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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump said transgression prosecutors should complaint President Barack Obama and different Democrats, citing a study from his Director of National Intelligence that accused the Obama medication of engaging successful a conspiracy.
Trump went connected a acquainted rant astir his governmental opponents during a property conference with Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., arsenic the 2 leaders prepared to sermon trade.
The president began an unprompted tirade connected the Obama medication and the allegations aft being asked astir the Jeffrey Epstein files that person not been released and the Department of Justice's efforts to conscionable with Ghislaine Maxwell.
The president referenced a memo from DNI Tulsi Gabbard, which utilized declassified emails to suggest that the Obama medication "manufactured" Russian collusion during the 2016 election. Gabbard has referred the contented to the Justice Department.
"Based connected what I read, and I work beauteous overmuch what you read, it would beryllium President Obama. He started it. President Biden, Comey, Clapper," Trump said erstwhile asked who should beryllium prosecuted.
The memo released by Gabbard utilized declassified emails regarding 2 quality reports to allege that Obama instructed his nationalist information squad to make a caller quality appraisal astir Russian interference that she says contradicts earlier assessments.
But the 2 reports Gabbard bases her assertion connected woody with 2 antithetic aspects of Russian interference successful U.S. elections, drafting 2 antithetic conclusions based connected the benignant of predetermination interference being analyzed.
One appraisal focused connected election infrastructure, concluding that determination was nary menace of Russia interfering with predetermination infrastructure oregon changing ballot tallies.
The different study that Gabbard has called contradictory does not absorption connected infrastructure and alternatively addresses Russian efforts to power the predetermination utilizing societal media disinformation, hacking campaigns and bots to promote distrust successful U.S. democracy.
Trump attacked some Obama and erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying they were transgression actors and acted "seditiously."
The president besides fell backmost connected claims that the 2020 predetermination was rigged, contempt determination being nary impervious of interference successful the predetermination and aggregate ineligible challenges were rejected.
“They caught President Obama perfectly cold,” Trump said.
The conclusions made by Trump and Gabbard besides tally contrary to a bipartisan survey connected conducted by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which was signed by each members of the committee, including present Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
