Tulsi Gabbard reignites "Russiagate."
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard announced the release of files that allegedly show President Barack Obama and his national security cabinet members concocted a false narrative of Russian interference in the 2016 election. DNI Gabbard claimed the documents showed a “treasonous conspiracy” to overturn Donald Trump’s electoral victory, posting on X that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) will be turning the documents over to the Department of Justice for criminal referral.
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| 0:59.7 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the DNI report that is the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard's report that came out last week, which has been |
| 1:13.6 | drummed up as maybe a potentially massive scandal with President Barack Obama at the center. |
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