WASHINGTON, DC - Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the Justice Department will determine whether former President Barack Obama and several of his former officials could face charges based on a "false narrative" that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

Gabbard attended a press conference with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who gave a summary of the report released last Friday, to which even Obama has reacted. The Director of National Intelligence insisted there is evidence against Obama for "conspiracy."

"There is compelling evidence detailing how President Obama and his national security team directed the development of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false," Gabbard said. “They knew he would push this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as if it were true. It wasn’t.” Gabbard accused Obama and several of his former officials, including John Brennan, who served as CIA director under President Obama, of politicizing intelligence reporting because they had no direct information that Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to help Trump win in 2016. “Everyone agrees that there was a blatant politicization and manipulation of the intelligence community by the Obama administration with the intention of delegitimizing President Trump even before his inauguration, ultimately usurping the will of the American people,” Gabbard said.

Could Obama be impeached?

Gabbard and Leavitt were asked about the possibility of Justice Department Attorney General Pam Bondi bringing charges against Obama and former officials in his administration.

“I leave that to the Department of Justice,”Gabbard said, declining to elaborate on the comment.

However, no president has been impeached based on official reports from his administration. Even President Trump, after being found guilty by Congress in his first impeachment trial, did not face charges because Attorney General William Barr said proceedings could not be brought against a president.

Trump, in fact, has fought before the Supreme Court that the actions he led as president should not be grounds for persecution, as part of the 2021 insurrection, when members of the MAGA movement stormed the Capitol. More than 1,500 people were pardoned by the current president.

One of the questions raised about Obama was that federal conspiracy charges are limited to five years, so if there was any liability, the former Democratic president could not be charged.

Gabbard also declined to go into detail on the matter, leaving the decision to the Department of Justice.

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal

The information about Russia's intervention in the 2016 elections led to an initial FBI report in which former President Obama even expelled Russian agents, and there were additional investigations that led to Trump's impeachment.

The The new report comes at a critical time for President Trump, who is accused of trying to keep files on billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sex trafficking minors, secret because the Republican could be on the infamous "client list." Attorney General Bondi had promised to release the information, but a brief two-page report sparked further suspicion among MAGA Republicans, including several members of Congress. Around the same time Gabbard was offering more information about Obama and Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, a federal judge in Florida ruled that he could not authorize the release of the 2005 and 2007 federal grand jury transcripts. Epstein investigation.

The request was made by the Justice Department, following an order from Trump, but U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg said confidentiality regarding the grand jury should not be broken.