Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is sowing the seeds for MAGAs next Jeffrey Epstein moment and perpetuating a dangerous retaliatory cycle. She has accused former senior government officials of directing a treasonous conspiracy to undermine President Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Nothing Gabbard has released proves that assertion, including the 2017 House Intelligence Committee report questioning the intelligence community assessment that Russia wanted Trump to win the 2016 election.

That 2017 conclusion is at odds with the unanimous and bipartisan findings of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that found Russia did in fact try to influence the campaign in Trump’s favor but those efforts did not affect the outcome.

Gabbard’s claims reinforce a long-standing narrative prevalent among MAGA supporters that Democrats sought to destroy Trump’s candidacy, and then undermine his presidency, by manipulating information about Russian interference in the 2016........

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