Obama 'colluded or obstructed' trying to help Clinton — Trump Twitter

Spicer was responding to NBC News' Kristen Welker, who asked Monday if the President was being hypocritical earlier that morning by claiming then-President Barack Obama had "colluded or obstructed" with Russian Federation. But Democrats have expressed frustration that the Obama administration did not more prominently address the issue ahead of Trump's surprise election victory.

In January, Trump acknowledged Russia had hacked the Democratic Party but he has since referred to investigations into Russian election meddling as a hoax or witch hunt. "Focus on them, not T!". As seen in a series of tweets on June 26, Trump didn't hold back.

Trump also criticized Obama in an interview that was broadcast on "Fox and Friends" on Sunday. "It's an awesome thing", Trump continued. "I think there are a lot of questions that need to be answered about who knew what and when?"

Conway was referring to a quotation in the article by a former senior Obama administration official involved in the Russian Federation discussions who said the Obama White House's handling of the Russian Federation hacking was "the hardest thing" for him to defend from his time in government, and added, "I feel like we sort of choked". Schiff is the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee.

"There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America's elections, in part because they're so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved", Obama said in October.

The Democrats have become nothing but OBSTRUCTIONISTS, they have no policies or ideas.

The divide within the administration over the nature of the potential meeting is indicative of broader disagreements over how best to deal with Russian Federation amid rampant speculation regarding collusion between Trump campaign officials and Russian Federation.

No definite arrangements have been set for a meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said Monday. Ultimately, he made no direct response until after Trump's election victory, when he expelled 35 Russian diplomats and closed two Russian facilities that the USA believed Moscow was using for intelligence gathering. "Wow, did we mishandle this", a former administration official told the newspaper.

"They're honestly nonsensical", Price said.

The paper reported that the previous administration issued four warnings to Moscow - including one Mr Obama delivered directly to Mr Putin - causing Moscow to pull back on possible plans to sabotage United States voting operations.

The then-President also made a veiled threat of more robust U.S. action to Putin - in public - that was cryptic at the time - but now appears understandable in retrospect.

Trump has also accused Obama of tapping his phones during the campaign, without giving evidence. House leaders have said the Constitution requires that the measure start in their chamber.

"Donald Trump is in no position to complain here", the California Democrat said. "Now if that picture had been clearer sooner, maybe we would have done more".

"How can you accuse President Obama of obstructing when he was egging Russian Federation on?"

Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to try to create yet another false narrative for his supporters.

Earlier Monday morning, Josh Earnest, Obama's last White House press secretary, charged congressional Republicans with being resistant to the administration's pre-election attempts to respond to Moscow's actions.

"Really the only person making that case prominently is Hillary Clinton", she said. "We all know that". "It had nothing to do with interference".

Trump has to directly "say to Putin, 'We're not happy about you interfering in our election, '" said Steven Pifer, a former USA ambassador to Ukraine.

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway had little sympathy for the Democrats after months of attacks on President Trump stemming from the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails, including unsubstantiated claims that his campaign colluded with Russian Federation.