Posted originally on CTH on July 19, 2025 | Sundance 

The Trump-Russia collusion story was always a targeted false smear intended to generate a special counsel and hamstring the surprising winner from the 2016 election, Donald Trump.  The Russia-Collusion narrative was always an Intelligence Community op against Donald TRump.

Yesterday, Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard released a tranche of background information, [114 pages of information],  showing how the Obama administration intentionally and with great purpose fabricated the entire story.

DNI Tulsi Gabbard Press Release Here – Files Containing Evidence Here

Staying focused on the trail of evidence held deep within the ODNI office, is why Tulsi Gabbard has been targeted for removal over the past several weeks.  Kudos to Tulsi Gabbard for staying on mission – Great job.

What the evidence shows is a focused targeting operation intended to fabricate a false premise by the United States Intelligence Community, through the Office of former DNI James Clapper.  The op was green-lighted by Barack Obama as a way to impede the agenda of incoming President Donald Trump.  All three branches of government collaborated on the scheme.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard revealed overwhelming evidence that demonstrates how, after President Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, President Obama and his national security cabinet members manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump.

• • In the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the Intelligence Community (IC) consistently assessed that Russia is “probably not trying … to influence the election by using cyber means.”
  • On December 7, 2016, after the election, talking points were prepared for DNI James Clapper stating, “Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome.”
  • On December 9, 2016, President Obama’s White House gathered top National Security Council Principals for a meeting that included James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe and others, to discuss Russia.
  • After the meeting, DNI Clapper’s Executive Assistant sent an email to IC leaders tasking them with creating a new IC assessment “per the President’s request” that details the “tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election.” It went on to say, “ODNI will lead this effort with participation from CIA, FBI, NSA, and DHS.”
  • Obama officials leaked false statements to media outlets, including The Washington Post, claiming, “Russia has attempted through cyber means to interfere in, if not actively influence, the outcome of an election.”
  • On January 6, 2017, a new Intelligence Community Assessment was released that directly contradicted the IC assessments that were made throughout the previous six months.

After months of investigation into this matter, the facts reveal this new assessment was based on information that was known by those involved to be manufactured i.e. the Steele Dossier or deemed as not credible. This was politicized intelligence that was used as the basis for countless smears seeking to delegitimize President Trump’s victory, the years-long Mueller investigation, two Congressional impeachments, high level officials being investigated, arrested, and thrown in jail, heightened US-Russia tensions, and more.

“The issue I am raising is not a partisan issue. It is one that concerns every American. The information we are releasing today clearly shows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government. Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people,” said DNI Tulsi Gabbard. 

“Their egregious abuse of power and blatant rejection of our Constitution threatens the very foundation and integrity of our democratic republic. No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again. The American people’s faith and trust in our democratic republic and therefore the future of our nation depends on it. As such, I am providing all documents to the Department of Justice to deliver the accountability that President Trump, his family, and the American people deserve.”  

Is there new information within the release?  Yes and No.

All of the outlined activity, the release of the emails and communication within the scheme team, is not new.  However, the new part is the evidence.  The facts now public to support all previous claims made here and by others, this time with greater detail that cannot be refuted.

If you have been reading here for a while THE DOCUMENTS tell a story that is well known.

We were able to piece this together even without knowing how the corrupt actors were talking to each other about their specific roles, responsibilities and motives.

The documents provided by Tulsi Gabbard are the evidence of a serious coup against incoming President Trump by actors within government.   The end of their IC effort culminated in the Robert Mueller investigation.  Tulsi is providing the path to the avatar Mueller represented and all of the actors who participated with him.

Some will ask why John Durham never found this information, and/or shared it publicly.  The answer to that question is not hard to understand.  John Durham was NEVER allowed to look at the government actors in the Trump-Russia narrative.  Durham was not allowed to look at how the U.S. Intelligence Community participated.  Durham was ham-strung from the outset of his review and investigation, by Attorney General Bill Barr.

Bill Barr never let John Durham focus on the govt side of the Trump-Russia collusion story.  Tulsi Gabbard is not under any restriction on her review. That’s the difference.

Where Durham was not permitted to go, DNI Tulsi Gabbard is going.  Her release of the information is specifically because she is empowered to look at this information and release it. Special Counsel John Durham never had that authority.

Gabbard provides a top cover memo on Page #67 that highlights who were the “Principal” actors in the scheme:

This list of names is key.  Many of them will be familiar to you from all of the research we have poured into the Trump-Russia conspiracy.

I would draw attention to the “Justice” participants.  Main Justice Attorney General Loretta Lynch and DOJ-NSD head Mary McCord.  {GO DEEP}  Again, confirmation that Mary McCord was one of the key participants.  McCord is still one of the Lawfare leads against Trump with her friend, Norm Eisen.

Interestingly, Deputy AG Sally Yates was not a participant.  Instead it was left to AG Loretta Lynch and more importantly Mary McCord.

I would also draw attention to the “Chair” of the organization, Susan Rice.  This memo released by DNI Gabbard outlining Rice’s participation as Principal and Chair of the op, in combination with her infamous Jan 5, 2017, memo, puts context to Rice’s legal exposure.

Why do I say legal exposure, because Susan Rice is on record saying she was not a participant and never heard of the FBI investigation underpinning the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.

Obviously everything above is now a provable lie.

Look at that highlighted box from Susan Rice’s lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, and remember in his March 20, 2017, testimony Comey said, “The White House was informed through the National Security Council,” (the NSC).

FBI Director James Comey was protecting himself against the spygate surveillance of Trump, by leveraging his prior notification to the White House.  Comey was signaling, ‘you cant get me for spying on Trump without getting Susan Rice and Barack Obama’, who knew about it.

Does the January 20, 2017, Susan Rice memo look different now?

I would also draw attention to the “FBI” lead on the Trump-Russia collusion meeting, former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.  McCabe was entrenched in Crossfire Hurricane, and it makes sense for him to lead the Trump-Russia collusion story as a cover for the prior fraudulent investigation.

Factually, everyone listed in that participation memo for their various agencies (silos) is a co-conspirator in the scheme; an intelligence operation to manufacture a false premise, a Trump-Russia collusion story.

Tulsi Gabbard deserves appreciation for her efforts on releasing these background documents. However, information without accountability should not be the objective.  Attorney General Pam Bondi needs to put some teeth into these findings.

[More to come…]