Newly declassified documents from DNI Tulsi Gabbard expose the Obama administration twisted intelligence reports to create Russia election interreference scandal in 2016—solely to delegitimize President Donald Trump’s historic victory.
Internal assessments and communications proving that top Obama-era officials—including James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, and even Obama himself—collaborated to politicize raw intelligence, despite agencies clearly stating there was no significant Russian cyberattack that altered the outcome of the election.
In fact, as early as December 7, 2016, then-DNI James Clapper admitted in prepared remarks that foreign adversaries did not tamper with voting systems or change vote tallies. One day later, on December 8, a Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) explicitly stated: “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent U.S. election results by conducting malicious cyber activities.”
Despite this, a secret meeting in the White House Situation Room on December 9 laid the groundwork for what would become the phony “Trump–Russia collusion” narrative. Attendees included Clapper, Brennan, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe—many of whom later became vocal opponents of Trump.
Following the meeting, intelligence officials were ordered to create a new report to match Obama’s political agenda. Clapper’s executive assistant