While presidential immunity may protect former President Barack Obama, it won’t shield Obama-era officials if they committed crimes in an effort to undermine Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and presidency, former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos said Saturday on Newsmax.
Papadopoulos responded to the recent declassification of intelligence documents ordered by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard claimed the documents show senior Obama administration officials manufactured parts of the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that concluded Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump.
“Look, what this recent declassified declassification really showcases is that there was never an investigation into President Trump,” Papadopoulos told “America Right Now.” “But what there actually was was the overt effort to plant dirt on President Trump from the highest levels of the Obama administration, including President Obama himself.”
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