Washington Examiner’s Byron York predicted a national “complete rethinking” over claims that Russia interfered with the 2016 election after a White House press briefing Wednesday.
National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard said Wednesday that she has referred former President Barack Obama and some of his aides to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.
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Earlier in the day, Gabbard shared a declassified House Intelligence Committee report, which found the United States intelligence community had no direct evidence Russia wanted to aid President Donald Trump in the 2016 election despite it pushing the claim under Obama’s direction.
York, the Washington Examiner’s chief political correspondent, told Fox News’s America Reports he has covered this story since 2016, and said it is “huge news” that this claim was pushed despite there being “no proof” to back it.
“Now that accusation went on to be repeated by Democrats and people in the media thousands and thousands and thousands of times. It basically formed the basis of our political conversation for months at a time, and now we learn that it was false,” York said.
“Further, we learned that Barack Obama actually set this in motion. But this is going to, I think, cause a complete rethinking of much conventional wisdom about this. It’s something that many of us who covered it have known for quite a long time, but this is indisputable evidence that their statements were false,” York said.
York also said there are “a lot of people” who repeated the claims Russia interfered with the 2016 election, and “they might want to correct themselves.”
Despite Gabbard’s recommendation to prosecute Obama, she did not recommend any specific charges, including treason. Trump backed prosecuting Obama Tuesday, saying, “He started it.”
Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesman for Obama, rebuffed Trump’s accusation of treason as “outrageous” on Tuesday.