A 2016 conversation that was supposed to be off the record just went on the record.
A transcript of the conversation is now out, and it is less than flattering for some of the top guns in the Democrat Party.
Obama seemed to throw a lot of blame in the general direction of the Clintons for the loss to Trump.
Blame the Clintons
Obama was not kind to the Clintons in the conversation.
He specifically pointed to Hillary’s email scandal, the fact that then-FBI Director James Comey dared to investigate it, and Bill Clinton’s tarmac meeting.
He stated, “The fact of the matter is, setting aside that Hillary Clinton got the substantially bigger share of the vote, I think it’s fair to say that a whole series of different things happening — how the email thing unfolded, and sort of the chain from Bill Clinton getting on that plane, to Comey making an announcement.
“At a bunch of different junctures, people could have made different decisions that would have resulted in it playing differently.”
Obama continued, “I will say this about Comey.
“I think that — and I’ve been very careful about this — I think the way — as I said, if there’s Bill Clinton deciding he should get on Loretta Lynch’s plane, to the last announcement about Wiener emails, and it’s just like this train wreck and this cascade of decisions that I was powerless to intervene in, because I actually observe institutional norms and I’m not supposed to investigate — or meddle in investigations.
“But I think Comey is actually a person of high character and is not partisan when it comes to this stuff, and believes in playing it straight.
“That doesn’t mean that every call he makes necessarily will be the right one, because this is a human enterprise and everybody is human.
“But I trust his basic integrity.
“I trust him to — I think he thinks of himself as serving the American people and as a guardian of certain values and norms that I share with him.”
Correct me if I am wrong, but was Obama hinting that Comey should have looked the other way regarding Hillary’s emails so that she could win the election?
Of course, when Obama’s office was contacted for a comment, they did not respond.
Source: Daily Caller
