Posted on 07/22/2025 3:06:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Former President Barack Obama's office on Tuesday rejected accusations that the former president committed treason by allegedly attempting to rig the 2016 election, stating the allegations are "outrageous enough" to warrant an official response.
The comment comes after President Donald Trump claimed his administration has uncovered evidence that the former president allegedly committed treason by engaging in conspiracies to rig the election and keep him from office.
“This was treason,” Trump said in the Oval Office Tuesday. “Barack Hussein Obama is the ringleader. Hillary Clinton was right there with him and so was Sleepy Joe Biden, and so were the rest of them: [former FBI Director James] Comey, [former Director of National Intelligence James] Clapper, the whole group. They tried to rig an election and they got caught. And then they did rig the election in 2020.
“This is like proof, irrefutable proof, that Obama was seditious, that Obama was trying to lead a coup," he continued. “This is the biggest scandal in the history of our country.”
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard last week sent declassified evidence to the Justice Department on what she claimed was a “treasonous conspiracy” related to top U.S. intelligence officials allegedly politicizing intelligence related to Russia and the 2016 election.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has also commented on allegations of a larger conspiracy that attempted to keep Trump out of the White House, or removed from office if elected.
Obama's office denied allegations that he participated in a conspiracy to dethrone Trump or committed treason and that the "evidence" released by Gabbard did not provide new information about Russia's attempt to influence the 2016 election.
"Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House...
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Trump is really grasping at straws with this one. He’d be better off reviving the birther thing.
A nondenial denial.
I’m going to interpret this denial as a full admission of guilt.
You obviously know nothing about the Russia coup.
“””Trump is really grasping at straws with this one. He’d be better off reviving the birther thing.”””
Is that what your friends at DU are saying?
What makes you say that?
So am I.
I just don’t want distractions, attempts at trolling or AI fantasy nonsense. There’s nothing here worth pursuing.
Well, technically what was done before the election couldn’t be treason. Between the election and inauguration may be a grey area, but once Trump took office, it could be in the table; and if there’s a continuity to the activities across those three periods, that could rope in the pre-election stuff, perhaps.
I did not have relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky.
Plus, it depends on what the meaning of is is.
There has to be a first time for everything. This is precedent setting subversion. Guess we will see.
did not provide new information about Russia’s attempt to influence the 2016 election
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Berry
The ultimate weasel master of the presuppositional statement.
There is nothing new about the Russia hack cuz there wasn’t one.
What
A
Loser
You’re a bad joke berry.
And you are going to prison at best
The gallows at worst
I’ll take sedition for $500 Alex.
Barry has lied his entire life. How is it that you are here covering for him?
B.O. is an office now!
I am going to go out on a limb here and believe that Trump and his team are smart enough not to begin a libelous campaign of mis or dis-information about Obama. I’m also going to bet that they would not do this if they didn’t have the “receipts” to move the accusations forward. To do otherwise would be suicide.
Similarly, after Merrick Garland has had the Epstein files for four years I’m willing to be a lot that Trump is not in any list from those files. If he were, they would have already used the damning evidence against Trump.
“ I just don’t want distractions, attempts at trolling or AI fantasy nonsense. There’s nothing here worth pursuing.” How about calling it an insurrection then? That’s what the resistance called the J6 event.
“Trump is really grasping at straws with this one. He’d be better off reviving the birther thing.”
Trump has Obama and his thugs locked up tight with their own official reports. We will have to see if the DOJ and the Republicans have sufficient testosterone to pursue it.
Whistleblowers coming forward…….
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