Lindsey Graham Goes Nuclear: Exposes Corruption in Obama Administration, Demands Action

Senator backs Trump, saying 'it is becoming increasingly clear' former president operated a biased Justice Dept.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) defended President Donald Trump Tuesday on Twitter against critics who claimed he “politicized” the Department of Justice (DOJ) by pointing to his predecessor’s actual “politicization” of federal law enforcement.

“I completely support House Republican efforts to have President Trump declassify the FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] warrant applications, the Bruce Ohr/Chris Steele interactions, and all other relevant information regarding allegations of corruption in the DOJ & FBI,” Graham tweeted.

“It is increasingly clear it was the Obama Administration who politicized the DOJ/FBI, not the Trump Administration,” he added.

Graham’s first tweet included an article from The Daily Caller published Sunday, titled “Trump Reportedly Close to Declassifying Carter Page and Bruce Ohr Documents.”

The senator called in August for a special counsel to investigate Ohr, the DOJ’s controversial former associate deputy attorney general, and his role in the FBI’s investigation into allegations of collusion between Trump aides and Russian interests in the 2016 campaign.

Ohr’s wife, Nellie, was an employee of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm used by 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign to obtain negative allegations against Trump from Russian sources, via former British spy Christopher Steele.

Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which she controlled as her party’s president nominee, paid for Steele’s compilation of the anti-Trump materials into what became known as the Steele dossier. The FBI used the dossier to justify its Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court application and renewals to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and others.

DRAIN THE SWAMP Lindsey Graham Goes Nuclear: Exposes Corruption in Obama Administration, Demands Action Senator backs Trump, saying 'it is becoming increasingly clear' former president operated a biased Justice Dept. By Kathryn Blackhurst | Wednesday, September 12, 2018

“It is increasingly clear it was the Obama Administration who politicized the DOJ/FBI, not the Trump Administration,” he added.

Graham’s first tweet included an article from The Daily Caller published Sunday, titled “Trump Reportedly Close to Declassifying Carter Page and Bruce Ohr Documents.”

“Bruce Ohr was at least unethical. We need a special counsel to look at all things Department of Justice and FBI when it came to the Trump investigation, particularly the counterintelligence investigation,” Graham said in mid-August during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”

The president has long railed against the anti-Trump and pro-Clinton bias found within the DOJ and FBI and decried special counsel Robert Mueller’s “witch hunt” against him.

Many Democrats and liberal pundits accused Trump of politicizing the DOJ and FBI with his repeated criticisms against some of the controversial former and current top officials involved in the Trump campaign investigation.

The president has long railed against the anti-Trump and pro-Clinton bias found within the DOJ and FBI and decried special counsel Robert Mueller’s “witch hunt” against him.

The FBI investigated Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign season for her use of a private email server located in her New York mansion to conduct official business as secretary of state. She was absolved by former FBI Director James Comey in July 2016, even though dozens of messages containing confidential information was found on the server.

In addition to Ohr and Steele, Trump, Graham and other Republicans point to the thousands of virulently anti-Trump and pro-Clinton text messages exchanged between former top FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page during their work on the Russia collusion probe.

Strzok participated in both the Clinton investigation and the Trump probe. But Mueller removed Strzok from the Russia probe after the text messages with Page became public.

Just as I thought. A double standard. OK for one, but not for the other.

What are you, a wise guy?

Did you even understand what I said in my prior two posts?

First rule before posting, is to know how to read and then understand what you just read.

Or, are you here to make an @zz out of yourself?

Double standard?

Get the F out of here.

Double standard is what Trump and republicans accuse the left-wing media of practicing, along with their masters in the liberal congress. Are you here to defend liberals? Are you one of them? Maybe you got lost on the way to the DU?

I repeat - a double standard.

Some people never know when to stop, and repeat themselves, hoping to make sense some day.

At the risk of being repetitive myself, you must've gotten lost on the way to DU.

BTW, i'd venture to guess that the majority, if not the vast majority of FReepers are of the same opinion as me. YOU? Well, you don't seem to belong here.

There is something soooo much bigger going on in this crowd

Yeah, LGs behavior was really strange and it wasn't sorrow he was displaying IMO. Overall, he has been acting very weird as of late. And the generals? A lot of people were speculating that guy in the uniform was guarding him as well. Interesting stuff.

I don’t really care what you think of my thoughts or the percentage who believes this or that. You come across as a bully, but I stand my ground and resist you bullying me. Your tactics smack of those intolerant democrats.

Your tactics smack of those intolerant democrats.

I call it as I see it.

You smell like a liberal, talk like a liberal, and no doubt, you walk like a liberal.

Let me remind you that, as he snowflake you appear to be, you should be flying north and away from the hot weather. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the "kitchen".

Who is the true bully? you're nothing but a pathetic DU troll constantly abusing good freepers here. nearly every one of your posts is an attack on decent upstanding members here. Go back to DU and don't come back.

71 posted on 09/30/2018 3:16:12 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Its not the New York Times, its the RACIST New York Times. Please call them that, they've earned it.)

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