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President Donald Trump has ramped up in recent days his criticism of the Obama administration, specifically with reference to Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo Trump: 'Ask Jeff Sessions' why isn't Obama administration under investigation for Russian meddling? 
  
 President Donald Trump suggested online Wednesday that the Obama administration should be subject to federal investigation for its failure to stop Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, directing his followers to “ask Jeff Sessions” why such probes were not underway. 
  
 “Question: If all of the Russian meddling took place during the Obama Administration, right up to January 20th, why aren’t they the subject of the investigation? Why didn’t Obama do something about the meddling? Why aren’t Dem crimes under investigation? Ask Jeff Session!” the president wrote on Twitter, misspelling the name of his attorney general, Jeff Sessions. Trump later reposted the tweet with the correct spelling of the attorney general’s name. 
  
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 Sessions recused himself from any Justice Department investigations related to the 2016 election after media reports exposed misstatements he made to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his interactions with Russian officials during the campaign. Trump has been loudly critical of Sessions’ decision to recuse himself. 
  
 The president has ramped up in recent days his criticism of the Obama administration, specifically with reference to Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Trump’s attacks against Obama follow indictments announced last week by the office of special counselor Robert Mueller against 13 Russian nationals accused of engaging in online political interference in the months and years leading up to the 2016 race. 
  
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 Mueller’s indictment alleges that the Russian efforts outlined in the charging document date back as far as 2014, well before Trump announced he would enter the presidential race. That point has fueled Trump’s insistence that allegations that his campaign colluded with the Kremlin’s efforts are baseless and that ongoing investigations into those accusations, including Mueller’s, are a “witch hunt.” 
  
 Allies of the president have also seized on portions of the most recent Mueller indictments, accusing the Russian nationals of promoting anti-Trump sentiment and rhetoric online, a point that some Trump defenders have argued counters the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that the Kremlin’s interference efforts were intended specifically to boost Trump’s candidacy and hinder that of Democrat Hillary Clinton. 
  
 Despite the president’s suggestion that his immediate predecessor did nothing to combat Russian election interference, it is Trump who has thus far declined to impose congressionally approved sanctions on Russia intended to punish it for its meddling efforts. Trump has also been decidedly softer in his rhetoric toward Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin, especially relative to his otherwise get-tough approach to foreign policy. 
  
 Obama, in the waning weeks of his own presidency, ordered closed two Russian diplomatic facilities, one in Maryland and another in New York, in retaliation for the Kremlin’s election interference. And Vice President Joe Biden said last month that Obama had sought support during the 2016 campaign from Republican leadership on Capitol Hill in speaking out about Russian election interference — an attempt to shield such a disclosure from likely attacks of partisanship — but was turned down by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. ||||| President Donald Trump on Wednesday slammed his attorney general again, this time calling on his 48 million Twitter followers to "ask Jeff Sessions" why the Obama administration is not the focus of the Russia probe. 
  
 "If all of the Russian meddling took place during the Obama Administration ... why aren't they the subject of the investigation?" Trump tweeted. 
  
 The tweet was his second attempt — an earlier version misspelling Sessions' name as Session was deleted. The tweet suggests that the Obama administration failed to act in response to the Russian meddling. 
  
 Recent court documents allege that the Kremlin's efforts were being conducted largely by a Russian entity first formed in July 2013. The Obama administration was aware in 2014 of Russia's efforts to disrupt American politics, though there was no evidence at the time of a threat to influence elections, current and former officials told Politico. 
  
 But former President Barack Obama also personally warned Russian President Vladimir Putin against election meddling in September 2016, The New York Times reported. On Oct. 7 — the day the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape of Trump describing sexual assault was released — the Obama administration publicly accused Russia of hacking emails from members of the Democratic National Committee. 
  
 And before he left office, Obama imposed sanctions on Russia specifically in response to that country's efforts to influence the election. 
  
 In a tweet on Tuesday, Trump said he has "been much tougher on Russia than Obama, just look at the facts." But the Trump administration declined an opportunity to impose penalties against Russia after a new law calling for sanctions passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. 
  
 In a briefing Tuesday, press secretary Sarah Sanders said the White House is following the correct process. 
  
