MATT MARGOLIS:
“…On January 5, 2017, a meeting was held in the Obama White House in the Oval Office. Both President Obama and Vice President Biden attended. As Mollie Hemingway of the Federalist wrote, after this meeting took place, “high-level operatives began intensely leaking selective information supporting a supposed Russia-Trump conspiracy theory, the incoming National Security Advisor was ambushed, and the incoming Attorney General [Jeff Sessions] was forced to recuse himself from oversight of investigations of President Trump.” In addition to setting up a perjury trap for Flynn, Obama officials also withheld exculpatory evidence and investigated Trump and his associates over alleged Russian collusion even though they had no empirical evidence of that collusion. According to Hemingway, the January 5, 2017 meeting was “key to the entire anti-Trump operation.”
Thin was the same meeting that Barack Obama spoke with Yates and Comey regarding details of wiretapped conversations of Trump’s incoming National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the Trump transition, suggesting Obama was directly involved, and that the attempted coup against Trump was ordered by him.
On Wednesday, acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell the list of sixteen Obama administration officials who sought to “unmask” the identity of Michael Flynn during the presidential transition. Among those on the list were Vice President Joe Biden, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and Director for National Intelligence James Clapper.
Another interesting name on the list is Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff Denis McDonough. What makes his request perhaps the most interesting is that he made his request on January 5, 2017—the same day as the pivotal Oval Office meeting…
…The phone call that resulted in charges being filed against Flynn, where he discussed Russian sanctions with Kislyak, took place on December 29, 2016. McDonough’s unmasking request is the first one made after that phone call took place.
Does this mean that Denis McDonough is the leaker? If so, did he do so at the direction of Barack Obama?…”