JD Vance: ‘Going To See A Lot Of People Get Indicted’ Over Russiagate
Vice President JD Vance says a wave of indictments is coming for key figures involved in the Obama administration’s handling of the now-discredited “Russiagate” scandal.
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Vance stopped short of naming names but pointed to newly released intelligence documents from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as proof of “an aggressive violation of the law” during the years-long operation to paint President Donald J. Trump as compromised by Russia.
“Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for account about on the whole Russia collusion, made-up story. Now that DNI Tulsi Gabbard has released all of those classified documents, we’re actually seeing who was behind all of this. Do you want to see indictments?” host Maria Bartiromo asked.
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View Plans“I absolutely want to see indictments, Maria. Look, of course you’ve got to have the law follow the facts here. You don’t just indict people to indict people. You indict people because they broke the law. But if you look at what Tulsi and Kash Patel have revealed in the last couple of weeks, I don’t know how anybody can look at that and say there wasn’t aggressive violations of the law,” Vance replied.
According to Vance, top Obama-era intelligence and law enforcement officials “defrauded the American people” by laundering Hillary Clinton campaign narratives through U.S. intelligence agencies. “They would take something that supported a Hillary Clinton campaign talking point, and they would overemphasize it and exaggerate it. They took anything that actually contradicted that narrative, and they buried it deep… That’s a violation of the people’s trust… and I absolutely think they broke the law. You’re going to see a lot of people get indicted for that.”
Gabbard last month began releasing declassified materials from the Obama administration’s 2016 election investigation. Among them was a 2020 Republican-authored House Intelligence Committee report finding no credible proof that Russia backed Trump’s campaign. She also revealed documents showing that senior intelligence officials knew Russia had not hacked voting systems in a way that could alter results.
Following these disclosures, Attorney General Pam Bondi convened a Justice Department “strike force” to determine whether criminal laws were broken. Bondi has moved to assemble a grand jury, a key step in securing indictments.
Predictably, Obama-era officials have denied wrongdoing. Former CIA Director John Brennan and former DNI James Clapper cited a 2020 bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report claiming analysts were under no political pressure. In an op-ed, they insisted the 2017 Intelligence Community assessment that Gabbard criticized never alleged “collusion” between Trump and others.
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View PlansFormer President Barack Obama’s spokesperson Patrick Rodenbush dismissed the revelations as politically motivated: “The bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction. Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes.”
Still, with a grand jury in motion and federal prosecutors digging deeper, the Obama administration’s Russiagate architects may soon face the legal consequences Vance predicts.