"I wanted to make sure everybody understood we were playing this thing straight -- that we weren't trying to advantage one side or another."
By participating in Hillary's plot to smear @realDonaldTrump, using it to spy on him, entrap his team, & overthrow him!
@realDonaldTrump Obama: "With respect to the transition, I think they would be the first to acknowledge that we have done everything we can to make sure that they are successful as I promised. & that will continue."
His entire admin was unmasking Gen. Flynn (& God knows who else) that very day!
@realDonaldTrump "We have a system where we want our law enforcement investigators to be free from politics, to be independent, to play it straight, but sometimes that involves investigations that touch on politics..."
Using fake oppo from your party to spy on your opponents. Totally straight!
@realDonaldTrump "One thing that I have done is to be pretty scrupulous about not wading into investigation decisions or prosecution decisions, or decisions not to prosecute...& I don't know why it would stop now"
[3 weeks later]
Obama: Get the "right people" to get Flynn
Biden: "Logan Act"
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"Imagine that you've just weathered 4 years of an FBI investigation during which the press consistently published character-assassinating falsehoods attributed to 'people familiar with the investigation'...
"Your enemies, who personally hate you, launch the investigative team with unlimited manpower and money and staff it with political opponents. Federal agents entrap your allies in process crimes, coerce a plea by threatening a man's family, repeatedly deceive a court...
"to conduct intrusive surveillance, steal thousands of emails without a warrant, and deliberately prolong the investigation despite knowing from day one that you are innocent. When the day finally comes...