Posted on 05/15/2020 4:02:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and his allies have begun escalating their attacks against former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden, the apparent 2020 Democratic nominee, by accusing them and other Obama administration officials of conspiring against Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
Trump and his allies call it “Obamagate.”
Former Obama administration officials say it is false that Biden or Obama knew in advance about the FBI’s interview of Flynn.
The Obama officials also argue that there was nothing improper about requests, including from Biden, to “unmask” the name of the American who turned up in intelligence collected from the phone of Russia’s then-ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak. Unmasking is a routine procedure approved each year by the National Security Agency for authorized purposes - amounting to several thousand requests each year.
Still, the president and his allies are using both issues as 2020 campaign cudgels against Biden. And they’re citing them to bolster Flynn’s effort to have a court throw out his guilty plea of lying to the FBI about his conversations with Kislyak, which included a request that Russia not respond to new Obama administration sanctions in retaliation for Moscow’s 2016 election meddling.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Carol E. Lee (D) is an NBC News correspondent.
Tom Winter (D) is a New York-based correspondent covering crime, courts, terrorism and financial fraud on the East Coast for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
Andrea Mitchell (D), NBC News' chief foreign affairs correspondent, is the host of "Andrea Mitchell Reports," an hour of political news and interviews with top newsmakers on MSNBC.
Mike Memoli (D) is an NBC News correspondent.
Oh my, so it took these four people to cook up this Newzak slop.
This is a great sign. They tried to ignore the new evidence, now they can’t, so they push back with nonsense.
Many of their viewers are just hearing about it for the first time. They’ll tune into Fox to find out the rest.
The truth shall set you free...Aholes!
They are circling the wagons, folks, as they always do when scandals hit. The more they circle, the more guilty the perpetrators are.
Andrea stamped her name on it for “gravitas” no need to investigate further, they have solved it, Obama and Biden know nothings.
"Debunked" already, huh?
There are SO MANY SCANDALS, it’s actually OBAMAGATEGATEGATEGATEGATEGATEGATEGATEGATEGATEGATEGATEGATEGATE!!!!!
clearly, Aljazeera isn’t concerned about the unmaskers. this is on at present! turned on for a minute and she was praising Joe Biden!
VIDEO: 25:55 - 15 May: Talk to Aljazeera: Samantha Power: ‘US is pulling away from its democratic allies’
Former US ambassador to UN discusses President Trump’s scaled-down global leadership role during coronavirus pandemic.
In September 2016, nearly two months before the then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s election, United States President Barack Obama spoke at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
“As I address this hall as president for the final time, let me recount the progress that we’ve made,” he said, “A quarter-century after the end of the Cold War, the world is by many measures less violent and more prosperous than ever before …”...
And in the years since, how has US foreign policy changed under President Trump? And what should have been done differently?
Samantha Power served at the US ambassador to the UN from 2013 to 2017...
To discuss the Trump presidency, the difference between Trump and Obama’s responses to global health crises, China’s increasing influence on international organisations, and ongoing conflict in the Middle East, she talks to Al Jazeera.
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2020/05/samantha-power-pulling-democratic-allies-200515063850573.html
Trying their best to protect the sleezy Democrats.
as for NBC, passed by NBC Universal-owned Sky UK about a half hour ago and they were interviewing a Brazilian they claimed was a health official re covid. at least the guy was honest and said he was an EX-official (his title didn’t change throughout the interview though).
full on rant against Bolsonaro, the Trump of the Tropics. Sky interviewer making similar comparisons. Trump wants to re-open economy, as if that’s a bad thing, when every country in the world seems to be ending their lockdowns, yet rarely get mentioned or don’t get criticised by the “media”:
Peru is ahead of Brazil. #1 remains Belgium, home of the EU with 779.46 deaths per million:
Brazil has population of 210 million (easy for FakeNewsMSM to exaggerate their deaths)
Statista: Coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths worldwide per one million population as of May 15, 2020, by country
Brazil #19 - 66.83 per million. Deaths: 13,999
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/
NBC is an American enemy
Attacking folks who work for your local NBC affiliate is OK.
So this is it. They go from covert assistance to openly just saying none of it happened.
Well, not surprised in the least.
The Liberal Media and Democrat Party are one and the same.
They repeat talking points like professional actors.
Obama administration officials
I love how it takes 4 activists, I mean reporters, to put these lies together.
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