“You've used the phrase, a treasonous conspiracy,” Kirk opened. “Those are fighting words. Those are big words ... But can you make the case, can you present the argument to the best of the ability you can with unclassified information and public information, what makes you believe that this reaches that sort of threshold?”
Gabbard responded, “When we look at our democratic republic, Charlie, our system is built on the foundation of the American people casting their votes for who they want to be in office, to be our president and commander in chief. In this system, there is to be a peaceful transition of power.”
“What we saw play out here,” she continued, “was President Trump was elected by the American people in 2016... Instead of accepting that this is the will of the people, what we saw is President Obama convening his national security team and concocting this contrived false narrative through the production of this intelligence community assessment in January 2017, with the specific intent of subverting the will of the American people and trying to delegitimize President Trump’s election.”
Gabbard said the actions that followed—from the Mueller investigation to the impeachments—stemmed from that initial effort: “They manufactured a hoax. They manufactured these lies, published it as though it were true, propagated this through the media."
"And then what happened next? The Mueller investigation, years-long Mueller investigation was launched, you had two impeachments coming from Congress, you had a raid on President Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago by the FBI. You had smears and attacks and investigations not only against President Trump, but against his family, his senior officials.”
She also pointed to foreign policy implications, noting, “You even saw the geopolitical impacts of this, where a whole sanctions package was passed against Russia by President Obama specifically because of the thing that they claimed Russia did — but they actually didn’t do in this case.”
“This was a lie that was concocted by President Obama and his senior national security officials,” Gabbard stated. “And this January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment is that foundation for everything that came after.”
When asked about evidence, Gabbard said: “This is not about Tulsi Gabbard’s beliefs or opinions or even allegations. Read the intelligence. Read the evidence. Read the emails from DNI Clapper's executive assistant… per the president's directive…”
She concluded, “Anyone who is a little bit objective, who would read that, would draw the same view that you and I have — that the truth is very real and it's irrefutable. President Obama led this treasonous conspiracy with the help of a lot of folks in his national security cabinet and in the intelligence community.”
