Under-fire DoJ forms ‘strike force’ to investigate Obama amid Epstein scandal

24/07/2025 19:29 The Guardian

Announcement comes as administration tries to pivot from questions about Trump’s ties to the disgraced financierThe US justice department has formed a “strike force” to investigate claims that the Obama administration carried out a “treasonous conspiracy” by using false intelligence to suggest Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump.Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, announced the new force’s formation Wednesday after the release of a trove of declassified documents from Barack Obama’s national security team by the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. The announcement comes as the US president finds himself mired in scandal over the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, and has tried to distract by pivoting conversation to retribution against his political enemies. Continue reading...

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