Fox legal analyst: Barack in on it

Former President Barack Obama delivers the Nelson Mandela lecture in Johannesburg, South Africa, July 17, 2018.

A Fox News legal analyst says the strategizing that went on in the Obama administration to undermine Donald Trump between his election and inauguration included President Obama.

"Absolutely [fired FBI director James] Comey met with Obama the day before he briefed Trump on the dossier," said Greg Jarrett, the author of the upcoming book "Witch Hunt: The Story of the Greatest Mass Delusion in American Political History."

"I think that the Obama administration had Trump in their sight, and they were going to do their level best to undo the election results and drive him from office," he told Fox Nation radio host Todd Starnes.

"And I think Barack Obama was in on it."

Starnes asked Jarrett if he agreed with a caller who "suggested that the Democrats know this is really not going anywhere and that they’re doing this because there’s something more insidious coming."

"I totally agree with that," Jarrett replied. "Well, the inspector general’s report will probably come out in September, late September, early October. Right about the time my book 'Witch Hunt' comes out, and I think it’s going to be devastating for people like Andrew McCabe, James Comey, Peter Strzok, Bruce Ohr, James Baker – all of these people at the FBI and the Department of Justice who allowed their partisanship to influence their decisions. It was an abuse of power. I think there’ll be criminal referrals."

Starnes called it a "historic level of corruption."

"Oh sure, it is not only undermining the rule of law but subverting democracy," Jarrett said.

Video of the interview is at this link.

The comments followed former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony to Congress on Wednesday about his investigation of alleged Trump-Russia collusion. Mueller found no evidence of it and did not refer obstruction of justice charges against the president.

Jarrett said it's clear that Mueller didn't write any of his report, and in his testimony before Congress, he "deflected and obfuscated throughout."

"Chris Wallace observed this was a disaster for Democrats and a disaster for the reputation of Robert Mueller. I would agree wholeheartedly," he said.

Jarrett said Democrats paid Russia for information, referring to the Steele dossier, and fed it to the DOJ and others "to influence the election" in 2016.

Jarrett also said there needs to be an accounting of Mueller's hiring of "partisans" with conflicts of interest to lead his investigative team.

Further, he said insiders informed him that Mueller admitted in March 2018 that Trump had no "criminal collusion exposure." Yet, he withheld that information from the public until after the 2018 elections in which the Democrats regained the House of Representatives.