Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a collection of over 100 documents on Friday that she says provide “overwhelming evidence” of an effort by former President Barack Obama and his senior national security team to subvert the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Appearing on Hannity Friday night, Gabbard said the documents demonstrate that Obama and top officials—James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice, and others—intentionally used a politicized intelligence narrative to fuel a years-long investigation into President Donald Trump under the false premise of Russian collusion.
“It lays out, these over 100 documents that you’re referencing, that I declassified and released, spells out in great detail exactly what happens when you have some of the most powerful people in our country directly leading at the helm, President Obama and his senior-most national security cabinet, James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, and Susan Rice and others, essentially making a very intentional decision to create this manufactured, politicized piece of intelligence with the objective of subverting the will of the American people,” Gabbard told host Sean Hannity.
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She stated that the goal of these actions was to “not accept the decision of the American people” and to initiate a “years-long coup against President Trump.”
Gabbard framed the release of these documents as an issue of national importance, stating it transcends partisan politics because it threatens the “integrity and strength of our democratic republic.”
The documents, according to Gabbard, expose what she characterized as a coordinated effort to discredit Trump and reverse the results of the 2016 election through what became known as the Russia collusion narrative. She added that the effects were far-reaching, both financially and politically.
“The years-long Mueller investigation that cost taxpayers almost $40 million to congressional impeachments, endless smears and attacks against not only President Trump, but his family. He had senior members of his team who were investigated, some arrested and jailed. We had heightened and increased tensions between the United States and Russia. The list goes on and on about the consequences of President Obama and his senior cabinet members politicizing intelligence,” she said.
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Gabbard confirmed she is referring all of the declassified material to the Department of Justice for further action.
“I am referring all of these documents that we have found and uncovered, referring them to the Department of Justice for further investigation. Accountability and action; not just investigation, but action. Accountability has to take place. The American people’s ability to have faith and trust in the integrity of our democratic republic is literally what’s at stake and therefore the future of our ability to exist as the country that we know it. This accountability is critical to make sure that this never happens again,” she stated. “Exposing the truth and naming those who are responsible should drive that accountability that has to take place.”
Fox News Digital confirmed outreach to representatives for Obama as well as former officials including Clapper, Comey, Brennan, Rice, Lynch, and McCabe. None have publicly responded to Gabbard’s accusations as of Saturday.
Gabbard also addressed the Steele dossier during her interview, citing it as one of the discredited components in the Obama administration’s intelligence assessment.
“The Steele dossier was used in this manufactured assessment that President Obama directed to be created along with many other pieces of intelligence that the intelligence community itself, for months leading up to the election, said, ‘This is not credible and should not be used at all,’” she said.
In a follow-up appearance on Fox and Friends Saturday morning, Gabbard went further, calling the Obama administration’s conduct a “treasonous conspiracy.”
“No one, no matter who they are, no matter how high up they are or how powerful they may be, no matter who the intelligence officials or professionals were, who were a part of this treasonous conspiracy, there must be accountability,” she said.
The declassification marks the first time the public has seen internal documentation outlining the origins of the Trump–Russia probe from the perspective of the current intelligence leadership.
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