Former Obama Staffer Taunts Trump Over Claims That Former President Is Guilty Of Treason: 'Then Arrest Him, P---y'

Former Barack Obama staffer and Pod Save America host Jon Favreau taunted President Donald Trump after he claimed Obama was guilty of treason.

"Then arrest him, p---y," Favreau said on social media. He was responding to a video that showed Trump at the Oval Office saying "the leader of the gang was Obama."

He was referring to a claim made by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who last week said the Obama administration staged a "treasonous conspiracy" to manufacture Russian election interference in 2016.

"Barack Hussein Obama, have you heard of him? Except for the fact that he's gotten shielded from the press his entire life. He's guilty, it's not a question. Let's give it time, it's there. This was treason. They tried to steal the election, did things no one ever even imagined even in other countries. We have all of the documents. For what Tulsi told me, she's got thousands of additional documents. It was his concept but he also got it from 'crooked' Hillary Clinton," Trump said.

On Friday, Gabbard declassified a set of documents she argued show top Obama officials deliberately misled the public about Russian interference to damage Trump's presidency, CNN reported.

Gabbard claimed the intelligence findings were politically tainted and pushed a false narrative that Russia supported Trump and worked to sway the 2016 election. She accused the Obama administration of using the Steele dossier to justify its conclusions and said she planned to refer those involved to the Justice Department.

However, Gabbard's claim directly contradicts a bipartisan Senate investigation led by Republicans five years ago. The Senate Intelligence Committee's 2020 report, which was led by Republicans, had already reviewed the same claims and upheld the original 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment.

That assessment, issued days before Trump took office, concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin directed an influence campaign that included hacking Democratic emails and spreading disinformation to help Trump and harm Hillary Clinton. The Senate's review found no evidence of political interference in the intelligence process and confirmed that the Steele dossier was not used to shape the final analysis.

Sources familiar with the Senate's probe told CNN that Gabbard is conflating the lack of proven cyberattacks on voting infrastructure with the broader influence campaign. They say her memo misrepresents how intelligence agencies handled the dossier, which was excluded from the core analysis at the insistence of the CIA.