In a move that felt less like a press release and more like tossing a Molotov cocktail into the editorial boardroom of The Washington Post, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has accused the so-called “free press” of being complicit in silence over what she describes as the Obama administration’s “homemade Trump–Russia conspiracy.”
In a newly declassified report – which reads like a Netflix docuseries no one asked for – Gabbard unveiled “overwhelming evidence” suggesting that after Donald Trump’s shocking 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton, then-President Barack Obama and his national security team got busy laying the groundwork for a multi-year political thriller disguised as an intelligence operation.
But the real twist? Not the report itself – in 2025, governments fabricating intel to target political enemies is barely worth a tweet. No, what shocked Gabbard was the “deafening silence” from mainstream media, which suddenly developed mass amnesia the moment the report dropped.
“It’s fascinating how, when they do talk about this, they avoid the actual revelations,” Gabbard said on Fox & Friends, looking like a professor forced to grade kindergartners on national security ethics. “They focus only on criticisms of the report. The truth? Never heard of her.”
And if you think that sounds like an accusation, you’d be right.
Gabbard outlined two very uncomfortable reasons why the liberal press has collectively ghosted the story:
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They don’t want the American people to know the truth.
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They were part of the production crew – eagerly gobbling up unverified “intelligence” from anonymous sources and printing it like it was tomorrow’s gospel.
“They didn’t verify it. They didn’t investigate. They just regurgitated it,” Gabbard said, likely referring to CNN, MSNBC, and anyone who could pronounce “Steele dossier” without laughing.
She even dared to compare today’s media blackout to their now-legendary role in pushing the Iraq WMD fantasy, which led the U.S. into war and the press into giving half-hearted, 3-sentence blog apologies posted at 2 a.m.
As for Obama? The former president seemed less than thrilled to be dragged into Act II of this never-ending political opera.
His response, issued through a spokesman, was basically a jazz solo of bureaucratic dodging:
“Out of respect for the presidency, we don’t usually respond to nonsense,” said Patrick Rodenbush, implying that if the truth is uncomfortable, best to treat it like your ex’s texts – ignore it.
Rodenbush insisted that nothing in the new report contradicts the widely accepted view that Russia tried to influence the 2016 election – a statement that sounds oddly familiar, like someone defending pizza as still being pizza… even without toppings.
Gabbard, undeterred, fired back that Obama’s response was a “carefully worded deflection” designed to completely avoid addressing the substance of what was revealed.
The takeaway?
Gabbard may have lit a torch – but no one’s bothering to look where it points. The press is too busy fact-checking Trump’s tie color or decoding Obama’s teenage diary. Meanwhile, everyday Americans are left wondering: who’s actually writing the script of American democracy these days?
