“This treasonous conspiracy was directed by President Obama.”
That was Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard last week talking about the Trump-Russia Collusion black op against President Donald Trump and the good people of America.
Gabbard released 100 declassified documents purportedly showing how in December 2020 Obama ordered the crafting of a bogus new Intelligence Community Assessment inventing Russian interference on behalf of Trump after the intelligence community insisted—right up to a day before a Dec. 9 meeting Obama had with his top cronies—no such interest or capability existed.
She released further evidence last Wednesday, as The Daily Signal reported.
We’ve now also seen the declassification of a House Permanent Selection Committee on Intelligence report on the drafting of the ICA that further implicates Obama, as The Federalist reported.
That fictional new assessment that then-DNI James Clapper waved around like free tickets to a Taylor Swift show became the basis for the Russia hoax that consumed Trump 45’s presidency.
Gabbard summarized what she calls the “treasonous conspiracy”:
What Obama and his senior national security team did was subvert the will of the American people, undermining our democratic republic and enacting what would be essentially a years-long coup against President Trump, who was duly elected by the American people.
Finally, it’s being said. Not by Trump, as he did last week and again this week, but by America’s Director of National Intelligence. And not just any DNI. In the 2016 campaign, when the “Free Hillary, Frame Trump” double-header was first cranking up, Gabbard was a Democrat candidate for president.
When I first heard Gabbard’s statement I almost broke down. I felt like Harrison Ford at the end of “The Fugitive” when Tommy Lee Jones tells him “Richard, I know you’re innocent.”
Ever since the Russian Collusion story broke, I’ve been running and running, insisting “They framed my president.” My hands are still swollen from all the stories I wrote as new evidence and questions emerged. Even the most basic question: “Just how did Trump and Vladimir Putin collude? What’s the elevator pitch for the conspiracy?”
Trump did what? Putin helped Trump win because … well? Putin had poured millions into the Clinton Foundation. Hillary famously brought Putin a “Reset Button.” Obama had mocked Mitt Romney when he called Russia a threat. Now Putin’s siding against Hillary and Obama in favor of the guy he hadn’t paid?!
Why was I suspicious of Obama from the moment “Russia, Russia, Russia” broke? First, Obama had previously used dirty tricks to sabotage an opponent. As the New York Times would report, he won his Senate primary by having his goons pry open the divorce records of his Democrat opponent, Blair Hull. His GOP opponent Jack Ryan was forced out of the race after Obama loyalists in the media pried open sealed child custody files from his messy divorce from actress Jeri Ryan.
Second, his bizarre reaction to Trump’s claim in March 2017 that Obama had “my ‘wires tapped’ at Trump Tower” before the election. You would say: “The charge is patently false. Neither I nor anybody in my administration ordered, requested or conducted any surveillance on Mr. Trump or his campaign.” Not Obama. His spokesman released a weasel statement insisting no surveillance on Trump was “ordered” by the “White House.”
Surveillance would never be “ordered” by the “White House.” An agency outside the White House, usually the FBI or National Security Agency, would make a request to the FISA court.
It’d be like denying you ordered pizza when the question was whether you had eaten pizza.
In fact, Obama did the same thing again last week. In response to Trump assertion of Obama’s treasonous behavior toward him, Obama dodged.
Here is a statement by Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesman for Obama:
“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction. Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes. These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio.”
Notice what isn’t in there? Any denial that Obama used the Russia investigation to sabotage Trump. Who cares what Russia did? Obama led the effort to deliberately and falsely accuse Trump of being in cahoots with Putin. That’s the reason for the “treason” charge. (Although as The Heritage Foundation legal eagle Hans von Spakovsky spelled out last week, Obama has little chance of being charged with treason or sedition, given the legal definition of those offenses.)
Third, Susan Rice’s letter about Obama’s infamous Jan. 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting. Rice wrote a CYA letter in her final moments in office that recorded how Obama said he wanted “everything done by the book.”
That pinned the needle on my BS meter. Nobody but a crusty police captain in a ‘90s action comedy says, “make sure everything is by the book.”
In the ensuing years, evidence continued trickling out indicating Obama was neck deep in the Trump-Russia black op. For example, as I wrote earlier this month, consider the text from Lisa Page, former FBI lawyer, White House liaison and key collusion player: “POTUS wants to know everything we are doing.” Or FBI special agent and key Russiagate and Clinton investigation figure Peter Strzok texting her, “White House is running this.”
Yet somehow Obama floated above it all. The buck not only didn’t stop with him, the buck circled around the Obama White House like a tourist fruitlessly hoping for a parking spot. Accountability was as elusive as the one-armed man. For years, like Dr. Richard Kimball, those of us who had Obama pegged were falsely labeled: Conspiracy theorist, partisan … racist.
But now, like Deputy Marshall Samuel Gerard, Tulsi Gabbard through her revelations and media appearances seems to be declaring to our exhausted, wounded bones, “Stop running.”
We wearily gasp back at her one more time, “Obama headed the coup effort against Trump.”
“I know it,” Gabbard seems to be responding. “I know it.”
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