Obama admin’s ‘treasonous conspiracy’ in Trump-Russia probe referred to DOJ by Tulsi Gabbard

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice has taken possession of a criminal referral by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, outlining what she called a “treasonous conspiracy” by the Obama administration to “subvert President Trump’s 2016 victory.”

On Friday, Gabbard made public more than 100 pages of records showing efforts by Obama national security officials to bury benign intelligence in the final weeks of the 44th president’s administration — and whip up an alternative assessment of the “boldest yet” Russian influence campaign on the American electorate.

“Their goal was to usurp President Trump and subvert the will of the American people,” Gabbard said in a Friday X post. “No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The integrity of our democratic republic depends on it.”

“We are turning over all documents to the DOJ for criminal referral,” Gabbard warned.

A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment to The Post on the receipt of the referral, which was first reported Monday by Fox News.

After the report’s release, Trump reposted a video to Truth Social that featured a compilation of Democratic leaders declaring “No one is above the law” — and ended with an AI-generated clip of Obama being arrested in the Oval Office as the “YMCA” blares in the background.

Gabbard’s exposé revealed that — both before and after Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat — members of the US Intelligence Community concluded: “Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome.”

“We have no evidence of cyber manipulation of election infrastructure intended to alter results,” read other findings drafted Dec. 7, 2016.

But neither of those assessments were placed in the Presidential Daily Brief after the FBI, under then-Director James Comey, informed then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s office it was going to “dissent” from the draft’s conclusions “based on some new guidance.”

On Dec. 9, Obama met with Clapper, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, CIA Director John Brennan and others in the Oval Office, “tasking” each to look into “Russia Election Meddling” in the presidential contest between Trump and Clinton.

The administration officials later produced an intelligence assessment that claimed: “Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election.”

“Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency,” the assessment added. “We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.”

The information relied in part on a dossier created by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele, an opposition research document funded by Clinton’s campaign that included allegations of the Kremlin blackmailing Trump after he purportedly cavorted with prostitutes in Moscow, according to Gabbard.

The spy chief’s findings lean on details dredged up by an Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) whistleblower who previously told superiors there was “no indication of a Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count through cyber means.”

“The effect of what President Obama and his senior national security team did was subvert the will of the American people, undermining our democratic republic, and enacting what would be essentially a years-long coup against President Trump,” Gabbard told Fox News Sunday.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chairman of the chamber’s Intelligence Committee, has downplayed the significance of the declassified DNI records, pointing to an earlier, bipartisan Senate report from 2020 that found “the Russian government directed extensive activity against U.S. election infrastructure” before the 2016 election and “used social media to conduct an information warfare campaign” to benefit Trump.

Allies of the 47th president have claimed that the Obama administration’s actions could amount to a conspiracy against rights, a crime which has no statute of limitations and can earn an individual up to 10 years in federal prison.