By Ray DiLorenzo
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Back in 2016, President Barack Obama and his confederates decided that Trump was an extreme threat. The threat was not to the country itself, but rather to their hold on power. They needed to control Trump to ensure he did not win, and if he did win, to make sure his administration would be ineffective.
The so-called Russiagate hoax, quickly becoming Obamagate, began during the 2016 presidential election. It was designed, planned, and carried out by the Obama administration to manipulate intelligence to support the narrative that President Trump welcomed and received help from the Putin government to win the 2016 election. Allegations of Russian collusion and election interference surfaced by mid-2016.
The key players of this drama are President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, John Brennan, Susan Rice, and James Clapper. Additional antagonists in this saga were the mainstream media (MSM), which played a vital role in the ‘selling of the narrative’ to the American people. While there are many other players involved, these individuals are the most significant.
Russiagate was the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history.
Since Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, the MSM has been contentious, to say the least. It was at first comedic, making fun of Trump at every opportunity. It quickly became hostile. It was best demonstrated by Trump’s accusations of election interference against Barack Obama and the Democrat Party in the now infamous 2020 interview between 60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl and President Trump.
Upon exhaustive examination of found documents, the director of national intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, now alleges in a statement last week that the Obama administration played a direct role in ensuring that the intelligence community falsely concluded that the Trump election committee did in fact seek and receive election help in 2016 from the Russian government.
Another DNI intelligence report, dated 7/23/25, revealed how the Obama Administration “manufactured” an intelligence assessment promoting the Russia Collusion Hoax. This was after a prior intelligence report found no collusion between Russia and the Trump election committee. Obama found that report insufficient for their purposes and, on December 9, 2016, during a high-level meeting in the White House situation room, ordered the report put aside and a new one prepared.
The Gabbard report outlines five key findings: Obama, Brennan, and others fabricated the report and suppressed intelligence showing that Putin was actually preparing for a Clinton victory. The Obama team made up findings from shoddy sources, disobeyed intelligence community (IC) standards, and knowingly lied to the American people.
Some say that Putin wanted Trump to win. Not true. The Russians had so much dirt on Hillary; they knew it would have been good leverage.
Many in MAGA land are crying ‘treason.’
According to Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States, treason is defined as either “levying war” against the United States or “adhering to [the] enemies [of the United States], giving them aid and comfort.” US law defines treason as a high crime that poses an extreme threat to the nation, a massive, dangerous betrayal.
Debate and disagreement were not considered treason. They were welcomed. Americans in the past often achieved better solutions to questions of government when both sides introduced proposals. But that was when both sides were in agreement as to the principles of our government. Not so much anymore. The goals of the competing political parties are now vastly different.
There will be much debate as to whether the activities of the antagonists associated with Russiagate are treason or sedition via an apparent attempted coup d’état. Or is an attempted soft coup considered an offense covered under 18 U.S. Code § 2385 – Advocating Overthrow of Government, punishable by a fine or imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both? I will make no attempt to satisfy these questions here. That will be for the courts.
What I caution against is overreaching for treason where defendants are found not guilty and are allowed to drive home. The DOJ will need to be careful to submit a charge where the defendants are found guilty with appropriate terms in prison. This emphasizes the importance of ensuring that any charges brought forth, particularly more serious ones like treason, are substantiated by clear evidence leading to a guilty verdict.
As of Wednesday, July 23, Obama has issued a statement insisting that “Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes.” So, Obama is digging in. His associates will likely do the same, putting themselves in a very precarious legal position. The MSM? Well, they are busy downplaying the report, saying, “There’s nothing to see here.”
It is intriguing that Obama chose to say “the widely accepted conclusion” and emphasized that the report “did not successfully manipulate any votes.” Did he mean to imply that there was no harm done? Who is it widely accepted by? The media? The CIA already admitted the report for collusion was totally false. Once again, Obama turns to the media for help. And the MSM has answered the call, already doing the pooh pooh dance.
Public trust in the electoral process has been significantly eroded, leading to calls for greater transparency and security measures. Consequently, the reliance on media narratives may further complicate the dialogue around election integrity. Thank you, Obama.
It is to the credit of the American people that millions of Trump supporters saw through the deception of the Obama administration. After all, they had years of experience with a man without a background one could point to, an unknown and determined to remain so, thrust into the most powerful position in the world by operatives with dark motives. He is a man of antagonistic secrecy, exaggeration, race fixation, certainly narcissistic, missing anticolonial father obsessed, with hidden core values, determined to bring down the greatest nation on earth.
