Obama Allies Mobilize to Combat Explosive ‘Treason’ Allegations
Obama ally: “This was designed solely and exclusively for Fox News, because that’s where this fire of disinformation is raging.”
More than half a dozen former aides to President Barack Obama told NBC News they have devised a strategy to counter the explosive allegations of treason targeting him and senior members of his administration.
The aides, who all “dismiss” the accusations as “asinine,” emphasized the need to “balance unnecessarily giving oxygen to unfounded Trump administration claims and allowing them to balloon unchecked.”
Someone really needs to tell them it’s too late for that. The story has circulated for years; the documents released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard simply provided new evidence.
According to NBC, the former aides, most of whom spoke under the condition of anonymity, say the allegations “carr[y] the stench of desperation from a president straining to shift the focus from a burgeoning scandal around Jeffrey Epstein.”
Just like their brutal defeat in November, Democrats see this as a messaging problem. One former aide said, “The battle now is to play this even to make sure that thoughts don’t start to creep into more mainstream” audiences. This individual told NBC, “it was important to reach ‘mainstream Republicans,’ who would listen to editorial boards and those in Congress who deemed the allegations against Obama as ‘beyond the pale.'”
Do they really think mainstream Republicans will be influenced by editorials in The New York Times or The Washington Post? Or by a speech from Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, or Mitch McConnell? Please.
The effort began last week with a Fox News op-ed penned by the highly partisan Ned Price, a former State Department spokesman under President Joe Biden and later the deputy to the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. His piece, titled Americans should beware of Gabbard’s ‘dangerous distraction’ with revisionist history of 2016 election, likely did little to sway hearts and minds.
Price believes it’s “imperative to reach conservative audiences with a response,” according to the report. He noted:
This wasn’t a piece I would have written for any mainstream or left-of-center outlet. This was designed solely and exclusively for Fox News, because that’s where this fire of disinformation is raging. I thought it was important … to inject facts into that very venue in the hope that at least a few people would read it and be exposed to what actually transpired in 2016.
Government reports are now a “fire of disinformation?” Kind of like how the Hunter Biden laptop story had all the “classic earmarks of a Russian information operation?”
The report said the former aides were concerned about what could come next from the Trump administration. They worry that they “could grow more bullish to draw attention away from a string of explosive Epstein stories that Trump is struggling to tamp down.”
The Democrats are going to have to come up with something a whole lot better than that to counter these charges.
Former CIA Director John Brennan told NBC, “I don’t know what is ahead, and I don’t know what their plans and intentions are. I just find all of this very troubling when it is being done by individuals who serve in such important positions and know what they are doing is wrong.”
Does Brennan even hear himself? Republicans and many independents found it troubling that individuals serving in such senior positions of the Obama administration — including the president himself — were doing what they knew was wrong.
“There is no factual basis for the allegations that Tulsi Gabbard is making. She’s cherry-picking things from various documents that are out of context and mischaracterized,” Brennan said.
He added, “To me, it’s clear either she has not read the intelligence community assessment or she is purposely, willfully lying about the contents.”
But the documents say what they say. And I think Brennan knows that.
At any rate, NBC reports:
Broadly, the former Obama aides unequivocally say that there is zero merit to the allegations and that they do not believe they will lead anywhere. They point to a 2020 Senate investigation, which endorsed intelligence agencies’ assessment that Russia had spread disinformation online and leaked stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee to undermine Hillary Clinton’s 2016 candidacy and help Trump. Trump-appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio was the acting chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time, which endorsed the findings.
That’s all well and good, but the committee based its conclusions on the information available at the time. The newly released documents, however, significantly alter the narrative.
After repeating the Epstein-related distraction theory two more times — bringing the total to four mentions — the report, mercifully, ends.
It is just as much in NBC’s interest — and that of the broader legacy media — to bury this story as it is for the former Obama administration officials at its center. After all, these outlets played a pivotal role in advancing the Russian collusion narrative. Their complicity has come at a steep cost: a profound erosion of public trust that began in the early days of that hoax and continues to this day. Yet instead of reckoning with their failures and returning to rigorous, unbiased journalism, they appear determined to double down on the very practices that led to their credibility crisis in the first place.
