Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbert, has unveiled shocking new evidence that former President Barack Obama, in top aids in the Obama administration, conspired to subvert President Trump's twenty sixteen election victory. In undermine the democratic will of the American people. The Obama administration manufactured politicized intelligence, which was later used as the justification for baseless smears against President Trump.
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Good Thursday morning. It is the forty seven Morning Update, and we have shocking evidence now that there is a former president by the name of Barack Obama who decided to fabricate intelligence to go after and undermine not only Donald Trump when he was coming into office in twenty sixteen, but also to get him out of office. Tulsi Gabbert, the Director of National Intelligence, all of this out at the White House Press Briefing Room and we have it all for you. But first I want to talk to
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Number one, it was a bombshell press conference at the White House, Tolci Gabbard coming out and talking about this possible criminal referral to the Department of Justice for an investigation, and it all revolves around Russia collusion, and now it involves a former president by the name of Barack Obama. I want you to take a listen to what Tulsi Gabbard had to say at the White House press briefing room.
She's the Director of National Intelligence, and she is now officially hinted former President Barack Obama has in fact been referred to the Department of Justice for a criminal investigation. Now, she did not address the constitutional obstacles or a prosecution, but what she did do is lay out the facts. Here. She is, in her own words at the White House podium.
Thank you very much, good afternoon. At President Trump's direction and with the support and coordination with the House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick, today we've released a declassified oversight Majority staff report that was produced in September of twenty twenty. The stunning revelations that we are releasing today should be of concern to every American. This is not about Democrats Republicans.
This has to do with the integrity of our Democratic republic and American voters having faith that the votes cast will count. There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false. They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the twenty sixteen election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true.
It wasn't. The report that we released today's shows in great detail how they carried this out. They manufactured findings from shoddy sources. They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence that disproved their false claim, as they disobeyed traditional tradecraft intelligence community standards and withheld the truth from the American people. In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people who elected Donald Trump in that election
in November of twenty sixteen. They worked with their partners in the media to promote this lie, ultimately to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump and launching what would be a year's long coup against him and his administration. We're here today because the American people deserve the truth, they
deserve accountability, and they deserve justice. The records that we released on Friday that were ODE and I records Senator Chuck Grassley's release on Monday of what is known as the Clinton Annex, which was an appendix to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General's twenty eighteen report, as well as the House Intelligence Committee's Oversight Majority Oversight report. That we're releasing today all come back to and confirm
the same report. There was a gross politicization manipulation of intelligence by the Obama administration intended to delegitimize President Trump even before he was inaugurated, ultimately usurping the will of the American people. I'm going to go over the key findings from the House Intelligence Report, which investigated the claims that were made by an intelligence community assessment ordered by
President Obama and published in January of twenty seventeen. First, Putin's principal interests relating to the twenty sixteen election were to undermine faith in the US democratic process, not show any preference of a certain candidate. In fact, this report shows Putin held back leaking, held back from leaking compromising material on Hillary Clinton prior to the election, instead planning to release it after the election to weaken what Moscow
viewed as an inevitable Clinton presidency. In the January twenty seventeen intelligence Community assessment that President Obama ordered, John Brennan, whose CIA director at the time, and the intelligence community intentionally suppressed intelligence that showed Putin was saving the most damaging material that he had in his possession about Hillary
Clinton until after her potential and likely victory. The report goes into great detail about the information that Russia and Putin had which on Hillary Clinton, which included possible criminal acts like secret meetings with multiple named US religious organizations in which State Department officials offered, in exchange for supporting Secretary Clinton's campaign for the presidency, significant increases in financing
from the State Department. They also had documents that showed the patronage of the State Department to State Department employees who would go and support Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. There were high level DNC emails that detailed evidence of Hillary's quote psycho emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness, and that then Secretary Clinton was allegedly on a daily
regiment of heavy tranquilizers. THEIA director Brennan and the intelligence community mischaracterized intelligence and relied on dubious, substandard sources to create a contrived, false narrative that Putin developed a quote unquote clear preference for Trump. Brennan and the ICEE misled lawmakers by referencing the debunked Steele dossier to assess quote unquote Russia's plans and intentions. Falsely suggesting that this dossier had intelligence value when he knew that it was discredited.
The Intelligence community excluded significant intelligence and ignored or selectively quoted reliable intelligence that contradicted the Intelligence community assessment's key findings on Putin's alleged support for Trump. Including this intelligence reporting would have exposed the ICA's claim as implausible, if
not ridiculous. The Intelligence Community assessment omitted reliably sourced information, such as how some Russian intelligence officials were quote unquote planning for candidate Hillary Clinton's victory, while others assessed neither Trump nor Clinton would respect Russia's interests, as was reflected in the od and I documents that we released on Friday.
Multiple intelligence community assessments released in the months leading up to the November twenty sixteen election concluded that Russia had neither the intent nor capability to impact the outcome of the US election. On December fifth of twenty sixteen, the FBI and ODIE and I gave the House Intelligence Committee its first post election classified briefing, in which there was no mention of Putin aspiring to elect Trump by either agency.
