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House Speaker Has ‘No Concern’ About Calling Obama To Testify On Russia Collusion Hoax

Speaker Mike Johnson
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House Speaker Mike Johnson says he has “no concern” about calling former President Barack Obama to testify under oath regarding his alleged role in orchestrating the false Russia collusion narrative against President Donald Trump.

Johnson’s comments come after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused Obama, along with former intelligence officials James Comey, John Brennan, and James Clapper, of coordinating a “treasonous conspiracy” to manufacture an intelligence assessment in late 2016 to delegitimize Trump’s presidency. Gabbard has submitted a criminal referral to the Justice Department.

Speaking to CBN’s David Brody, Johnson made clear that if Obama was involved in the scheme, he should answer for it.

“If it’s uncomfortable for him, he shouldn’t have been involved in overseeing this,” Johnson said. “There’s a lot of allegations on the table. Our job is to go and follow each of those trails and to find out the truth.”

Brody pressed Johnson on whether the House would pursue subpoenas or depositions for the key figures accused in the scheme.

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“Of course,” Johnson replied. “We have a responsibility to follow the truth where it leads and to do it in an unbiased fashion — effectively the opposite of what that other team did.”

Johnson, a former Judiciary Committee member who served on both of Trump’s impeachment defense teams, said the committee knew the Russia narrative was a political weapon from the start. “We recognized that the people who are being called out now were involved in a scheme,” he said. “They perpetuated the lie on the American people … there must be accountability.”

Gabbard has alleged that the Obama administration knowingly ordered the publication of “manufactured intelligence” to falsely claim Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump. She says her office has turned over documents to the DOJ and FBI as part of her referral.

Johnson warned the biggest danger is the damage done to public trust. “We’re in the process of restoring that trust,” he said. “It’s an extraordinary challenge — brought about because people were involved in a sinister plot.”

He concluded, “Those are very serious allegations with very serious implications, but we’re going to have very serious people working on it — and we will get the answers.”