A point to be made

Scott Jennings, a CNN contributor [and former special assistant to President George W. Bush], penned an op-ed on Friday denouncing Obama for allowing Russians to meddle “on his watch.”

"The Mueller report flatly states that Russia began interfering in American democracy in 2014. Over the next couple of years, the effort blossomed into a robust attempt to interfere in our 2016 presidential election. The Obama administration knew this was going on and yet did nothing," Jennings wrote.

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“Obama wanted Putin in the [Iran nuclear] deal, and to stand up to him on election interference would have, in Obama's estimation, upset that negotiation,” Jennings wrote. “This turned out to be a disastrous policy decision.”

“I guess if I had failed to stop Russia from marching into Crimea, making a mess in Syria, and hacking our democracy I'd be looking to blame someone else, too,” Jennings wrote of Democrats’ attempts to deflect on President Trump or McConnell.

  The Hill

That does not excuse Trump.

“If you consider Russian election interference a crisis for our democracy, then you cannot read the Mueller report, adding it to the available public evidence, and conclude anything other than Barack Obama spectacularly failed America,” Jennings wrote.

In other ways as well.