President Donald Trump has launched one of his most serious accusations yet against former President Barack Obama, calling him the “ringleader” of a treasonous plot to interfere with the 2016 election and later attempt to remove him from office. The claims stem from a series of newly released documents and statements from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who says she has uncovered overwhelming evidence that top officials in the Obama administration worked to create and spread a false narrative of Russian collusion in order to sabotage Trump.
Gabbard has submitted a criminal referral to the Department of Justice and says more documents are coming soon that will directly challenge the official story about what happened during and after the 2016 election.
Gabbard Says the Coup Was Real and Coordinated
In an interview with Newsmax, Tulsi Gabbard stated bluntly that what happened was not political disagreement, but a calculated operation aimed at preventing Donald Trump from taking office – and destroying his presidency once he did.
“There is a vast body of evidence and intelligence that debunks and refutes the narrative that Russia helped Donald Trump win the election,” Gabbard said. “We will be releasing further documents tomorrow that will refute that statement from Obama’s spokesperson.”
Gabbard pointed to a key meeting that took place on December 9, 2016, in the White House, which included senior members of the National Security Council. “The smoking gun,” she said, “was that meeting at the White House with several top national security principals. The result of that meeting was a new intelligence assessment, ordered per the president’s request, to outline the tools Moscow used and the actions it took to influence the 2016 election.”
That assessment, released publicly in January 2017, has been central to claims that Russia interfered in the election to help Trump. But according to Gabbard, it was based on weak or manipulated information, designed to push a political agenda.
“We’re going to be pulling a whole host of statements made by the Obama administration, by Hillary Clinton, by senior Democrat officials, and their friends in the media,” she said, “that repeated the narrative created by that January 2017 intelligence document.”
She listed examples: “John Brennan, Obama’s CIA Director, said there is strong consensus among us to support the CIA claim Russian hackers aided Donald Trump’s election. Hillary Clinton said, ‘I would be president if not for the Russian hackers supporting Donald Trump.’”
According to Gabbard, these statements were not just wrong – they were intentionally misleading.
Trump: “This Was Treason. Every Word You Can Think Of”
President Trump has embraced Gabbard’s findings and gone even further, accusing Obama and his inner circle of committing treason. Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump said the conspiracy went to the very top.
“Well, based on what I read, and I read pretty much what you read, it would be President Obama,” Trump said when asked who should be targeted in a DOJ investigation. “He started it. And Biden was there with them. Comey was there. Clapper was there. Brennan. They were all there – the whole group.”
Trump went on to say, “This was treason. This was every word you can think of. They tried to steal the election. They tried to obfuscate the election. They did things that nobody’s ever even imagined, even in other countries.”
He added, “And from what Tulsi told me, she’s got thousands of additional documents coming.”
Trump directly accused Obama of being the “leader of the gang.” He also tied Hillary Clinton to the effort, accusing her of paying for the now-discredited Steele dossier.
“She spent $12 million – her and the Democrats – for that report to a wise guy named Christopher Steele,” Trump said. “He wrote a phony report. All lies. All fabrication. All admitted fraud. And they used that report to try to take me down.”
Trump credited the press – many of whom he regularly criticizes – for at least not publishing the dossier before the election. “The one thing they weren’t able to do was to publish it before the election, and probably the only thing I respect about the press in years is the press refused to write it before the election,” he said.
Trump added, “We caught Hillary Clinton. We caught Barack Hussein Obama. They’re the ones. And then you have many people under them – Susan Rice. The names are all there.”
Gabbard: Accountability Is Essential
Gabbard said she is not seeking political revenge but trying to restore integrity to the system. “It is essential that for the future of our nation and our democratic republic, that accountability must occur,” she told Newsmax. “No matter how powerful someone is, no matter what position they held, we have to hold people accountable.”
She also revealed that whistleblowers are coming forward with additional evidence. “Since Friday’s announcement, whistleblowers are now coming forward who say they have new information that is related to what occurred during this period of time,” she said.
While she deferred to the DOJ on how to proceed, Gabbard made clear that this isn’t just about politics. “It’s not about Republicans or Democrats. It’s about the truth. It’s about the law. And it’s about whether the intelligence community was weaponized against an incoming president.”
Obama’s Office Denies Everything
Former President Obama has responded through his spokesperson, who called the accusations “outrageous” and “a weak attempt at distraction.”
“These bizarre allegations are ridiculous,” the spokesperson said. “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.”
They pointed to the bipartisan 2020 Senate Intelligence Committee report, which confirmed Russian interference but concluded that no votes were altered.
A Pattern of Interference?
Trump and Gabbard argue that this wasn’t just a one-time event. According to Trump, “they tried to rig the election in 2016, and they succeeded in rigging it in 2020.”
He concluded his remarks by warning that if this behavior goes unpunished, it will happen again. “Never has a thing like this happened in the history of our country,” he said. “If we don’t hold them accountable now, we’re giving future presidents the green light to do the same thing – or worse.”
As the next batch of documents is expected to be released in the coming days, the political firestorm surrounding this issue is only getting hotter. For Trump and his supporters, the accusations point to a years-long effort by political elites and intelligence insiders to control the outcome of elections. For critics, it is yet another attempt to distract from other scandals and rewrite the history of 2016.
But if Gabbard’s evidence proves solid, the country may be forced to confront a darker chapter in its recent history – one that redefines the boundaries between politics, power, and the intelligence community.
