The walls may finally be closing in, just not on who the media’s been telling us to watch for the past eight years.
The Justice Department, yes that Justice Department, has just rolled out a “strike force” — no, not for fentanyl traffickers at the southern border or for the Epstein client list that seems to have vanished into a black hole — but to investigate some of the very top officials from the Obama administration over their role in manufacturing the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.
Justice Department Announces Formation of Strike Force to Assess Evidence Publicized by ODNI
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— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) July 23, 2025
That’s right. The same narrative that dominated headlines, talk shows, and Democrat fundraising emails since 2016 might have been — wait for it — total fiction. And now, thanks to some long-overdue transparency from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, we’re getting a peek under the hood. Spoiler alert: it’s not pretty.
Let’s recap. Gabbard declassifies a treasure trove of documents showing that Obama-era intel officials — including Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Rice, Kerry, McCabe, and yes, Obama himself — all played some kind of role in pushing the idea that Donald Trump was colluding with Russia. Only one problem: they had no actual evidence. Not a shred. In fact, they knew they didn’t. But they ran with it anyway.
BREAKING: @TulsiGabbard says the DOJ created a STRIKE FORCE TEAM to get to the bottom of Obama and Big Intel “MANUFACTURING” the Russia hoax. pic.twitter.com/1l11xvX73u
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) July 24, 2025
And now, finally, Attorney General Pam Bondi says the DOJ is treating the weaponization of intelligence against a political opponent with “utmost seriousness.” Well, that’s new. Because last we checked, the only people being frogmarched into courtrooms lately have been pro-life protesters, Catholic dads, and whichever unlucky parent dared question a school board. But hey, baby steps.
The heart of this whole mess? That infamous Steele Dossier. Commissioned by Fusion GPS, paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC, and spoon-fed to intel agencies like it was gospel truth. We now know from declassified transcripts that not only was the dossier unverifiable — it was widely known at the time to be unreliable. Even McCabe had to admit under oath that they couldn’t prove a single claim in it. But that didn’t stop Comey and Brennan from briefing Trump on it like it was national security gold.
And then there’s Brennan’s handwritten note — the smoking pen, if you will — literally citing Clinton’s plan to “vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service.” These weren’t intelligence failures; these were political operations disguised as intelligence assessments. The CIA, the FBI, and the broader Obama national security apparatus used the machinery of government to kneecap a duly-elected president before he was even sworn in.
But wait, there’s more. According to newly declassified House Intel reports, there was no direct intelligence suggesting that Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to win. In fact, the only thing “unusual” was Obama personally ordering that shaky intelligence to be published anyway. Unverified, implausible, and politically motivated — but hey, it served the narrative, didn’t it?
The pièce de résistance? Former officials, when pressed under oath in 2017 and 2018, all quietly admitted they saw no evidence of collusion. Clapper? Nada. Lynch? Nothing. Rice? “Nothing smoking.” Power? “I am not.” But go ahead and turn on CNN or MSNBC back then, and you’d think Trump had personally handed Putin the nuclear codes.
And now, with these documents finally coming to light, Obama’s spokesperson emerges from the shadows to denounce it all as “nonsense.” That’s rich. These are direct quotes, declassified memos, and handwritten notes from inside the highest levels of government. But sure, let’s call it a distraction.
The truth is, this is the scandal — the real one. Bigger than Watergate, more brazen than Iran-Contra. A sitting president and his intelligence cronies used government power to launch a yearslong smear campaign based on fiction, and they knew it. Now that a real investigation is underway, it’s time to see if accountability is still something this country believes in — or if the deep state really is just too deep.
The irony? After years of the media warning us about “authoritarianism,” it turns out the real threat to democracy was sitting in the West Wing… back in 2016.
