- Under pressure on Epstein, Trump continues on the attack.
- It was claimed that Russia was trying to hurt Clinton.
- Obama has long been a target for Trump.
US President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of “betrayal” on Tuesday and accused him without providing evidence of leading an effort to false him to Russia and undermine his 2016 presidential campaign.
A spokesman for Obama condemned Trump’s allegations and said, “These bisexual accusations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.”
While Trump has often attacked Obama by name, the Republican President has not, since returning to Embed in January, gone so far to point his finger against his democratic predecessor with allegations of criminal act.
Under comments in the Oval Office, Trump jumped on comments from her intelligence officer Tulsi Gabbard, Friday, threatening to refer Obama administration officials to the Ministry of Justice for prosecution over an intelligence assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
She declassified documents and said that the information she released showed a “treacherous conspiracy” in 2016 by the top Obama administrative officials to undermine Trump claims that Democrats called false and politically motivated.
“That’s where he’s guilty. This was betrayal,” Trump said on Tuesday, though he didn’t present any evidence of his claims. “They tried to steal the election. They tried to unwind the election. They did things that nobody ever imagined, even in other countries.”
An assessment of the US intelligence community published in January 2017 concluded that Russia, with the help of disinformation on social media, hacking and Russian bot holdings, tried to hurt Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign and strengthen Trump. The evaluation determined that the actual impact was likely to be limited and showed no evidence that Moscow’s efforts changed voting results.
A Bipartisan report from 2020 from the Senate Intelligence Committee had found that Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort, the WikiLeaks Web site and others to try to influence the 2016 election to help Trump’s campaign.
“Nothing in the document issued last week (by Gabbard) undermines the widely accepted conclusion that Russia was working to influence the 2016 presidential election but not successfully manipulated any votes,” Obama spokesman Patrick Rodenbush said in a statement.
Trump under pressure
Trump, who has a history of promoting false conspiracy theories, has often condemned the assessments as a “Hoax.” In recent days, Trump on his truth relocated social account a fake video showing Obama, arrested in handcuffs in the oval office.
Trump has tried to divert attention to other questions after he came under pressure from his conservative base to release more information about Jeffrey Epstein, who died of suicide in 2019 while awaiting trials of sex trade charges.
Backmen for conspiracy theories of Epstein have called on Trump, who socialized himself with the disgraceful financier of the 1990s and early 2000s to release investigative files related to the case.
Trump, who was asked in the Oval Office of Epstein, quickly turned into an attack on Obama and Clinton.
“The witch hunt that you should talk about is that they caught President Obama absolutely cold,” Trump said.
Trump suggested that action would be taken against Obama and his former officials and called Russia -the investigation a treacherous act and the former president guilty of “attempting to lead a coup.”
“It’s time to start after what they did to me and whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people. Obama has been caught directly,” he said.
Democratic representative Jim Himes replied to X: “This is a lie. And if he is confused, the president would ask @secrubio, who helped lead the Bipartisan Senate Survey, which unanimously concluded that there was no evidence of politicization in the behavior of the intelligence community around the 2016 election.”
Former Republican Senator Marco Rubio is now Trump’s Secretary of State.
Since returning to Embed, Trump has thrown his political opponents, as he claims weapons, the federal government against him and his allies until January 6, 2021, attacked the US capital of his followers and his handling of classified materials after leaving office in 2021.
Attacks on predecessors
Obama has long been a target for Trump. In 2011, he accused the then President Obama of not being born in the United States, causing Obama to release a copy of his birth certificate.
In recent months, Trump has rarely held back in his rhetorical banks against his two democratic predecessors in a way that is all than unprecedented in modern times.
He launched an investigation after accusing former President Joe Biden and his staff with no proof of a “conspiracy” to use an autopene, an automated device that repeats a person’s signature, to sign sensitive documents on behalf of the president. The bite has rejected the claim as false and “ridiculous.”
Gabbard’s charges that Obama conspired to undermine Trump’s 2016 election by producing the Intelligence of Russia’s Interference, is opposed by a CIA review ordered by director John Ratcliffe and published on July 2, a Bipartisan Senate Report and Declassified Decuments 2018 published last week.
The documents show that Gabbard conflicted two separate US intelligence results in claiming that Obama and his national security assistants changed an assessment that Russia probably did not try to influence the election through cyber funds.
One finding was that Russia did not try to hack US election infrastructure to change voting counts, and the other was that Moscow probably used cyber funds to influence the US political environment through information and propaganda operations, including stealing and leaking data from Democratic Party servers.
The US intelligence assessment in January 2017 ordered by Obama, built on the second finding: that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized influence operations to swing the vote in 2016 to Trump.
The review ordered by Ratcliffe found deficiencies in the production of this assessment. But it did not contest its conclusion and maintained the “quality and credibility” of a very classified CIA report on which the authors of the assessment depended on.
