Obama Angers Everyone With Horrendous Move Against Trump

Former President Barack Obama slammed major law firms for bowing to the Trump administration to safeguard their careers and bankroll their lavish lifestyles.

Speaking at a private fundraiser in New Jersey on Friday, Obama voiced frustration that some of the nation’s top legal institutions had “set aside the law” in response to President Donald Trump’s actions, Business Insider reported.

Obama said some lawyers were giving way to Trump not because they were “going to be thrown in jail, but because they might lose a few clients and might not be able to finish that kitchen rehab at their Hampton house.”

“I’m not impressed,” Obama added, per MSNBC.

Obama’s connections to Big Law date back to his time at Harvard Law School, where he spent a summer as an associate at Sidley & Austin after his first year.

Before launching his political career, he practiced civil rights law at the Chicago-based litigation firm Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Business Insider noted.

Since February, Trump has signed executive orders targeting major law firms such as Paul Weiss, Perkins Coie, and Covington & Burling. The orders accused these firms of weaponizing the judicial system, revoked their security clearances, and triggered reviews of their government contracts.

Some firms, including Paul Weiss and Kirkland & Ellis, opted to cooperate, agreeing to provide pro bono legal work for conservative causes. Others, like Perkins Coie and WilmerHale, pushed back and filed lawsuits challenging the administration’s actions, the outlet said.

In his remarks, Obama criticized universities that opted to strike compromises with the Trump administration.

Obama’s alma mater, Columbia University, ultimately yielded to the Trump administration’s demands after facing a $400 million cut in federal funding. The administration said the funding was slashed due to the university’s failure to address anti-Semitism amid campus protests over Israel’s war in Gaza.

“If your core mission, if your core value is to teach, you may teach without compromising values of academic independence. Yeah, you may lose some grant money temporarily. That’s why you have those big endowments,” Obama said last week.

Meanwhile, Obama has continued his criticism of President Trump and his administration.

Speaking at The Connecticut Forum on June 17, Obama warned that the United States was on the brink of sliding into autocracy under Trump. “We’re not there yet completely, but I think that we are dangerously close to normalizing behavior like that,” Obama claimed.

Former President Joe Biden, meanwhile, is defending his decision to use an autopen for signing his final pardons, explaining the administration’s rationale for employing the device in a recently published interview.

The conversation with The New York Times focused specifically on his use of the autopen to execute the last round of clemency measures at the close of his term. In those final weeks, Biden granted pardons and clemency to over 1,500 individuals, what the White House described at the time as the largest single-day act of clemency by any U.S. president.

In his interview, Biden told the Times he “made every decision” on his own. “We’re talking about [granting clemency to] a whole lot of people,” Biden told the paper.

But that said, the Times reported that the then-president “did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers of people,” according to Biden himself and his aides.

“Rather, after extensive discussion of different possible criteria, [Biden] signed off on the standards he wanted to be used to determine which convicts would qualify for a reduction in sentence,” the Times’s report said.

Instead of repeatedly requesting that the president sign updated versions of official documents, his staff employed an autopen to affix Biden’s signature to the final drafts.

His explanation came amid Republican criticism of his extensive use of the autopen on a large volume of formal paperwork.

REPORT: Emails, Texts Show Obama, Clinton Coordination On Russia Hoax

New disclosures from the government’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into the 2016 election, otherwise known as alleged “Trump-Russia collusion,” have revealed a stunning admission from top Obama-era officials.

A newly declassified memo, released Friday by Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, shows that U.S. intelligence officials concluded Russia did not play a significant role in Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton.

Paul Sperry, a senior reporter for Real Clear Investigations, took to X to report that sources informed him that there are damning text messages and emails showing coordination between the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign aides.

“DEVELOPING: I’m told there are texts/emails indicating Hillary Clinton campaign aides directly coordinated with the Obama White House, NSC, State Dept and Intelligence Community officials in efforts to dig up dirt tying Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin in July 2016 …developing…” Perry wrote on X.

The documents released by Gabbard are the clearest proof yet that officials within the Obama administration had serious doubts about Russian interference, even as they proceeded with the investigation.

The memo, dated 2016, told then-President Barack Obama directly that “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure.”

While acknowledging prior reports about a possible breach of Illinois voter rolls and failed targeting attempts in other states, the memo clearly states that those efforts never compromised voting systems—and didn’t come close to altering results.

“The targeting of infrastructure not used in casting ballots makes it highly unlikely it would have resulted in altering any state’s official vote,” the document reads. It goes further: “Criminal activity also failed to reach the scale and sophistication necessary to change election outcomes.”

The disclosure is a major vindication for Trump, who has long argued that the Russia collusion narrative was a hoax pushed by the Clinton campaign and Obama intelligence officials to sabotage his presidency before it began.

And now the pressure is turning on the people who pushed it.

FBI officials are preparing the groundwork for a possible criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, and others involved in launching and running the Crossfire Hurricane probe.

According to a release from current CIA Director John Ratcliffe, career intelligence officials say Brennan deliberately kept parts of the investigation secret from other agencies and aggressively pushed to include the now-debunked Steele dossier.

This document falsely claimed connections between Trump and Russian agents.

A 200-page congressional audit has been compiled after a secret meeting last weekend between the DOJ and intelligence officials. They’re now looking at whether to declassify even more documents, including Crossfire Hurricane notes and transcripts from special counsel John Durham’s investigation, which concluded in 2023 that the Trump–Russia connection was baseless.

Gabbard’s disclosure appears to be the first step in a broader transparency effort.

Officials are also looking at whether Brennan may have perjured himself in testimony to Congress, when he denied using the Steele dossier in the intelligence community’s final assessment. Although the statute of limitations on perjury may have expired, officials believe he could still face charges for conspiracy to commit perjury.

“Obama ordered the ICA to set Trump up and knock him off balance before he could even get started,” one senior official said. “This was an influence operation far more consequential than anything Putin cooked up. Obama and Hillary schemed the op, and the CIA and FBI ran it.”

Comey is also under renewed scrutiny. He recently stirred controversy after posting a cryptic message to social media that many saw as dangerously suggestive. According to sources, he was visited by the Secret Service earlier this year.