It’s not enough that charges by Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, create “wow” moments in the news cycle and fuel talk shows. There have to be consequences to the fact that a former U.S. president would actively engage in a campaign to discredit his duly elected successor, to disregard and subvert the will of the America people.
Bauer: Handle Obama with careA conservative activist is happy that Tulsi Gabbard is releasing documents alleging that Barack Obama was the mastermind behind the use of intelligence agencies to undermine President Donald Trump. Gary Bauer is chairman of the Campaign for Working Families. 
"Obviously I'm very happy that Tulsi Gabbard is attempting to expose the really unprecedented abuse of our intelligence agencies and other parts of our federal government over a period of a decade to try to undermine the votes of the American people. This is the kind of stuff you expect in a third world dictatorship, not in the United States of America." But Bauer says going after Obama in a big way could be problematic. "Some of us wonder whether that would just turn former President Obama into a martyr figure. So, I think we have to have caution here about how this plays out." But Bauer says the DOJ shouldn't hold back in holding members of his administration accountable. "My view on that is that they on the pay the full price of whatever crimes they committed. Unlike Barack Obama, these individuals don't have some big reservoir of goodwill. Most of the American people, probably even today, don't know their names." |
There must be more, Blaze TV host Steve Deace said on American Family Radio Thursday.
Gabbard asserts that Obama and senior officials orchestrated a “years-long coup” against Donald Trump following Trump’s win over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. This was done, she argues, by manipulating intelligence about Russian interference in the election. (See related video below)
Earlier this week Gabbard released more than 100 pages of declassified documents and formally referred Obama administration officials – including the former president himself – to the Justice Department for potential criminal prosecution, including charges like treason.
The DNI claims intelligence during the Obama Era was politicized to shape public perception and advance partisan goals.
And it was not senior officials acting of their own accord. Gabbard alleges that Obama himself ordered intelligence officials to produce a new assessment showing that Russia interfered in the 2016 election on behalf of Donald Trump despite earlier internal findings that Russia in fact did not attempt to alter the vote.
Trust has been violated, Deace told show host Jenna Ellis.
“Most Americans, when they take part in the political process, they view these two parties as vehicles for value systems, rightly or wrongly,” he said. “The essence of politics is faith and ethics in action, and when you have that level of duopoly in any endeavor you have one of two realities: you have mutually assured destruction or you have tyranny.”
What the Founders intended
The Founders created government not with a specific size in mind, not big government or small government, but that it be limited government. Their creation should be focused on God’s revelations for human behavior, Deace said, part of that being the protection of God-given rights.
“We’re way out of balance with this in our era right now,” he said.
The tilted scale is due in large part to Democrats’ no-holds-barred pursuit of Trump last summer on charges that he covered up an alleged hush money payment to a former porn star to prevent her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter in 2006.
The case received an unconditional discharge on Jan. 10, days before he would take office. The ruling removed the threat of jail time, fines or probation. Trump has maintained his innocence and has continued to fight the verdict.
If that type of charge with that type of age can follow a presidential nominee, what should result from the attempted overthrow of a fair election?
“The Democratic Party tried to take our presumptive nominee and put him in prison for 94 years or the rest of his life over the allegation that he may not have disclosed a $130,000 hush payment to a porn star 20 years ago, a decade before he ran for office. And for that reason everything had to stop. An entire presidential primary election had to be canceled. There could be no campaigning,” Deace said.
For a key stretch of time, campaigning for Trump was limited to the sidewalk outside a New York City courtroom.
“They frog-marched him, they perp-walked him for something like this,” Deace recalled.
It hasn’t taken long for the shoe to find the other foot. The natural question for Trump supporters is what will happen to Obama for a far greater scandal, one with national implications, Deace said.
“You reach a point sooner or later where people lose faith in the justice system. When that happens and one side has continually been put down and put down … history books are written about moments like this.”
Trump needs a win that would help him hold support from important demographics – people who helped him get elected.
Gabbard’s investigation may have led him to that point – unless the system fails to act.
Losing last fall’s critical support
A CBS/YouGov poll released this week finds Americans’ support for Trump’s deportation plan falling. They want to see fewer tariffs and lower prices too.
“Young men are already beginning to lose faith in the Trump administration after they flocked to it in this last election,” Deace said. “They’re not beholden to the idea that Republicans have to win no matter what. If anything, they supported Trump because they thought he was something different from a typical Republican. The stock market is of no relevance to them. They don’t believe they’re getting any retirement money out of that anyway.”
The release of Gabbard’s findings is clearly meant to deflect attention away from the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, Deace said, adding that isn’t a criticism but a smart move in the face of negative energy from that front.
But the administration – the system – has to finish the job.
“You can’t yank peoples’ chains on Epstein for six months then hand them an even bigger name in Barack Obama then just say, in six months, ‘Here’s our report from our judicial task force at the DOJ and here are the talking points.’ You (can’t) give everybody the salacious details and say, ‘Remember to vote Republican in the mid-terms next year.’ We’re way past that. There has to be accountability,” Deace said.
