Big news breaking over the weekend: In the final days of his presidency, Barack Obama pushed intelligence officials to exaggerate the evidence for Russian malfeasance in the 2016 presidential election and collusion with the Trump campaign.

That’s according to current Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. She has released documents from that time period that she says prove the existence of a “treasonous” plot to undermine President Trump and persuade the public that there was something illegitimate about his victory in 2016.

Here is Gabbard explaining the details of that plot on Fox News over the weekend: “Over a hundred documents that we released, on Friday, really detail and provide evidence of how this treasonous conspiracy was directed by President Obama, just weeks before he was due to leave office after President Trump had already gotten elected. This is not a Democrat or Republican issue, this is an issue that is so serious it should concern every single American, because it has to do with the integrity of our democratic republic.”

Gabbard continues: "What we saw occur here, as the documents we released detail, was that we had a sitting president of the United States and his Cabinet and leadership team, quite frankly who were not happy with the fact that President Trump had won the election, that the American people had chosen Donald J. Trump to be the next president and........

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