Clinton’s Team Reportedly Has Someone New to Blame for Election Loss: Barack Obama

As Hillary Clinton and her aides continue to reel from their 2016 election defeat, they have now reportedly decided that former president Barack Obama deserves blame for what happened on November 8.

Ever since the election ended, Democrats have blamed people like FBI Director James Comey and Russian President Vladimir Putin for impacting the election with their respective actions. A new report from Axios’ Mike Allen, however, says that Clinton staffers are angry that Obama didn’t do more to help her deal with things like negative media coverage on her scandals and Russia’s efforts to sway the election.

Here’s what one Clinton official had to say:

“The White House was like everyone else: They thought she’d win anyway. … If he had done more, it might have lessened a lot of aggrieved feelings, although I don’t think it would have altered the outcome. The Russia thing was like a spy novel, and anything he had said or done would have helped get people to believe it was real.”

The reported conclusion among Clinton aides is that Obama should have come to Clinton’s defense earlier, and that he offered an inadequate response to the issues which clouded the public’s judgment. One Obama aide told Allen that the White House took a cautious approach to Russia because they didn’t want voters to think they were politicizing Russia’s hacking.

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