Senate GOP Breaks with Trump Over 'Obamagate'

[Gothmog]

Only idiots are buying the Obamagate silliness https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/11/senate-gop-breaks-with-trump-over-obamagate/

“President Trump’s aggressive campaign to encourage sweeping investigations of his predecessor Barack Obama met a unanimous response from Senate Republicans: No thanks,” Politico reports.

“Trump’s Senate allies on Monday stopped short of echoing Trump’s frenetic and unsubstantiated claim that Obama acted illegally when the Justice Department began probing incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn in late 2016. And they indicated that the Senate would pass on investigating the former president as they conduct their own investigations that could soon ensnare other senior Obama administration officials.”

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Seems Like A Soft Break

The intent is the same. Just a modest change in method.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Lame investigations of the most popular person in the country?

Yeah, we'll get right on that Prez.

[Cha]

4. The Senate repubs might have a clue.. that would Piss

Off the American People Even More than they already are.

[Wounded Bear]

5. They are politicians who generally know which way the wind is blowing...

I suspect quite a few Senate Repubs are looking into their retirement planning right now.

[Cha]

6. lol.. I know that's right.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Well, I hope so, at least...

[Cha]

9. For sure they know which way the wind is blowing..

[Cha]

3. Well that's gonna piss Off the Nasty Assface.

[littlemissmartypants]

16. Excellent new nickname for President Bodybags.

It actually made me chuckle and I haven't smiled in several days. Mahalo, Cha.
❤ lmsp

[Cha]

18. Mahalo, littlemissmartypants..

& you're welcome! I take full credit for this one. lol

BeSafe!

[SMC22307]

7. There are A LOT of idiots and they vote.

No one should brush this aside like many did with "Hillary's emails."

[Midnight Writer]

10. GOP knows this will just rehash "the Russian Thing" that they just swept under the rug.

They are also perhaps afraid of aggressive investigations from a Biden Administration.

[librechik]

11. A Gate Too Far n/t

[crickets]

14. +1

[Tech]

12. Ensnare other senior Obama officials? Now?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

19. Some RW nuts want to impeach President Obama now, even though he's out of office.

Remember, these are the same people who keep saying, "We've got to get back to the Constitution!"

[stillcool]

13. must be something the Republicans

don't want to see the light of day. They only do things like this when it's self-preservation.

[DanieRains]

15. There Is Nothing Trump Does That Is Not A Crime These Days

Why are they worrying about the scandal free Obama Administration?

There are a few million Trump Crimes that need scrutiny.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. What's a dotard to do?

[Pepsidog]

20. Fox has already started to lay the foundation for Barr and Dunham to try and indict high level

Obama staff and FBI agents. Biden, Rice, Comey, McCabe and Yates, to name a few, better be prepared for an October surprise we all know that is coming. The Fox sycophants started to rev up the smear campaign with talk about Susan Rice emails and Obama misdeeds. It’s all playing out before our eyes the effort to change the history of Russian election interference starting with asking the court to dismiss charges against Flynn. Next Barr and Dunham. Will attempt to charge Biden,Rice, Comey, McCabe and Yates to name a few to change the subject away from the virus.

[MerryBlooms]

21. mcconnell and the rest of the republican shitshow, know that's a can of worms once opened,

it would expose their money laundering and other crimes.

[Gothmog]

22. Senate Republicans break with Trump over 'Obamagate

Link to tweet

President Donald Trump’s aggressive campaign to encourage sweeping investigations of his predecessor Barack Obama met a unanimous response from Senate Republicans: No thanks.

Trump’s Senate allies on Monday stopped short of echoing Trump’s claim that Obama acted illegally when the Justice Department began probing incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn in late 2016. And they indicated that the Senate would pass on investigating the former president as they conduct their own investigations that could soon ensnare other senior Obama administration officials.

“I’m not anticipating calling President Obama,” said Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), whose panel is investigating the origins of the 2016 Russia investigation, even as he vowed to bring in former senior Obama administration officials as witnesses. Those ex-officials include former FBI Director James Comey and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates.

“I think the president’s got a real good reason to be upset with the Obama people,” Graham said.

Senate Republicans, however, sidestepped questions of whether the Justice Department should pursue criminal investigations against the former Obama officials, instead deferring to the ongoing investigation of U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was tapped by Attorney General Williams Barr to probe the origins of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia.