Fox Business host Lou Dobbs said there “could be” more to former President Barack Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden than meets the eye.
During an interview with Rep. Jim Jordan, Dobbs raised the idea that the endorsement Tuesday in the Democratic primary contest could be tied to U.S. Attorney John Durham’s review of the Russia investigation.
“One has to wonder why President Obama chose this moment,” Dobbs said on his show. “It could be because of reports now that John Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, who’s been charged by the attorney general with investigating the so-called investigators, John Brennan, the CIA director under Obama, is the leading target, we are told.”
He was referring to a Wall Street Journal report earlier this month in which sources said Durham is increasingly focused on former CIA Director John Brennan and drove to Washington, D.C., to make sure the investigation stayed on track during the coronavirus outbreak.
Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, did not directly address Dobbs’s thought about Obama, instead mentioning how there were a couple “key” developments last week in the so-called Russiagate controversy, including the declassification of footnotes in a Justice Department inspector general report showing the FBI received classified reports in 2017, which identified that parts of British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier were likely influenced by Russian disinformation.
The Ohio congressman added that Attorney General William Barr and Durham are “getting to the bottom of this” and hopes to see the investigation end sometime in the summer.
While the president and his allies have championed the investigation, Democrats have criticized Durham’s review as a politically motivated scheme to undermine the work of special counsel Robert Mueller and attack President Trump’s perceived enemies.
Obama’s endorsement came after Biden’s last remaining primary rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, endorsed Biden on Monday.
Obama said in a video that his former vice president “has all the qualities we need in a president right now” and called on “Americans of goodwill to unite in a great awakening against a politics that too often has been characterized by corruption, carelessness, self-dealing, disinformation, ignorance, and just plain meanness.”
