Russiagate: Biggest Scandal in American History

Thomas Paine: American Philosopher, & Revolutionary

From 1776 through the formation of The Constitution I helped create America. Now I have returned to help save America. American Patriots must join together, speak out in free and open discussion to fight the “woke” anti-American mob, and further the cause of FREEDOM.

The Bunker Buster That Destroyed Obama’s Legacy

On Friday the 18th of July 2025, Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence (DNI), released previously classified documents that implicate former President Barack Obama and his high-level Intelligence Community (IC) officials in fabricating a knowingly false Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that completely contradicted pre-election assessments by the IC that Russia is “probably not trying to influence the election by using cyber means”, and on  December 7, 2016, then DNI James Clapper stated, “Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the U.S. Presidential election outcome.”  The Presidential Daily Briefing of December 8th confirmed the assessment that the Russians had no effect on the election.  The very next day, on December 9, 2016, President Obama convened members of his top National Security Council, including Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe and others, to discuss their strategy concerning Russia.  After that meeting, James Clapper’s Executive Assistant sent an email to IC principals tasking them to create a new IC assessment “per the President’s request”.    

Administration officials then began a campaign to leak false allegations to their Propaganda Media Complex outlets, such as the Washington Post, that claimed Russia had interfered in the election through cyber means to influence the outcome of Trump’s victory.  And on January 6, 2017, the newly fabricated IC Assessment, generated by the ODNI, was released that attempted to legitimize their phony claims. [1]

Gabbard is on the record as stating that there is overwhelming evidence that proves Obama himself was the mastermind of this scheme to subvert the will of the American people by undermining the legitimacy of a duly elected President.

As we all know, President Trump subsequently endured the nearly two-year, taxpayer funded Mueller investigation, two bogus Congressional impeachments, and endless attacks by the corrupted media that painted him as a “Russian asset”.

Trey Gowdy, former Republican Congressman from South Carolina and Chairman of the House Oversight Committee from June 2017 to January 2019, has stated that the Committee knew all these facts years ago but they were handcuffed because the documents were classified.  It’s incredible that Trump, or someone on his behalf did not step in to set the record straight during his first term.  Cast some disappointment on Congressional Republicans if you must, but at this point we should be hailing Tulsi Gabbard as a true American hero, who has staked her reputation, and perhaps is in great peril, to expose the perpetrators of this despicable conspiracy. 

There is considerable sentiment across the country that nothing will ever be done about it.  Why?  Because Democrats are widely believed to be “above the law”, and for good reason.

Actual Comments with names redacted:

“Nothing will happen”

“And nothing will happen so why expose it?”

They keep getting away with everything they do.  No one is ever held to account.  Every corrupt act.  Every funded riot.  Every scandal conveniently swept under the rug while being protected by their propaganda machine.  Investigations without ramifications.  Frankly, the people are almost as fed up with toothless Republicans as they are with the blatant criminality of Democrats.  Until Democrats start going to prison, they will never be deterred.

The day of reckoning may be upon us, or at least “on the horizon”.  There’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s determined to restore law and order.  If America is to be a nation of laws, the rule of law must be equally enforced and fairly applied.  Trump is not on a “revenge” tour.  He’s on a justice tour.  We can’t have anarchists openly rioting and looting in the streets without consequence.  Nor can we allow Governors and Mayors to flaunt federal immigration laws, claiming “sanctuary” status, or corrupt politicians to fleece government aid funds for their own personal wealth, or concoct phony allegations against their political opponents in an effort to sabotage his presidency.  The President actually takes an oath that he “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed” and that’s exactly what he intends to do.

Maybe this time, the Democrat co-conspirators will face the justice they deserve and our system will be brought more into balance.  I know this all sounds overly optimistic to many of you but the degree of egregiousness is so heinous, it must be prosecuted.  We the people demand justice!

We understand that this case against Obama and his high-level IC officials will take time to build but the evidence, as Gabbard pointed out, is “overwhelming” and irrefutable.  There are only 114 pages of documents in the initial release.  It couldn’t take that long to review and analyze 114 pages.  The next phase is applying the facts to underlying crimes.  I thought of a few potential charges that seem to be appropriate, as follows:        

The Charges

Many of you have seen numerous memes on the internet by now, calling for Obama to be charged with treason.  Tulsi Gabbard and Trump himself, have both labelled his crime as a “treasonous conspiracy”.  Technically, I don’t believe a treason charge is applicable because the statute requires that “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason . . .” [2]  Russiagate, as it’s being termed, was not perpetrated in wartime, and Russia is not a legally declared enemy.  For that matter, Obama doesn’t even owe his allegiance to the United States because he’s not a natural born citizen, but that’s another discussion. 

