Fake News Media Conveniently Forgets That Former President Obama Tried To Sabotage Israel’s 2015 Elections

The Obama State Department paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2015 taxpayers grants to an Israeli group that used the money to build a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last year’s Israeli parliamentary elections, a congressional investigation concluded.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s a quick, little shout-out to all  you liberals who “cannot possibly fathom” President Trump’s claims of Obama wiretapping as being true. I guess you all have conveniently forgotten that in 2015, then president Obama spent nearly a half million in taxpayer funds to directly interfere with Israel’s free and fair elections in a bid to derail Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election as prime minister. A sitting president who could do that could very easily order wiretaps on Donald Trump. 

Some $350,000 was sent to OneVoice, ostensibly to support the group’s efforts to back Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement negotiations. But OneVoice used the money to build a voter database, train activists and hire a political consulting firm with ties to President Obama’s campaign — all of which set the stage for an anti-Netanyahu campaign, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said in a bipartisan staff report.

In one stunning finding, the subcommittee said OneVoice even told the State Department’s top diplomat in Jerusalem of its plans in an email, but the official, Consul General Michael Ratney, claims never to have seen them.

He said he regularly deleted emails with large attachments — a striking violation of open-records laws for a department already reeling from former Secretary Hillary Clinton’s handling of official government records.

Mr. Netanyahu survived the election, and the U.S. spending was not deemed illegal because the State Department never put any conditions on the money. Investigators also said OneVoice didn’t turn explicitly political until days after the grant period ended.

“The State Department ignored warnings signs and funded a politically active group in a politically sensitive environment with inadequate safeguards,” said Sen. Rob Portman, chairman of the investigative subcommittee. “It is completely unacceptable that U.S. taxpayer dollars were used to build a political campaign infrastructure that was deployed — immediately after the grant ended — against the leader of our closest ally in the Middle East. American resources should be used to help our allies in the region, not undermine them.” source

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