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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 4 years ago

When Obama told the Congress about hard evidence that Russia was hacking the election why did they refuse to look at the issue?

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  • 4 years ago
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    The stated policy of the GOP in Congress was to oppose any action by Obama.

  • 4 years ago

    Because he lied to them about almost everything else so why would they believe him with that claim?

    When a person cries wolf too often they loose all credibility.

    Then when they really need someone to believe them they do not.

    But the fault lies at the person that made too many false claims not with those that feel they were fooled one too many tines.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Obama didn't want congress or anyone else to investigate; as they, Obama and Hillary, would have been found out.

  • 4 years ago

    It's to Administrative agencies - FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. - not Congress - to deal with such issues.

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  • 4 years ago

    It was considered a given that Hillary would win in most circles. It was not about justice, it was about winning,

    They miscalculated.

  • 4 years ago

    who refused, exactly? Apparent hacking in some instances is not the same as definite proof of hacking on a major scale, and no one understood how bad the hacking had been until basically October, a couple weeks ahead of the election. Well, everyone in Congress was busy with the election at the time. They weren't even in session, so clearly congress couldn't investigate anything. Why did Obama and the justice department play it low key? Probably because they did not want to make Comey of it.

    Look at the ****-storm that Comey caused with his "we have new Clinton emails to look at" announcement. Imagine if Obama said "we think Russians are hacking the US in an effort to help Trump". Yeah, that would have gone over REAL well.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    You have it wrong, pumpkin.

    EX-Pres. Obama KNEW of Russia meddling in the election in june of 2016.

    He COULDN'T expose this because he ALSO KNEW about Hillary Clintons' UNSECURED-HACKED private server.

    He WAITED until AFTER Hillary LOST the U.S.Presidential Election to throw a HISSY-FIT.

    Eventually, LIES by Democrats catch them in a TRAP!

    HA,HA,HA Boo, hoo, hoo!

    Source:

    The emerging timeline of Obama and Russia that is giving Democrats ...

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../even-democrats-...

    1 day ago - President Obama knew about Russian meddling in August. ... Username; Sign In .... did not publicly acknowledge all of this until after the election, ... July 27: Trump calls on Russia to hack Clinton's emails to see if she didn't ...

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Bigots. Like everything else Obama tried, they ignored him. Couldn't stand that a black man was POTUS.

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