Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard told the Daily Caller that “one could assume” the Obama administration chose not to publish a December 2016 Presidential Daily Briefing (PBD) — which included information demonstrating that Russia did not steal the election — to keep then-President-elect Donald Trump from seeing it.
Gabbard released documents Friday which showed what she deemed “overwhelming evidence” revealing former President Barack Obama and his national security team “manufactured and politicized intelligence” after Trump’s 2016 victory.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard tells me that “one could assume” the Obama admin chose not to publish a December 2016 daily briefing — which included info demonstrating that Russia did not steal the election — to keep Trump from seeing it.
Trump was receiving the same daily briefings as… pic.twitter.com/2UG87Un0Mf
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) July 23, 2025
The documents suggest that Obama’s administration withheld a Dec. 7, 2016, PBD draft, which included intelligence stating that “foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the U.S. Presidential election outcome” during the 2016 election. The briefing draft was “killed” due to “new guidance,” according to the ODNI’s report. (RELATED: Vince Coglianese Flags ‘What Everybody Is Missing’ About Alleged Obama Russiagate Plot)
Gabbard told the Caller that while she didn’t have documents that stated what the “new guidance” was, she said it seemed likely the information was withheld from Trump.
“I don’t have any documents that speak to exactly what the ‘new guidance’ was that was given as the reason for pulling that document — which, by the way, still has never been published until we released it last week, Friday,” Gabbard said.
“One could assume that they didn’t want President Trump to see a document that came from the intelligence community that would contradict the Russia hoax narrative that began with the Hillary Clinton campaign with the Steele dossier,” she continued.
Trump got his first PDB on Nov. 15, 2016, CNN reported.
Gabbard submitted the information for a “criminal referral” to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Gabbard stated at the press conference. Trump said Obama was “guilty” during a press conference in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
When asked if the White House is of the belief that the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity might extend to Obama and protect him from prosecution, Leavitt told the Caller that Trump wants “all those who perpetuated this fraud against our country” to be “held accountable.”
“Everybody just ran with the lies and it led to impeachments, it led to the division of our country, unfortunately so many Americans from listening to outlets in this room believed in these lies and it’s a complete scam and it’s a scandal and the president wants to see accountability for that,” Leavitt said.
🚨 Daily Caller White House correspondent @reaganreese_: “The president said yesterday that Obama committed treason. Does the White House believe that the Supreme Court’s immunity decision protects Obama from prosecution?”
LEAVITT: “He [Pres. Trump] wants to see all those who… pic.twitter.com/1bgZ12HIG3
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 23, 2025
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