MSNBC pundit Joe Scarborough tore into President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi over her opening of a grand jury investigation into how Obama administration officials handled intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“It’s extraordinarily stupid on so many counts,” Scarborough said. “If you look at the timeline, the timeline doesn’t add up. It’s like when Donald Trump is saying that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton created the Epstein files. No, no, no, no. That all happened during Donald Trump’s first term.”
Former President Obama, Scarborough said, had “nothing to do with” intelligence investigations around the time of the 2016 election.
“You look at the timeline here about what happened and when it happened, Barack Obama had nothing to do with this, by anybody’s accounts, and especially by the Senate Republican Intelligence Committee run by Marco Rubio, who afterwards said that it was Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign that created a ‘grave intelligence counterintelligence threat to the United States of America,'” the pundit continued.
“That was Marco Rubio, the current secretary of State. That was every Republican on the Senate Intel Committee after poring through all of the documents,” he continued. “That’s what they found.”
Bondi said Monday that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard “exposed clear and blatant weaponization by corrupt intelligence officials acting at the behest of the Democrat Party and likely former President Obama” before the 2016 election.
The accusations by Trump and his top officials led to a rare statement from Obama calling the comments a “distraction.”
Scarborough is a longtime critic of Trump, who took some heat from progressives for traveling to Mar-A-Lago after the 2024 election to meet with the president in an effort, he said at the time, “to restart communications,” with the administration.
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