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Originally Posted by n david
Actual scandals as opposed to made up stories about collusion between Trump and Russia?
Fast and Furious
IRS
Benghazi
Just three of the well known scandals which happened during obama's administration.
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Fast and Furious wasn't Obama's doing-- he continued a policy that started before him, conducted by a federal agency that falls under the President-- but tying him to the day-to-day operations of the agency is not realistic.
IRS was investigated. Obama was not involved.
Benghazi happened on Obama's watch-- but he didn't deny the spending requests. He didn't deny the requests for increased security. Blame Obama by proxy? Ok, but it's not like Obama had much to do with the ENTIRE PICTURE OF FAILURE associated with Benghazi. You know this!
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Actually, it is THIS FACT that made Benghazi very difficult to pin on President Obama.
If Republicans had attempted to point one finger at Obama, they would have had 4 pointing back at them-- so they never tried very hard to make Obama's re-election about Benghazi.
And sadly, the slain Ambassador himself actually turned down an attempt from the State Department to give the outpost more funding for security less than one year (maybe even less then 4 months) before the attack.
He wanted American military forces whose loyalties could be trusted-- and that wasn't something he thought money could buy in the politically deteriorating situation of Benghazi.