Ron DeSantis jabs Barack Obama over DOJ politicisation remarks

4 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 7

On X, the Florida governor replied, “The Russia collusion hoax would like a word,” after Obama’s interview with Stephen Colbert on CBS.
Obama said the White House should not direct prosecutions and warned politicising the Justice Department was an existential threat requiring renewed safeguards and possible legal codification.
The exchange revives arguments over the FBI’s 2016 Trump-Russia investigation and follows July 2025 claims by DNI Tulsi Gabbard that Obama-era intelligence on Russian interference was politicised.

When does holding intelligence agencies accountable become a threat to national security itself?