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so the maga crew has a legit verifiably evidence against these blmplo general and the communistnazi loving msm backed left has ,once again,, the louder megaphones but only lies to back them up
ittttsssss timeeeeeeeeeee
I can understand why Trump and MAGA want us to forget about the 1,000+ minors and children who were sexually abused by Epstein and his VIP Democrat and Republican pedophiles, but to allege that Obama is guilty of treason and should be executed (the penalty for treason) is going beyond the pale. No one is buying this, and everyone knows this will never happen..
I wouldn’t put treason past 0bama, but no, nothing he’s accused or suspected of now constitutes treason, and any use of that term in his context is pure hyperbole.
So far there’s little or no evidence that he committed any actual crimes, but there’s enough suspicion that it warrants looking into. He likely knew where the line was and took care not to cross it, but maybe he slipped and if he can be called to account it would be great. But based on anything known or suspected right now, treason isn’t one of the charges available.
I have to agree that Obama knows where the treasonous line is and did not cross it. That being said he likely approved the treasonous activity in a wink wink nod, type instructions. ( my apologies if not phrasing my comments coherently)
At this point it’d be better for the country to catch someone who was involved in both Obama’s admin and Joe’s puppet strings because they have the potential to inflict more damage on the country.
But it’s still a great word to throw around and keep at the forefront of public consciousness.
Like insurrection, racist, and nazi, none of which were objectively true either.
It’s not treason and it’s not sedition. It may be conspiracy to defraud, but that might be a stretch. We may have to settle for their reputations being left in tatters.
Unindicted co-conspirator .would be what it winds up.
or have him testify before Congress/Grand jury and when he lies, he no longer has immunity
I enjoy your commentary Milhouse, but on this point I adamantly disagree. Trying to handicap and delegitimize the incoming presidential administration, and going so far as to commission a new intelligence report to back up false claims is treasonous in my book. The conspiracy he and his minions put in place — intentionally — led to over two years of turmoil in the country, and left Americans more divided than any previous time in history since the Civil War. Obama won’t go to jail, but his legacy has been tainted forever.
Ms. Stauffer: As much as I would like to agree with you, what 0bama & Co. did, does not fall under the US code for treason (regretfully). It was treacherous, but not treasonous.
jacknsprings:
re:july 28 post 8:29
treason>>the betrayal of ones country
betrayal is the breaking of trust..as one example
when the leader conspires to eliminate an opponent not via debate but other tactics
there is at the least
a broken trust
Agreed, but “a tainted legacy” isn’t good enough in terms of punishment.
That is not the definition of the crime of treason. You can call someone a “traitor” for betraying anything, not just a country; but you can’t accuse someone of having “committed treason”, because that is a criminal term, and it’s limited by the actual legal definition. And the constitution says that nothing the 0bama conspiracy did is treason.
It may be “treasonous”, but it isn’t treason. You have to carefully distinguish words like “traitor” or “treasonous” in the colloquial sense from “treason” as a legal term. And what’s happening here is that you are confusing the terms, and accusing these conspirators of having committed the actual crime called “treason”. But the constitution carefully defines that term for legal purposes, and nothing they did comes even close to it.
Handicapping and undermining a president is not treason. Even assassinating a president is not treason, because presidents are not kings. In a monarchy, treason consists of plotting to assassinate the king or his heirs, or to inject a bastard into the line of succession. L’etat c’est moi. In a republic treason can only be against the state itself, not against any office-holder. The president is no more the state than is a cleaner in a federal office building in Idaho. If you kill the president the state is unaffected, it just hires a new president and continues. So that’s not treason.
Not so fast. The newly released documents show Russia hacked DNC emails and not only had a ton of damaging information on Hillary like drug use but also wanted her to win as they saw black mail opportunities. Obama & Co trying to spike Trump to get Hillary elected could be seen as aiding and abetting an enemy of the USA
Name the enemy?
Ah, therein lies the beauty. Obama, Hillary and Clapper named the enemy themselves.
Not so. Aiding an enemy is not treason in itself. It’s only treason if it’s motivated by adherence to the enemy. That is a key term in the constitution’s definition of treason, and cannot be ignored. Aiding an enemy for any motive but adherence is not treason.
So even if Russia counts as an enemy, and these conspirators had deliberately and knowingly helped Russia achieve its goals, that would not be treason because they would have been doing so for their own purposes.