 "That law also says that the countries have to violate something in order for those sanctions to go in place. And that hasn't necessarily happened," Sanders said, even though she said the Russian election meddling was "very clear" just a few seconds earlier. 
  
 In the Wednesday morning tweet, Trump also asked, "Why aren't Dem crimes under investigation?" before telling his audience to "Ask Jeff Sessions!" 
  
 Trump has used his Twitter account to attack Sessions before, particularly since the attorney general recused himself from investigating matters relating to the 2016 presidential campaign after he failed in testimony to disclose meetings with a Russian ambassador. 
  
 The recusal kept Sessions from overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible Russian involvement with the Trump campaign, ceding responsibility to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. ||||| Early Wednesday morning, President Trump tweeted something sensible, rational, and good for America. Jk. 
  
 Responding to recent developments in Robert Mueller's investigation into the Trump campaign's association with Russia, the president's Twitter account has seemed more unhinged than usual. This morning he fired off a tweet asking why Obama and the Democrats weren't also under investigation. Then he misspelled his attorney general's name, saying, "Ask Jeff Session!" 
  
 An hour later, Trump corrected the name, but it was too late. 
  
 "Jeff Session" had already captured the internet's attention, and people demanded to know what this new figure in the Trump drama knew... and why isn't he talking??? 
  
 By the time Trump's revised tweet hit the web's tubes, "Jeff Session" was already trending on Twitter. 
  
 Jeff Session vs. Jeff Sessions pic.twitter.com/CpZcOP6ML3 — Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) February 21, 2018 
  
 Jeff Session 
  
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 Mike Penny — Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 21, 2018 
  
 AP style note: When referring to plural of Attorney General Jeff Session, the correct form is “Attorneys General Jeff Sessions” — Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) February 21, 2018 
  
 Some poor guy named Jeff Session, who probably owns a hardware store in Oregon, is about to be flooded with calls from the nation's assignment editors. — Matt Ford (@fordm) February 21, 2018 
  
 the plural of jeff session is actually jeffs session. — kelly cohen (@politiCOHEN_) February 21, 2018 
  
 Jeff Session: “This is just blood...” pic.twitter.com/hX1T4lomVx — Matt Lipton (@mattliptoncomic) February 21, 2018 
  
 Jeff Session is actually slowly fading away... one letter at a time. pic.twitter.com/sbfZSBU7fo — Ben Siemon (@BenjaminJS) February 21, 2018 
  
 Yes, this is a funny bit. But it also takes away from the bigger problem with Trump's tweet: a person in power asking his Justice Department to investigate political rivals seemingly without cause or justification. It's despotic. 
  
 Also, it has been only a week since a gunman armed with a legally-obtained assault rifle killed 17 kids in a Florida high school. Trump's response to it has ranged from lackluster to downright insulting. 
  
 Yet he continues to be obsessed with an investigation that shines a deeply unflattering light on his campaign, but not obsessed enough, apparently, to know how to spell his closest colleague's name. ||||| Question: If all of the Russian meddling took place during the Obama Administration, right up to January 20th, why aren’t they the subject of the investigation? Why didn’t Obama do something about the meddling? Why aren’t Dem crimes under investigation? Ask Jeff Sessions! |||||
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Over the weekend President Trump took to Twitter to argue that some of the blame for Russian election meddling lays squarely at the feet of the Obama administration, and it's a thread he picked up on Wednesday. "Question: If all of the Russian meddling took place during the Obama Administration, right up to January 20th, why aren’t they the subject of the investigation?" he tweeted, continuing, "Why didn’t Obama do something about the meddling? Why aren’t Dem crimes under investigation? Ask Jeff Sessions!" Mashable notes the tweet originally misspelled the attorney general's name as "Session"; a corrected tweet was posted an hour later, but "Jeff Session" was already trending on Twitter. (See some of the spelling jokes that ensued here.) The tweet suggests the president blames the lack of probe on Sessions, who last year recused himself from any investigations into Russian interference. Politico explains Trump's ramped-up tweeting on the topic comes in the wake of Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russian nationals for election-related crimes, which, per Mueller, date back to 2014. As Trump had not announced his candidacy at that point, he proclaimed it was evidence of "no collusion!" CNBC notes it's not the first time Trump has gone after Sessions on Twitter, and points to this July tweet.