Neither do I believe he is legally liable under the provisions of sedition, because the letter of the law regarding sedition requires “two or more persons . . . conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government . . . or to oppose by force the authority thereof . . .”, in one of several ways that all pertain to forceful means. [3]

Russiagate was a coup d’ètat designed to usurp power from a duly elected President and rule the country through resistance to anything Trump tried to enact.  Obama and his co-conspirators intended to weaponize the vast resources of the federal bureaucracy and sabotage Trump’s every move.  The mysterious “deep state” was by then firmly entrenched and populated by Obama’s 30,000+ member activist army of communistic ideologues.  When you hear the term “drain the swamp”, it’s in reference to the “deep state”.

So . . . , if not treason or sedition, what can Obama and his co-conspirators actually be charged with?  That is the question confronting the Department of Justice (DOJ) Strike Force right now.  Here are a few that could be considered:

18 U.S. Code § 1001 – Statements or entries generally

Russiagate co-conspirators, John Brennan and James Clapper lied to Congress in sworn testimony.  The case could be made that they made “materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements” per section (a) (2) of the statute.  Other co-conspirators may be at jeopardy of perjury as well.

18 U.S. Code § 1002 – Possession of false papers to defraud United States

This statute deals with possession of any false document with intent to defraud.  The fabricated ICA, known to be false, seems to fit like a glove.

18 U.S. Code § 371 – Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States

Ironically, it might be appropriate to charge them with the same statute under which they prosecuted Trump after the 2020 election.

Did Obama and his co-conspirators “offend” or “defraud” the United States?  Knowingly concocting a scheme to undermine the presidency seems pretty “offensive” to me, and they certainly defrauded the American people with baseless lawfare, impeachments, etc.  The only potential problem I see with this charge is the 5-year statute of limitations.  However, there is the principle of “systemic conspiracy”, wherein the plotters have broader goals than a single event conspiracy, such as an assassination.  In a systemic conspiracy, the treasonous scheme may involve intentions to secure control over the country.  BINGO!  That’s exactly what the Russiagate scandal was all about; delegitimatizing Trump and administering Obama’s agenda by fraud.  So, the conspiracy was continuous and ongoing throughout Trump’s first term, which ended on January 20, 2021.  That’s less than 5 years before Gabbard’s criminal referral to the DOJ.   

18 U.S. Code § 1519 – Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations and bankruptcy

This statute, properly applied, should have imprisoned Hillary for (wait for it), 660,000 years.  That’s 20 years per offense for destroying 33,000 emails and was the bulk of her 1,024,132 year sentence.

Obama ordered the alteration and falsification of the ICA and the Democrats used it to persecute their political opposition, including the entire first term of Trump’s presidency.

I’m sure there are other related charges that might come into play, but that’s a good start.

My Intelligent Assessment

It was expected that Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State during Obama’s first term and head of State during the Benghazi attack, would succeed Obama as our 45th President.  All the polls favored her and the media was gushing at the prospect of the first female President.  All that remained was the formality of Election Day 2016 and her coronation in January.

As it turned out, Trump gummed up the works with a stunning victory and the only title bestowed upon Hillary was the Queen of Corruption.  Obama must have been just as furious as she was.  How dare such a despicable person have the audacity to interrupt Obama’s communist agenda, disguised as the “fundamental transformation” of America.  He had to be stopped “by any means necessary”.

It actually began before the reaction of December meetings, during election season 2016, when the Clinton campaign concocted the Russia Collusion hoax in an attempt to smear Trump in the eyes of the populace. 

As you may recall, the Clinton campaign funneled over $1,000,000 to the legal firm Perkins Coie, who then enlisted the services of the opposition research firm, Fusion GPS, with the task of digging up dirt on Trump, and Fusion facilitated the infamous Steele Dossier, written by discredited FBI informant Christopher Steele.  The dossier was a 35-page unfinished report based on unverified “raw intelligence” that contained salacious accusations against Trump and coordination between his campaign and the Russian government. 

On July 31, 2016, the FBI, then directed by James Comey, launched the secret “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, accepting those unsubstantiated, unverified allegations from the Steele dossier.

Then in October 2016 FBI officials lied to the FISA Court without revealing the Clinton funded source, to obtain several warrants to spy on Trump campaign officials just weeks before Election Day.  Comey himself had to sign off on those requests.

The Mueller Report, headed by Special Prosecutor and former FBI Director Robert Mueller, released in March 2019, to the tune of about 40 million taxpayer dollars, inferred but could not prove any conspiracy to collude with Russia, and ended up charging 34 individuals and 3 companies with various financial crimes and lying to investigators.  Mueller likely kicked off his March 2017 “investigation” by assuming the ODNI Report of January 2017, published on January 6, 2017 and concocted under Clapper’s new directive, was “solid evidence” that the Russian government was “working to get Mr. Trump elected”, sought to “cultivate people in Trump’s orbit”, and his campaign officials had “secretive contacts with Russian officials and agents”. [4]

We now know all of it to be complete garbage, stemming directly from Barack Obama himself in the final weeks of his presidency.  He had picked Hillary Clinton to administer his third term and expected eight more years to finalize his communist agenda.  There was literally nothing he wouldn’t do to delegitimize the incoming President.  He ordered his own intelligence officials to smear Trump using Clinton’s groundwork, despite the previous contradictory assessments, in an effort to undermine his presidency, and subvert the will of the voters by usurping his power through a bloodless coup d’ėtat.  Though it didn’t rise to the level of treason by the letter of our law, it was a “treasonous conspiracy” that would have prompted Henry VIII to place heads on spikes.   

