(The Center Square) – Federal officials have released more documents indicating a Democratic-led intelligence community politically targeted President Donald Trump by claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin influenced the 2016 presidential election to help Trump win.
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a 2020 House Intelligence Committee report Wednesday that “exposes how the Obama Administration manufactured the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false.”
“The Russia Hoax was a lie that was knowingly created by the Obama Administration to undermine the legitimacy and power of the duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump,” Gabbard posted on X.
Notably, the report found that the majority of the intelligence community’s judgements on Russia’s confirmed attempts to meddle with the 2016 election were “sound,” including its findings that Putin ordered “conventional and cyber influence operations” to undermine faith in the U.S. democratic process and the legitimacy of an expected Hillary Clinton presidency.
However, further judgments from the intelligence community alleging that Putin “developed a clear preference for candidate Trump” and “aspired to help his chances of victory” were not only false but also the result of apparent bad faith, the oversight investigation reveals.
To reach their conclusion that Putin had attempted to help Trump win, top intelligence officials cherry-picked inconclusive information that supported the narrative, omitted or suppressed information contradicting the narrative, and based their “high confidence” assumptions on untrustworthy and dishonest sources.
The report builds upon other documents that Gabbard declassified over the weekend showing that Obama, along with his senior advisors, reportedly pressured the intelligence community to contrive evidence that Russia intended to manipulate the vote count in Trump’s favor.
The Trump administration believes these efforts amounted to a “coup” meant to delegitimize the results of the 2016 election and cast doubts on Trump’s presidency.
Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., said Wednesday that the “Russia hoax will go down as one of the most troublesome events in U.S. history” that caused the country to become “more polarized than ever before.”
“A President of the United States was falsely accused, and a nation had to endure lies fabricated by rogue personnel within their own Intelligence Community,” Crawford said on X. “There are still Americans who passionately believe the fabricated narrative. That is why releasing this document to the public has been so important.”
This is all fine and good, but we’ve had enough Lip Service. If this is true they should be charged and imprisoned for the crimes they committed over the years. Perp walk them all and lock them up !!
Agreed. I AM SICK to death of these folks saying “WE have this evidence that XYZ did wrong”.. AND NOT a single person being even arrested, let alone perp walked, or charged…
So, the Democrats conspired and then kneecapped presidential terms of both Richard Nixon and Donald Trump.
Talking heads that think seeking Justice for the guilty is beneath us or unseemly are the reason Democrats are so bold in their schemes to destroy The United States. If left unattended the next round will most likely be the final round for We The People.
EVEN if they do a special council, WHAT good will it do as we KNOW they won’t charge anyone…
Here we go again… another four year investigation with only two maybe three janitors receiving a slap on the wrist for the Russia hoax and the taxpayers being charged for it!
More and more, i am just wondering, what the heck is the point in doing any of these Investigations? WHEN TIME AND TIME AGAIN WE get told “IF this wasn’t XYZ doing it, someone would be jailed, but because it IS XYZ doing it, we can’t do much”…