Bartiromo: ‘You Can’t Underestimate’ Russiagate’s Damage to Trump — ‘Celebrities Wouldn’t Sing’ For Him
Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo fumed on Friday that the Russia investigation in President Donald Trump’s first term was the reason that “celebrities wouldn’t sing at big events, at the inauguration.”
Bartiromo was speaking with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) about recent claims made by the president and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that former President Barack Obama orchestrated a “coup” against Trump.
Gabbard’s office said in a statement that it had found “overwhelming evidence that demonstrates how, after President Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, President Obama and his national security cabinet members manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump.”
Numerous sources, including the documents Gabbard released to back up her claim, disprove Gabbard’s highly controversial claims of a “treasonous conspiracy.”
In response to Johnson, who further outlined the alleged conspiracy, Bartiromo told him that “you cannot underestimate what it did to a sitting president.”
You are right and it is disgusting and it was a huge impact to America. It ripped the country apart. All the money spent on all those investigations, the dereliction of duty where they weren’t focused on the actual real issues that matter to the American people but instead used all their energy to try to take down their political enemies so they could hold on their grip on power. And, you cannot underestimate what it did to a sitting president.
The perception that it created around Donald Trump. That perception made a lot of things happen. People were not going to take jobs in his first administration, he wasn’t able to get talented right people in right jobs. Remember all those celebrities wouldn’t sing at his– at big events, at the inauguration, Hollywood. It was ridiculous.
Bartiromo went on to call the Russiagate “scandal” as “bigger than Watergate.” The origins of the Trump-Russia probe have, of course, already been investigated by Special Counsel John Durham, who closed the case and cited no further evidence for any additional charges. Accusations of Trump-Russia collusion did stem from some dubious sourcing, including the Steele Dossier, but also from Trump himself, who publicly called on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails, which the country later did.
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