Barack Obama sat down with Stephen Colbert on CBS for a cozy 25-minute interview this week and delivered what might be the most breathtaking act of political gaslighting since he told us we could keep our doctor. The former president — the same man who turned the IRS into a conservative-hunting operation and let the FBI run wild with the Russia collusion hoax — looked into the camera and warned America about the dangers of “politicizing” the criminal justice system.

You cannot make this up. The arsonist is complaining about smoke.

Obama told Colbert, “We can survive a lot — bad policy, funky elections, there’s a bunch of stuff,” before delivering his thesis: “We can’t overcome the politicization of the criminal justice system.” He also threw in a “don’t politicize our military” for good measure, because apparently we’re all supposed to forget the last eight years of his presidency happened.

Let’s walk through the highlight reel, shall we? This is the president whose Attorney General, Eric Holder, proudly declared on camera, “I’m still the president’s wingman.” Not the country’s attorney general. Not the people’s lawyer. The president’s wingman. That’s not even subtle politicization — that’s a confession.

This is the administration that unleashed Lois Lerner and the IRS on Tea Party groups and conservative nonprofits, slow-walking their tax-exempt applications for years while liberal organizations sailed through. This is the administration whose FBI launched the Russia collusion investigation based on opposition research paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, then used it to spy on an incoming president. This is the administration that replaced Holder with Loretta Lynch — the same Loretta Lynch who had a secret tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton while his wife was under federal investigation.

But sure, Barack. Tell us more about politicization.

And let’s not skip over his little lecture about the military. “Don’t politicize our military,” he said, apparently hoping nobody remembers that his administration injected left-wing social engineering into every branch of the armed forces and kicked out service members over vaccine mandates. Pete Hegseth, now serving as War Secretary, has spent the better part of his career documenting exactly how Obama’s Pentagon prioritized woke ideology over combat readiness.

Obama even had the audacity to say, “I’m worried about the Republican Party, not just the Democratic Party.” Oh, how generous of him. The man who spent 60 years’ worth of political capital comparing Republicans to fascists and Nazis is now “worried” about us. Thanks, Barack. We’ll file that right next to your concern about our doctors.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had the perfect response: “If you’re sitting in a glass house, you ought not throw stones.” That’s about as polite as you can put it. The rest of us would use stronger language.

Here’s what Obama is really doing. He’s not offering thoughtful commentary. He’s running interference. The current DOJ is actually investigating the people who weaponized these agencies in the first place — the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, the manufactured Russia collusion narrative, the two-tiered justice system that let Democrats skate while throwing the book at anyone in Trump’s orbit. Obama sees the walls closing in on his legacy, and he’s trying to reframe accountability as “politicization.”

As Nate Jackson at The Patriot Post put it, Obama isn’t just gaslighting — he’s the master gaslighter. The man turned every institution he touched into a partisan weapon, then walked away with a Netflix deal and a mansion, and now he wants to lecture the people who are cleaning up his mess.

We’re not buying it. We never were. And the fact that he had to go sit with Stephen Colbert on CBS to deliver this sermon tells you everything you need to know about who his audience actually is — it’s not America. It’s the shrinking club of people who still believe Barack Obama was a unifier and not the most divisive president in modern history.

Nice try, Barack. We have receipts.