Tulsi Gabbard calls for Obama to be prosecuted over 2016 election claims
Source: The Guardian
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has called for Barack Obama and former senior US national security officials to be prosecuted after accusing them of a treasonous conspiracy intended to show that Donald Trumps 2016 presidential election win was due to Russian interference.
She said Obama and senior officials in his administration had [laid] the groundwork for
a years-long coup against Trump after his victory over Hillary Clinton by manufacturing intelligence to suggest that Russia had tried to influence the election. That included using a dossier prepared by a British intelligence analyst, Christopher Steele, that they knew to be unreliable, Gabbard claimed.
The post-election intelligence estimates contrasted with findings reached before the election, which indicated that Russia probably was not trying to interfere.
In extraordinary comments calling for prosecutions, she added: 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.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/18/tulsi-gabbard-obama-2016-election-russia
Remember when she was running as a Democrat?

D. Spaulding
(320 posts)distract them with another phony conspiracy. The rubes will hop on board right away.
MadameButterfly
(3,287 posts)their own. Then when we say it, it sounds like both sides are the same.
odins folly
(427 posts)Chicken dinner!!!!
Karasu
(1,640 posts)Raven123
(6,868 posts)Captain Zero
(8,145 posts)While 1k FBI employees are working to expunge Trump's name from the Epstein Files.
emulatorloo
(46,010 posts)bucolic_frolic
(51,507 posts)jls4561
(2,497 posts)Linda ladeewolf
(972 posts)pnwmom
(109,978 posts)Captain Zero
(8,145 posts)Not to mention any discovery would show what Trump was doing with the Russians.
0rganism
(25,249 posts)That'd be a hard pill for some of the GOP caucus to swallow, but I think they'll try it if they can. After all, the SCOTUS clearly intended immunity only for our freshly-designated monarchy, of which Obama cannot be considered part...
JI7
(92,333 posts)it's just too obvious
Wiz Imp
(6,078 posts)Supposedly the foundation of this is the Steele Dossier. The Steele Dossier was paid for by the ultra right wing Washington Free Beacon. Conveniently being ignored is much of the contents of the Steele Dossier have proven to be True. Some of the contents have remained unproven, but has anything been definitively proven false? The Russian source of the Dossier was acquitted of lying to the FBI. Add in the massive amount of information in the Mueller Report which confirmed the Russian interference in the election, and you have a totally fabricated fake charge by Gabbard.
... Isn't bringing false charges a felony itself?
Ya see, Tulsi, when you're already in a hole, the point is to stop digging. Or just say, fuck it, and pull it in after you.
underpants
(191,537 posts)which no one has claimed. They did flood social media in favor of Trump and got personal information to specifically target certain areas and demographics.
Im not sure how they think Obama did this. He was POTUS so Im sure its just the presence of his name on documents.
Its Tulsi freaking Gabbard for crying out loud
snot
(11,207 posts)https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/clinton-dnc-steele-dossier-fusion-gps/ : "Federal election regulators fined Hillary Clintons 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee earlier this month for not properly disclosing the money they spent on controversial opposition research that led to the infamous Trump-Russia [Steele] dossier. ... More than $1 million flowed from the Clinton campaign and DNC to the law firm Perkins Coie, which then hired the opposition research company Fusion GPS. That company later hired Steele and asked him to use his overseas contacts to dig up dirt about Trumps ties to Russia."
Also, it does not appear to me that many people here have actually read the info accompanying Gabbard's announcement; for that, see https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/DIG/DIG-Russia-Hoax-Memo-and-Timeline_revisited.pdf .
Imho there are many and far better grounds for condemning Trump than the "Russiagate" theory; e.g., he should have been impeached during his first term under the Emoluments clause.
As for Obama, I hope he will respond in a straightforward manner to explain the documents Gabbard is relying on and effectively dispute her charges.
Wiz Imp
(6,078 posts)If that doesn't tell you there is no actual substance to her accusations, then nothing will. The whole point of the document was that Russia didn't hack the voting as if that is the only way they could influence the election. The Obama administration never claimed they hacked the election. However, there is tons of proof of cyber activities by Russia to influence the election by targeting certain populations with disinformation and misinformation. There is absolutely no question that this happened.
But even if the allegations were true, how the fuck is that treason? The Obama administration claimed Russia interfered in the election which is proven 100% true. Obama never claimed that Trump won the election solely due to Russian interference. Meanwhile, in 2020, Trump claimed that the election was stolen which was 100% false and tried to steal the election himself by installing fake electors. And Gabbard claims Obama is the one guilty of Treason? It's a total fucking joke.
Red Mountain
(2,145 posts)look away....
thought crime
(508 posts)LudwigPastorius
(12,968 posts)she contradicted him and testified that Iran wasn't building a nuke.
orleans
(36,266 posts)douchebag so she can play government with all of them again. she's sad b/c none of the other fascists will sit with her at the lunch table.
way to go, tulsi
Figarosmom
(7,002 posts)Trump and Russia. He kept quiet about any investigation.
She's just doing this because trump wants to get rid of her and questioned her loyalty to him.
orangecrush
(25,712 posts)I promise it will NOT go well for you.
BGRD
(18 posts)I wish someone questioning Tulsi in Congress would ask her a few questions in Russian. I bet she would answer in perfect Russian.So from Tulsi's point of view exposing Russian interference would be "treasonous". By that I mean treasonous to Russia. I don't think the US has any secrets from the Russians since she was made Director of Intelligence.
cab67
(3,440 posts)but if he did, I'm fairly sure this won't happen. No one in the White House wants evidence for Russian interference brought forth in court.
twodogsbarking
(14,455 posts)GiqueCee
(2,572 posts)... Tulsi, you evil little witch. There is a curious thing in our legal system called, "Discovery". You can bet your bottom that Dear Leader ain't gonna like what could become a matter of public record in that process.
artemisia1
(1,105 posts)Dave Bowman
(5,488 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(33,186 posts)Make it clear that we better ALL keep our fucking mouth shut if we dont the military will come after us and well go to prison too.
If only we could go back to 2016 and have a different approach to certain things, like unconditionally supporting our candidate.😡
Ask Stephen Colbert
WSHazel
(532 posts)Why would any ally or spy share any information with us given how bizarre our intelligence leadership is?
Red Mountain
(2,145 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 19, 2025, 02:42 PM - Edit history (1)
Knowing Gabbard might know who they are? Or Trump? How many would Trump give to Putin just to impress him?
The Wizard
(13,275 posts)mole in our government. Treason, thy name is Gabbard
mpcamb
(3,125 posts)Brainfodder
(7,531 posts)Checks must be clearing?
Big money remains poison same as always.
maxsolomon
(36,909 posts)Checking every box on the Authoritarian list.
Torchlight
(5,139 posts)Gabbard is a soap opera villain suddenly demanding a congressional hearingdramatic, meritless, and deeply unserious. Next shell be indicting Abraham Lincoln for not warning us about TikTok.
wishstar
(5,739 posts)"Mr. Obama expelled the diplomats, saying they were really spies, and ordered new sanctions on Russian spy agencies for alleged Russian hacking of political sites during the presidential election.
The State Department said Sunday that the 35 Russian diplomats, along with their family members, have left the United States.
Mr. Obama also shuttered two Russian compounds in Maryland and New York. The U.S. said the two Cold War-era estates were being used for intelligence activities."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/35-russian-diplomats-ordered-out-by-president-obama-depart-us-state-department-says/
As Hillary said- all roads lead to Russia with Tulsi Gabbard