Tulsi Gabbard calls for Obama to be prosecuted over 2016 election claims
Trump intelligence chief accuses ex-president and others of treasonous conspiracy' for alleging Russian interference
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has called for Barack Obama and former senior US national security officials to be prosecuted after accusing them of a treasonous conspiracy" intended to show that Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election win was due to Russian interference.
She said Obama and senior officials in his administration had [laid] the groundwork for ... a years-long coup" against Trump after his victory over Hillary Clinton by manufacturing intelligence" to suggest that Russia had tried to influence the election. That included using a dossier prepared by a British intelligence analyst, Christopher Steele, that they knew to be unreliable, Gabbard claimed.
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