Trump Calls for Obama to Be Hauled Before Congress for Massive Crimes He Declines to Outline Trump Calls for Obama to Be Hauled Before Congress for Massive Crimes He Declines to Outline .......If I were a Senator or Congressman, the first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA,  is former President Obama,” he wrote. “He knew EVERYTHING. Do it @LindseyGrahamSC, just do it.  Trump has been loudly complaining about “OBAMAGATE!” .first amplifying the allegations in a stream of 120 tweets and retweets.   But he has declined to say what crimes Obama is supposed to have committed. Asked by a Washington Post journalist , Trump responded: “Obamagate. It’s been going on for a long time. It’s been going on from before I even got elected.  When pressed to say what offense was committed, Trump said: “You know what the crime is. The crime is very obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers, except yours.” Trump and his allies have long claimed, without evidence, that the investigation into Russian election meddling, started by the FBI in 2017, was a hit job by the outgoing Obama administration. Since the Department of Justice moved to drop its case against Trump’s  National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Trump’s “Obamagate” conspiracy theories have reached fever pitch. Richard Grenell, Trump’s acting director of national intelligence, released a declassified list on Tuesday of Obama administration officials who sought to “unmask” Flynn—a fairly common practice by senior officials who want to know the names of people under government surveillance. (Under privacy laws and intelligence regulations, the names of Americans picked up on foreign wire taps are concealed unless officials ask that they be unmasked.) Trump and his supporters claimed the list shared by Grenell, which included Joe Biden, was more proof that the Obama administration sought to sabotage the incoming Trump administration. Graham, is unlikely to take up Trump’s call to bring Obama before Congress. “I don’t think now’s the time for me to do that. I don’t know if that’s even possible,” he told Politico , reiterating his comments from earlier in the week that he was not anticipating calling Obama. “I understand President Trump’s frustration, but be careful what you wish for,” he added. Attorney General Barr also launched a separate investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation, but the prosecutor he put in charge has not interviewed at least five key potential witnesses or targets, multiple sources told The Daily Beast. Some presidents and former presidents have been called to testify before Congress on rare occasions. After tweeting about “OBAMAGATE!” on Thursday, Trump pivoted to trashing the reputation of Rick Bright, a government scientist-turned-whistleblower who is testifying before Congress on Thursday. Bright claims he was ousted from his job overseeing coronavirus vaccine research after questioning the efficacy of an anti-malarial drug favored by the president. https://news.yahoo.com/trump-calls-obama-hauled-congress-155634748.html