Oh, and the documents do not show that Russia wanted Clinton to win, any more than the previously revealed documents show that it wanted Trump to win. The conclusion of the actual intelligence community, not the cherry-picked members who were selectively quoted in the report 0bama ordered prepared, was that Russia’s purpose was not to support either candidate, but merely to interfere with the election for its own sake. The purpose was to sow confusion and chaos, not to achieve any specific result. It appears that Putin didn’t care who won the election, he just wanted to disrupt it. So yes, he did help Trump, but he also helped Clinton.
I personally expect charges of sedition.
The Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy over speech.
Shouldn’t be too hard to use that roadmap.
That is not true. The Proud Boys were not convicted for mere speech; they were convicted (rightly or wrongly) for conspiring to overthrow the US government by armed force. These conspirators had no intention of using force; instead they successfully undermined the president by strictly legal means, and did nothing at all to the republic.
Hundreds of millions of dollars on pallets in the middle of the night to the Iranian government is treason, as in giving aid and comfort to our enemy. And yes, the Iranian government has been our enemy since 1979. holding another government’s diplomats hostage is a hostile act. After Pearl harbor, FDR did not hold the Japanese diplomats hostage. But that is a separate issue.
No, that was not treason if it was motivated by domestic political considerations; it could only be treason if it were motivated by adherence to Iran, and there’s no evidence of that. No one in the 0bama administration had any admiration for Iran, or reason to support its cause.
0bama’s purpose in building Iran up as a regional power was not out of love for Iran but out of hatred for America. He wanted to take America down a notch, so that necessarily involved helping Iran.
Who is this “us” you refer to, Zero?
You and the mouse in your pocket?
Bill Clinton is the one who flew on Epstein’s plane, not Trump, who kicked him out of MaL:.
any gop that blocks bondi/doj and/or supports rinoism must now be ousted
Rope.
So DemoncRats are denying that the documents say what they say? As many of us know, Leftists have their own truth, and it may have nothing to do with reality.
I think the party has become stark-raving mad! They’ve really gone off the deep end. The lack of consequences over the past decade emboldened them. Where they once were careful and tried to hide their wrongdoing, they’ve become sloppy and Americans are catching on.
exactly and now those “gaffes” have become so well accepted b/c we are now “Arguing” that men cant be pregnant ..the diversionary tactics of the msm lefty have once again
succeeded
They felt consequences at the polls, fortunately.
They haven’t completely destroyed our voting processes yet but not without trying very hard to do do.
Yeah, people should believe the culprits and media lackeys THIS time.
Democrats’ “Stolen” Election Claims | FLASHBACK
Matt Orfalea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoMfIkz7v6s
Dems need spokespersons who, unlike Brennan, didn’t put their names to the “Hunter laptop is Russian disinformation” letter. Everyone associated with that permanently disqualified themselves from ever again being considered a reliable source of information for anyone with two brain cells to rub together.
He may have done a video on that one, too. So many hoaxes and misdeeds.
“After all, these outlets played a pivotal role in advancing the Russian collusion narrative.{”
*****
What they are fearful of is that there is a “paper” trail documenting the active coordination between the Obama WH and MSM to advance the conspiracy to over throw the Trump adm. That will move the dial from MSM partisan hackery to criminality.
I doubt there was any actual criminality involved in that conspiracy, but it’s certainly worth looking.
So far, 5 downvoters think they know better than you. I hope you’ll forgive me if I hope they’re right.
I hope they’re right too, I just don’t think they are. It’s not as if they have more information than I do; they’re just ignoring reality because it isn’t what they want it to be.
“Former CIA Director John Brennan told NBC, ‘I don’t know what is ahead, and I don’t know what their plans and intentions are. I just find all of this very troubling when it is being done by individuals who serve in such important positions and know what they are doing is wrong.'”
Get a load of this guy.
Textbook sociopath playing the victim to deflect blame for his own actions.
Accuses others of doing what he did.
“Evil portrays itself, almost without exception, as injured innocence, fighting back.”
Lance Morrow in Evil: An Investigation
I love that. Just put it in my notes.
It strikes me as more just Obama being a piece of sh*t, which was what was obvious to men in 2008.
John and Ken (KFI Los Angeles) cover on the worthlessness of Obama in 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVcWLoZTwO4
You mean obvious in 2008 (actually, earlier than that) to anyone who had eyes to see. Anyone from Illinois already knew what a lazy grifter Zero was, and when he spoke at the 2004 Democrat Convention, they wondered how he got there – just like the turtle on the fence post, you knew damn well he didn’t get there by himself.
It’s one of several verifiable Madame Lazonga moments in my life.
