Sometime last year, I said that Tulsi Gabbard may turn out to be one of Trump’s most consequential hires.
A lot of people thought I was nuts, but I stand by my assessment. Marco Rubio may have been his best hire, but Gabbard is sure up there.
In a sane world, Gabbard’s steady stream of declassifications of documents that have been hidden from the public would be blockbuster news covered by every media outlet 24/7 for weeks. Her revelations about the origins of Russiagate and the widespread conspiracy to destroy Donald Trump, leading all the way up to President Obama, would have created a firestorm.
.@RepRickCrawford statement
“There have been many questions and concerns about these Atkinson transcripts, which have been withheld from the American public for far too long,” said Chairman Crawford. “I hope that the release of these transcripts allows the American people to…
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) April 13, 2026
NEW RECORDS VIA
@DNIGabbard @RepRickCrawford
ATKINSON TRANSCRIPTS
– First Trump Impeachment + Whistleblower Motive
Whistleblower met with Democrats on House Intelligence Committee (then led by Adam Schiff) BEFORE reporting his allegations to the Intelligence Community Inspector General.
October 2019: then Congressman now @CIADirector Ratcliffe nailed the timeline in a closed door briefing with Intelligence Community Watchdog Michael Atkinson.
– Trump/Zelensky call July 25th 2019
– Whistleblower complaint filed August 12th
– Ratcliffe questioned what happened during those 18 days.
Ratcliffe: The whistleblower did not disclose to you that he or she had contact with HPSCI (House Intelligence Committee)?
Atkinson: The answer to that is yes. The answer to that is yes.
Atkinson: On the urgent disclosure form, there’s a question that the complainant is asked about who they have reported the violation to…and one of the boxes is the congressional intelligence committees. The complainant did not check that box.
But no reporter can expect to get a Pulitzer Prize exposing a Democrat, even for a scandal that makes Watergate look like jaywalking, so nobody has delved into the documents she has released.
Yesterday she released a tranche of documents exposing the lies, perjury, and corruption behind the fake Ukraine impeachment, demonstrating that everybody involved engaged in a conspiracy and coverup in order to destroy President Trump.
A lot of distrust has been sown over the past few months, with claims that Tulsi isn’t sufficiently MAGA or doesn’t pass some kind of ideological purity test. All I can say is look at the results.
Back in July, the CIA released a CYA statement claiming there had been tradecraft… https://t.co/5Y8GZlhakq
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) April 13, 2026
A lot of distrust has been sown over the past few months, with claims that Tulsi isn’t sufficiently MAGA or doesn’t pass some kind of ideological purity test. All I can say is look at the results.
Back in July, the CIA released a CYA statement claiming there had been tradecraft errors in the Russia collusion investigation. Tulsi pushed back directly, saying they were lying, and then released the underlying documents that flatly contradicted their claim, along with a wider trove of material. Now she’s released further documentation laying out how the Ukraine impeachment hoax was secretly concocted by a network of deep state operators, including Ciaramella, Adam Schiff, and others.
So while all of this should have been made public years ago, Tulsi is the one actually getting it out now.
Shockingly, Adam Schiff lied. Eric Ciamarella lied. Even the OIG looked the other way. Because, in order to destroy Donald Trump, everything is permitted.
Here’s Adam Schiff lying, claiming that he doesn’t know who the whistleblower is. Laughable lie.
Schiff needs to face accountability for his years of lying.pic.twitter.com/GAK2ulP0q7 https://t.co/AQxdnkFsZV
— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 13, 2026
Lots of people are digging through the documents, to an extent that I frankly don’t have the bandwidth to, but the bottom line is pretty simple: the impeachment was based on hearsay, the original “whistleblower” complaint was co-drafted by Adam Schiff’s staff, who insisted they had no contact with Ciamarella, and Adam Schiff based his prosecution on knowingly false statements.
None of that is shocking, but it is no longer easy to dispute because we have the documents to prove it.
🚨BREAKING: DNI Tulsi Gabbard just released never-before-seen declassified documents exposing a coordinated Deep State conspiracy inside the Intelligence Community used to impeach President Trump in 2019.
The Whistleblower — a CIA analyst and self-declared registered Democrat… pic.twitter.com/VFW9dadMGs
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) April 13, 2026
BREAKING: DNI Tulsi Gabbard just released never-before-seen declassified documents exposing a coordinated Deep State conspiracy inside the Intelligence Community used to impeach President Trump in 2019.
The Whistleblower — a CIA analyst and self-declared registered Democrat who traveled with VP Biden to Ukraine and attended official Biden luncheons — admitted in his own filing to having zero firsthand knowledge of the Trump-Zelensky call, lied about contacting Adam Schiff’s Democratic staff before filing, and relied on a key witness who co-authored the 2017 Russia Hoax ICA and worked alongside disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok.
That witness admitted he couldn’t connect the same dots, had to “read between the lines,” and only perceived a quid pro quo “in hindsight.”
The documents further reveal the Whistleblower tried to block Devin Nunes — a Gang of Eight member legally entitled to view the disclosure — from seeing it, expressed dislike of current FBI Director Kash Patel, and described NSC staffer Michael Ellis as “slippery and untrustworthy.”
IC IG Atkinson never requested the actual call transcript, sent a criminal referral to DOJ on second-hand testimony alone, altered the whistleblower form to remove the firsthand knowledge requirement, and ignored explicit DOJ guidance that the complaint didn’t rise to the level of “urgent concern.”
He wrote Congress anyway. The DOJ found no criminal violation.
Trump defense attorney Alan Dershowitz: “The evidence about the bias and credibility of the whistleblower was hidden by bureaucrats — a disservice to justice and the American people.”
Devin Nunes called it “a staged attack by anti-Trump malcontents who believed they, not the American people, should determine who is president.”
The exculpatory transcripts were locked in a safe and withheld from Trump’s defense team until House Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford forced their release on March 24, 2026.
If you remember, the censorship was so bad at the time that Facebook and YouTube banned users simply for saying the Whistleblower’s name: Eric Ciaramella.
This is Adam Schiff lying directly to the American people on the House floor during the impeachment hearing, claiming he had no idea who the whistleblower was — while his own staff had already been in contact with him.
Gabbard doesn’t have the power to prosecute any of these people, and in many cases, the statutes of limitations will have run out for any crimes committed. And, no doubt, the Department of Justice would be reluctant to prosecute, given that convictions in or around DC would be impossible to secure.
But still, Gabbard is doing what she can, producing the evidence, and that evidence will eventually make it into the historical record.
Some breaking news today
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Funny, I remember when I was smeared as a conspiracy theorist by the mainstream media when I said Schiff illegally coordinated with the whistleblower.
Turns out, it was TRUE with evidence! pic.twitter.com/YhZq5D1b3y
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) April 13, 2026
And Gabbard is slowly but surely cleaning out the Augean stables.
That’s not nothing. The intelligence community will be better than it was before she got there.
Do I want more? Absolutely. But without an interested media, it’s hard to see how we can get it.
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