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Interestingly enough you do not even brother to deny the OP. All you have is a pathetic attempt at deflecting to Obama.Hmmmm.....still no examples.
Obama?
Meanwhile, obama used the IRS to deny tax exempt status to conservative groups before an election. He went after journalists and actually spied on them..... He used the FBI, CIA, DOJ and STate department to get illegal FISA warrants to spy on Trump and his people and then rail roaded General Flynn and several other Trump associates with fake charges........
And I will now throw in obama prosecuting government whistle blowers...
Criticism of Mr. Obama’s stance on press freedom, government transparency and secrecy is hotly disputed by the White House, but many journalism groups say the record is clear. Over the past eight years, the administration has prosecuted nine cases involving whistle-blowers and leakers, compared with only three by all previous administrations combined. It has repeatedly used the Espionage Act, a relic of World War I-era red-baiting, not to prosecute spies but to go after government officials who talked to journalists.
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Under Mr. Obama, the Justice Department and the F.B.I. have spied on reporters by monitoring their phone records, labeled one journalist an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal case for simply doing reporting and issued subpoenas to other reporters to try to force them to reveal their sources and testify in criminal cases.
I experienced this pressure firsthand when the administration tried to compel me to testify to reveal my confidential sources in a criminal leak investigation. The Justice Department finally relented — even though it had already won a seven-year court battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court to force me to testify — most likely because they feared the negative publicity that would come from sending a New York Times reporter to jail.
Opinion | If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank Obama (Published 2016)
Obama has laid all the groundwork Trump needs for a crackdown on reporters.www.nytimes.com
So....when Trump does any of that, please get back to us.........