President Donald J. Trump declared this week that former President Barack Obama “owes me big” after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling last year granted broad immunity for official presidential acts—a decision that may shield Obama from prosecution, even as a new Justice Department strike force investigates alleged criminal conduct by his top aides.

The Court’s decision, stemming from Trump v. United States, has already begun reshaping the legal landscape for presidential accountability. Trump, who has accused Obama of treason for orchestrating a massive intelligence operation against him in 2016, said the ruling may spare Obama—but not those who helped him.

“It probably helps him a lot — the immunity ruling, but it doesn’t help the people around him at all,” Trump said. “He’s done criminal acts, there’s no question about it, but he has immunity. He owes me big. Obama owes me big.”

Trump blasted Obama as the “leader of the gang”—a reference to what he calls a network of rogue intelligence and political operatives who weaponized government power to spread false allegations of Russian collusion and sabotage his presidency.

That narrative, now widely discredited, consumed years of FBI and congressional investigations, paralyzing Trump’s first term and shaping a hostile media environment ahead of the 2020 election.

The new focus on Obama’s role intensified after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard published internal communications revealing that Obama personally ordered an intelligence review in 2016 that concluded Russia interfered in the election to help Trump.

But Gabbard says new evidence tells a different story: Russia expected Clinton to win, and withheld damaging information on her in anticipation of leveraging it once she took office.

Last week, Gabbard briefed reporters at the White House, revealing a trove of documents and a criminal referral sent to the Justice Department, accusing Obama’s administration of attempting to “subvert President Trump’s 2016 victory and presidency.”

“There must be indictments,” Gabbard told Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “Those responsible, no matter how powerful they are or were at that time, no matter who was involved in creating this treasonous conspiracy against the American people, they all must be held accountable.”

Gabbard described the plot as a “years-long coup” orchestrated by Obama’s national security and intelligence circle in response to Hillary Clinton’s shocking 2016 defeat. She said whistleblowers from inside the intelligence community are now stepping forward.

“We have whistleblowers … coming forward now, after we released these documents because there are people who were around, who were working within the intelligence community who [were] so disgusted by what happened,” she said. “We’re starting to see some of them come out of the woodwork… they, too, like you and I and the American people, want to see justice delivered.”

The Justice Department has responded by creating a specialized strike force tasked with reviewing and acting on the material disclosed by Gabbard. The DOJ confirmed Wednesday night that it is actively investigating whether Obama’s top officials manufactured or falsified intelligence to create the illusion of collusion between Trump and Russia.

The strike force, comprised of elite prosecutors and investigators, will also explore charges related to wire fraud, bank fraud, false statements, money laundering, and more, according to DOJ officials.

This move marks one of the most serious escalations yet in the reckoning over what many conservatives have long called a deep state conspiracy to overturn the will of American voters.