Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told Newsmax on Monday that the nation’s intelligence agencies were used to help create a “false narrative” to try to harm President Donald Trump.Meadows told “The Record With Greta Van Susteren” that a criminal referral to the Department of Justice from Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s director of national intelligence, sets the foundation for potential criminal charges against those involved.
The referral alleges that former President Barack Obama, working with his national security team, established the narrative about Trump’s alleged Russia connections to hamper his presidency after the 2016 election.
“When you use the intelligence community to actually create a false narrative, but not only just create a false narrative, but perpetuate that over and over again, it was something that lasted with the Trump administration,” Meadows said.
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