Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former US President Barack Obama should pay a big price for the scandal surrounding the alleged interference of Russia in the 2016 election, Donald Trump said in an interview with Newsmax.
“I think they should pay a price. A very big price, by the way“, the American leader said.
He believes that the decision to prosecute should be made by the head of the Department of Justice Pam Bondi.
Last week, Trump accused Obama of treason, stating that he has documentary evidence of this. According to the head of state, former Vice President Joe Biden and Clinton herself were also involved in the “gang“. In July, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard published a report with evidence that the Obama administration fabricated information about Russian interference in the 2016 election. According to the materials, the then leadership of the country provided false information to the media that the CIA supposedly had confirmation of Moscow's involvement. At the same time, it concealed intelligence data proving that Russia had no intention or ability to hack the US electronic voting system.
Trump himself later suggested that Obama would probably avoid responsibility thanks to the Supreme Court's position on presidential immunity.
Almost immediately after the 2016 presidential election, US intelligence agencies accused Russia of interfering in the voting process, and the newly elected President Donald Trump of collusion with Moscow. Both the Kremlin and the White House have denied these allegations.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has been investigating for more than two years. In the end, he admitted that he had not found evidence of collusion, but still accused a group of Russians of interfering in the election. Moscow noted that no one had provided any substantiated evidence for this.
In May 2023, a report by special counsel John Durham was published.
It said: "Neither US intelligence nor security officials have real evidence of Trump collusion with Russia. The FBI had no information about any contacts between people close to the current US president and Russian intelligence services, and the agency should not have launched a full-scale investigation into the ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow. She used raw, unanalyzed, and unconfirmed information to do so.
In early June, users noticed that the unconfirmed report on “Russian election interference“ had been removed from the website of the US Senate Intelligence Committee.