Rep. Jason Crow accused the director of national intelligence of trying to curry favor with the president.
Rep. Jason Crow on Sunday said Tulsi Gabbard has turned herself into a “weapon of mass distraction” in an effort to regain President Donald Trump’s favor after he appeared to dismiss the director of national intelligence.
In an interview with Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday,” the Colorado Democrat said Gabbard’s recent accusation that former President Barack Obama manipulated information and “knowingly lied” about Russian efforts to sway the 2016 election would be “sad if they weren’t so dangerous.”
“She’s trying to curry favor and get back into favor with Donald Trump and has concocted these theories to do so,” Crow said, adding that Gabbard has not provided any new information with her claims.
“There have been four investigations including a bipartisan Senate investigation led under the first Trump administration in part by Marco Rubio that is very clear on these findings,” he said, referencing Trump’s secretary of state. “These have been investigated and reinvestigated and reinvestigated and nothing has changed up until this past month.”
Last week, Gabbard claimed newly declassified documents revealed “irrefutable evidence” that Obama and his national security team created an intelligence community assessment “that they knew was false” about Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential election. She and Trump said Obama’s actions could amount to treason.