Overview
- She published nearly 200 pages of declassified materials today, including a September 2020 House Intelligence Committee report she says exposes a manufactured narrative of Russian interference.
- At a White House briefing, Gabbard labeled the intelligence fabrication a years-long coup against President Trump and said new whistleblowers have come forward to back her allegations.
- She formally referred the trove of documents to the Department of Justice and the FBI to assess potential criminal charges against Obama administration officials.
- Obama spokesman Patrick Rodenbush dismissed the claims as outrageous and a weak attempt to distract, reaffirming that Russia aimed to influence but did not alter the 2016 vote tally.
- Bipartisan leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee reiterated their unanimous finding that Russia mounted a large-scale influence campaign favoring Trump without successfully changing any votes.