Tulsi Gabbard's Sloppy Propaganda
Nobody is buying US National Intelligence Chief Tulsi Gabbard's pitiful attempts to deflect attention away from the Epstein scandal, reports Matt Bernardini

Seeking to shield President Donald Trump from the nonstop attention that the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has brought on him, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has come out and done her best impersonation of a One America News pundit. Forget that this latest scandal plays right into the narrative of one of America’s top foes, it also attempts to falsely implicate a previous president in a scandal that Gabbard has dubbed a “treasonous coup”. Remember, treason is punishable by death.
Last week Gabbard claimed that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others manufactured a narrative that Russia tried to interfere in the 2016 election (it did) and that it falsely favored Donald Trump over the former First Lady (it did).
Since then she has selectively released a memo and cache of documents that right-wingers have gone crazy over, claiming that it validates their long-held conspiracies that the entire Russia investigation was a hoax.
Instead what the documents really reveal is a shoddy effort to undermine the bipartisan conclusion that Russia wanted Trump to win. To do so, Gabbard and her minions repeatedly take statements and reports out of context, and make conclusions that are not even backed up by their own documents.
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