Trump Loyalist Drops Declassified Report, Alleges Obama Faked Russia Plot in 2016 US Elections

In a dramatic political turn, Tulsi Gabbard, now serving as the Director of National Intelligence, has accused the Obama administration of misusing American intelligence agencies to sabotage former President Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory. On Wednesday, she made public a set of documents that she says point to a deliberate attempt to deceive the public and discredit Trump.

Gabbard took to X to share her claims: “New evidence has emerged of the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history,” she wrote.

“Per President Donald Trump's directive, I have declassified a House Intelligence Committee oversight majority staff report that exposes how the Obama Administration manufactured the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false, promoting the LIE that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government helped President Trump win the 2016 election,” she added.

“In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people, working with their partners in the media to promote the lie, in order to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump, essentially enacting a years-long coup against him,” she further said.

🧵 New evidence has emerged of the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history. Per President @realDonaldTrump's directive, I have declassified a @HouseIntel oversight majority staff report that exposes how the Obama Administration… pic.twitter.com/0sS4Df8yoI

— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) July 23, 2025

The accusations stirred immediate backlash. Former President Barack Obama’s office issued a rare statement, dismissing Gabbard’s claims outright.
“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,” said Obama spokesperson Patrick Rodenbush.

“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.”

Rodenbush also pointed to a 2020 bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report, chaired by Republican Senator Marco Rubio, that reaffirmed the intelligence community’s original conclusion.

Meanwhile, Gabbard doubled down on her accusations in later remarks, claiming: “We caught Hillary Clinton. We caught Barack Hussein Obama. They’re the ones—and then you have many, many people under them. Susan Rice (former national security adviser)—they're all there. The names are all there. And I guess they figured they're going to put this in classified information and nobody will ever see it again, but it doesn't work that way.”
However, multiple mainstream media outlets, including CNN and The New York Times, reported that there’s still no concrete evidence to support Gabbard’s version of events.

According to The New York Times, the document Gabbard released was actually a report originally drafted by the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee back in 2017. The report questioned parts of the intelligence community’s December 2016 conclusion that Russian President Vladimir Putin preferred Trump. Officials say that only Republican members were involved in drafting the report and revising it in 2020. One of the key authors was Kash Patel, now Trump’s pick for FBI Director.

Though the House report acknowledged that most of the intelligence findings were solid, it claimed that the specific judgment about Putin supporting Trump didn’t meet the usual standards.

Despite these developments, there remains no verified evidence of a “coup” or deliberate intelligence manipulation as Gabbard and some Republicans have alleged. 

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