Obama breaks silence on Trump’s ‘outrageous’ call to prosecute him | Barack Obama

Barack Obama broke his silence on Donald Trump’s calls to be prosecuted by rejecting unequivocally the accusations of his successor that he had tried to ingest a “coup” after Trump’s electoral victory in 2016 by “manufacturing” proof of Russian interference.

Obama’s office has taken the unusual measure to issue a categorical refutation after Trump told journalists that his predecessor had “[tried] To lead a coup “against him and was guilty of” betrayal “on intelligence assessments suggesting that Russia had intervened to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton in the countryside.

“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office normally does not dignify the constant nonsense and the disinformation that leaves this white house with an answer,” said the press release. “But these claims are sufficiently scandalous to deserve one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a low attempted distraction.”

The declaration then criticized the claims made in an 11 -page document published last week by Tulsi Gabbard, the national intelligence director, who declared that she transmitted evidence of what she claimed was a “betrayal conspiracy” among the national security officials of Obama to the Ministry of Justice, recommending their prosecutions.

“Nothing in the document published last week divides the conclusion widely accepted according to which Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but has failed to manipulate votes,” he said.

“These conclusions were confirmed in a 2020 report by the Intelligence Committee of the Bipartite Senate, led by the president of the time Marco Rubio.”

Obama’s response followed Trump’s accusations at the White House as he met the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, son of the former autocratic president of the country, who was ousted in a popular “revolution of popular power” in 1986.

Asked by a journalist who should be the main target of the criminal investigation recommended in the Gabbard report, Trump said: “Based on what I read, and I read roughly what you read, it would be President Obama. He started it, and Biden was there with him. And [James] Comey [the former FBI director] was there, and [James] Swinging [the former director of national intelligence]The whole group was there.

“They are also, but the gang leader was President Obama, Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him? “

He continued: “It’s not like evidence. It is like proof, irrefutable proof that Obama was sedative [sic]That Obama… was trying to direct a coup, and it was with Hillary Clinton, with all these other people, but Obama led her.

“It is guilty. It was a betrayal. It was each word you can think of. They tried to steal the elections. They tried to obscure the elections. They did things that no one even imagined.”

Trump said Gabbard told her that she had “thousands of additional documents to come.”

“This is the most incredible thing I think I have never read. So you want to take a look at that and stop talking about nonsense,” he said, in what seemed to be a coded call so that the supporters abandon their requests for the release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, the dishonored financier who was discovered in his prison cell in 2019 while waiting for sexual sex charges.

But Gabbard’s report, who accused the Obama administration of forcing spy agencies to modify their conclusions, confused and distorted different questions to discredit the assessment of the intelligence community in 2017 that Russia sought to help Trump simultaneously and harm Clinton.

The evaluation concluded that Russia has not engaged in cyber attacks against electoral infrastructure to change your vote, but noted that Moscow hacked and disclosed documents from the National Democratic Committee to harm the campaign of Clinton.

Gabbard’s report used the first conclusion to suggest that a wider Russian influence operation did not occur and quoted the memory of Obama’s presidential daily life in December 2016 which concluded that there were no Russian hacks of electoral systems pushed as proof of political interference in the evaluation.

The statements of Russian interference were then confirmed in the report published by the Special Council Robert Mueller, in 2019, and the report of the intelligence committee of the Bipartisan Senate published the following year, led by Rubio, now Secretary of State in the administration of Trump.

A former CIA analyst and national intelligence officer, Fulton Armstrong, told the Guardian in an e-mail that the Gabbard newspaper “was obviously written with a pre-order conclusion”.

“Even a quick reading shows how confusion between confidence and probability [over intelligence assessments] – Even if it is not deliberate – leads to negligence and manipulation, “said Armstrong.

“The biggest problem is that the Tulsi newspaper is such a shit. His reference to “deep state officials” is amateur, silly and undermines the fucking document.

“It is intelligent to use shit precedents and confusion to assert its arguments, but a problem such as the Russian manipulation of American elections, with so many analysts of various organizational cultures, will almost leave enough origins on the ground.