Trump and Tulsi Gabbard Admit Russia 'Meddled' in 2016 Election in Resurfaced Clips

President Donald Trump and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard acknowledge Russian interference in the 2016 elections in resurfaced clips, despite launching a recent campaign stating that the idea was fabricated by the Obama administration.

During a 2018 appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, Gabbard, who then represented Hawaii's 2nd congressional district, acknowledged that Russian actors had in fact interfered with the 2016 US elections.

"I'm going in a few different directions here with these social media giants, how they're being misused to further certain agendas in different ways," Gabbard began.

"But when you're talking about these Russian troll farms that you mentioned, what is missing from all of the news coverage around this and all of the outrage about how this foreign country is trying to influence our elections, which is wrong and which the American people need to be aware of where this information is coming from, is why somebody would do that. Well, because this country does want to influence who we're electing," she added.

"The United States has been doing this for a very long time in countries around the world. Overtly and covertly, through these kinds of disinformation campaigns, not even counting the outright regime change wars where we're going to physically take you out," she continued.

Similarly, President Trump himself accepted that there had been Russian interference in the 2016 elections while speaking to press before a meeting with GOP lawmakers in 2018.

"I have full faith and support for America's great intelligence agents, I always have, and I have felt very strongly that, while Russia's actions had no impact at all on the outcome of the election, let me be totally clear in saying, and I've said this many times, I accept our intelligence community's conclusion that Russia's meddling in the 2016 election took place. Could be other people also, lot of people out there. There was no collusion at all, and people have seen that and they've seen that strongly. The House has already come out very strongly on that," Trump said.

Gabbard's team recently published hundreds of documents aiming to demonstrate that the Obama administration fabricated evidence of Russian collusion in the 2016 election. Gabbard also took to her social media platforms to share infographics explaining the theory.

"Americans will finally learn the truth about how in 2016, intelligence was politicized and weaponized by the most powerful people in the Obama Administration to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President @realDonaldTrump, subverting the will of the American people and undermining our democratic republic," she wrote.

However, many have accused Gabbard of releasing an outdated hoax and conspiracy theory to distract from the Trump administration's unwillingness to release files pertaining to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.