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CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – There are two American traditions after an election. When one president’s term is over, they invite the president-elect to the White House. The voters get to see the outgoing president and the incoming president promise a smooth transition of power. And, on the old president’s final day in office, they leave behind a note in the Resolute Desk for the new president; usually brief words of encouragement.
We now know that those traditions mean nothing to Barack Obama.
On Friday more than 100 documents from the lame duck period of Obama’s presidency shows that he manufactured the Russia election interference hoax. The first, and most important finding, comes from an intelligence briefing prepared for Obama. It said that Russia did not have the intent or the ability to alter the election outcome. The intelligence briefing concludes that Donald Trump was Russia’s preferred candidate in 2016, but that they couldn’t do anything about it.
Obama’s apparent goal was to create a distraction so great that it would hobble Trump’s presidency. Indeed the false narrative of Russian collusion dogged Trump for nearly three years.
What should happen now? Criminal referrals. And I hope that Attorney General Pam Bondi has the internal fortitude to prosecute anyone who broke the law in this sordid affair, including those who may have perjured themselves in front of Congress. Already implicated, a whose who of Obama’s inner circle: former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey and former National Security Adviser Susan Rice.
As for former president Obama and candidate Hillary Clinton, their behavior in manufacturing this false narrative is despicable. All of that public smiling about a smooth transition – that was a false narrative that’s just as big as the Russia hoax which is now laid bare. They wanted to hobble the next president by creating a scandal big enough to force him from office. Their actions are shameful.
Chris Conley
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