Tulsi Gabbard Argues Obama Is Guilty of Treason Because ‘There Has to Be Peaceful Transition of Power’

Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard claimed Thursday that former President Barack Obama carried out a “treasonous conspiracy” because he obstructed the “peaceful transition of power” and attempted to “delegitimize President Trump’s election.”

In an interview with Turning Point USA founder and MAGA pundit Charlie Kirk, Gabbard  argued that the recent declassified materials her office released show Obama and his top advisors orchestrated a “coup” against President Donald Trump.

Gabbard’s office said in a statement that it had found “overwhelming evidence that demonstrates how, after President Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, President Obama and his national security cabinet members manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump.”

Numerous sources, including the documents themselves, disprove Gabbard’s claims of a “treasonous conspiracy.”

On The Charlie Kirk Show, Kirk asked Gabbard to back up her “fighting words.”

“Can you make the case– can you present the arguments– the best bill you can with unclassified information and public information what makes you believe that this reaches that sort of threshold?” he asked.

Gabbard’s smoking gun? Obama — she claimed — disrupted the peaceful transfer of power.

“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.” said Gabbard. “In this system, there has to be a peaceful transfer of power.”

She added:

“What we saw play out here was President Trump was elected by the American people in 2016– shocking most people in the United States, and apparently even Russia and Putin didn’t think that he would win. 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 and therefore everything that he had been charged to do by the American people over the next four years.”

“So yes this is a treasonous conspiracy that subverts the will of the American people because you look at the action, they manufactured a hoax, they manufactured these lies, published it as though it were true, propagated this through the media to the American people,” she said.

Neither the Obama administration nor Obama himself ever claimed that Trump did not legitimately win the election. The former president never attempted to obstruct the certification of the election, he never told a news outlet that Clinton was the real winner, and he never encouraged supports to take matters into their own hands and attempt to stop the transition of power.

Gabbard’s boss, however, engaged in all of these actions repeatedly. President Trump claims, to this day, that he won the 2020 election. He actively fought against the certification of election results, and he was impeached for inciting an insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

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