Pete King to Newsmax: Hold Obama, Team Accountable on Russia Claims

Former Rep. Pete King, who was on the House Intelligence Committee during President Donald Trump’s first term in office, said Sunday on Newsmax that he hopes revelations made by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard about actions allegedly undertaken by the Obama administration to undermine the election will “hold people accountable.”

“That was a scandal from beginning to end,” the New York Republican said on “Wake Up America Weekend,” adding that “what the Democrats were doing” against Trump was “the worst disgrace ever.”

Gabbard, backing up her claims with a highly redacted, declassified report posted online, alleged that shortly after Trump won the 2016 election, then-President Barack Obama and his national security team laid the groundwork for what eventually became the “Russiagate” scandal. 

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