Indeed they ARE….
And it isn’t working to take the spotlight off a desperate Trump….
Former president Barack Obama’s office issued a rare admonishment Tuesday of the Trump administration’s claims that Obama administration officials planned a “treasonous conspiracy” aimed at the current commander in chief, calling the allegations “a weak attempt at distraction.”
On Friday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard — whose position has traditionally been apolitical — released declassified documents that she said show Obama and his national security team “manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump.” The evidence pertains to the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to interfere in the 2016 presidential election on Trump’s behalf.
The evidence on which Gabbard based her findings is paper-thin and discounts more substantiated intelligence findings, The Washington Post Fact-Checker found, but Trump has nonetheless embraced the material as the basis for potential criminal prosecutions against his perceived political enemies — including Obama…
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“Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes. These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio,” Rodenbush wrote, referring to Trump’s secretary of state..
Multiple in-depth investigations found that Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election, largely in an attempt to interfere with U.S. democracy but also in a way that suggested Putin preferred Trump to win….
Trump KNOWS the ‘going after Obama’ RightWingNuts BS DIRECTLY effects him also…He ain’t gonna be President Forever….
President Trump said Friday that former President Barack Obama “owes me big” for a US Supreme Court ruling that grants immunity for presidential acts.
Trump — who scored the sweeping ruling last year — had accused Obama earlier this week of treason and sedition for ordering up a spy-agency report on Russia’s alleged role in the 2016 election.
“It probably helps him a lot — the immunity ruling, but it doesn’t help the people around him at all,” Trump said.
“But it probably helps him a lot. He’s done criminal acts, there’s no question about it, but he has immunity.
“He owes me big. Obama owes me big,” the prez said while departing the White House for a trip to Scotland….
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