Remember all the “Russia collusion” claims just before President Trump took office in 2017? And after? The years of special investigations. Government officials making wild claims? Media sycophants echoing the claims? All of those claims about Trump’s campaign colluding with Russia.
Evidence now shows that that conspiracy was triggered by Hillary Clinton’s desire to distract American voters’ attention away from her scandalous behavior in which she posted government secrets on an unsecure private computer server she set up, and worked with an “opposition research” team, some lawyers, and some foreigners on the plan.
But whatever “colluding” they had been trying to persuade the American public was going on, the top level of Democrats in America, from Barack Obama and Joe Biden on down, knew that the Russians did not impact Trump’s victory.
It comes from a report marked “For the President” and dated Dec. 8, 2016, shortly after Trump’s victory but before he took office.
That document, a Presidential Daily Brief, was declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and had top intel agencies confirming, “We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent U.S. election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure.”
The report said at most the offenders “compromised an Illinois voter registration database and unsuccessfully attempted the same in other states.”
Wow. @DNIGabbard just declassified a draft Presidential Daily Brief from Dec 8, 2016 in which Obama’s intel community assessed that Russia did not impact the 2016 election. pic.twitter.com/SVQbhB3odY
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 18, 2025
A report at Fox News charged, “Obama admin ‘manufactured’ intelligence to create 2016 Russian election interference narrative, documents show.”
Gabbard’s comment? “There was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government.”
The report said the Obama administration “manufactured and politicized intelligence” to “create the narrative that Russia was attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election, despite information from the intelligence community stating otherwise.”
The scheming by Obama and others in his administration actually “laid the groundwork for what would be the yearslong Trump–Russia collusion probe.”
Other documents reviewed by Fox confirmed that at that time, also, “then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said, ‘Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the U.S. presidential election outcome.’”
The briefing, with input from the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, FBI, National Security Agency and State Department and open sources, found it was “highly unlikely” any effort resulted in any change to official state votes.
Fox reported, however, then other documents revealed a demand by the FBI to “dissent,” and that actually prompted a delay in the information being forwarded.
Then, the report said, there was a meeting of the National Security Council, Clapper, then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice, then-Secretary of State John Kerry, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and the result was a plan to “create a new” assessment at the president’s “request.”
Then Obama officials leaked “false statements” to the press alleging Russia used cyber technology to interfere in, “if not actively influence” the outcome of the election.
“Officials told Fox News Digital that the 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,’” the report said.
What followed were the “countless smears” of Trump’s victory, the years-long Mueller investigation, two impeachments and more.
Gabbard told Fox, “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.”
She said every person involved “must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again.”
Gabbard posted this image on X to explain the conspiracy:
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Author: Bob Unruh
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