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In an appearance with Stephen Colbert, Obama – who was still president when his FBI and Justice Department launched a probe into then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump over claims he was allied with Russia – said, “We can’t … have a situation in which whoever is in charge of the government starts using that to go after their political enemies.”
Obama emphasized that the White House should not press the Attorney General on prosecutions and suggested that these ideas may need to be officially codified into federal law.
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