Trump Admin Releases Declassified Reports
A newly declassified intelligence report sheds explosive light on how the Obama administration allegedly handled the 2016 Trump–Russia narrative — including claims that Russian intelligence held damaging information on then–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s health and that U.S. intelligence leaders knowingly relied on “implausible” sources to frame a narrative of Kremlin support for Donald Trump.
The report, declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, was prepared by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in 2020 following an investigation spearheaded by then-Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA). It had been stored in a secure CIA facility and never made public until now.
According to the report, Russia’s foreign intelligence service possessed Democratic National Committee (DNC) communications indicating that President Barack Obama and party leaders considered Clinton’s health “extraordinarily alarming,” with details alleging she suffered from “intensified psycho-emotional problems” and was on a “daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers.”
Russian intelligence also reportedly believed Clinton had multiple serious medical conditions, including Type 2 diabetes and ischemic heart disease.
More explosively, the report states that Russian intelligence intercepted a Clinton campaign email discussing a plan — allegedly approved by Clinton herself — to “vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service” to distract from the controversy over her private email server.
Gabbard directly accused former CIA Director John Brennan and Obama’s national security team of mischaracterizing intelligence to create the “false narrative” that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to win. “Brennan and the IC misled lawmakers by referencing the debunked Steele dossier… when he knew that it was discredited,” she said during a White House briefing Wednesday.
The report also reveals that two senior CIA officers warned Brennan there was no direct evidence that Putin preferred Trump. Yet, the Obama administration moved forward with an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) asserting such a preference, even incorporating what the report calls “substandard” and “potentially biased” reporting as key sources.
Notably, the report also states that Putin had privately told a confidant that he “did not care who won” the election and had prepared for a Clinton presidency, believing Moscow “could work with her.”
The findings build on previous disclosures, including Special Counsel John Durham’s report, which concluded that the FBI “failed to act” on evidence that the Clinton campaign sought to manipulate the law enforcement process.