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She's criticized US intelligence and promoted Russian propaganda. Debbie Wasserman Schultz referred to her as likely a Russian asset. Given our military backgrounds, what are your thoughts on her? I believe she's compromised. Her support for a brutal dictator in Syria raises concerns. Russian media has labeled her a Russian asset, which is alarming. The US intelligence community has noted her troubling relationships with adversaries. My concern is that she wouldn't pass a background check.

The speaker claims the Russia-Ukraine war is an extension of Russiagate, which desensitized the Democratic party to hating Russia. According to the speaker, Democrats needed an explanation for Trump's victory besides their own failures, and initially blamed Cambridge Analytica. When that didn't satisfy, the "Russia narrative" emerged. The speaker says Russiagate led Democrats to view Russia negatively, beyond a normal Western perspective, as if Trump were a Kremlin attaché. Thus, after Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the Democrat party, formerly anti-war, showed a subdued response to funding the war. The speaker suggests this is because Putin became an acceptable villain, conflated with Trump, due to Russiagate. Another speaker adds that many were pro-Russia when it was Soviet because it was anti-Christian, but turned against it when it became Orthodox again. The speaker concludes that skepticism about sending money to Ukraine, once a left-wing position, was subdued because Putin became an acceptable villain for the Democrat party.

What they've done is bad for the country, starting with the 2016 election. The orders and memos are all written down, in highly classified areas. It's unbelievable to read, a real hoax. Instead of focusing on winning elections or making America great, they engage in sick behavior, like Hillary Clinton and the Steele dossier. It's all in writing now. Tulsi went deep into the files and found it, even though it wouldn't have been politically correct to do so. What she found is terrible. It was an attempted coup, a failed coup. It's hard to believe it happened while he was president.

They prioritize endless work for ideological and financial reasons. A notable example is Tulsi Gabbard, who, despite her liberal views, was quickly promoted to vice chair of the DNC. However, when she questioned U.S. opposition to Assad, she became an enemy to the establishment. Hillary Clinton labeled her as "the favorite of the Russians," highlighting the harsh criticism she faced from fellow Democrats. The Democratic Party is influenced by the foreign policy establishment and the military-industrial complex. They emphasize the importance of NATO and military support for Ukraine, revealing their focus on war as a source of funding. This contrasts with Trump's opposition to such conflicts.

Tulsi Gabbard's potential access to national security information raises concerns, especially given her perceived support from Russia. Her nomination is seen as particularly damaging, more so than Matt Gaetz's. Despite her claims of being anti-war, Gabbard aligns with pro-war figures, particularly regarding Syria. Ultimately, her nomination is viewed as a pro-war stance on a global scale, similar to Donald Trump's presidency.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard unveiled new evidence alleging that former president Barack Obama and top aides in the Obama administration conspired to subvert President Trump’s February victory and undermine the democratic will of the American people. The claim is that Obama, publicly pretending to engage in a peaceful transfer of power, privately went to great lengths to sow discord and sabotage his successor. The newly released evidence from the DNI supposedly confirms that the Obama administration manufactured and politicized intelligence used to justify baseless smears against President Trump in an effort to delegitimize his victory before he took the oath of office. The speaker asserts that President Trump never had anything to do with Russia and that the Russia collusion hoax was a massive fraud perpetuated on the American people from the beginning, with Obama and others—including former CIA director John Brennan, former DNI James Clapper, former FBI director James Comey, former deputy director Andrew McCabe, and many others—knowing the truth. The DNI Gavrid's report is said to corroborate what was already known: there was no collusion or corruption, except on the part of Barack Obama and the weaponized intelligence agencies at the time. The Russia hoax is described as a blatant lie, manufactured by Democrat political operatives, signed off on by Obama, and leaked to the news media to launch a witch hunt against President Trump in his first administration. Allies of the president, including his son Donald Trump Jr., were smeared as Russian assets, with some purportedly having their lives destroyed due to the lie. It is claimed that the president’s first two years in office were haunted by this fake distraction, consuming resources, time, and political capital needed to debunk the lies. Nearly ten years later, the declassification of documents by director Gabbard is said to reveal the truth, vindicating President Trump, his family, and their allies who were smeared with defamatory lies. President Trump is asserted to have been right from the beginning, with justice now appearing to be served. New, damning evidence is described as implicating those who tried to sabotage a duly elected president and caused grave material harm to the republic. The claim is credited to CIA director Ratcliffe and committee chairman Rick Crawford, referencing a newly declassified 2020 report prepared by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which the DNI has declassified, stating that the intel community did not have any direct information that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to help elect President Trump in 2016. It is asserted that Russia was actively preparing for a Hillary Clinton victory, but, at Obama’s unusual direction, the intel community published implausible intelligence suggesting otherwise to sabotage the incoming president. The transcript condemns reporters at legacy outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, claiming they were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for perpetuating the hoax. It calls for those awards to be stripped from the journalists who propagated political disinformation in service of the Democratic party and those in the intelligence community who handed out out-of-context and fake intelligence to push a false political narrative.

