The office of former US President Barack Obama objected to the accusations of the current White House chief Donald Trump. Republican Obama accused his treason and called for prosecution. TASR reports this according to Wednesday’s report by DPA.
Obama’s office usually does not respond to the White House claims
Trump and members of the government blame Obama of criminal behavior in connection with the 2016 elections. The spokesman of the former President described these allegations as a “weak attempt to avert attention”.
“Out of respect for the Presidential Office, our office does not normally evaluate and responds to nonsense and misinformation that is constantly coming from this White House,” the Tuesday statement said. “However, these claims are sufficiently outrageous to deserve it. These bizarre accusations are ridiculous and are a weak attempt to distract attention,” the office stressed.
Trump is said to be trying to distract from the Epstein case
Trump’s critics claim that by returning to the controversy of the past, he is trying to distract attention from the growing pressure in connection with the case of the deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein, writes DPA.
Epstein in 2019, during Trump’s first term, committed suicide in a New York prison after he was accused of trafficking in human beings for sexual abuse of his friends and acquaintances. Both Trump and his co -workers in the campaign suggested that it may not have been suicide, and promised to publish the names of Epstein’s prominent clients if they came to power. But now they say there is nothing to publish.
The attention should be awarded to Obama according to Trump
On Tuesday, Trump again described Epstein’s case as “witch hunt” and said that attention should be redirected to Obama. Last week, Tulsi Secret Service Director Tulsi Gabbard published a report that representatives of the Obama administration failed information on Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. Obama and his team manipulated the intelligence of the news information for “coup over the President Trump”, said the director.
According to AFP, Gabbard’s report is contrary to the evidence collected in four separate investigations from 2019 to 2023. All these investigations concluded that Russia interfered with the US presidential election in 2016 in favor of Trump.
However, the investigation led by former FBI director Robert Mueller did not prove the connection of Trump and his team to Russia. The accusation that Russia is in favor of Trump was also appeared in 2020, when the then acting President eventually lost the election with Democrat Joe Biden. Moscow denied charges of interfering with the US elections in both cases.
