‘This Is Simply Illegal’: House Republicans Demand Obama Russia Hoax Arrests

House Republicans are demanding arrests in response to explosive claims that former President Barack Obama and his administration attempted to fabricate intelligence to construct a narrative of Russian influence in the 2016 election to help President Donald Trump.

On “Sunday Morning Futures,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) detailed what crime might have been done in reaction to what Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has described as a “treasonous conspiracy” by high-level officials to sabotage Trump’s first term.

“There needs to be criminal prosecution and arrests. Lying under oath, putting out a false intelligence report — that’s a violation of 18 U.S. Code 1001,” Luna told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.

Luna declared that convictions could lead to several years in prison and financial penalties.

“There needs to be arrests. This is not partisan. This is simply illegal, what they did, and we’re simply upholding the law,” Luna said.

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who is running to become Florida governor in the 2026 election, agreed with Luna during their joint appearance.

“There need to be arrests on this matter. People need to go to jail on this because this is about the republic,” Donalds said. “This is not about one president — it is about the presidency and the continuation of our country.”

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is vowing to release more information this week in addition to her bombshell declassification of documents that show “overwhelming evidence” that former President Barack Obama’s administration laid the groundwork for the years-long Trump-Russia collusion investigation after Trump won the 2016 election.

“We will be releasing more detailed information about how exactly this took place, and the extent to which this information was sought to be hidden from the American people, hidden from officials who would be in a position to do something about it,” Gabbard told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo.

“Accountability is essential for the future of our country, for the American people to have any sense of trust in the integrity of our democratic republic. Accountability, action, prosecution, and indictments for those who are responsible for trying to steal our democracy is essential for us to make sure that this never happens to our country again,” Gabbard continued.

“I really cannot fathom” how special counsels Robert Mueller and John Durham missed evidence of this “years-long coup against President Trump,” Gabbard added.

“There is no rational or logical explanation for why they failed,” Gabbard said, adding, “The only logical conclusion that I can draw in this … is that there was direct intent to cover up the truth about what occurred and who was responsible and the broad network of how this seditious conspiracy was concocted and who exactly was responsible for carrying it out.”

Among other things, Gabbard’s team unearthed a Sept. 12, 2016 intelligence community assessment that “foreign adversaries do not have and will probably not obtain the capabilities to successfully execute widespread and undetected cyber attacks” on election systems.

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Breaking News on @SundayFutures with @MariaBartiromo as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard @ODNIgov details the key findings in the origins of the Russia Collusion Narrative. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/mjeatEYuTj

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New disclosures from the government’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into the 2016 election, otherwise known as alleged “Trump-Russia collusion,” have revealed a stunning admission from top Obama-era officials.

A newly declassified memo, released Friday by Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, shows that U.S. intelligence officials concluded Russia did not play a significant role in Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton.

The documents released by Gabbard are the clearest proof yet that officials within the Obama administration had serious doubts about Russian interference, even as they proceeded with the investigation.

The memo, dated 2016, told then-President Obama directly that “Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure.”

While acknowledging prior reports about a possible breach of Illinois voter rolls and failed targeting attempts in other states, the memo clearly states that those efforts never compromised voting systems—and didn’t come close to altering results.

“The targeting of infrastructure not used in casting ballots makes it highly unlikely it would have resulted in altering any state’s official vote,” the document reads. It goes further: “Criminal activity also failed to reach the scale and sophistication necessary to change election outcomes.”

The disclosure is a major vindication for Trump, who has long argued that the Russia collusion narrative was a hoax pushed by the Clinton campaign and Obama intelligence officials to sabotage his presidency before it began.