Svetlana Lokova recounts a years-spanning, shadowy influence operation that she says began long before the public Russiagate narrative took hold and continued to unfold through high-level intelligence and political circles in the United States and the United Kingdom. She argues that a coordinated conspiracy, involving American and British intelligence figures, political operatives, and foreign partners, was designed to undermine Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, demonize him in the public sphere, and ultimately reshape U.S. politics in ways that persist to today. She explains that the conspiracy starts with the idea of weaponizing Russia as a pretext to derail Trump. In September 2015, Hillary Clinton’s circle tied to Strobe Talbott and to London-based figures including Richard Dearlove and Christopher Andrew decides to dust off “the old Russian handbook” and pursue a plan to run with Russia as the central smokescreen. Svetlana notes that General Michael Flynn, then head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) under Obama, was already engaging with Russia on matters of security and terrorism, and that Flynn’s Moscow trip in December 2015, arranged through the DIA, became a focal point of later accusations. She emphasizes that the trip was conducted under normal security procedures, with defensive briefings and debriefings required for someone of Flynn’s level of clearance. A key tie-in is the Cambridge operation she herself experienced. In 2015 she was an academic at Cambridge University, where she formed connections with MI6’s Richard Dearlove, Cambridge-based MI6-linked figures, and CIA asset Stefan Halper, who had Cambridge cover as a professor. She describes what she calls “bump” encounters—unexpected introductions that later produced routine reports. One such meeting introduced her to John McLaughlin, then acting CIA director, who allegedly expressed admiration for Russia and who later became a conduit for information within the FBI and CIA. Alan Collar, a London-based FBI liaison (Ligat) and a contact to Cambridge, also emerges as a pivotal figure; Svetlana recalls that Collar later sought to have Halper’s help in various capacities, including a potential PhD placement at Cambridge. Svetlana underscores how the operation leveraged a web of relationships: Christopher Steele in Britain, Halper in the U.S., McLaughlin, and MI6 heads like Dearlove, all part of what she describes as a “newsroom-to-FBI-to-CIA” loop. She explains that Steele and Halper acted as confidential informants for the FBI and CIA, with Steele’s dossier and Halper’s reports forming the backbone of what would become the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. She contends that the plan was not simply to accuse Trump of wrongdoing but to create a narrative of foreign interference—Russian involvement used to undermine Trump’s legitimacy and to give cover for the political takes of the Clinton-Soros alliance. The narrative continues with the infamous 2016 timeline. Svetlana recounts how the Hillary Clinton campaign, with Soros backing and with John Podesta’s circle, leveraged a “two-pronged” approach: demonize Trump through a public narrative of Russian interference and simultaneously seed a parallel set of claims about Trump campaign contacts with Russian intelligence. The plan, she says, was documented in internal emails circulated through Soros-linked channels and high-level Clinton aides. An August 2016 Oval Office meeting reportedly included Barack Obama, Susan Rice, James Comey, and John Brennan; Brennan allegedly noted that Hillary’s plan to distract from her email scandal involved tying Trump to Russia and ordered or supported steps to surface contacts between Trump advisers and Russian intelligence. This, she says, culminated in the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, justified by Downer’s May 2016 meeting with George Papadopoulos in London, which fed the FBI’s launch of an overarching inquiry into the Trump campaign. Svetlana emphasizes the mechanics of the operation: a cascade of “two-source” corroboration that failed to exist in reality but was manufactured through coordinated reporting. Stefan Halper and Christopher Steele allegedly provided separate but harmonized lines to the FBI and to journalists (for example, Washington Post and New York Times), with Fusion