I saw this nonentity giving the nomination speech for Clinton, and said, “Who the hell is this bozo? I’ve never heard of him before. Somebody is grooming him for something… you watch.”
thanks for the reminder
“…Obama being a piece of sh*t…”
At long last, something that you and I wholeheartedly agree upon.
The only advantage the scheming, lying Democrats have on their side is that the truth is complex. Their wickedness has been well designed. Only people dedicated to discerning the truth will be able to get past the Demo-media obfuscations. Most people are busy surviving or watching TV.
I hope the Democrats go down in flames. They have divided this country all the way from states down to families. Including mine.
May God destroy their ability to do evil.
I disagree in part. The main advantage the Democrats have on their side is the mainstream media support their narrative in lockstep. That advantage is waning, but it is still there. Their absolute dominance of this country’s media is the air superiority of this conflict. It’s a huge advantage.
Same old playbook. “Disinformation. Ignore the evidence and believe us.”
Yawn.
Democrats should be issued metal collars that give them a painful shock every time they utter the words disinformation, misinformation., or threat to democracy.
The Republicans currently have momentum on their side. But, how long will it last? Like Israel and Gaza, the longer the battle goes on, the more likely that Hamas -er sorry- the deep Left is likely to survive. It is necessary to attack now, and go scorched earth. You can never kill all the cockroaches but by god, you can sure can try.
Yes the obama’s /brennan/comey etc involvement in the Russian hoaax was treasonous
However, The The biggest treason was not the trump russian hoax
The biggest treason was funding cash to an avowed enemy of the US – ie the bogus Iran jcpoa deal and the pallets of cash
Even that was not necessarily treasonous. It would only be treason if it was motivated by adherence to the Iranian cause, and all the evidence points away from that. No one in 0bama’s inner circle would have had any reason to support the Iranian regime; the only one who might have been Moslem (though probably not) is Brennan, and he’s not likely to be Shi’ite. 0bama was motivated primarily by hostility to the USA, rather than by loyalty to Iran.
Milhouse – fwiw – obama did indicate that he wanted iran to be a regional power and he also likely know / fully aware that Iran was funding various terror activities , hamas, hezbolah, youthi etc. He was also likely aware that the jcpoa was only a stop gap measure at best. With my apologies, I am not giving obama the benefit of doubt since nothing in the geopolitical sphere supports the decisions made by obama
Certainly he was aware of all that, and he did want to build up Iran at the USA’s expense. But he was motivated, not by love for Iran but by hostility to the USA. He thought the USA was too uppity and had to be taken down a notch, and Iran was simply a conveniently situated enemy that could be assisted in doing that. That’s at least arguably not adherence to the enemy, though it comes close.
Get this, people?
We live in a system where HELPING an enemy of the USA is treason, but BEING one YOURSELF is not.
Almost. That’s almost what the constitution says, but not quite. Being an enemy of the USA is treason, because the constitution identifies two kinds of treason: 1) Waging war on the USA; 2) Adherence to the USA’s enemies, giving them aid and comfort. But 0bama didn’t wage war on the USA, so he was not himself an enemy. Hostile, yes, but mere hostility doesn’t make one an enemy. There must be actual war. Iran is an enemy, having committed numerous acts of war on the USA, but it’s arguable whether helping it out of hatred of the USA is enough to constitute adherence to its cause.
It’s hard to say which was the worst thing they did. There are so many.
The ‘Rat Party ate through the hull of a now sinking ship, and the rats are scurrying over each other as it’s going down. If the documents being released establish that a massive fraud was perpetrated on the nation by the head Donks in power and lied about it under oath to Congress, yeah, there are laws covering that.
Excellent piece. I
Thank you! I really appreciate it.
the deep state plays the long game—presidents come and presidents go but the bureaucrats / deep state actors are career oriented—twenty to thirty year (or longer) people—they’re interested in retaining their power / control
barry doesn’t realize it but suddenly he’s no longer an asset—he’s become a liability—can’t imagine the big players are willing to relinquish their power / their freedom to the testimony of some “community organizer” / grifter they bought and paid for
think of jfk / the clintons / epstein et al
and remember the progressive’s mantra:
“ by any means necessary “
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy?
This actually was a vast left wing conspiracy — one of many.
It was treason. There’s nothing to argue and nothing to debate.
