NEW: Key ‘Russiagate’ Hoaxster Hit With Ominous Warning

Republicans investigating the 2016 Trump-Russia hoax are turning their attention to lesser-known members of the Obama administration, a sign that lawmakers may soon begin subpoenaing or even charging more individuals who held key positions at the time.

One is Lisa Monaco, the former deputy U.S. attorney general who suggested in December 2016 that former President Barack Obama was considering “sanctions” against Russia for its “interference” in the election that year. Behind the scenes, U.S. intelligence agencies were racing to compile a report on the matter without knowing definitively whether Russia meddled to assist President Donald Trump.

A viral clip of Monaco was flagged by Mike Davis, attorney at the Article 3 Project and former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.

“Lawyer up, Lisa,” he wrote on X. “Nobody is above the law.”

Monaco, appearing on PBS, told viewers that the administration was working to “make clear we will impose consequences for Russian aggression, and their interference, or attempts to interfere in, our political process.”

Sanctions imposed at the time restricted specific Russian officials from traveling to the U.S. and barred them from certain financial transactions with U.S. institutions.

“We’ve decided to take these actions quite deliberately, and we’ve done so with precision,” she added.

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The scope of Obama-era officials involved in the Trump-Russia hoax continues to grow. Last week, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, confirmed she had referred President Obama to the U.S. Justice Department for criminal prosecution.

The referral came on the heels of an investigation by U.S. intelligence agencies assessing the criminal culpability of other officials in government at the time, including former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Democratic Congressman Jason Crow (D-WI), responding to the investigation on “Face the Nation,” accidentally let slip this week that many in the party were aware that insinuations about Trump’s connection to Russia were baseless.

“Many of these same congressional figures were fully aware that Russian collusion was rejected by American intelligence before the start of the Trump term. However, they continued to knowingly spread the disinformation for political purposes,” conservative legal scholar Jonathan Turley wrote this week, flagging Crow’s remarks.

“Not surprisingly, the media (which spent years repeating the false Russian collusion claims) is doing a full-court press to kill the story. Yet, many of these key figures are retaining counsel in anticipation of the unfolding investigation. Many previously secured contracts with MSNBC or CNN, or book deals, where they doubled down on the false claims detailed in these new documents,” he stated.