Immunity for me, not for thee: Trump's flip on prosecuting former presidents [View all]
As they seek to quell a revolt in their base over the Jeffrey Epstein files, President Donald Trump and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard have offered MAGA voters some tantalizing alternate programming: The prospect of charging Barack Obama with orchestrating a treasonous plot to undermine Trump’s first presidency.
The biggest problem with that is the sheer lack of evidence of any wrongdoing by Obama and other former officials. But even if the Trump administration produced a smoking gun, they’d have to contend with the issue of immunity for former presidents.
Backing up a second, the idea Gabbard has promoted is that Obama pushed for manufactured intelligence about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election to undercut Trump before he took office. The whole thing rests on a series of conflations and misleading claims.
And the biggest findings in that intelligence have been affirmed over and over again, including by Republicans and including by Trump’s now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a major 2020 Senate report. If people who said this stuff engaged in a coup, wasn’t Rubio also complicit?
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