Former Top Obama Official Admits He’s Lawyered Up

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If you thought the dust had settled on the Trump‑Russia saga, buckle up—because Tulsi Gabbard just took a flamethrower to the narrative, and the political class in D.C. is scrambling.

The sitting Director of National Intelligence went on live television and accused the Obama team of laying the groundwork for what she flat‑out called a “years‑long coup” against Donald Trump. That’s not a slip of the tongue. That’s a direct shot at the very people who ran the intelligence community before Trump ever stepped foot in the Oval Office.

On Jesse Watters’ show Wednesday night, Gabbard didn’t hedge. She claimed deep‑state roadblocks have been thrown in her way as she tries to release key information about the so‑called Trump‑Russia collusion investigation—information she says a whole lot of folks in Washington don’t want you to see. Think about that for a second. A sitting DNI saying, out loud, that entrenched intelligence players are trying to bury evidence.

And then she dropped this grenade: Obama and his top brass—John Brennan, James Clapper, the whole crew—were behind fabricating a narrative to undermine Trump’s presidency. That’s not just a spicy accusation. That’s a political earthquake. And to make it even juicier, Gabbard backed it up by releasing over a hundred declassified documents showing what the intelligence community really thought before and after the 2016 election.

What do those documents show? According to Gabbard, for months leading up to November 2016, the intelligence consensus was clear: Russia lacked the intent and capability to hack U.S. elections. But—get this—mere weeks after Trump shocked the world and beat Hillary Clinton, suddenly the assessment shifted. Suddenly, a new narrative emerged. A narrative that served to delegitimize his win. And she’s not just implying it. She’s pointing directly at Obama himself as the one who gave that directive.

Now the Obama team, predictably, is scrambling to push back. A spokesperson called her claims “outrageous” and “bizarre,” waving around the well‑worn talking points that Russia meddled but never changed votes. Former Obama aide Ned Price even penned a Fox op‑ed trying to paint Gabbard as some conspiracy‑peddling upstart, claiming she’s confusing “influence” with “hacking.”

But here’s what they don’t want you asking yourself: why release a hundred documents now? Why send a criminal referral to the DOJ if there’s nothing there? Why would a sitting DNI—someone who served in Congress as a Democrat, no less—stick her neck out this far if she didn’t have the receipts?

Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi is assembling a strike force team to dig through mountains of intelligence and figure out how to hold people accountable. Trump himself isn’t exactly staying quiet, either—he reposted an AI video showing Obama being arrested in the Oval Office, a move that had the media frothing but his base cheering.

And here’s the part that should have every political insider sweating bullets: Gabbard says there’s more coming. More documents. More evidence. More revelations that could blow the lid off what actually happened in those early days after Trump’s victory.

The questions hang in the air like smoke after an explosion. What else is in those files? How deep does this go? And when the next batch of information drops, who’s going to be left standing? Stay tuned—this fuse is nowhere near burned out.

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