Speaker Johnson has 'no concern' about questioning Obama over Russia election interference hoax

House Speaker Mike Johnson says he has "no concern" about questioning former President Obama over the Russia election interference hoax.

Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody asked Johnson in a video clip of an interview that was posted on X on Monday about whether it would be "tricky" to look into Obama's role in the hoax and "bringing him in for some sort of deposition, potential subpoena?"

"We have no concern about that," Johnson said. "If it's uncomfortable for him, he shouldn't have been involved in overseeing this, which is what it appears to us has happened.

"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. Those are very serious allegations with very serious implications, but we're gonna have very serious people working on it, and we will get the answers."

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday issued a press release stating that Gabbard had “revealed overwhelming evidence that demonstrates how, after President Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, President Obama and his national security cabinet members manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump.”

Gabbard said the evidence she had unearthed had been forwarded to the DOJ for review.

“The information we are releasing today clearly shows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government. Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people,” Gabbard said Friday.

The CIA’s recent review also critiqued the “high confidence” assessment by the FBI and the CIA that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had “aspired” to help Trump win in 2016.