FLASHBACK: Did Obama Obstruct Justice

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FLASHBACK: Did Obama Obstruct Justice When He Said THIS About The Hillary Investigation?


However, National Review's Andrew McCarthy opined that if Trump committed an obstruction of justice, then President Obama did the same vis-a-vis the Clinton email investigation.

On April 10, 2016, President Obama publicly stated that Hillary Clinton had shown “carelessness” in using a private e-mail server to handle classified information, but he insisted that she had not intended to endanger national security (which is not an element of the relevant criminal statute). The president acknowledged that classified information had been transmitted via Secretary Clinton’s server, but he suggested that, in the greater scheme of things, its importance had been vastly overstated.

On July 5, 2016, FBI director James Comey publicly stated that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in using a private email server to handle classified information, but he insisted that she had not intended to endanger national security (which is not an element of the relevant criminal statute). The director acknowledged that classified information had been transmitted via Secretary Clinton’s server, but he suggested that, in the greater scheme of things, it was just a small percentage of the emails involved.

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Thus, Obama talked openly and candidly about whether Clinton committed any wrongdoing by utilizing an unprotected private email server while sending classified information in the middle of an FBI investigation. If the Democrats and the media did not believe this was an obstruction of justice, then it demonstrates selective outrage with the information we have on Trump at the moment, since all Trump did was express a hope that the matter would be dropped.

A former federal prosecutor, McCarthy also pointed out that to prove obstruction of justice, "t is necessary to establish, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the suspect acted corruptly in impeding or influencing a criminal investigation." In other words, "[t]hat means acting with knowledge that one’s conduct was unlawful, and with a specific intent to undermine the truth-seeking function." Nevertheless, the Democrats and the media continue to use the language to slap Trump while they refused to do the same for Obama.
 
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