Trump Thanks Fox & Friends For ‘Great Timeline on All of The Failures’ of Obama ‘Against Russia’

Thank you to @foxandfriends for the great timeline on all of the failures the Obama Administration had against Russia, including Crimea, Syria and so much more. We are now starting to win again!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2018

President Donald Trump thanked Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning for their coverage of “all of the failures the Obama Administration had against Russia, including Crimea, Syria and so much more.”

Fox & Friends, well known as Trump’s favorite breakfast show, repeatedly covered former President Barack Obama’s policy on Russia Tuesday morning, slamming him for inaction on Kremlin influence in the 2016 election.

The show was particularly critical of comments Obama made during the 2016 election, in which he implored Trump to stop whining about the vote being “rigged.”

The hosts of Fox & Friends decried Obama for those comments, pointing out that he knew about Russian attempts to interfere in the U.S. election back in 2016.

What Fox & Friends ignored, however, is that Obama’s comments were in reference to Trump complaining about voter fraud, which the then candidate was blaming not on Russia, but on African-Americans.

Trump continued his tweets, event transcribing his predecessor’s remarks and claiming Obama didn’t call out Russia publicly because he thought Hillary Clinton would win and didn’t want to “rock the boat”:

“There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America’s elections, there’s no evidence that that has happened in the past or that it will happen this time, and so I’d invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and make his case to get votes.” …..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2018

….The President Obama quote just before election. That’s because he thought Crooked Hillary was going to win and he didn’t want to “rock the boat.” When I easily won the Electoral College, the whole game changed and the Russian excuse became the narrative of the Dems.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2018

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