Ted Cruz says Trump can't prosecute Obama over Russia hoax
The junior senator from Texas told Fox News ' Laura Ingraham that former President Barack Obama could most likely not be prosecuted for treason over his handling of the 'Russia hoax.'
The duo discussed the latest intel released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard about the 2016 presidential election , and the role that former President Barack Obama and his intelligence agencies played at the time.
DNI Gabbard told members of the media at the White House Wednesday that the information released by her office has been referred to the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the criminal implications.
DNI Gabbard released a declassified report allegedly implicating Obama and his administration over the 2016 election Russia Hoax. This came the day after President Trump accused former President Obama of treason in an Oval Office exchange with the news media.
'He's not going to be prosecuted for treason,' Ingraham stated 'That's not going to happen.' 'He's not going to be prosecuted, in all likelihood, for treason,' Cruz replied agreeing with the host.
Obama issued a statement via his spokesperson Patrick Rodenbush earlier this week that refuted many of the accusations circling around him. 'The bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.'
'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 noted. 'These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio' Rodenbush concluded.
Regardless, GOP leadership in both the House and Senate are pursuing investigations into members of the Biden and Obama administrations as they fend off clamoring calls for transparency in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal enveloping the Trump administration.
Democrats have portrayed the reintroduction of the "Russian hoax' saga as a way for the Trump Administration to distract from the demands around Epstein. Cruz is among the Republicans who have long called on the administration to release the Epstein files.
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