Obama, Trump and Immune
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Donald Trump, Obama and Epstein
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The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year on presidential immunity has broadened the limits of legal protection for presidents.
Obama's debt to Trump in the current president's mind? That the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that presidents have immunity for official acts.
A spokesperson for Obama denounced Trump's claims, saying "these bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction."
A spokesperson for the former president called Trump's claim that Obama tried to rig the 2016 election "a weak attempt at a distraction."
Never one to easily let things go, Donald Trump is still nursing a 14-year grudge, it seems. The president has spent the past week urging prosecutors to haul his predecessor Barack Obama off to jail for what intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard claims was a “treasonous conspiracy” to subvert her boss’s 2016 election victory.
Besides Obama, President Trump on Tuesday rattled off a list of people he accused of acting criminally "at the highest level."
2don MSN
Trump’s treason claims against Obama and others prompt a rare response from the former president
President Donald Trump is rehashing longstanding grievances over the Russia investigation that shadowed much of his first term.
President Donald Trump stepped into his own trap, and Morning Joe seemed delighted—if somewhat bemused—to have to point it out. On Thursday, MSNBC ran a clip from April 2024 in which the president praised a Supreme Court judge ahead of a ruling that granted sweeping criminal immunity for “official acts,
Trump called unabating interest in sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a “witch hunt” and insisted that it’s his predecessor who deserves more scrutiny.