Harrison Fields, White House principal deputy press secretary, told Newsmax on Thursday that CNN was running interference when it made the decision to cut away from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s briefing on former President Barack Obama’s alleged coup against incoming President Donald Trump.

“I think they’re covering up for their colleagues, who are the same people that concocted this fake intelligence are now political and so-called experts on CNN,” Fields said on “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE.”

“They are paid staff as contributors to continue to peddle the BS that they were doing for years in this government. They are crooked spies, and we have the good spies calling them out and holding them accountable. We all knew the truth. We knew Barack Obama’s fingerprints were on this from the get-go.

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