GPS coordinating research and payments, and with journalists feeding stories into the media while the FBI used those articles as cover to justify surveillance. She notes that the Steele dossier and Halper reports described contacts with Russian figures and asserted Kremlin orders, even while evidence mountains suggested the opposite or were non-existent. The operation allegedly relied on “ambiguous” or “dual-source” reporting to maintain plausible deniability and to keep multiple actors downstream of a single fabrication. Svetlana also describes internal institutional dynamics. She recounts that the Cambridge network included Gina Haspel (then head of the London CIA station) and Mike Morell (a senior CIA official) who allegedly used Cambridge as a front to pursue operations with university cover. The effort, she says, involved the use of “color revolutions” metaphors and methods—funding, organizing demonstrations, and controlling media narratives—through a transatlantic network that included British intelligence (MI6), American agencies (CIA, FBI, DHS), and at times Ukrainian actors. She asserts that the aim was not merely to affect the 2016 election but to create a “fog of war” (as she calls it) to obscure the truth, with the ultimate objective of removing Trump from power or preventing his influence in foreign policy. Two focal consequences are highlighted. First, the emergence of the Russia-collusion frame itself, built on forged or misrepresented evidence about Trump’s alleged ties to Russia and to Russian elites. Second, the use of this frame to drive real-world investigations, media coverage, and political pressure—culminating in the Mueller investigation and attempts to impeach or remove Trump from office. She contends that the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, and later the intelligence community assessment that purported Russian interference and Trump’s supposed collaboration, were built on manipulated or false premises, with the principal architects’ fingerprints on the evidence and the dissemination of the narrative across intelligence and media channels. In her discussion of the Mar-a-Lago documents and the Florida case surrounding John Brennan and other co-conspirators, Svetlana asserts that declassification by President Trump of Crossfire Hurricane documents demonstrated both the existence of the conspiracy and government overreach. She repeats a central point: the documents show a plan written down by Brennan and other aides to tie Trump to Russia, demonize him, and justify an ongoing investigation to undermine his presidency. She notes that the same players who orchestrated the scheme—Halper, Steele, Downer, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, and others—were allegedly involved in a broader pattern of off-the-books operations, funding, and information leaks designed to influence U.S. politics and foreign policy outcomes, with foreign allies in Britain and elsewhere participating in the broader maneuver. Svetlana’s overarching message is that accountability is possible but contingent on public attention and political will. She points to subpoenas and grand jury activity around Brennan and others as indications that the origins of the Russia investigation are formally being examined. She stresses that, despite the persistence of the conspiracy narrative, documents and testimony could reveal the truth behind the orchestrated campaign to disrupt the Trump presidency. She calls on the American public to demand accountability and to remain vigilant about the institutions and actors involved in what she describes as a continuing conspiracy, from Crossfire Hurricane to the later narratives surrounding Mueller and impeachment efforts, and into current political disputes. The dialogue closes with a personal appeal from Svetlana to the audience and to Lara Logan: the need to push for transparency and for due process, to scrutinize the roles of the people who allegedly manufactured and propagated the Russia collusion claims, and to insist on accountability for those who oversaw or participated in actions she frames as treasonous or seditious. She credits Lara Logan for ongoing coverage and expresses gratitude for the support of viewers and readers who seek an unflinching account of events, urging continued public scrutiny and a demand for principled governance.