He does not have plausible deniability.  The documents not only prove his involvement, they also prove he directed the contradictory assessment. 

He does not have absolute immunity, contrary to what some analysts are now saying.  The Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. United States, decided July 1, 2024 by a 6-3 vote, that former Presidents have broad immunity from prosecution for “official acts they took while in office”.  Such immunity is granted to Presidents to protect him from exercising his “core powers”. [5]  It could be argued that knowingly concocting false allegations against a President-Elect during the transition period in an effort to undermine his presidency and subvert the will of the electorate is not a “core power”, nor could it be construed as an “official act”.

This political scandal, now widely termed as “Russiagate”, is the most egregious criminal act ever perpetrated by an American President, originated by his intended successor, but supported and implemented at his direction.  It cannot be overlooked.  It cannot be forgotten.  It cannot be swept under the rug.  It cannot be forgiven.  It must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

The American people deserve to know the truth and We the People demand justice.  We don’t need Congressional hearings and be subjected to weak excuses and indignant denials from Democrats.  These co-conspirators can have their hearings in a court of law.  We expect justice to be swift and harsh.  We expect them to be tried and convicted of their crimes.  We expect them to be sentenced to the maximum penalties according to the parameters set forth by those charges applied.  Anything less will be unacceptable for they have committed the most heinous political treachery imaginable.

It started with Hillary, whose campaign funded the Steele dossier, then Obama “went to bat” for her by directing the reversal of a series of intelligence reports.

I once did a spreadsheet outlining the potential crimes for which Hillary could have been charged by the DOJ and their respective sentences, related to her email scandal and private server, as examined by Fox News legal analyst, Gregg Jarrett.  Most of those crimes involved destruction and concealment of government property in the form of official documents.  Astonishingly, the composite sentence came up at over 1,000,000 years, as I mentioned briefly above. I’m sure she could have negotiated a plea bargain and with time off for good behavior, she probably could have been out in 20 thousand years.  Obama’s “Russiagate” scandal is worse than that.   

Politics is a filthy game.  Smear campaigns and “opposition research” is customary political strategy, but Russiagate has taken it below the depths of decency.

Remember, it wasn’t long ago that Democrats were claiming the high moral ground.  Obama’s own wife was lauded when she said, “When they (Republicans) go low, we go high”.  Her husband has single-handedly destroyed the Democrat Party’s integrity.  They will never recover from the stain he planted on their toxic brand.  Sure, they will put up all the resistance they can muster and try to regroup with the help of their Propaganda Media Complex, acting as if they still hold moral superiority, but it’s as phony as they are.  They try to convince the voting public that Trump is an authoritarian, a tyrant, Hitler personified, and  Republicans are fascists, when in fact, they are radical leftist Marxist, anti-American communists themselves, employing their own fascist tactics.  My advice to them would be to collapse the party and rebrand under a platform more appealing to Americans.

I believe I speak for thousands of conservative followers and probably millions of American Patriots when I say the federal hierarchy of the Democrat Party in its current format, is as corrupt, conniving, despicable, disgusting, filthy, vile, ruthless, soulless, delusionally self-righteous cabal of snake oil charlatans as have ever gathered in the halls of our Capitol. 

We, as Patriots, must continue to speak out and be the voices of reason.  We are in an ideological war that we must win.  The time is NOW.  This scandal is your sign, your opportunity to drive the proverbial stake of righteousness through the “vampire’s heart” that is the Democrat Party.  Hold your sword high!  Victory is at hand.

Comments welcomed.

FOOTNOTES

[1]  Press Release ; New Evidence of Obama Administration Conspiracy to Subvert President Trump’s 2016 Victory and Presidency ; Office of the Director of National Intelligence ; July 18, 2025

New Evidence of Obama Administration Conspiracy to Subvert President Trump’s 2016 Victory and Presidency

[2]  18 U.S. Code § 2381 – Treason ; Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School

18 U.S. Code § 2381 – Treason | U.S. Code | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute

[3]  18 U.S. Code § 2384 – Seditious conspiracy ; Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School

18 U.S. Code § 2384 – Seditious conspiracy | U.S. Code | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute

[4]  Wikipedia ; Steele Dossier

Steele dossier – Wikipedia

[5]  Read the Full Supreme Court Decision on Trump and Presidential Immunity ; PBS News ; July 1, 2024

Read the full Supreme Court decision on Trump and presidential immunity | PBS News