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(NewsNation) — President Barack Obama has responded to President Donald Trump's claims that Obama committed treason and should beryllium prosecuted.
Obama has remained mostly quiescent during Trump's presidency, choosing not to reply to Trump's remarks astir him, but successful a statement, helium said the latest remarks from the sitting president were "outrageous capable to merit" a reply adjacent if helium "does not usually dignify the changeless nonsense and misinformation flowing retired of this White House with a response."
Trump made his latest claims during a property conference with Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., veering onto the tangent aft a newsman asked him astir the Jeffrey Epstein files.
He said, without providing evidence, that Obama had attempted to rig the 2016 election, besides attacking others including erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Joe Biden and erstwhile Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
"These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a anemic effort astatine distraction," Obama's bureau said successful a statement.
Trump besides said that the Department of Justice is looking into a report from existent Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that repeated the claims, citing declassified emails to overgarment the representation of a conspiracy to alteration quality assessments connected Russian interference.
Gabbard alleged that Obama directed his nationalist information squad to make an appraisal that she said contradicted an earlier 1 that recovered nary Russian interference.
The assessments referenced, however, notation to 2 antithetic aspects of imaginable interference, with 1 uncovering that Russia was improbable to beryllium capable to interfere with predetermination infrastructure oregon alteration ballot tallies and the different uncovering that Russia did effort to power the predetermination and weaken spot successful ideology utilizing tools specified arsenic societal media bots and releasing hacked information.
The connection from Obama's bureau noted that determination was bipartisan acceptance of findings that see the decision that Russia did enactment to interfere successful the election.
"Nothing successful the papers issued past week undercuts the wide accepted decision that Russia worked to power the 2016 statesmanlike predetermination but did not successfully manipulate immoderate votes," the connection said. "These findings were affirmed successful a 2020 study by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio."
