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Despite public pressure, including public letters from then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on August 29 and October 30, 2016, the latter claiming that the FBI was concealing explosive information about close ties and coordination between Trump and his top advisers, and the Russian government, the FBI did not disclose its investigation until after the election.
August 29, 2016: First Reid Letter: FBI Must Investigate ...
And Obama talked to McConnell about Russian interference and McConnell said he would do nothing and threatened to claim that it all was an Obama administration ploy to throw the election to HRC. Obama, thinking that it might harm HRC's campaign and feeling certain that HRC was going to win anyway, made the calculated decision to not make a big issue about it but instead had his Homeland Security chief, Jay Johnson, work with the states, alerting them to what Russia was doing and offering help from the Department to protect against hacking etc.
It appears that the media and even the progressives who are angry thinking Obama did nothing fail to remind voters about this. McConnell is still the demon he was back then. Harry Reid told the whole story but few listened to him.
Skittles
(153,185 posts)KNOWING Trump was being investigated for foreign help, which of course they kept quiet about
ChazII
(6,205 posts)cause me to have memory issues. That is why I rely on DU and the internet.
Cary
(11,746 posts)Nothing "conservatives" have claimed to stand for was ever true. They lied. Now they have the ultimate liar and could not be more.pleased as he has brought mass death and economic collapse.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)It puts the reader back in 2016-17, it describes everything that was going on and how the information came trickling in, who knew what when, and meticulously lays out how shocking it was to the people directly involved. It really captures the momentous indignation of that time, and constantly reminds the reader that it is happening all over again right now. It also describes the cowardly failures of the DOJ under Rosenstein.