President Obama spoke with President-elect Donald J. Trump at the White House to discuss the transition of power. (Credit: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)
Aides who worked for Barack Obama are desperate to shut down the burgeoning scandal surrounding their former boss and have devised a laughable plan to prevent it from reaching the public further.
(…) Now, NBC News reveals that Team Obama is desperate to find a way to ensure the scandal eventually dissipates and put a stop to more “unchecked allegations.”
From NBC News:
To former aides who worked in Barack Obama’s White House, the Trump administration’s allegations of “treason” carried the stench of desperation from a president straining to shift the focus from a burgeoning scandal around Jeffrey Epstein.
Still, they’re grappling with how to contain the unprecedented accusations National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard has leveled, even as they dismiss them as asinine, interviews with more than half a dozen people who worked in Obama’s White House or on his campaigns reveal.
These people say the events of the last week have turned into a messaging balancing act between unnecessarily giving oxygen to the claims that Obama ordered a false intelligence analysis to show Russia had worked to help Trump win the 2016 election and leaving the potential for unchecked accusations to balloon. Many of those who talked to NBC News were not authorized to speak publicly about strategy.
What is their brilliant scheme? It turns out that they plan to reach so-called Republicans via newspaper editorial boards and via members of Congress.
“The battle now is to play this even to make sure that thoughts don’t start to creep into more mainstream” audiences, a former Obama administration official said. That person said 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 actually think any GOPer, even more moderates, care one bit what the Wall Street Journal or Washington Post has to say?
Moreover, how many are going to listen to leftists and RINOS in Congress who dismiss Obama’s treason as a nothingburger? (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/26/2025) (Archive)