(NewsNation) — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard doubled down Wednesday on allegations that President Trump’s first impeachment stemmed from a tainted whistleblower complaint that she says was engineered to have Trump removed from office.
Gabbard earlier this week sought to discredit the work of Michael Atkinson, a former inspector general of the intelligence community. In 2019, he flagged a whistleblower’s claims that Republican Trump, during a phone call, tried to coerce Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into investigating Democrat Joe Biden’s family by threatening to stall U.S. military assistance to the European country.
The allegations led to the Democrat-controlled House impeaching Trump in December 2019 before the Senate acquitted Trump early in 2020.
Gabbard released materials Monday that she says shows the whistleblower complaint was part of a coordinated, politicized effort within the intelligence community to “manufacture a conspiracy” against Trump. Her office has made criminal referrals to the Department of Justice.
“The time is always right to expose the truth. We know that the deep state rot within the intelligence community has existed for a very long time, and it is very deep,” Gabbard told “Katie Pavlich Tonight” on Wednesday.
She said the unidentified whistleblower did not have firsthand knowledge about the contents of Trump’s phone call with Zelenskyy and that Atkinson did not even ask to see a transcript. Gabbard said he took what...
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