The president's response is the proper one. These articles are complete nonsense and should be dismissed with prejudice.
It may be playing with fire, but I figure the reason to let this run on has been to expose those who leak to the press, spies for the DNC, and the criminal acts of those who are supposed to be enforcing and upholding the law, rather than displaying partisan contempt for it and trying to bend it to their aims.
I think the effect, among thinking people, anyway, has been to amplify any contempt Americans have for the Communists among us, and the crooks in Congress and elsewhere in Government.