Information released Friday showing that former President Barack Obama and his administration allegedly leaked information in what eventually became the “Russiagate” scandal in an attempt to stage a “coup” over President Donald Trump’s 2016 administration win is significant, but “not a bombshell,” Fred Fleitz, former National Security Council chief of staff under Trump, said on Newsmax Saturday. 

“This has been known since 2017,” Fleitz told Newsmax’s “America Right Now.” “I’ve written about it extensively that a rigged intelligence report was rushed out before Trump’s inauguration, in which the intelligence agencies claim that the Trump campaign and Russia colluded, and that this report was designed to undermine the Trump presidency.”

That, said Fleitz, became a problem for Trump throughout his first term in office. 

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