JUST IN: Tulsi Gabbard Confirms Obama Has Been Criminally Referred For Prosecution

A watershed moment for the Trump administration occurred on Wednesday when Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard referred former President Barack Obama to the U.S. Justice Department for criminal prosecution, citing the Russiagate hoax.

Appearing at a White House briefing, the former Democratic congresswoman appeared like a longtime member of MAGA, accusing a man of the party she once represented of manipulating U.S. intelligence to suggest President Trump conspired with Russian forces to win the 2016 election.

Gabbard revealed it will now be up to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to decide whether to prosecute the 44th president.

“There is irrefutable evidence that details how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false,” Gabbard said. “They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true it wasn’t.”

Gabbard’s comments come as the Trump administration continues to release volumes of documents in the government’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into Trump and the 2016 election. Over the past week, bombshell revelations have pinned the blame on a number of former officials from the CIA to the FBI who Gabbard now says abused their positions to try and undercut President Trump at the start of his first term.

“All come back to and confirm the same report: There was a gross politicization and manipulation of intelligence by the Obama administration intended to delegitimize President Trump even before he was inaugurated, ultimately usurping the will of the American people,” Gabbard said Wednesday at a White House press briefing.

Asked by a reporter if her remarks meant Gabbard was referring Obama for prosecution, she replied simply, “That’s correct.”

“The evidence we’ve found and released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment [of Trump-Russia],” she said.

WATCH:

Throughout a slew of disclosures, the Trump administration has accused Obama of being a “ringleader” in a scheme that followed Trump through his first term and into his 2024 reelection, tying him to endless accusations that he relied on Russian counterintelligence to first win office.

A 46-page intelligence report by Gabbard’s office lays out in stark detail how national security aides sought to hide evidence suggesting that Russians had little or no interference in the results of the 2016 election. Trump and Gabbard have singled out a Dec. 9, 2016, Presidential Daily Briefing meant for Obama, where U.S. intelligence officials concluded that Russia did not play a significant role in Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton one month earlier.

Instead, that document was stricken from the PDB, which would have also been presented to Trump as the president-elect. Trump continued to allege after the election that Clinton conspired with contacts in the Obama administration to create the false Steele dossier and smear his campaign.

Obama, speaking through aides on Tuesday, denounced the probe as a “distraction” sought by Trump to distance himself from fallout in the government’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Both he and Hillary Clinton have continued to frame the Trump administration’s pursuit of truth in the Russia investigation as part of a far-fetched conspiracy.