“There was a shift, a 180-degree shift, from the intelligence community’s assessment leading up to the election to the one that President Obama directed be produced after Donald Trump won the election that completely contradicted those assessments that had come previously.”
What FactCheck.org found
A Jan. 6, 2017, intelligence assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an “influence campaign” in an attempt to help elect Donald Trump and earlier intelligence assessments concluded Russia did not successfully use cyberattacks on election infrastructure in the 2016 election. Those two assessments are not in contradiction.
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In short
Tulsi Gabbard (Director of National Intelligence) made this claim around 22 July 2025. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 July 2025, 1 day later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Tulsi Gabbard has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc6m2pxewno&t=257s
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