In 2012 Obama admitted to asking Putin to help him win reelection

In March 2012 when the election campaign for 2012 was already going on Obama said the following to Russian president Dmitry Medvedev:

“On all these issues, particularly on missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space,"

Obama told Medvedev to pass that on to Putin who would take over as the new Russian president in 2 months.

Clearly Obama was asking Putin to help him get reelected by not making Obama look weak on foreign affairs.  You may remember how Obama mocked his opponent Mitt Romney's concern about Russia as a foreign threat by saying:

"Gov. Romney, I'm glad you recognize al-Qaida is a threat, because a few months ago when you were asked what is the biggest geopolitical group facing America, you said Russia, not al-Qaida," Obama said. "You said Russia. And the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back. Because the Cold War has been over for 20 years."

If Putin had been acting up and not giving Obama "space" that line would have come across as insanely stupid. But with Putin lying low Obama got away with it.

Why would Putin help Obama?  Well maybe because Obama told Medvedev this:

"“This is my last election,” he continued. “After my election I have more flexibility.” "

In other words Obama asked Putin for help getting reelected and in return Obama promised to be more favorable to Russia than Obama was telling we the people he'd be to Russia.  Now that's a quid pro quo.

What's interesting is that the inspector general of the US intelligence community didn't forward Obama's action to the DOJ for investigation as a possible campaign contribution but the inspector general did forward to the DOJ for investigation the fact that Trump asked the Ukraine to return to the rule of law and restart an investigation that Joe Biden had used his power as Vice President to stop; an action that Joe Biden says had nothing to do with his son being on the board of the company that was being investigated.

The Swamp is crooked.  The leaker is a Democrat fan. And this is just one more big lie by Democrats to destroy democracy in America.