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So that’s a yes?It’s a distortion of what happened.What the Democrats thought when Obama did this?
Obama admin. sent taxpayer money to campaign to oust Netanyahu
The State Department paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in 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 Tuesday.
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.
So if Trump abused his power by allegedly soliciting interference in an American election isn’t it likewise an abuse of power to use taxpayer funds to interfere in a foreign election?
The money was sent to campaign for peace between the Israel and Palestine. That is exactly what they did with it. However, as part of that campaign they gained experience and a database of people that they later leveraged to campaign against Netanyahu.
Implying this was intentionally done by Obama or anyone else is unsupported.
Yes what?
She/he is the very epitome of hypocrisy.