No, it wasn’t. There’s nothing to argue and nothing to debate. The constitution defines treason, and this wasn’t it. The aid to Iran, maybe; but this, definitely not.
The reason for the ramp up in the bc meter from team Obama is their known culpability in RussiaGate. What really has them worried is the conspiracy angle. That angle resets the statute of limitations. And because of Mar A Lago the conspiracy was continued in Florida. The DOJ can convene a grand jury in Florida and get indictments. Florida is not DC. Plenty of Constitutionalist federal judges in Florida. Maybe even assigned to the Judge who was handling the Mar A Lago case that Jack Smith brought. And if Jack Smith saw the documents that have since been released he can be in peril too. Failure to provide exculpatory evidence can get him disbarred. The Florida Supreme Court takes a very dim view of lawyer shenanigans. Treason? Probably not, but the word conveys just how far Obama and his minions went to sink President Trump.
The case Smith brought in Florida was exclusively about the handling of classified documents, so the Russia hoax is not relevant to it. Therefore even if Smith knew about the hoax he would have had no obligation to disclose it to Trump.
Even the case he brought in DC was not related to the Russia hoax, so he wouldn’t have had to disclose this in that case either.
According to NBC, the former aides, most of whom spoke under the condition of anonymity, say the allegations “carr[y] the stench of desperation from a president straining to shift the focus from a burgeoning scandal around Jeffrey Epstein.”
Of course, use that abused youth, and abuse them one more time.
It’s pretty sad that you can try to overthrow a legally elected administration, Lie to the American people (not to mention Congress) and hide the truth for years and you’re safe from justice. How is that NOT treason??
They didn’t try to overthrow Trump. They tried (and mostly succeeded) in hamstringing his administration. Endless investigations, loss of public confidence, draining of political capital, etc. It’s surprising how much Trump accomplished during his first term with all the chains around his ankles.
it is
but we cant control the blmplo run schools
street armies (s ee cincy story for latest)
or msm propaganda machine
“……..and you’re safe from justice”
________________________
throughout history justice for betrayers may not always be swift but it is certain
Even actually overthrowing an administration by force (which they did not try to do) is not treason. Treason is only 1) waging war on the USA; or 2) adhering to an enemy of the USA, combined with an overt act giving that enemy aid and comfort. Trying to replace a president by force, while leaving the republic intact (which again is not what these conspirators did, but is what the J6 protesters were falsely accused of) is not treason.
I don’t know many mainstream Republicans well and I don’t really count myself as one. However, I will tell you that no matter where I stand on the spectrum, I wouldn’t just take someone else’s word for it and brush it off. That sounds like what someone that prefers to remain ignorant would do. I guess they are counting on that kind of stupidity.
Amusing how the Dems insert Epstein into every debate on every issue.
they have to and with the temporary maga crowd ( have to prove to their families that they too hate trump) helping them the war will be lost to these communistnazi lovnthuggs
Since Obama’s government wasted over 32 million on fake investigations, it is only right that THEY pay for it one way or the other. They knew the investigations were fake. Tell me again why we have to pay taxes when they lie to us, and blow it on fake things like the Russian hoax?
b/c the rinos go along with them
dont forget that the BigBuBill gave concessions to the dems NOT ONE DEM had voted for the BBBill
Rubio’s role in the 2020 Senate investigation and report is VERY disappointing.
He honestly dealt with the evidence that was available at the time.
Not “It’s all a lie!!!”
Instead: “It’s a cherry picked distraction”.
And what’s really special is the distraction is from Trump being associated with Epstein — as if that was kept quiet over the last four years out of respect for Trump as they were persecuting him from bank loans to what was (or was not) written on a check stub.
The one thing they can aim for ALL of them on is perjury, including Zero the Lightdousing Oblivious—assuming they can find a grand jury and venue to indict him. I believe Florida is probably a much, much better venue than Washington, Diseased Communism, but that is a decision not up to me. If any part of this took place there, which it did—Mar-a-Lago, then put it ALL down there if they can. Florida is a much friendlier prosecution venue than DC or Marxistland. For Obamarxist, dragging his name through the mud and having a bunch of his people thrown into prison even if it is just for lying to congress, would be a major thing. Why? Because it would hit them back for all of the wrong they did. More than anyone else, I want that smug, stupid b!t*h Susan Rice in an orange jumpsuit, frogmarched in front of a judge sentencing her to prison, even if it is just for nine months but with a *felony* conviction.