Maria, the implications of this are frankly nothing short of historic. Over 100 documents that we

released on Friday really detail and provide evidence of how this treasonous conspiracy was directed

by President Obama just weeks before he was due to leave office after President Trump had already gotten elected.

This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is an issue that is so serious it should concern

every single American because it has to do with the integrity of our Democratic Republic.

What we saw occur here as the documents we released detailed was that we

had a sitting President of the United States and his cabinet and leadership team, quite frankly,

who were not happy with the fact that President Trump had won the election, that the American

people had chosen Donald J. Trump to be the next president, commander and chief of the United

States. And so they decided that they

would do everything possible to try to undermine his ability to do what voters tasked President Trump

to do. So creating this piece of manufactured intelligence that claims that Russia had helped

Donald Trump get elected, contradicted every

other assessment that had been made previously in the months leading up to the election that

said exactly the opposite, that Russia neither had neither the intent nor the capability

to try to quote unquote hack the United States election for the presidency of the United States.

So the effect of what President Obama and his senior national security team did was subvert

the will of the American people, undermining our Democratic Republic, and enacting what

would be essentially a year's long coup against President Trump, who was

duly elected by the American people.

We have a lot to run on and you have a lot to run against, given the other party.

But I will tell you this, we better be united, we better be strong, we better be focused,

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