Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered prosecutors from the Justice Department to initiate a grand jury investigation concerning whether officials from the Obama administration committed any federal offenses while evaluating Russia’s activities during the 2016 election, according to a senior official from the Trump administration.

At a recent White House press briefing, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard alleged that senior officials from the Obama administration orchestrated a “treasonous conspiracy” against Donald Trump. Gabbard indicated that she planned to forward criminal referrals to the Justice Department.

A former senior official from the Justice Department criticized the decision as “a dangerous political stunt.” Additionally, a former high-ranking national security official emphasized that several previous investigations, including those carried out by Republicans, found no evidence of such crimes.

“There’s no logical, rational basis for this,” said the official, who asked not to be named.

The senior Trump administration official mentioned that there is no specific timeline for when the grand jury will convene and noted that the process might take several months to commence. Fox News was the first to report on Bondi’s letter.

The letter, signed by Bondi, instructs an unspecified federal prosecutor to begin presenting evidence to a grand jury to possibly obtain federal indictments. However, the letter does not specify the charges, whom the grand jury will investigate, or the location of the meeting.

A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment.

Democratic lawmakers have accused the administration of attempting to divert attention from the Jeffrey Epstein case. Meanwhile, conservative media and influencers have criticized the administration’s handling of the case, demanding the release of additional documents and details.

Trump, Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have all been criticized by conservative media and influencers over their handling of the Epstein investigation and material related to it.

A 2020 bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee review contradicted the idea that there was a conspiracy by the Obama administration officials against Trump, finding significant evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Then-Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., the acting chair of the committee at the time, signed off on the report.

The plans for a grand jury investigation are the latest in a series of actions by the Trump administration designed to rewrite the history of the 2016 election and seek retribution against those whom Trump accuses of trying to sabotage his first term in the White House.

Democratic lawmakers and former senior officials say Trump and his deputies have used the tools of government authority to try to “rewrite” the history of the 2016 election, seeking to reverse an eight-year-old assessment that Russia waged an information war to boost Trump’s candidacy.

Trump and his supporters have long claimed that intelligence and law enforcement officials sought to undermine his first term by overstating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and investigating Trump’s aides over their possible contacts with Moscow.

They have accused former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan of using the probes to undermine Trump.

A lawyer for Comey did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Comey and Brennan, who is a paid contributor to NBC News and MSNBC, have denied wrongdoing.

The intelligence community’s analysis of the 2016 election and subsequent government investigations failed to satisfy the far-right and far-left sides of the American political divide.

A probe by special counsel Robert Mueller found that Russia intervened in 2016 to undercut Hillary Clinton. But it did not find evidence that the Trump team colluded with the Kremlin, as some voices on the left had suggested.

At the same time, the special counsel Trump appointed in his first term, John Durham, disappointed far-right activists with his three-year investigation.

Durham found no criminal conspiracy among Obama administration officials to fabricate intelligence about Russia’s actions in 2016. He also filed no charges against the intelligence officers who oversaw a 2017 assessment that found Russia had tried to skew the election outcome in Trump’s favor.

Trump, as president and candidate, has depicted former President Barack Obama and other former administration officials in prison garb and called for their imprisonments. He has also posted an artificial intelligence video of himself smiling as a fake depiction of Obama is arrested by FBI agents and put into jail.