'New Evidence' Exposes Obama Administration's Alleged Involvement in Russiagate

Virginia Allen : Jul 23, 2025
The Daily Signal

"...LIE: The Obama Administration's January ICA was an independent Intelligence Community product, produced with apolitical analysis. TRUTH: Obama ordered the Intelligence Community to create an Intelligence Community Assessment they knew was false, promoting a contrived narrative, with the intent of undermining the legitimacy and power of a duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump..." -DNI Tulsi Gabbard, via X 

[DailySignal.com] New evidence has come to light in what is the "most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history," Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, announced Wednesday morning. (Screengrab image: via Fox Digital)

Under the direction of President Donald Trump, Gabbard said she has declassified a House Intelligence Committee 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."

"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 added.

The newly released document, dated Sept. 18, 2020, details intelligence findings that Russia had no to very little influence over the results of the 2016 presidential election.

The document lays out a detailed timeline of intelligence on the alleged Russiagate investigation.

On Nov. 6, 2016, just before Election Day, a memo from the intelligence community did "not mention Putin helping or even showing concern about Trump's election chances," the report explains.

The memo, which was drafted by 15 people in the intelligence community, "made no mention of Putin 'aspiring' for a Trump victory, even as the US polls showed the race to be close," the report finds.

Following the election, the report states that on Dec. 5, more than a month after the election, President Barack Obama directed the intelligence community "to review their work to date on the Russian influence campaign, and quickly produce the new [Intelligence Community Assessment] for release in early January, before President-elect Trump took office. The ICA would rehash much of the previously published material on Russian activities, but would also include the judgment that President Putin 'aspired' for Trump to win. CIA would be the lead drafter, in coordination with FBI and NSA."

Obama spokesman Patrick Rodenbush issued a statement Tuesday following initial claims of Obama's involvement in Russiagate.

"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," Rodenbush said.

"These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction," Obama spokesman continued. "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." Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women."