{"id":10133,"date":"2025-07-23T09:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?p=10133"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:07:34","slug":"obama-issues-rare-response-to-trump-russiagate-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/featured\/obama-issues-rare-response-to-trump-russiagate-allegations\/njackson\/2025\/07\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Issues Rare Response To Trump Russiagate Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/americanliberty.news\/?s=Barack+Obama\">Barack Obama<\/a> responded to President <a href=\"https:\/\/americanliberty.news\/?s=Donald+Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>&#8216;s call to prosecute himself and others in a rare public statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump, earlier on Tuesday, claimed that former President&nbsp;Barack Obama&nbsp;was the &#8220;ringleader&#8221; of <a href=\"https:\/\/americanliberty.news\/?s=Russiagate\">Russiagate<\/a>, calling for him to be criminally investigated amid new claims that members of his administration allegedly &#8220;manufactured&#8221; intelligence that prompted the Trump\u2013Russia collusion narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response,&#8221; Obama spokesman Patrick Rodenbush said in a statement. &#8220;But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction,&#8221; Obama&#8217;s spokesman continued. &#8220;Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added: &#8220;These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Rodenbush&#8217;s statement on behalf of Obama comes after Director of National Intelligence&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/americanliberty.news\/?s=Tulsi+Gabbard\">Tulsi Gabbard<\/a> recently declassified&nbsp;documents revealing &#8220;overwhelming evidence&#8221; that claimed that after Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, then-President Obama and his national security team allegedly laid the groundwork for what would be the yearslong Trump\u2013Russia collusion probe.<strong> (RELATED:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/americanliberty.news\/government\/tulsi-gabbard-declassifies-treasonous-conspiracy-by-obama-officials-in-trump-russia-probe\/sdrake\/2025\/07\/\">Tulsi Gabbard Declassifies Treasonous Conspiracy By Obama Officials in Trump-Russia Probe<\/a><strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new documents name Obama, top officials on his National Security Council, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, national security advisor Susan Rice, Secretary of State John Kerry, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/americanliberty.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John_Brennan_Assistant_to_the_President_for_Homeland_Security_and_Counterterrorism_2010-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50496\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, delivers one of several briefings that President Barack Obama received on the attempted Times Square car bombing, in the Oval Office, May 3, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) [Photo Credit: The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]\nThis official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and\/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gabbard, on Monday, sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department related to those findings. Department of Justice officials did not share further details on whom the criminal referral was for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump called for \u201csevere consequences\u201d for Obama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The witch hunt&nbsp;that you should be talking about&nbsp;is they caught President Obama.&nbsp;What they did to this country in&nbsp;2016, starting in 2016 but going&nbsp;up to 2020 of the election, they&nbsp;tried to rig the election and&nbsp;they got caught.&nbsp;There should be very severe&nbsp;consequences for that.&nbsp;When we caught Hillary Clinton, I&nbsp;said, you know what, let\u2019s not&nbsp;go&nbsp;too far here.&nbsp;It\u2019s the ex-wife of a president&nbsp;and I thought it was sort of&nbsp;terrible.&nbsp;I let her off the hook and I\u2019m very&nbsp;happy I did.&nbsp;But&nbsp;it\u2019s time to start \u2014 after&nbsp;what they did&nbsp;to&nbsp;me&nbsp;and whether it\u2019s the right or wrong&nbsp;\u2014 it\u2019s time&nbsp;to&nbsp;go&nbsp;after&nbsp;people.&nbsp;Obama has been caught directly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As for Gabbard\u2019s criminal referral, Trump was asked which specific figures should be under criminal investigation, to which he replied: &#8220;President Obama. He started it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;And Biden was there with him, and Comey was there, and Clapper, the whole group was there. Brennan. They were all there in the room right here. This is the room,&#8221; Trump said from the Oval Office Tuesday during a meeting with the president of the Philippines. &#8220;It was President Obama. 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