President Donald Trump is revealing unflattering details about moves made by former President Barack Obama and his senior aides during the 2016 transition, raising new questions about the dawn of the Russia investigation nine years ago.

Although the Trump administration is amplifying allegations from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that Obama and officials in his administration manufactured and politicized the intelligence that instigated former special counsel Robert Mueller’s federal Russia investigation, Obama is likely to encounter only political, not legal, consequences.

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