Edozie Udeojo
President Trump followed up on Sunday evening his previous night’s tweetstorm on the investigations into his campaign’s alleged ties to Russia with more tweets and retweets on the matter. And he lashed out at former President Obama in some posts — days after his predecessor criticized him.
The real picture : Trump addressed Obama’s comments that were leaked to Yahoo News calling his response to the novel coronavirus pandemic a “chaotic disaster” and warning the “rule of law is at risk” over the Justice Department dropping of charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
He got caught, OBAMAGATE! https://t.co/oV6fum0zIS
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 11, 2020
. Trump is facing pressure from many conservative allies to fire FBI director Christopher Wray due to the bureau’s handling of its investigation of Flynn.
.His tweetstorm on the FBI and the House Intelligence Committee probes show how consumed he is by what he believes to be an illegal attempt to end his presidency by Democrats and intelligence officials from the Obama administration.
The other side: Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on Friday accused Attorney General Bill Barr of doing Trump’s “political bidding” by interfering in ongoing criminal cases, and called on the DOJ’s inspector general to investigate.
Go deeper: Trump tweets more than 50 times about Russia probe amid new revelations
Between late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, President Trump tweeted or retweeted more than 50 times about the investigations by the FBI and the House Intelligence Committee into his campaign’s alleged ties to Russia.
Why it matters: The tweetstorm shows the degree to which Trump is still consumed by what he believes to be an illegal attempt to end his presidency by Democrats and intelligence officials from the Obama administration.
The Justice Department moved Thursday to drop its prosecution of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty in the Mueller investigation in 2017 to lying to FBI agents about his conversations with the former Russian ambassador.
Why it matters: The politically explosive decision follows accusations by Flynn’s attorneys and conservative media that prosecutors entrapped the former top Trump aide into lying. The case had become part of a broader campaign by the president and his allies to discredit the Russia investigation, which consumed the first two years of the Trump presidency.
Vice President Mike Pence told newsmen that he welcomes the idea of bringing Michael Flynn back into government, after the Justice Department moved last week to drop its criminal case against President Trump’s former national security adviser.
Why it matters: Trump said April 30 that he would “certainly consider” bringing Flynn back into the administration. Since Flynn had been accused of lying to the vice president, Pence’s blessing clears an obstacle to him returning to Trump’s inner circle.