The speaker claims that the Democratic Party unfairly favored Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the nomination process. They believe that if Sanders had been nominated, the country would be in a different place. The speaker also criticizes the Democratic Party for not supporting true progressive values and for promoting endless wars and corporate interests. They argue that they are an even bigger threat than Sanders and suggest that the party is protecting its donor base, which consists of large donors who expect favors in return. The speaker believes that these donors include military contractors and big corporations benefiting from Democratic policies.

In the video, the speaker discusses the release of Hillary Clinton's emails from the late 2010s, which contained embarrassing details such as her speeches to Goldman Sachs. These emails damaged her image as she pretended to be a friend of the people. The speaker also mentions the leak of emails from the Democratic National Committee, which were wrongly blamed on Russia. They suggest that a DNC employee leaked the emails due to favoritism towards Clinton's campaign over Bernie Sanders'. The speaker asked if the publisher realized how powerful Clinton was, to which they replied that it was fun and they enjoyed it.

A Bernie Sanders supporter who worked for the DNC claims that the party rigged the primary against Sanders. He leaked information to WikiLeaks and was subsequently killed. The speaker believes this is suspicious and points out other deaths connected to the Clintons. They discuss the Uranium One story, alleging that Bill Clinton received money from a Kremlin bank and that $142 million flowed into the Clinton Foundation. The argument that it was debunked is dismissed as bullshit. The money is seen as an attempt to buy influence.

Tulsi Gabbard released new evidence asserting that former president Barack Obama and top aides conspired to subvert President Trump’s February victory and undermine the democratic will of the American people. She claims that while publicly maintaining a peaceful transfer of power, Obama privately worked to sow discord and sabotage his successor, and that the Obama administration manufactured politicized intelligence used to justify baseless smears against Trump to delegitimize his victory before he took the oath of office. She contends that Trump never had anything to do with Russia and that the Russia collusion hoax was a massive fraud known to be false by Obama and others, including former CIA director John Brennan, former director of national intelligence James Clapper, former FBI director James Comey, former deputy director Andrew McCabe, and more. Gabbard says the report confirms there was no collusion or corruption by Trump, but rather by Obama and weaponized intelligence agencies, with the Russia hoax being a lie driven by Democrat political operatives approved by Obama and leaked to the media to launch a years-long witch hunt against Trump and his first administration. She asserts that allies of the president, including Donald Trump Jr., were smeared as Russian assets, with some having their lives destroyed due to the lie. According to her, the first two years of Trump’s presidency were consumed by debunking these lies at the highest government levels. She notes that nearly ten years later, declassification of documents shows the truth, vindicating Trump, his family, and his allies. She claims this new evidence strengthens the case that those who sabotaged a duly elected president did grave harm to the republic. Gabbard credits CIA Director Ratcliffe, Committee Chairman Rick Crawford, and the declassification of a 2020 House Intelligence Committee report, which she says shows the intel community did not have any direct information that Vladimir Putin wanted to help elect Trump in 2016; instead, Russia was actively preparing for a Hillary Clinton victory, but, at Obama’s unusual direction, the intel community published implausible intelligence to sabotage the incoming president. She describes this as one of the greatest political scandals in American history and contends that Legacy outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for perpetuating the hoax, arguing it’s time those awards be stripped for journalism that propagates political disinformation in service of the Democrat Party and certain intelligence officials.

