Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), who delivered a stellar audition last week during special counsel Robert Mueller’s House testimony and thereafter became President Donald Trump’s pick for Director of National Intelligence, joined Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday to accuse the Obama Administration of committing crimes by opening the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election (which was, of course, and FBI investigation).
Ratcliffe said the Russia investigation was run by “Hillary Clinton’s de facto legal team” before turning the tables on the previous administration:
I think the first thing we need to do is make sure we don’t do what the Democrats have done. They accused Donald Trump of a crime and then they try and reverse engineer a process to justify that accusation.
View the complete July 29 article by Elizabeth Preza on the AlterNet website here.