He emphasizes that Trump’s “outrageous” remarks represent “a weak attempt at distraction” by the president.
Former US President Barack Obama’s office has called “ludicrous” the accusations leveled against him by current White House resident Donald Trump for alleged “treason” and manipulation of the 2016 presidential election, in which the billionaire defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
“Out of respect for the Office of the Presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing from this White House with a response, but these claims are outrageous enough to warrant one,” said Obama’s office spokesman, Patrick Rodenbush.
“These bizarre accusations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction,” he said, before emphasizing that “nothing in the document released last week undermines the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election, without successfully manipulating any votes,” according to CNN.
He emphasized that “these conclusions were affirmed in a report released in 2020 by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, headed by then-President Marco Rubio,” referring to the now US Secretary of State under President Trump following his victory in the November 2024 election.
Trump indicated on Tuesday that Obama is “guilty” of “treason.” “They tried to steal the (2016) election. They tried to obscure the election. They did things that no one would have ever imagined, even in other countries,” he said, thus reiterating the accusations of an alleged plot to prevent him from winning the election.
The president himself stated, in response to questions about the Jeffrey Epstein files and the controversy surrounding the decision to close the case, that “the witch hunt we should be talking about is that Obama was caught red-handed” after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Friday that there was “new evidence” that Obama and other members of his administration participated in an alleged “conspiracy” against Trump in the 2016 election.
Gabbard declassified a series of emails and documents that, in her view, “clearly demonstrate that in 2016 there was a treasonous conspiracy” and “a years-long coup d’état” by Democrats against Trump, including alleged evidence that Russia did not attempt to “influence the (2016) election using cyber means” or launch “cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the outcome” of the presidential election.
Afterward, Trump himself shared an AI-generated video on social media showing Obama being arrested by FBI agents during a meeting with the US president at the White House, as well as the former president wearing an orange prison jumpsuit in a US jail.