- Speaker 0 states they believe certain people are dishonest and crooked and that they may have to pay a price; they insist they are truly bad and dishonest people, and imply consequences may follow. - Speaker 1 discusses a criminal investigation into James Comey and John Brennan related to the so-called Russian collusion hoax, asserting they tried to ruin Trump’s life and that he prevailed. - Speaker 1 notes that for years, ranking members of Congress, the intelligence community, and the FBI claimed Donald Trump was colluding with Russia to win the 2016 election, and that this was continued through his first presidency. - Speaker 2 references emails suggesting Donald Trump Jr. was willing to collude with Russia, questioning how to know what happens when Trump and Putin meet, and suggests Trump’s repeated denials of collusion may have been truthful. - Speaker 3 asks if there has been any evidence of collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, and Speaker 2 disagrees, saying there is plenty of evidence of collusion or conspiracy in plain sight. - Speaker 1 cites a recently declassified CIA “lessons learned” document from John Ratcliffe noting that the investigation was messed up, aimed at preventing Trump from winning and then hampering his agenda, and mentions multiple procedural anomalies in the preparation of the ICA (intelligence community assessment). - They walk through the timeline: Christopher Steele, a former MI-6 officer with Russian intel expertise, was hired by Fusion GPS, which was paid by Perkins Coie for Hillary Clinton’s campaign (notably Mark Elias) to produce opposition research on Trump; this unvetted dossier was used to bolster the case and was shopped to media to create a narrative of Trump-Russia ties, then used as a legal hook to push a narrative. - Speaker 1 argues Hillary Clinton leveraged influence to funnel the unverified dossier into the FBI and into a FISA warrant for Carter Page, noting it was not disclosed that the dossier was funded by Hillary Clinton, which they view as a major omission. - Ratcliffe’s document is cited as saying including the Steele dossier in the ICA undermined credibility and ran counter to tradecraft principles. - A second parallel element involved Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer paid by Fusion GPS and Clinton campaign, who met Don Jr. at Trump Tower; Don Jr. texted during the meeting that he was unsure what was happening, and the meeting was publicly used to support the Steele dossier claims about Trump’s ties to Russia. - The Speaker covers Hillary Clinton’s classified server issue, including the use of BleachBit and hammers, and notes DNC servers were hacked by Russia; they frame these events as being used to shift focus to Trump collusion. - They describe Crossfire Hurricane as the investigation into Trump, calling it an “insurance policy” to deflect attention from Clinton’s classified server issues and to portray Trump as guilty, describing the investigations into Trump associates (Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Manafort, Flynn) as efforts to keep the narrative alive even after Trump’s election victory. - Speaker 1 asserts Mueller’s appointment was scope-limited but later expanded, allowing broad access and substantial taxpayer cost; Brennan and Comey are accused of feeding initial information for a political purpose, with high-level agency involvement and misrepresentation in Congress. - They claim there was never any actual evidence of Russian collusion charged against the Trump campaign. - They mention Charles McGonigal, a former FBI counterintelligence official, as someone charged in connection with Russia, implying the broader narrative was invalid and asserting that those involved lied. - The speakers conclude that the entire setup was a scam and express a desire for accountability.

War over Ukraine and Western support 'was an extension of Russiagate,' desensitizing the Democrat party to hate Russia. 'Cambridge Analytica' was the first attempt, and 'the Russia narrative came ex nihilo.' 'Tulsi is getting to the bottom of it.' 'Putin became an acceptable villain for the Democrat party' and 'That all goes back to Russiagate' and 'the lie of the dirty dossier.' 'Our intel services are supposed to gather intelligence and defend the homeland' but are 'actually more about picking winners and losers' and 'thwarting the will of pop popular sovereignty.' 'Obama personally ordered an intel report' concluding 'Russia was not behind this election' (December 2016, now declassified). 'FBI and the CIA' seem to be on the same page and 'the insurance policy' leads to 'Rosenstein' 'running the entire DOJ.' Perp walks are called for to address the 'fourth branch of government'—'unaccountable' and 'unelected.'

