‘Really Troubling’: Bret Baier Buys In to Tulsi Gabbard’s Obama Conspiracy Theory

Fox News anchor Bret Baier was sold on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s highly controversial claims regarding the Obama administration — most notably her wild allegation that Barack Obama engaged in a “treasonous conspiracy” against his successor, Donald Trump.

On Wednesday afternoon, Gabbard joined the White House briefing to further level allegations against Obama for his role in fueling a narrative of collusion between Trump and Russia in the wake of the 2016 election. Gabbard sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department days earlier and accused the Obama administration of trying to “subvert President Trump’s 2016 victory and presidency.”

Years earlier, however, the then-GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Russia did try to influence the 2016 election to favor Trump. Asked why her report was at odds with the Intelligence Committee’s findings, Gabbard did not provide an answer. She told reporters instead, “I’m telling you to look at the evidence—look at the evidence and you will know the truth.”

Although Gabbard’s claims have been repeatedly debunked by fact-checkers — including Fox News legal analyst Andy McCarthy — Baier argued that her evidence was compelling. During a conversation on The Story with Martha MacCallum, the two discussed Gabbard’s assertion that the Obama administration deliberately pushed bad intel to implicate Trump in election meddling:

MACCALLUM: One of the very interesting things here is the different way Hillary Clinton was treated as opposed to President Trump. She received a defensive briefing. It seems the highest bar was put in place in terms of any information that could be used against her. It also is revealed in this report that at one point in the process, they were looking at investigating her because they believed she was throwing all of the stuff about Russia out there, and this dossier out there, in order to cover up for the server investigation. So, at one point, they were looking into that closely; but then there’s this huge steer towards Trump with, according to these documents, a much lower bar that is needed for the credibility of the information they will corral and throw at him, correct?

BAIER: Yeah, that’s exactly right. This is the Trump investigation and this is what they’re putting out here. Separately, Chuck Grassley has put out these files on the Hillary Clinton email case — which are really eye-opening, as well — and a lot of it is redacted. I talked about both of those things with [James Comey] back in 2018. There was a major disparity.

And in the middle of this, you have the [Lisa Page] and [Peter Strzok], the two lovers at FBI, who come out with these texts of how biased they are against President Trump; and they’re in charge of the investigation, of the interview of Hillary Clinton, of the BleachBit phones, of the interview and scheduling for Michael Flynn — then NSA director. And you see how this all kind of comes in together in a way that is — in hindsight, as you look at the big picture — really troubling.

Listen, we are the one of the only outlets that’s following this in-depth, kind of on the substance as opposed to, again, a glancing blow; and I think it deserves that kind of coverage.

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