There was a theme to the Obama years: say one thing, mean another, and spin it all as “historic.” This week, Barack Obama trotted out that same tired formula—this time in response to the bombshell DNI report declassified last Friday.
His statement? “Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes.”
Cute. But irrelevant.
Because no one—certainly not the DNI—claimed Russia manipulated votes. That’s not the point. The actual claim from the Director of National Intelligence—now Tulsi Gabbard—is that Obama-era officials manufactured a narrative, suppressed contradictory intelligence, and then jammed it down the throat of the American public in the biggest gaslighting operation since “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”
This isn’t about Russia's capabilities to hack ballots. It’s about how far Barack Obama’s team was willing to go to bend, break, or bury the truth if it served their political ends.
According to the report, internal assessments in 2016 concluded that Russia had neither the capability nor intent to manipulate actual vote totals. But that intel never made it to the public. Why? Because the Obama White House—and their lackeys in the intel community—had already decided the story. Trump-Russia. Putin’s puppet. Treason from the top. Sound familiar?
It was the script for the next four years.
From Brennan to Comey to Clapper, the same players who presided over the original sin of the Russia hoax are now getting some very unwanted sunlight. The documents declassified last week suggest they intentionally buried internal dissent, misrepresented intelligence findings, and created a false perception of Russian cyber-omnipotence—because the real mission wasn’t protecting democracy. It was undermining the guy they hated more than Putin: Donald J. Trump.
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Obama’s weak deflection—talking about “votes” not being altered—misses the point by a country mile. It’s a classic sleight-of-hand. Talk about the one thing no one is arguing, and pretend that settles the issue.
Let’s review:
- The 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment? Ignored dissenting views.
- The Mueller Report? No collusion.
- The bipartisan 2020 Senate Intelligence Report? Confirmed no votes changed.
- The real intel in 2016? Russia couldn’t manipulate the election even if it wanted to.
But Obama wants you to forget that.
He wants you to fixate on “influence” while ignoring the fact that his administration may have suppressed facts, bent the truth, and turned the intelligence community into a propaganda machine. If that’s not a scandal, I don’t know what is.
What we now know is this: the so-called “Russian interference” narrative was curated, crafted, and carefully shaped—not by Vladimir Putin, but by U.S. intelligence leaders under Barack Obama’s watch. The manipulation wasn’t Russian—it was homegrown.
And now that the evidence is coming to light? Obama’s response is to gaslight us all over again.
This wasn’t just spin. It was sabotage. And if Gabbard’s referral to the DOJ leads to indictments, you’d better believe the truth will be uglier than we imagined. Because what they called “patriotism” at the time looks more and more like a politically motivated coup against a duly elected President.
So forgive me if I’m not interested in Obama’s PR statement pretending nothing happened.
The American people were lied to. The Trump presidency was kneecapped before it even began. And the former president—smooth-talking and finger-pointing as ever—wants to rewrite history before the ink is dry.
But not this time.
We see it. We remember. And now the receipts are public.
And if there’s any justice left in this system, Congress must act.
Subpoena Barack Obama.
Make him testify under oath.
Suppose Donald J. Trump can be hauled before the sewer rats of the Manhattan kangaroo courts. In that case, the very least Barack Obama can do is appear before the body he once served in and answer questions—on the record—about what he knew, when he knew it, and how far he was willing to go to rig the story against a political rival.
COMPEL Obama NOW.
The Republic deserves answers. And justice demands it.
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