Obama Team Issues Rare Rebuttal To Continued Trump Nonsense

A spokesperson for former President Barack Obama on Tuesday dusted the cobwebs off his keyboard to type out a rare rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s incessant nonsense.“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,” wrote Patrick Rodenbush.“But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.”Rodenbush was responding to Trump’s false assertions last week that he never sought, nor benefited from, Russian meddling in the 2016 election.“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,” Rodenbush continued.“These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio.”Trump levelled the charge last week with the assistance of Russia-friendly spy chief Tulsi Gabbard, going so far as to say that Obama “manufactured and politicised intelligence” to launch a “years-long coup against President Trump.”(The claim is plainly false: Even casual readers likely remember when Trump publicly called for Russian hackers to obtain and release private emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server ― and they obeyed the same day.)Nevertheless, Trump doubled down on the conspiracy on Tuesday, telling reporters in the Oval Office that he believed Obama ought to face “consequences.” “They tried to rig the election, and they got caught. And there should be very severe consequences for that,” he said.Rodenbush told HuffPost Trump’s Oval Office comments today called for a response.Ned Price, a former spokesman for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, previously told HuffPost it sure looks like Gabbard is helping Trump try to distract the nation from the Epstein files.“She’s fabricating a scandal as part of a cover-up, namely the Trump administration’s efforts to keep the Epstein files under wrap,” said Price.“Gabbard’s trick here is a pretty obvious one: She’s intentionally conflating hacking and influencing.”

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