BY MATT MARGOLIS | PJ Media
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden wait
in the Blue Room of the White House before delivering remarks and signing the
health insurance reform bill. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
On January 5, 2017, a meeting was held in the Obama White
House in the Oval Office. Both President Obama and Vice President Biden attended.
This meeting, it turns out, was critical to the anti-Trump operation by the
Obama administration, reports Mollie
Hemingway at The Federalist. “It was at this meeting that Obama gave guidance
to key officials who would be tasked with protecting his administration’s
utilization of secretly funded Clinton campaign research, which alleged Trump
was involved in a treasonous plot to collude with Russia, from being discovered
or stopped by the incoming administration,” she wrote.
Also in attendance at this meeting was then-CIA
Director John Brennan, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper,
then-national security adviser Susan Rice, then-FBI Director James Comey,
then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and other members of the national
security council.
It was at this meeting that Barack Obama spoke
with Yates and Comey about wiretapped conversations of Trump’s
incoming National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn with then-Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the Trump transition, indicating that
President Obama was directly knowledgeable of the efforts to surveil the Trump
campaign and undermine the incoming administration.
Susan Rice wrote herself a now-infamous
email documenting the meeting, writing “President 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.”
After this meeting took place, “high-level operatives
began intensely leaking selective information supporting a supposed
Russia-Trump conspiracy theory, the incoming National Security Advisor was
ambushed, and the incoming Attorney General [Jeff Sessions] was forced to
recuse himself from oversight of investigations of President Trump.”
Top Obama officials have since testified that they never
had any empirical evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
As Hemingway notes, “explosive media leaks were a key
strategy in the operation to take down Trump.” Per Obama’s direction,
information on Russia was “not fully shared with the incoming Trump team” and
“the leaks and ambushes made the transition chaotic, scared quality individuals
away from working in the administration, made effective governance almost
impossible, and materially damaged national security.”
President Trump has
indicated that more damning evidence against Obama and Biden will see
the light of day.
“There’s more to come, from what I understand. and
they’re gonna be far greater than what you’ve seen so far—and what you’ve seen
so far has been incredible—especially as it relates to President Obama because
if anyone thinks that he and sleepy Joe Biden didn’t know what was going on,
they have another thing coming.”
“It is clear that understanding what happened in that
January 5 Oval Office meeting is essential to understanding the full scope and
breadth of the corrupt operation against the Trump administration,” explained
Hemingway.
It’s time to get some answers, especially from Barack
Obama and Joe Biden.
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Matt Margolis is the author of Trumping Obama: How President Trump Saved Us
From Barack Obama’s Legacy and the bestselling book The
Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama. You can follow
Matt on Twitter @MattMargolis
