‘Accountability’ for RussiaGate? Don’t Bet on It
If Trump’s supporters expect prosecutions, they’ll probably be disappointed.
by Robert Stacy McCain
July 21, 2025, 10:04 PM
Donald Trump now has his enemies by the short hairs, as the saying goes. Thanks to his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, the president now has clear evidence that the Obama administration rigged up a phony accusation of Russian “collusion” to undermine his first term in the White House. In releasing the damning proof, Gabbard said: “These documents detail a treasonous conspiracy by officials at the highest levels of the Obama White House to subvert the will of the American people and try to usurp the President from fulfilling his mandate.” And, the DNI further emphasized, she would be “turning over all documents to the DOJ [Department of Justice] for criminal referral.”
To say that Trump’s supporters are eager to see criminal prosecutions in the RussiaGate scandal is like saying that ravenous wolves are eager to dine on fresh mutton. After Gabbard dropped her evidence bomb Friday, social media lit up with demands that the guilty parties — up to and including Barack Obama — be sent to federal prison, at a minimum. There were many folks who, noting Gabbard’s description of the scandal as a “treasonous conspiracy” against Trump, pointed out that treason is punishable by death, and some few posted images of nooses.
“We live in strange times,” I texted one of my sons, “when I am the calm voice of reason.”
Having earned my stripes as a notorious right-winger — I was hate-listed by the SPLC before being hate-listed by the SPLC was cool — it felt odd for me to be the one urging restraint while the populist mob was howling for blood. Nevertheless, I felt compelled to pour cold water on their hopes that Attorney General Pam Bondi would soon be pursuing federal prosecutions against Obama and such of his henchmen as former CIA Director John Brennan, former DNI James Clapper, and former FBI Director James Comey. “As egregious as the RussiaGate scandal is,” I wrote Saturday, “the overwhelming likelihood is that nobody involved in this sordid mess will ever be charged with a crime, and that if somehow Bondi does find a way to get indictments against Brennan, Clapper, Comey, et al., the subsequent trial will end in a verdict of acquittal.”
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