Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard leaves U.S. Capitol after a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Monday, June 16, in Washington.

Nine years after soliciting and then accepting help from Russia to win the 2016 election, Donald Trump is yet again falsely claiming he got no such assistance, this time with the backing of his Russia-sympathetic director of national intelligence.

“These documents detail a treasonous conspiracy by officials at the highest levels of the Obama White House,” Tulsi Gabbard wrote on Friday in a series of social media posts, beginning the latest round of Trump’s many attempts to rewrite the history of his first election victory.

Trump in the days since has repeatedly posted articles and videos of Gabbard’s interviews about the matter, accusing former President Barack Obama and his aides of the “highest level Election Fraud” and telling Gabbard to “keep it coming!!!”

He even posted a fake TikTok video depicting the FBI arresting Obama and then an image showing Obama and his top former aides wearing orange jail garb.

In reality, Gabbard’s claims confuse facts previously determined and acknowledged — that Russian intelligence agencies did not infiltrate voting systems — with a key conclusion reached by both special counsel Robert Mueller and the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee: Russia actively worked to help Trump win.

“Putin and the Russian Government demonstrated a preference for candidate Trump,” the Senate report stated.

“She’s fabricating a scandal as part of a cover-up, namely the Trump administration’s efforts to keep the Epstein files under wrap,” said Ned Price, a former spokesman for the National Security Council in the Obama administration. “Gabbard’s trick here is a........

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