“The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. And over the next few months, we are going to show that to the world.”

Those are the words of then-President Barack Obama days after Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. As it turns out, like many remarks issued throughout the course of his disastrous presidency, it was a complete and total lie.

Amid the backdrop of his “I heart democracy!” schtick, the 44th president was covertly working alongside the heads of America’s intelligence agencies to subvert democracy. Thanks to newly declassified records released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Americans (and the world) are able to see for themselves how Obama and Co. aimed to undermine Trump’s 2016 victory, sabotage his presidency, and ultimately thwart the will of the people.

While expansive and broaching numerous subject areas, the biggest takeaway from the document dump is that Obama and several key players — namely, former FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper — sought to provide validity to the baseless Clinton-manufactured narrative that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election. One of the main ways they attempted to do this was through the compilation of an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), which Obama ordered in early December 2016 to identify “Russian activities and intentions in recent U.S. elections.”

The newly disclosed documents not only dismantle the FBI and CIA’s high confidence claim that a major part of Moscow’s shenanigans in the 2016 contest was “to help President-elect Trump’s election chances,” but that intelligence directly contradicting that narrative was left out of the ICA altogether. What was included in the ICA is unsubstantiated dirt bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign — despite prior claims from the Three Intel Stooges (Brennan, Comey, Clapper) that it wasn’t.

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And this is only part of the massive scheme Obama and Co. used to undermine Trump and the 2016 election. The Obama FBI opened up a counterintelligence investigation (known as Crossfire Hurricane) as early as July 2016 using — wait for it — the dirt (Steele dossier) paid for by the Clinton campaign. (The Obama FBI later used the dossier to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign official Carter Page.)

This entire sham sounds like something out of a third-world country. Except it’s not. It’s a product of the notoriously corrupt Obama administration, which did everything in its power to delegitimize Trump’s victory and hamstring his presidency.

For all his feigned concerns about the state of “democracy” in America, Obama has shown himself to be one of the biggest threats to it. His administration’s efforts to interfere in the U.S. electoral process and deny the public a free and fair election will undoubtedly go down as one of the most destructive scandals in American history.

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But let’s not pretend like Obama and Co. did this all on their own. The whole charade’s success in deceiving voters about the true nature of Russia’s 2016 interference wouldn’t have been possible without willing participation from America’s thoroughly broken legacy media. These left-wing propagandists dutifully published leaks fed to them by corrupt intel officials and fomented the conspiracy for years on end. (They still are.)

What the latest bombshell revelations from the Gabbard files conclusively show is that there was no peaceful transfer of power after the 2016 election. Working hand and glove with its media allies, the Obama administration sought to cripple its biggest political rival before he even set foot in the Oval Office.

And that is a crime that cannot be allowed to go unpunished.

Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood