5 Revelations From the Newly Declassified Russia Records
The U.S. intelligence community relied on a single ‘scant, unclear, unverifiable’ report to allege that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks during a press briefing at the White House on July 23, 2025. Gabbard released new evidence on how the Trump–Russia narrative was created around the 2016 elections. Screenshot via The Epoch Times, Reuters
The Trump administration released three batches of records in July that shed new light on the decade-long controversy over Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
The three lots of records concern the creation, at the behest of President Barack Obama, of an intelligence community assessment (ICA) that featured an allegation that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in the presidential election in order to help then-candidate Donald Trump.
