Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, stated on Newsmax Thursday that she sees no ambiguity when it comes to her belief that Barack Obama and his team were involved in what she described as a “treasonous conspiracy” to sabotage Donald Trump’s presidency during his first term.
Earlier this month, on July 18 and again on Wednesday, Gabbard made public a series of previously classified documents. These records, she said, implicate Obama in orchestrating a misleading intelligence assessment, crafted by then-DNI James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan in January 2017, intended to discredit Trump following his win over Hillary Clinton.
“When you look at this manufactured intelligence assessment that President Obama ordered be created in January of 2017 within the context of everything that happened before and everything that happened over those four years of the first Trump administration, then it is hard to draw, in my view, any conclusion other than that which I’ve already said, which is this was a conspiracy, a treasonous conspiracy to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump in that 2016 election and the legitimacy of his presidency, and enacted what was essentially a yearslong coup,” Gabbard told The Record With Greta Van Susteren.
She explained that her passion for ensuring fair elections began during her years serving as a Democratic congresswoman for Hawaii’s second district between 2013 and 2021.
“This is something of paramount importance, obviously, to President Trump, but really to the American people to have faith and trust in the integrity of our democratic republic,” she said. “And so, we’ve really spent the last few months since I’ve been on this job focused on finding the truth. Very simply finding the truth to bring about transparency and accountability. So, in the documents that we released last week and as well as this week, it really brings forward very clear evidence.”
In response to the disclosures, the Justice Department on Wednesday announced the formation of a strike force to examine the materials revealed by Gabbard and to determine what legal actions, if any, should follow. On Thursday, Republican Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to bring in a special counsel to take over the probe with independence from the DOJ.
“The report that we released yesterday [Wednesday] was a result of an investigation that the House Intelligence Committee staff conducted,” Gabbard said. “It took them well over a year interviewing several of the intelligence professionals that were involved in the production of this manufactured intelligence document.
“And it really goes line by line, detailing how this assessment that was created in January of 2017 at the direction of President Obama, literally manufactured intelligence, knowingly put down falsehoods in order to reach this assessment conclusion that I stated that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and Russia aspired to help Donald Trump win the election when it was blatantly false. They knew it was false, yet they sold it to the American people as though it were true.”
On Tuesday, a day before Gabbard’s latest document release, Obama spokesman Patrick Rodenbush issued a statement on X, blasting the accusations. He called it “outrageous” that the former president was being charged with treason.
{Matzav.com}
