OPINION - EDITORIAL
ObamaGate isn’t a ‘distraction’ — it’s about outrageous abuses
By Post Editorial Board
May 23, 2020 | 8:50pm
Former U.S. President Barack Obama
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Attorney General William Barr was damn right last week to blast the collusion hoax that began under President Barack Obama as “a grave injustice” unprecedented in US history.
Claims by Democrats like Joe Biden and the anti-Trump media that ObamaGate is but a “distraction” are the true distractions.
During the 2016 election and for the first two years of President Trump’s term, sighed Barr, “the law-enforcement and intelligence apparatus of this country were involved in advancing a false and utterly baseless Russian-collusion narrative against the president.” They abused investigative and prosecutorial standards “to reach a particular result.”
Indeed, it was a cynical bid to defeat Trump in 2016 and then to boot him out of office, or at least seriously undermine his presidency — all based on the fake charge, ironically, that it was Trump who tilted the election by colluding with Russia.
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2020/05/23/obamagate-isnt-a-distraction-its-about-outrageous-abuses/
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The witch hunt upended the lives of innocents (Flynn and even private citizens), while fueling endless slurs against Trump, distracting him from real work. The abuses tarnished the reputations of the FBI and US intel agencies, while stoking political polarization and feeding public distrust of political leaders and institutions.
Those behind it should pay a steep price.
Barr blasts “attempts to use the criminal-justice system as a political weapon” and vows to block them “as long as I am attorney general.” Good. Real crimes should be prosecuted, but political abuse must be punished politically. It’s the only way to restore trust in government.
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