Toobin: DOJ pursuing Obama treason probe to distract from Epstein 'political crisis'

Legal pundit Jeffery Toobin is blasting President Trump over his accusation of treason against former President Barack Obama, saying Trump is attempting to distract from a “political crisis,” created by his alleged ties to Jefferey Epstein.

“Mr. Trump is wrong on the facts and the law, and his sensational allegation serves only to demonstrate how completely he has degraded contemporary political discourse,” Toobin wrote in a New York Times Op-Ed this week. “President Trump’s history of intemperate remarks has earned him a perverse kind of immunity; the more outrageous his statement, the faster it is often dismissed. But Mr. Trump doesn’t deserve this bloviator’s privilege.”

Trump’s Department of Justice announced earlier this week it would launch a “strike force” to “investigate potential next legal steps” after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released new documents relating to the the 2016 election.

Trump and his allies have repeatedly accused the former president of trying to undermine his 2016 campaign.

Obama’s office issued a public rebuke of those claims this week, calling it a “distraction” from growing calls for the federal government to release more information about Epstein, the convicted sex offender.

Toobin wrote that the accusation against Obama “serves both [Attorney General Pam] Bondi and Mr. Trump’s political needs.

“The attorney general may be especially eager to please her boss because she’s on thin ice with him,” he wrote. “She has created a political crisis for Mr. Trump by mismanaging the disclosures about Jeffrey Epstein, the late pedophile and friend of the president’s.”

Toobin called any change of prosecution against Obama and his former intelligence officials “unlikely.”

“But the invocation of the possibility by a president who put the prosecutorial process in motion suggests that the nation has moved to a never-before-seen era of malevolence and reprisal,” he added.