Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
The Washington Post reports. “The FBI investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russian entities was not ordered by President Barack Obama or Vice President Joe Biden.”Obama and Biden did meet with their national security adviser, Susan Rice, and FBI Director James Comey in January 2017, but it focused on what classified information should be shared with Trump’s incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, in light of his contacts with Russia.