On Sunday, Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) said: “if anyone interfered with the 2016 presidential election, it wasn’t the Russians but the Department of Justice.” Gohmert specifically named former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former FBI Director James Comey in the conspiracy
James Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that Loretta Lynch, Obama’s Attorney General told him to refer to the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information as a “matter,” rather than an “investigation,” even though Clinton was under an FBI investigation.
So Comey listed the evidence against Hillary and went along with Lynch and Obama and announced the end of the Clinton investigation in July 2016.
That was election interference, election tampering and election manipulation the election, not by the Russians, but by the Department of Justice – the Attorney General herself – because that came from Comey, Gohmert said.
“[Comey] totally ruined his own credibility – or what was left of it,” Gohmert said. “He did vast damage and raised big red flags and questions over Loretta Lynch’s job as head of the Justice Department.
“[Lynch] was using her official position to help the campaign of Hillary Clinton and that didn’t seem to bother him enough to do a memo,” Gohmert said.
Gohmert said this should be the subject of a congressional investigation. It puts ex-president Obama in the crosshatch of a special prosecutor investigating Russia too because it wasn’t Russia but the Obama administration breaking election laws to get Trump to lose the election.
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