Trump Administration Renews Offensive Against Barack Obama with New Report
Tulsi Gabbard detailed intelligence findings related to Obama at a White House press conference Wednesday
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard continued Wednesday to accuse former President Barack Obama's administration of "intelligence manipulation" surrounding interference of Russia in the 2016 election.
Gabbard made a surprise appearance at a White House press briefing Wednesday to outline for reporters the key findings of a 2020 House Intelligence Committee report recently made public.
Gabbard said her office has forwarded the documents she released to the Justice Department, suggesting they could implicate former President Barack Obama.
The report, drafted by the House Intelligence Committee in 2020, reviews alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, in what U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard calls evidence of the "conspiracy" by the Obama administration against Trump.
Gabbard insisted at the White House that this is "irrefutable" evidence that Obama and his National Security team lied to the public by promoting the narrative that Russian President Vladimir Putin favored the Republican in those elections, in which Moscow had tried to interfere.
"There is irrefutable evidence that details how President Obama and his team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment, knowing it was false. They knew it would promote this artificial narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win," Gabbard said.
According to The US director of intelligence, "fabricated findings from shoddy sources, suppressed credible evidence and intelligence that refuted their false claims."
"In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people who elected Donald Trump in that election," Gabbard said,who had already revealed an initial collection of declassified documents last week, when she called for prosecutions of officials in the Democratic administration.
The incumbent charged against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former FBI Director James Comey, whom she called accomplices in the "Russia hoax."
She also doubled down on accusations against the media for allegedly collaborating to amplify "this lie with the ultimate goal of undermining the legitimacy" of Trump and "launching what would be a years-long coup against him and his Administration."
Asked why this information was not revealed during Trump's first term (2017-2021), maintained that he cannot answer for what happened at that time, but that as soon as the Republican returned to power last January it was one of the first topics they began to investigate.
The declassification of documents and Trump's direct accusations against Obama coincide with a crisis of confidence among the Republican's most staunch supporters, who reproach him for the handling of the case of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and demand the publication of all evidence of the tycoon's crimes, as he promised before taking office.
Trump, who has shown his frustration with the attention surrounding Epstein, with whom he shared a friendship decades ago, insisted that it is a "witch hunt" and that instead they should be talking about how Obama was "caught off guard" leading the alleged "conspiracy against him." Obama has called these claims "ridiculous and a weak attempt to divert attention."
The declassification of documents and Trump's direct accusations against Obama coincide with a crisis of confidence among the Republican's staunchest supporters, who criticize him for the handling of the case of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and demand the publication of all evidence of the tycoon's crimes, as he promised before taking office.
Trump, who has shown his frustration with the attention surrounding Epstein, with whom he shared a friendship decades ago, insisted that it is a "witch hunt" and that instead they should be talking about how Obama was "caught off guard" leading the alleged "conspiracy in his against.”
Obama has called these claims “ridiculous and a weak attempt to divert attention.”

