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Ratcliffe: Statute of limitations may not protect Obama admin officials from potential Russiagate charges
https://www.oann.com ^ | July 27, 2025 | Blake Wolf

Posted on 07/27/2025 5:13:44 PM PDT by bitt

CIA Director John Ratcliffe stated on Sunday that the statute of limitations likely won’t rule out any potential charges against former President Barack Obama and key Obama intelligence officials who allegedly conspired to undermine President Donald Trump through intelligence reports of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

“I don’t think statutes of limitations are going to impact because in the conspiracy, the statute of limitation doesn’t start to run until the last act and furtherance of that conspiracy,” Ratcliffe stated on a Sunday Fox News appearance.

“Part of why this is so important is that the people behind this are still furthering the conspiracy. They’re refusing to admit or acknowledge what they did in 2016 and what they did in 2020 was wrong,” he continued.

“I’ll leave it to [Attorney General] Pam Bondi and our Department of Justice, and [FBI DIrector] Kash Patel and our FBI, to investigate the conspiracy and what charges that they’re capable of bringing,” Ratcliffe added.

The effort to potentially charge Obama and key officials involved in the alleged Russia collusion hoax against President Trump was reinvigorated following a briefing by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard on July 18th.

Gabbard accused former President Obama, former DNI James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey, and former CIA Director John Brennan of holding a meeting after Trump won the 2016 election, in which they allegedly planned the “Russia Hoax.”

Gabbard explained that a 2016 intelligence community assessment prior to the election found that Russia “lacked the intent and capability to hack the U.S. elections,” however, the assessment was later pulled, and Obama allegedly directed the intelligence community to “create a new intelligence assessment that detailed Russian election meddling, even though it would contradict multiple intelligence assessments released over the previous several months.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aidandcomfort; bolshevikbarry; clinton; coup; domesticenemies; fusiongps; hitlery; insurrection; itsthemarxismstupid; obama; ratcliffe; rico; russiagate; statuteoflimitations; treason
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1 posted on 07/27/2025 5:13:44 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 07/27/2025 5:13:59 PM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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To: bitt

Yes, but SCOTUS ruling protects Obama


3 posted on 07/27/2025 5:14:33 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

“””Yes, but SCOTUS ruling protects Obama”””

They explained that he has been part of this conspiracy for years after he left office so not as protected as he might think. And conspiring to rig a few elections might not fall in the category of official duties. We shall see.


4 posted on 07/27/2025 5:19:30 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: montag813

Obama’s poll numbers protect him. The same can’t be said for his minions.


[Barack Obama has the highest favorability rating among all living presidents and Joe Biden has the lowest, according to a new Gallup poll released Tuesday.

The results of a Gallup survey conducted the week following President Donald Trump’s inauguration found Obama ranked highest in favorability with 59 percent and Biden lowest with 39 percent. Trump is tied for second lowest with Bill Clinton at 48 percent, and George W. Bush ranked second with 52 percent.]


5 posted on 07/27/2025 5:20:27 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: montag813
, but SCOTUS ruling protects Obama/

Ahh

The repeating narrative.

Wrong
High crimes in no way can be construed with official acts while on office

Next narrative up
.” No DC court will find him guilty.

And that's also false

MsrLago happened in Florida

Once that thread is pulled

It's over for him

Also giving aid and comfort to the enemy Russia And if all else fails

Nationally security emergency

Martial law

Military tribunal

Foreign squad
Or gallows. This has to happen Or the country is lost

6 posted on 07/27/2025 5:22:19 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: bitt

Republicans are supposed to run in circles crying out: “We are helpless! The situation is hopeless! There is nothing we can do!”

But it seems that the Trump Admin didn’t get that memo.


7 posted on 07/27/2025 5:22:23 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The list of things I no longer care about is long. And it's getting longer.)
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To: Zhang Fei

“””according to a new Gallup poll released Tuesday.”””

Funny stuff.


8 posted on 07/27/2025 5:22:57 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: cuz1961

Firing squad
Or gallows.

This has to happen Or the country is lost

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9 posted on 07/27/2025 5:23:30 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: bitt

Wasn’t the statute of limitations no impediment to charging Trump?


10 posted on 07/27/2025 5:27:47 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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To: Zhang Fei

What does any of that have to do with his possible liability for having committed crimes?
Nixon won 49 states in 1972.


11 posted on 07/27/2025 5:28:33 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: bitt

In an earlier America, they would say “ Hang him”, all of them.


12 posted on 07/27/2025 5:32:21 PM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

Loomwr about to claim another scalp in Blondibondi’s DOJ..this time about Hewlett Packard

https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1949565124936683524?


13 posted on 07/27/2025 5:57:31 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Loomer says that guy is the brains behind Blondobondi


14 posted on 07/27/2025 6:00:16 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Loomer says that guy is the brains behind Blondobondi
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You are easily confused

That’s giving you the benefit of the doubt hun.

Read the Laura x again.

.

You are being hysterical again and imagining things that aren’t so

Again.

No where does Laura say any one is “the brains behind” anyone .

Take a midol hun.


15 posted on 07/27/2025 6:17:58 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: TalBlack

Wasn’t the statute of limitations no impediment to charging Trump?

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The statute of limitations hasn’t even started yet

The conspiracy is ongoing , and none of the conspirators has come toward and declared they’ve stopped participating.


16 posted on 07/27/2025 6:21:45 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: bitt

If Obama did the act and lied about Russiagate to threaten and/or discredit a president, then he is guilty of a felony.

Threatening the president of the United States is a class D felony under United States Code Title 18, Section 871. It is punishable by up to 5 years in prison, a maximum fine of $250,000, a $100 special assessment, and up to 3 years of supervised release.

A federal Class D felony generally has a statute of limitations, typically five years. However, there are exceptions for certain crimes, particularly violent or serious offenses, which may not have a statute of limitations or have a longer one, according to the Department of Justice. Section 783(e) of Title 50 provides that a prosecution for an offense under that section, part of the Subversive Activities Control Act, shall be instituted within ten years after the commission of the offense. That puts running out at 2026.

wy69


17 posted on 07/27/2025 6:23:10 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: cuz1961

Correction:

No where does Laura say any one is “the brains behind” Bondie.

Quit trying to make her a bad guy.


18 posted on 07/27/2025 6:23:38 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: montag813

“Yes, but SCOTUS ruling protects Obama”
It may NOT protect him at all according to Mark Levin and others:
“The media is ignorant regarding the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity. Crimes committed by a president outside official duties are prosecutable after their term if the statute of limitations hasn’t expired. However, actions within official duties are protected from prosecution. Obama twisting intelligence or leading a coup against an incoming president is not part of official duties.”
https://similarworlds.com/news/5357254-Mark-Levin-explains-why-Obama-may-not-have-presidential
I would love to see Obama’s ass nailed to the wall…..


19 posted on 07/27/2025 6:24:11 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: RummyChick

The diaper diplomacy videos are a hoot.

https://x.com/DiaperDiplomacy/status/1948492398473945292?

When you watch them pay attention to the subtle reactions of the babies


20 posted on 07/27/2025 6:24:52 PM PDT by RummyChick
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