As to the Trump administration prosecuting Obama, they can’t and shouldn’t, but Obama, et al should be exposed for their corruptive chicanery and expose the greediness of political parties and the narcissistic extremes they will go to for power.
Russia-gate makes it apparent that a lot of people within the federal government, from the highest office on down, are virtually outside the law; and this raises the question of what should we do about it. Setting up one’s successor, the newly elected president, to fail is apparently not illegal, according to many. But to do so is obviously wrong, rather than right; and is certainly damaging to America - and could even be catastrophic for our nation.
Even if Obama, et al can’t be jailed because of how immunity is interpreted; we can’t allow immunity to morph into impunity for vile political acts.
At a minimum, situations like the R/gate collusion, when discovered, must be thoroughly investigated, publicly exposed, and tried in a court of law (no plea deals) - how else can we, as a people, prevent and repair the resulting damage. Such actions can be condoned as “just politics”, and become part of the democrat (or GOP) party play-book. Just suppose this had happened to Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, or Clinton?
The documents released by Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, are not clearly reviewed at the WSJ. A complete analysis was presented on 7/23/2025 at Racket News by Matt Taibbi: "𝐈𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐚𝐱 𝐢𝐬 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝."
Official claim that Putin "aspired" to help Trump was based on four pieces of evidence, all bogus, even "ridiculous," according to long-suppressed report just released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard")--
Oh boy. It seems Gabbard’s ‘Russiagate’ nothingburger has arrived in the comments section. Taibbi’s myopia is truly a plague upon the brains of some corners of the internet.
I would merely briefly advise the posters here that nothing in Gabbard’s memo was not known to the bipartisan Senate Commission on Russian Interference in the 2016 election, which after an extensive two-year investigation which pored through thousands of interviews, hundreds of documents, and advanced digital forensics, agreed with the general conclusions of the ICA, and had Republicans on it to dispute any charges or information they found biased or unfounded.
Gabbard (and now, sadly, Taibbi) is ignoring that report because they know its conclusions are based on a massive body of additional evidence, well beyond what the ICA mentions, and that it is bipartisan, so their conspiracy would have to involve the Republicans teaming up with the Democrats and inventing a massive amount of fake interviews and documents to ‘frame Trump’.
As with Epstein, there will be a lot of noise about a shadowy conspiracy (in which Trump is the hero, of course) and nothing will get through the courts, where legally rigorous evidence is actually required to make your argument.
As to the Trump administration prosecuting Obama, they can’t and shouldn’t, but Obama, et al should be exposed for their corruptive chicanery and expose the greediness of political parties and the narcissistic extremes they will go to for power.
Russia-gate makes it apparent that a lot of people within the federal government, from the highest office on down, are virtually outside the law; and this raises the question of what should we do about it. Setting up one’s successor, the newly elected president, to fail is apparently not illegal, according to many. But to do so is obviously wrong, rather than right; and is certainly damaging to America - and could even be catastrophic for our nation.
Even if Obama, et al can’t be jailed because of how immunity is interpreted; we can’t allow immunity to morph into impunity for vile political acts.
At a minimum, situations like the R/gate collusion, when discovered, must be thoroughly investigated, publicly exposed, and tried in a court of law (no plea deals) - how else can we, as a people, prevent and repair the resulting damage. Such actions can be condoned as “just politics”, and become part of the democrat (or GOP) party play-book. Just suppose this had happened to Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, or Clinton?
Greg Collard, writing at Racket News on 7/23/ 2025 provided analysis: 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟕 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 "𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐔𝐒 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬" 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐂𝐀'𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐨𝐟𝐭-𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐦." https://www.racket.news/p/russiagate-explained-the-sins-of
The documents released by Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, are not clearly reviewed at the WSJ. A complete analysis was presented on 7/23/2025 at Racket News by Matt Taibbi: "𝐈𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐚𝐱 𝐢𝐬 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝."
Official claim that Putin "aspired" to help Trump was based on four pieces of evidence, all bogus, even "ridiculous," according to long-suppressed report just released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard")--
https://www.racket.news/p/in-brutal-document-release-the-russia
WSJ is a friend of Democrats if the alternative is MAGA but who they really love is the decrepit Republican Establishment.
"President can’t be prosecuted for exercising “core constitutional powers,”
Creating false intelligence to lie to a federal court to spy on your political opponent... that's a core constitutional power?
Oh boy. It seems Gabbard’s ‘Russiagate’ nothingburger has arrived in the comments section. Taibbi’s myopia is truly a plague upon the brains of some corners of the internet.
I would merely briefly advise the posters here that nothing in Gabbard’s memo was not known to the bipartisan Senate Commission on Russian Interference in the 2016 election, which after an extensive two-year investigation which pored through thousands of interviews, hundreds of documents, and advanced digital forensics, agreed with the general conclusions of the ICA, and had Republicans on it to dispute any charges or information they found biased or unfounded.
Gabbard (and now, sadly, Taibbi) is ignoring that report because they know its conclusions are based on a massive body of additional evidence, well beyond what the ICA mentions, and that it is bipartisan, so their conspiracy would have to involve the Republicans teaming up with the Democrats and inventing a massive amount of fake interviews and documents to ‘frame Trump’.
As with Epstein, there will be a lot of noise about a shadowy conspiracy (in which Trump is the hero, of course) and nothing will get through the courts, where legally rigorous evidence is actually required to make your argument.
A link to the report, read it for your own sake: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/publications-report-select-committee-intelligence-united-states-senate-russian-active-measures/