Obama releases rare statement on ‘Russia-gate’ after Trump accuses him of ‘treason’
Obama releases rare statement on ‘Russia-gate’ after Trump accuses him of ‘treason’
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Obama made a decision not to release information he had so as not to seem like he was interfering with the election for partisan reasons. I still think that was the wrong decision. He would have hurt his own reputation but might have saved the country from the disaster we are in now.
Would it have actually worked though? The access Hollywood tapes came out during that election, Trump's behavior of entering the dressing rooms of Miss Teen USA were well reported on, and neither really hurt him. Maybe there's a chance it would've changed the outcome, but it's hard to imagine that chance is large.
He would have hurt his own reputation but might have saved the country from the disaster we are in now.
So - back when decorum was a thing - you'd ask him to break the rules, just to prevent something that was caused by voters anyway?
Nope.
It wasn't breaking any rules. It was releasing intel to the proper authorities (the DOJ) and asking them to act on it. He had intel that he chose not to do anything with so as not to appear like he was targeting a political opponent during an election year. I'm not asking him to publicly release classified documents like Trump casually does.