The claim that former President Obama’s outgoing administration tried to sabotage President Trump’s administration is looking more and more viable. A New York Times report on Wednesday outlines President Obama’s staff’s activities in the weeks before the inauguration.
According to The Times, White House officials did their best to obtain and disperse classified intelligence regarding Trump associates’ contacts with Russians. The campaign was multifaceted but was not directed by Obama himself, the Times sources claimed. Their methods also included attempts to minimize the Trump team’s ability to access classified information and lowering the classification ratings on certain information that they wished to let circulate.
Obama officials also made moves to try and limit the number of incoming officials that could view the sensitive information “including the names of sources and the identities of foreigners who were regularly monitored.”
Via The Daily Caller:
The State Department, then led by John Kerry, also took part in the intelligence-sharing campaign. The agency sent a batch of documents classified as “Secret” to Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, just before the election.
“I think that President Obama is behind it because his people are certainly behind it. And some of the leaks possibly come from that group, which are really serious because they are very bad in terms of national security. But I also understand that is politics. In terms of him being behind things, that’s politics. And it will probably continue,” Trump told Fox & Friends in an interview this week.
The Times report was conspicuously unclear about specific details pertaining to those allegedly involved from the Trump administration. There was no mention of the names of the Trump advisers and Russians who were allegedly involved and overall had little helpful information. It is unclear whether the Times’ sources provided the names, and if so, why they withheld the information.
Unfortunately for the Obama administration, their plan to destroy the credibility of the Trump administration hinged on there only being a few reputable candidates for each position, as there is in their overly contaminated party. The Trump administration, however, has had no problems either refuting the outlandish claims or replacing any unfortunate casualties of this nasty war with the plethora of qualified conservative candidates that would love to work with President Trump.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer has dismissed all the claims in a statement to The Times.
“The only new piece of information that has come to light is that political appointees in the Obama administration have sought to create a false narrative to make an excuse for their own defeat in the election. There continues to be no there, there,” he told the newspaper.
(Source: The Daily Caller, NY Times)