Hillary Clinton initiated the narrative branding Tulsi Gabbard as a Russian asset due to Gabbard's rising status in the Democratic Party. Gabbard, a combat veteran and articulate leader, began aligning with Bernie Sanders' views, which angered Clinton. This led to a rift, especially after Gabbard exposed the DNC's unfair treatment of Sanders during the 2016 nomination process. Clinton's campaign had previously fabricated claims about Donald Trump being a Russian asset, and Gabbard became another target. Gabbard's independent views, including her stance on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, were used against her, and her meeting with Bashar al-Assad further fueled the accusations. The discussion emphasizes that diplomacy often requires engaging with adversaries, not just allies.

We're still waiting for accountability on the whole Russia collusion made up story. Now that DNI, Kelsey Gabbard has released all of those classified documents, we're actually seeing who was behind all of this. Do you wanna see indictments? I absolutely wanna see indictments. Tulsi and Cash Patel reveal aggressive violations of the law: "What they basically did is they defrauded the American people in order to take Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign talking points and turn them into intelligence... by defrauding the American people, defrauding the intelligence agencies, lying about what the intel said, they would take something that supported a Hillary Clinton campaign talking point, and they would overemphasize it and exaggerate it." They "took anything that actually contradicted that narrative and they buried it deep" and "laundered Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign talking points through the American intelligence services." That's "a violation of the people's trust" and "I absolutely think they broke the law." You'll see a lot of people get indicted. What do you want our intelligence community to be doing? Catching bad guys, not laundering Hillary Clinton's campaign talking points into the American media and giving them this air of legitimacy. It is sick and it's disgusting. It hurt the intelligence community. It hurt the American people, and it hurt the first Trump administration. We've gotta have consequences for it or we're just gonna see the same play repeated again and after again.

Putin was unhappy with Speaker 1 for raising concerns about the unfairness of Russia's 2011 parliamentary elections. Putin is paranoid about mass movements near Russia that could lead to democracy, closer ties with the EU, or NATO membership. The speaker believes Russia is still interfering with U.S. democracy by influencing opinions and election systems. She believes she was an obstacle to Russia's plans to undermine U.S. democracy and impose authoritarian control, and that Russia wanted to remove her to achieve other goals. Russia is still stirring up trouble and influencing people on social media, including efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act to cause political disruption. Electing a president was only part of Russia's plan. Putin aims to undermine democracies using money, blackmail, and inducements to bend political and business leaders to his will. The speaker doesn't know if Trump is a witting or unwitting tool of Putin, but believes Putin is playing a long game to undermine democracies.

Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, released new evidence alleging that former President Barack Obama and top aides conspired to subvert President Trump’s February victory and undermine the democratic will of the American people. The speaker asserts that while Obama publicly appeared to support a peaceful transfer of power, privately he took steps to sow discord and sabotage Trump, including manufacturing and politicizing intelligence that was used to justify baseless smears against the new president. The claim is that Trump had no involvement with Russia and that the Russia collusion narrative was a massive fraud, known to Obama and others involved, including former CIA director John Brennan, former DNI James Clapper, former FBI director James Comey, former deputy director Andrew McCabe, and others. The speaker reiterates that DNI Gabbard’s report confirms there was no collusion or corruption by Trump, attributing any wrongdoing to Barack Obama and the “weaponized” intelligence agencies of the time. The Russia hoax is characterized as a blatant lie manufactured by Democrat political operatives, approved by Obama, and leaked to the media to launch a years-long witch hunt against Trump in his first administration. Allies of the president, including Donald Trump Jr., were smeared as Russian assets, with some personally harmed by the false narrative. The speaker notes that much of this occurred during Trump’s first two years in office, consuming vast resources, time, and political capital to debunk the allegations at the highest levels of government. According to the speaker, nearly a decade later, declassification of documents by DNI Gabbard, alongside contributions from CIA Director Ratcliffe and committee Chairman Rick Crawford, supports a newly declassified 2020 report from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. This report reportedly found the intel community did not have direct information that Vladimir Putin sought to help elect Trump in 2016; instead, Russia was allegedly preparing for a Hillary Clinton victory. The narrative claims that, at the time, Obama’s unusual stance led the intel community to publish implausible intelligence to sabotage the incoming president. The speaker asserts this constitutes one of the greatest political scandals in American history, noting that legacy media outlets such as the New York Times and the Washington Post were rewarded with Pulitzer Prizes for propagating political disinformation. The claim is made that those awards should be stripped from journalists who disseminated out-of-context and false intelligence to push a political narrative in service of the Democrats and associated intelligence actors.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard unveiled new evidence alleging that former president Barack Obama and top aides conspired to subvert President Trump’s February victory and undermine the democratic will of the American people. The private actions contrasted with publicly presented peaceful transfer of power, as Obama allegedly sought to sow discord and sabotage his successor. The released evidence purportedly confirms that the Obama administration manufactured politicized intelligence that was later used to justify baseless smears against President Trump in an effort to delegitimize his victory before he took the oath of office. The speaker asserts that President Trump never had anything to do with Russia, and that the Russia collusion hoax was a massive fraud perpetuated from the start, with Obama and others allegedly knowing the truth. The speaker names several officials as part of the alleged scheme: former CIA director John Brennan, former director of national intelligence James Clapper, former FBI director James Comey, former deputy director Andrew McCabe, and other officials. The report is said to corroborate that there was no collusion or corruption by Trump, but rather wrongdoing by Barack Obama and the weaponized intelligence agencies at the time. The Russia hoax is described as a blatant lie, devised by Democrat political operatives, approved by Obama, and leaked to the media to launch a years-long witch hunt against Trump and his first administration. Allies of the president, including Donald Trump Jr., were smeared as Russian assets, with some having their lives destroyed due to the allegations. The speaker notes that the first two years of Trump’s presidency were overshadowed by this fake distraction, with extensive resources, time, and political capital spent debunking the lies from the highest levels of government. Nearly ten years later, declassification of documents by the director is said to reveal the truth, vindicating Trump, his family, and allies who were smeared. The speaker claims there is now damning evidence implicating those who attempted to sabotage a duly elected president and harmed the republic. Thanks to work by CIA Director Ratcliffe and committee Chairman Rick Crawford, a newly declassified 2020 report from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, declassified by DNI Gabbard, allegedly finds that the intel community did not have direct information that Vladimir Putin wanted to help elect Trump in 2016; rather, Russia was preparing for a Hillary Clinton victory, but was allegedly steered by Obama’s unusual direction to publish implausible intelligence suggesting otherwise to sabotage the incoming president. The speaker describes this as one of the greatest political scandals in American history and criticizes reporters from legacy outlets, including the New York Times and Washington Post, who allegedly continued to propagate the hoax, saying they were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for disinformation. The call is made for those awards to be stripped from journalists who produced disinformation in service of the Democrat Party and certain intelligence officials.

It is important to put the investigation into Trump and his associates aside. There is no denying that the Russians interfered in the election to help Trump, hurt Hillary Clinton, and destabilize democracy. According to public testimony before Congress by intelligence professionals, this interference is a clear and present danger to the country. If the roles were reversed and Hillary Clinton had won, she would have stopped at nothing to find out what happened and ensure it never happens again. She would have stood up in front of the country and said that even if it advantaged her, she would not rest until the truth was uncovered.

I'm confirming that Tulsi Gabbard has appointed someone with a history of being untrustworthy, potentially aiding adversarial nations. In Connecticut, the leading Democratic candidate in a major US Senate race is facing scrutiny after being caught misrepresenting his military service. Richard Blumenthal, the state attorney general, previously stated he served in Vietnam, but reports indicate he received five wartime deferments and served stateside in the Marine Reserves. I misspoke, and I won't let a few misplaced words tarnish my record of service to our country. However, video evidence exists of Blumenthal claiming he was in Vietnam.