The Presidential Daily Brief drafted on December eighth of twenty sixteen stated that no Russian or criminal actors impacted vote counts. This document was pulled just hours before it was to be published due to quote unquote new guidance. If it had been published, it would have been briefed to both
President Obama and President elect Donald Trump. On December ninth, twenty sixteen, a National Security Council meeting was called to gather President Obama's senior national security officials, which included CIA Director Brennan, then Obama, d and I, James Clapper, Susan Rice,
and others. Following that secret meeting, DNI, Clapper's assistant sent an email to the intelligence community with the subject line potus tasking on Russia election medaling, tasking OD and I leaders to create a new assessment per the President's request. The House Intelligence Committee oversite report that we released today reveals that, quote unlike routine intelligence community analysis, the Intelligence Community assessment was a high profile product ordered by the
President President Obama. It directed senior Intelligence community agency heads and created an intelligence community assessment limited to just five analysts using one principal drafter. This is not something that occurs in the normal path of producing an Intelligence Community
assessment that reflects the views across the intelligence community. The production of this intelligence community assessment was subject to unusual directives directly from the President and senior political appointee, especially the former Director of the CIA, John Brennan. The House Intelligence Committee oversite report also shows how later that same day, on December ninth, Brennan ordered the publication of quote unquote
substandard reporting on Russian activities. Some of the information later used in the Obama ordered assessment, over the objections of veteran CIA officers, was quote unquote unclear or from unknown sources. The Intelligence Committee's oversite report reveals that CIA Director Brennan overruled senior CIA officers who challenged the Obama ordered intelligence assessment, stating, quote, we don't have direct information that Putin wanted to get
Trump elected. Yet the Obama directed assessment was published on January sixth, twenty seventeen, which explicitly stated, quote, we assess Putin and the Russian government aspired to help President elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. Quote. The CIA and FBI, then led by John Brennan and James Comy expressed high
confidence in this judgment, while the NSA expressed moderate confidence. Yet, as the report we released today shows, the ICA the Intelligence Community Assessment did not cite any report where Putin indicated helping Trump win was an objective. The opposite is
true with regards to the Steele dossier. We now know that one of the source documents that the Obama administration used in the creation of this intelligence assessment in January of twenty seventeen was none other than the discredited, unverified Steele dossier. The House Intel report states, quote, contradicting public claims by then CIA Director Brennan that the dossier was
not in any way incorporated into this intelligence assessment. The dossier was referenced in the intelligence assessment's main body text and further detailed in a two page assessment annex. John Brennan lied, and he denied using this dossier in this intelligence assessment that President Obama ordered because he knew it was discredited, it was a politically motivated, manufactured document. He
directed senior CIA officials to use it anyway. CIA officer told the House Intelligence Committee staff as they investigated this quote, the Director of the CIA, John Brennan, refused to remove it, and, when confronted with the dossier's many flaws, responded, quote, yes,
but doesn't it ring true? Even the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report published in twenty twenty, criticized the FBI's handling of the Steele dossier, noting its completely unverified nature and purposeful side stepping of intelligence community procedures in
its use. Now President Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Cobe, and others, including their mouthpieces in the media, knowingly lied as they repeated the contrived narrative that was created in this January twenty seventeen intelligence Community assessment with
high confidence, as though it were fact. John Brennan, as CIA Director, stated in a memo to his agency staff in December of twenty sixteen, saying quote, there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference in our presidential elected election. This was reported by NBC News confirming that Brennan, along with James Clapper and James Comey, agreed with the CIA's assessment that Russia
intervened to help Trump win the presidency. As Obama's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, was tasked with overseeing the creation of this assessment in January of twenty seventeen by President Obama, and he expressed confidence in its findings. In a twenty eighteen interview with the Harvard Gazette, he talked about how he provided Trump with the same classified assessment that President Obama received, which included the high confidence judgment
that putin directly ordered the hacking and election interference. Clapper then went on to add, I think they the right Oshans actually influenced the outcome. This is a brief summary of the details that you'll find within the House Majority Staff's report in their investigation into the Obama directed January twenty seventeen Intelligence community assessment that leads us to the very same conclusion that we announced in the release of
our documents on Friday. The implications of this are far reaching and have to do with the integrity of our democratic republic. It has to do with an outgoing president taking action to manufacture intelligence to undermine and usurp the will of the American people in that election and launch what would be a year's long coup against the incoming president.
Election This is shocking but also not surprising based on what we know about what the left has done to try to take out Donald Trump. But we are hearing the name of Barack Obama and exactly what he was
trying to do. And if you look at the shocking main points here, the Director our National Intelligence is accusing the former president Barack Obama and his team of a treasonous conspiracy, saying that they clearly manufactured intelligence assessments accusing Russia of aiding Donald Trump in twenty sixteen, and intentionally, as she described it, intentionally was the word that she used to mislead the American people.
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