Overview

• On July 18 Gabbard declassified 114 pages of intelligence and referred them to the DOJ for possible criminal prosecution of President Obama and other senior aides such as James Comey and John Brennan.
• The documents state there was no indication that Russia could directly manipulate 2016 vote counts through cyber means.
• Gabbard accuses Obama-era officials of manufacturing and politicizing intelligence to undermine Trump’s electoral mandate.
• Congressional Democrats and veteran intelligence officers have dismissed the allegations as baseless, pointing to bipartisan probes that found no fabricated intelligence or vote tampering.
• The document release coincides with intensified pressure on the Trump administration to make public its Jeffrey Epstein-related records.