Obama Schedules First Campaign Stops Since WikiLeaks Linked Him To Clinton Email Scandal, FBI Probe Reopened... striking back ...by Jack Davis October 28, 2016
After a dramatic revelation by the FBI on Friday that it would reopen its review of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s emails from her days as secretary of state, the Democratic Party is striking back by scheduling President Barack Obama to campaign on Clinton’s behalf.Obama’s three-state swing begins Tuesday in Ohio, continues Wednesday in North Carolina and concludes Thursday in Florida.
All three states are considered toss-ups. Although Clinton has been leading North Carolina in most polls, Trump led in one of the five most recent polls of the state. The most recent polling from Ohio and Florida shows Trump with slim leads in those states.
Although Obama has campaigned on Clinton’s behalf before, these appearances will be the first since WikiLeaks revealed this week that Obama was aware he was getting emails from Clinton that were not through a government server.
Writer Charles Ortel, who has commented extensively on the scandals related to the Clinton Foundation, noted that Obama’s role in the Clinton email scandal has so far flown under the radar.
“I think he [Obama] was 100 percent dishonest,” Ortel said in a recent interview. “I think the bigger story here is that President Obama was communicating with Hillary Clinton in the emails that I saw using a private address of his own. It’s not simply that Hillary was sending him using her private address. He too, I think, was using a private address.”
Ortel said it strains credulity to think Obama never knew Clinton used a private server for official business.
“It is preposterous that President Obama is so busy — he is choosing to open emails [and] wouldn’t have noticed that this came from a private address as opposed to the .gov address,” he said.
Fox News’ Catherine Herridge also has said that the White House had to know what Clinton was doing just to allow the communications to take place.
“Did he receive Clinton emails on his BlackBerry? And if so, when did his team direct the White House Communications Office to accept the email and whitelist it?” she said.
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