In an explosive press conference at the White House this Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, revealed more details about "RussiaGate", the intelligence operation orchestrated by the Obama administration that falsely accused Trump of conspiring with Putin to steal the presidency.
For Gabbard, there is no doubt that Obama and his advisors politicized the intelligence community so that agents would spy on Trump and falsely accuse him of crimes he did not commit.
According to the official, the actions of the former Democratic president warrant criminal charges.
Gabbard's statements
"There is irrefutable evidence detailing how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false," she began.
"They knew this assessment would promote this fabricated narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as if it were true, when it was not," she continued.
"Everything points to—and the report itself confirms—that there was serious politicization and manipulation of intelligence by the Obama administration, with the intention of delegitimizing President Trump even before he was inaugurated, ultimately usurping the will of the American people," the official concluded at the press conference.
Obama will be investigated
Gabbard indicated that the documents declassified by her office in recent days have been shared with the Department of Justice and the FBI so that they can evaluate whether to charge the main actors in this operation.
