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Trump: ‘Obamagate’ Was ‘the Biggest Political Crime in American History’

White House Trade Adviser Says Chinese Communist Party Took Down US Economy in 60 Days

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro this week claimed聽the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ruined聽the United States’ economy in just 60 days due to its handling of the CCP virus outbreak. Speaking to聽Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, Navarro explained how the CCP engaged in a cover-up of the virus outbreak and allowed it to spread by continuing to let people from China travel to other parts of the world. “We know that patient zero in China was about mid-November. It was in Wuhan. We know that ground zero had the P4 weapons lab,聽where the virus likely came from,”聽Navarro said. “For the next two months, we know that China hid the virus from the world behind the shield of the World Health Organization. And as they did that, they sent…

Trump: ‘Obamagate’ Was ‘the Biggest Political Crime in American History’

President Donald Trump charged on Sunday that “Obamagate” was “the biggest political crime in American history, by far!”

Trump took to Twitter, his favored social media platform, to make the statement.

He added on Monday: “OBAMAGATE makes Watergate look small time!”

The Office of Barack and Michelle Obama didn’t respond to a request for comment on Trump’s remarks.

The term Trump used first started to trend in March 2017 after the newly elected president wrote on Twitter that former President Barack Obama had had his “wires tapped.”

According to recently released documents, Obama was aware of details from wiretapped phone calls between Trump’s then-national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Russia’s ambassador to the United States in late 2016 or early 2017. Flynn was later accused of lying to the FBI about details of the calls during a Jan. 24, 2017 interview. Flynn resigned from his position shortly after.

High-level officials differ on who informed Obama, with several alleging it was James Clapper, the director of national intelligence. Clapper denied the allegations under oath.

Trump: ‘Obamagate’ Was ‘the Biggest Political Crime in American History’ President Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn leaves the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington on June 24, 2019. (Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images)

Trump spent portions of Sunday sharing tweets from a wide range of accounts, buttressing the retweets with the two brief statements.

One tweet the president shared showed a meme of Trump looking at the camera with the words emblazoned on the photo: “Hope you had fun investigating me. Now it’s my turn.”

Another post said: “Unless people are indited [sic] and put in prison the corruption will continue.”

Another account retweeted by Trump alleged treason, wondering who would be the first person besides Trump “to call for Treason Charges” and “demand Prosecution of the Frame Up Conspirators in this Attempted Overthrow of our Presidency?”

Trump also shared a number of posts from Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who argued that Obama administration officials collaborated with the FBI on the investigation of Flynn.

Trump: ‘Obamagate’ Was ‘the Biggest Political Crime in American History’ President-elect Donald Trump listens as President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office in Washington on Nov. 10, 2016. (Saul Loeb/Pool/Getty Images)

The Department of Justice dropped the case against Flynn last week after a review found the Jan. 24, 2017, interview of Trump’s national security adviser “was untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn.”

That investigation was “no longer justifiably predicated investigation,” stated Timothy Shea, interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, referring to the FBI’s move to close the probe until special agent Peter Strzok intervened to keep it open.

Strzok was later fired after a slew of anti-Trump messages to FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who worked for FBI official Andrew McCabe, came to light.

Attorney General William Barr said the move to dismiss the case against Flynn “upheld the rule of law,” an assertion that Obama, the former president, disagreed with.

Obama told former administration officials that he was concerned the motion to dismiss meant that “our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk.”

He added, “And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly, as we’ve seen in other places.”

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Chinese Investment in Australia Continues to Decline, US Holds Top Spot

The latest Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) annual report recorded that Chinese investment into Australia has continued its downward trend with a 44 percent drop. The United States remains in first place as the largest source for investment in Australia, followed by Canada, Singapore, Japan, and China in fifth. The annual report, published on May 4, showed a decrease of Chinese investment from $23.7 billion (USD $15.5 billion) in the 2017-18 financial year, to $13.1 billion (USD $8.5 billion) in 2018-19. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg wrote in the report that this continued a four-year downward trend that started in 2015-16. “This can be attributed to a range of factors such as China’s internal domestic policy settings including increased scrutiny of outbound investment and stricter capital controls,” he wrote. Australian Prime Minister Scott…