Aides who worked for Barack Obama are desperate to shut down the burgeoning scandal surrounding their former boss and have devised a laughable plan to prevent it from reaching the public further.

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported, Gabbard released her second batch of previously undisclosed documents on Wednesday morning. These documents include more proof that Barack Obama directly gave the order to publish the Russia Collusion hoax, knowing there was no proof to back it up.

Page three of this latest document drop shows that then-President Obama ordered the release of documents, knowing there was no evidence to back them up. Obama didn’t just know about the Russia hoax – he directed it. All to delegitimize Trump’s historic win.

Obama also helped cover up the blackmail Vladimir Putin had on Crooked Hillary Clinton, including her numerous health issues.

Several deep state hacks affiliated with Obama also helped push the Russia Hoax and are in hot water. One person who should be particularly concerned is former CIA Director John Brennan.

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley says he could face criminal charges.

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is already so worried that he has lawyered up.

Now, NBC News reveals that Team Obama is desperate to find a way to ensure the scandal eventually dissipates and put a stop to more “unchecked allegations.”

From NBC News:

To former aides who worked in Barack Obama’s White House, the Trump administration’s allegations of “treason” carried the stench of desperation from a president straining to shift the focus from a burgeoning scandal around Jeffrey Epstein.

Still, they’re grappling with how to contain the unprecedented accusations National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard has leveled, even as they dismiss them as asinine, interviews with more than half a dozen people who worked in Obama’s White House or on his campaigns reveal.

These people say the events of the last week have turned into a messaging balancing act between unnecessarily giving oxygen to the claims that Obama ordered a false intelligence analysis to show Russia had worked to help Trump win the 2016 election and leaving the potential for unchecked accusations to balloon. Many of those who talked to NBC News were not authorized to speak publicly about strategy.

What is their brilliant scheme? It turns out that they plan to reach so-called Republicans via newspaper editorial boards and via members of Congress.

“The battle now is to play this even to make sure that thoughts don’t start to creep into more mainstream” audiences, a former Obama administration official said. That person said it was important to reach “mainstream Republicans,” who would listen to editorial boards and those in Congress who deemed the allegations against Obama as “beyond the pale.”

Do they actually think any GOPer, even more moderates, care one bit what the Wall Street Journal or Washington Post has to say?

Moreover, how many are going to listen to leftists and RINOS in Congress who dismiss Obama’s treason as a nothingburger?

One former Obama hack, Ned Price, decided to try anyway. He wrote a piece Fox News published on Wednesday titled: “Americans should beware of Gabbard’s ‘dangerous distraction’ with revisionist history of 2016 election.”

It’s safe to say that it did not work as the scandal only grew.