by Julie Kelly at Declassified with Julie Kelly
This is part one of a two part (or maybe three, who knows) series on Lisa Monaco.
With all eyes focused on the Brennan-Comey-Clapper axis of evil, lesser known figures played a major role in the decade-long pursuit of President Trump. Lisa Monaco is one.
Her nickname inside the Obama White House was “Dr. Doom.”
According to a 2017 Politico profile, Lisa Monaco—who had worked for Barack Obama since the beginning of his presidency, ending as his homeland security advisor—said the president gave her that moniker because when ‘he saw me coming, he knew something bad had happened.’”
That sentiment may represent rare common ground between Obama and President Donald Trump.
As one of Obama’s most trusted henchmen, Monaco used her power in the months before and after the 2016 presidential election to sabotage Trump. She became the public face of so-called “Russian hacking” until Obama’s last moments in office.
But her effort to try to destroy Trump was not over. Monaco continued, both outside and inside the government including most recently as Joe Biden’s deputy attorney general, her anti-Trump campaign for years—resulting in two unprecedented criminal federal indictments against a former U.S. president.
In fact,…
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