{"id":119931,"date":"2019-03-30T17:06:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T21:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=119931"},"modified":"2019-03-30T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T21:17:14","slug":"obamagate-sen-paul-rand-wants-to-know-how-obama-directed-the-russiagate-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=119931","title":{"rendered":"OBAMAgate: Sen. Paul Rand wants to know how Obama directed the Russiagate hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1>RAND PAUL BLOCKS RESOLUTION TO RELEASE MUELLER REPORT<\/h1>\n<h3>Wants Senate to also call for release of Obama communications<\/h3>\n<p>WorldNetDaily.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_119932\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-30-at-4.59.25-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119932\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119932\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-30-at-4.59.25-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-30-at-4.59.25-PM.png 610w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-30-at-4.59.25-PM-300x152.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-119932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky (Photo: Gage Skidmore)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In an effort to uncover the origins of the Trump-Russia allegations,\u00a0Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., declared Friday he would not vote for a nonbinding resolution calling for special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s report to be made public\u00a0unless relevant communications by Obama-era officials also\u00a0are released.<\/p>\n<p>Paul\u2019s objection prevented\u00a0Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., from obtaining unanimous consent on the resolution,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/436293-rand-paul-blocks-resolution-calling-for-mueller-report-release\">The Hill reported<\/a>. The House already passed a resolution on the matter in a 420-0 vote earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Klobuchar, a 2020 presidential candidate, rejected Paul\u2019s\u00a0proposed amendment of the resolution to include provisions calling for the public release of communications between President Obama, former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan and other Obama officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to know was there malfeasance, was there misuse of power, did President Obama\u2019s administration get involved in an election to infiltrate the Trump campaign to trap them?\u201d Paul asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to know that,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat we need to discover and we do not yet know: Was President Obama involved?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W5hExv_vcGM?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a Fox News interview Thursday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2019\/03\/rand-paul-obama-officials-tried-to-entrap-trump\/\">Paul, citing an unnamed source, said Obama\u2019s intelligence community sent spies into the Trump campaign to entrap him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said Brennan, Comey and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper took the action because they were not getting traction with the anti-Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.<\/p>\n<div class=\"in-article\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWell, my source tells me that the intelligence community, Obama\u2019s intelligence community, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, they were frustrated because they had this Russian dossier but no one believed it was real,\u201d Paul said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t verifiable, they couldn\u2019t get anything out of it, so they sent spies into the Trump campaign, they tried to entrap Trump officials [into] admitting that they were working for Russia, but it wasn\u2019t working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul said the Obama officials finally decided \u201cto attach this dossier, this fake dossier, to the intelligence reports\u201d given to Obama.<\/p>\n<p>In a Twitter message Wednesday, Paul said his source told him that Brennan insisted the Steele dossier be included in the Intelligence Report and that Steele should be asked to testify under oath before Congress.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2019\/03\/rand-paul-blocks-resolution-to-release-mueller-report\/\">https:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2019\/03\/rand-paul-blocks-resolution-to-release-mueller-report\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}