Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday smacked down CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for suggesting that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents exposing the Russia collusion hoax to improve her standing with President Trump after he said her assessment of Iran’s nuclear capabilities was wrong.
It can be recalled that Trump publicly refuted Gabbard’s earlier congressional testimony regarding Iran’s nuclear ambitions last month before he ordered strikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran.
When Gabbard joined a White House press briefing on Wednesday to summarize her findings on Obama’s attempted 2016 election interference to undermine Trump in his first term, Collins attempted to discredit the newly released documents, asking, “what would you say to people who believe that you’re only releasing these documents now to improve your standing with the president after he said that your intelligence assessments were wrong?”
Gabbard did not address the question directly, but Karoline Leavitt fired back and turned the question on Collins. “Who is saying that?” Leavitt asked. Collins avoided the question, stating, “Well, the President has publicly undermined her when it came to Iran,” and “He told me that she didn’t know what she was talking about.”
Leavitt then ripped her and the rest of the leftist media for being “the only people” who are saying this and trying to push this narrative to the American people. These are the same people who ran the Clinton funded Steele Dossier as the “gospel truth,” Leavitt said.
WATCH:
Collins: Two questions for Director Gabbard, just on this. Director Gabbard, you referenced the past intelligence reports and assessments on this, including that 2017 one that was signed off, as Ed noted, by every Republican on the Senate Intelligence community, including the acting chair of the time, now-Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who said in a statement that they did not find any evidence of Russian collusion, but they did find, however, is very troubling, and they found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling. One, are you saying that he’s wrong in that statement that he made then? And secondly, what would you say to people who believe that you’re only releasing these documents now to improve your standing with the president after he said that your intelligence assessments were wrong?
Gabbard: Well, first, I want to correct something that you stated, which was citing the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report as being one in the same. I think you said the intelligence community, the Senate Intelligence Committee has a very different function than the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The evidence and the intelligence that has been declassified and released is irrefutable. I’m going to let Karoline speak to Secretary Rubio.
Leavitt: I’ll speak to both questions. First on Secretary Rubio, he put out a statement in 2020, following that Senate Intelligence Committee report, and he said, What they found is troubling. We found irrefutable evidence of Russia meddling, which the Director of National Intelligence just confirmed for all of you, that Russia was trying to sow distrust and chaos. But what’s the outrage in this that Secretary Rubio did not say at the time, the Democrats were saying at the time is the fact that the intelligence community was concocting this narrative that the President colluded with the Russians, that the president’s son was holding secret meetings with the Russians, all of these lies that were never true. And he also said at that time, we discovered deeply troubling actions taken by the FBI under Comey, particularly their acceptance and willingness to rely on the Steele Dossier without verifying its methodology or sourcing. The Steele dossier that many outlets in this room ran as the gospel truth, and it was cooked up and paid for by the Clinton campaign. As for your second question, Caitlin, I think— who is saying that, that she would release this to try to boost her standing with the president, who has said that?
Collins: Well, the President has publicly undermined her when it came to Iran, he said she was wrong. He told me that she didn’t know what she was talking about. That was on Air Force One, on camera.
Leavitt: The only people who are suggesting that the director of national intelligence would release evidence to try to boost her standing with the president are the people in this room, who constantly try to sow distrust and chaos amongst the president’s cabinet, and it is not working. I will just answer your question directly. I am with the President of United States every day. He has the utmost confidence in Director Gabbard. He always has, he continues to, and that is true of his entire Cabinet who is all working as one team to deliver on the promises this President made.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made a surprise appearance in the White House Press Briefing Room after releasing the second batch of previously undisclosed documents that include more proof that Barack Obama directly gave the order to publish Russia Collusion hoax.
Obama knew there was no proof to back it up, but he fabricated intelligence and directed his intelligence community to undermine the legitimacy of Trump’s first term.
Gabbard on Wednesday told reporters that “we have referred and will continue to refer all of these documents to the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigatie the criminal implications of this,” including criminal implications for Barack Obama.
POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE: Tulsi GOES OFF on Barack Obama – Says Obama Criminally Implicated (VIDEO)
Gabbard declassified a December 2016 presidential briefing, revealing Barack Obama knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a hoax.
President Trump responded during a press conference on Tuesday and tore into Obama, Clinton, Biden, Clapper, Comey, and the rest of their gang, calling for “ringleader” Barack Obama to face “very severe consequences” for “treason.”
“Barack Hussein Obama is the ringleader. Hillary Clinton was right there with him, and so was Sleepy Joe Biden, and so were the rest of them: Comey, Clapper, the whole group,” Trump said.
The Department of Justice also announced on Wednesday that it is forming a “Strike Force” to investigate Barack Obama and Obama Administration officials for this scandal.
This is a developing story.
The Gateway Pundit will continue to provide updates on the Trump Administration’s long-awaited Russiagate investigation.
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