Comey is the fall guy.
They'll all blame Comey. It will be Comey's word vs the others who were at the meeting. Comey could sing all he wants, he will be outnumbered.
“They’ll all blame Comey. It will be Comey’s word vs the others who were at the meeting. Comey could sing all he wants, he will be outnumbered.”
Oh, and the blame game is already started, courtesy of Loretta (I know NOTHING, I see NOTHING) Schultz, errr, Lynch.
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