Lawyer @ElieHonig spoke to to @Phil_Mattingly on @TheLeadCNN:
Honig: “I have read Tulsi Gabbard’s summaries and reports really carefully. I’ve tried to make sense of this, and I am not comprehending where the criminal theory comes in at all, frankly.
Tulsi Gabbard’s theory — this started with a referral from Tulsi Gabbard over to DoJ — is essentially that Barack Obama or some of his officials, were involved in falsifying intelligence around the 2016 election. But when you look at what the actual facts are, that simply does not appear to be true. The intelligence estimate at the time was that Russia was attempting to interfere in the 2016 election in Trump’s benefit, and that they did that through persuasion, through taking out Facebook ads and that kind of thing. But the intelligence also showed there was no criminal conspiracy between Donald Trump and the Russians, and that there was no actual hacking to switch over votes in the systems. That intelligence has since been confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee (Republican-led), and by DoJ itself, through their inspector general.
So I’m not quite sure where I see a a discrepancy there. Never mind being a federal crime. I mean, we’ve heard terms like ‘seditious conspiracy’ and ‘treason.’ I’m not seeing anything close to that. And finally, Phil, I do have to note that all of this conduct would date back to 2016. Here we are, nine years later. The statute of limitations on most federal crimes is going to be five years. So I’m skeptical. But look, this is going to happen largely behind closed doors, and we’ll see where it goes.”
Miles Taylor, who is also being targeted by Trump, said this on the news that Attorney General Bondi ordered prosecutors to start grand jury probe into Obama officials over Russia investigation.
“The unprecedented abuse of the Justice Dept — to stroke one man’s ego — gets taken to a new level”.