Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told Newsmax on Thursday it’s not difficult for her to determine that former President Barack Obama and members of his administration engaged in a “treasonous conspiracy” to undermine President Donald Trump’s first term.
Gabbard on July 18 and Wednesday released a trove of declassified documents that pointed to Obama directing the creation of a false intelligence assessment by James Clapper, his director of national intelligence, and John Brennan, his CIA director, in January 2017 that was used to delegitimize Trump’s presidency after his victory over Hillary Clinton.
“When you look at this manufactured intelligence assessment that President Obama ordered be created in January of 2017 within the context of everything that happened before and everything that happened over those four years of the first Trump administration, then it is hard to draw, in my view, any conclusion other than that which I’ve already said, which is this was a conspiracy, a treasonous conspiracy to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump in that 2016 election and the legitimacy of his presidency, and enacted what was essentially a yearslong coup,” Gabbard told “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.”
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