{"id":2466073,"date":"2025-07-24T08:51:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/there-was-no-peaceful-transfer-of-power-in-2017\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T08:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:54:16","slug":"there-was-no-peaceful-transfer-of-power-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/there-was-no-peaceful-transfer-of-power-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"There Was No Peaceful Transfer Of Power In 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthere-was-no-peaceful-transfer-of-power-in-2017%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2466073&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses how, despite former President Barack Obama&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/starbucks-closes-more-than-a-dozen-stores-amid-crime-surge\/\" title=\"Starbucks Closes More Than a Dozen Stores Amid Crime Surge\">public statement praising<\/a> the peaceful transition of power after the 2016 election, newly declassified documents reveal efforts by Obama and key intelligence officials to undermine Donald Trump&#8217;s victory. These documents, released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, suggest that Obama, along with former FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper, worked to validate the unfounded Russia collusion narrative that was originally pushed by Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign. The Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) ordered by Obama included discredited information, such as the Steele dossier, while excluding intelligence that contradicted the collusion claims. Additionally, the Obama FBI launched the Crossfire Hurricane examination relying heavily on the Clinton-funded dossier to surveil Trump&#8217;s campaign. The article portrays these actions as a politically motivated attempt by the obama management and cooperating media to delegitimize Trump&#8217;s presidency, labeling it one of the most serious scandals in American history and a betrayal of democratic principles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&ldquo;<em>The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy.&nbsp;And over the next few months, we are going to show that to the world<\/em>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Those are the <a href=\"https:\/\/pl.usembassy.gov\/obama_election2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">words<\/a> of then-President <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a> days after <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/hillary-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n<p>Amid the backdrop of his &ldquo;I heart democracy!&rdquo; schtick, the 44th president was covertly working alongside the heads of America&rsquo;s intelligence agencies to subvert democracy. Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/new-docs-contradict-top-obama-officials-claims-steele-dossier-wasnt-included-in-critical-russiagate-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">newly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/house-investigators-obama-officials-ignored-intel-contradicting-russia-collusion-narrative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declassified<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/brennan-overruled-cia-experts-objections-to-include-steele-dossier-in-bogus-intel-assessment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">records<\/a> released by Director of National Intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/tulsi-gabbard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tulsi Gabbard<\/a>, Americans (and the world) are able to see for themselves how Obama and Co. aimed to undermine Trump&rsquo;s 2016 victory, sabotage his presidency, and ultimately thwart the will of the people.<\/p>\n<p>While expansive and broaching numerous subject areas, the biggest takeaway from the document dump is that Obama and several key players &mdash; namely, former FBI Director <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/james-comey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Comey<\/a>, CIA Director <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/john-brennan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Brennan<\/a>, and DNI <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/james-clapper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Clapper<\/a> &mdash; sought to provide validity to the baseless <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/15\/unsealed-crossfire-hurricane-docs-further-prove-russiagate-was-a-hoax-all-along\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Clinton-manufactured<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligence.senate.gov\/2017\/01\/06\/publications-assessing-russian-activities-and-intentions-recent-us-elections\/#:~:text=Recent%20U.S.%20Elections-,January%206%2C%202017,Download%20PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ordere<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligence.senate.gov\/2017\/01\/06\/publications-assessing-russian-activities-and-intentions-recent-us-elections\/#:~:text=Recent%20U.S.%20Elections-,January%206%2C%202017,Download%20PDF\">d<\/a> in early December 2016 to identify &ldquo;Russian activities and intentions in recent U.S. elections.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newly-disclosed-documents-show-fauci-lied-sen-paul\/\" title=\"Newly Disclosed ... Show Fauci Lied: Sen. Paul\">newly disclosed documents<\/a> not only dismantle the FBI and CIA&rsquo;s high confidence claim that a major part of Moscow&rsquo;s shenanigans in the 2016 contest was &ldquo;to help President-elect Trump&rsquo;s election chances,&rdquo; but that intelligence directly contradicting that narrative was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/house-investigators-obama-officials-ignored-intel-contradicting-russia-collusion-narrative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left out<\/a> of the ICA altogether. What <em>was<\/em> included in the ICA is unsubstantiated dirt bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign &mdash; despite <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/new-docs-contradict-top-obama-officials-claims-steele-dossier-wasnt-included-in-critical-russiagate-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prior claims<\/a> from the Three Intel Stooges (Brennan, Comey, Clapper) that it wasn&rsquo;t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ:[READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/fbi-analyst-on-russia-hoax-our-instructions-were-to-push-this\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBI Analyst On Russia Hoax: &lsquo;Our Instructions &hellip; Were To Push This&rsquo;<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/15\/unsealed-crossfire-hurricane-docs-further-prove-russiagate-was-a-hoax-all-along\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">using<\/a> &mdash; wait for it &mdash; 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.)<\/p>\n<p>This entire sham sounds like something out of a third-world country. Except it&rsquo;s not. It&rsquo;s a product of the notoriously corrupt Obama administration, which did everything in its power to delegitimize Trump&rsquo;s victory and hamstring his presidency. <\/p>\n<p>For all his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/barack-obama-donald-trump-democracy-b2772693.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">feigned concerns<\/a> about the state of &ldquo;democracy&rdquo; in America, Obama has shown himself to be <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/23\/obama-white-house-deep-staters-prove-to-be-the-real-threats-to-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one of the biggest threats<\/a> to it. His administration&rsquo;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. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[LISTEN:[LISTEN:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/emergency-episode-sean-davis-and-mollie-hemingway-dissect-latest-russia-hoax-bombshells--67089999?utm_medium=app&amp;utm_source=widget&amp;utm_campaign=episode-title&amp;deep_link_value=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spreaker.com%2Fepisode%2Femergency-episode-sean-davis-and-mollie-hemingway-dissect-latest-russia-hoax-bombshells--67089999%3Futm_medium%3Dapp%26utm_source%3Dwidget%26utm_campaign%3Depisode-title&amp;af_channel=widget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Emergency Episode: Sean Davis And Mollie Hemingway Dissect Latest Russia Hoax Bombshells<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But let&rsquo;s not pretend like Obama and Co. did this all on their own. The whole charade&rsquo;s success in deceiving voters about the true nature of Russia&rsquo;s 2016 interference wouldn&rsquo;t have been possible without willing <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/russia-collusion-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">participation<\/a> from America&rsquo;s thoroughly broken legacy media. These left-wing propagandists dutifully published <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/17\/three-russia-hoax-bombshells-hidden-in-ig-report-on-doj-surveillance-of-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leaks fed to them<\/a> by corrupt intel officials and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/29\/jake-tapper-is-lying-about-cnns-key-role-in-the-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fomented<\/a> the conspiracy for years on end. (They <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1948091791242330356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">still are<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>What the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >latest bombshell revelations<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n<p>And that is a crime that cannot be allowed to go unpunished. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-american-freedom-convoy-set-to-launch-on-march-1\/\" title=\"Exclusive: \u2018...n Freedom Convoy\u2019 Set To Launch On March 1\">state content writer<\/a> 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<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama&#8217;s 2016 claim of peaceful power transfer proved false<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2466074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Trump-Obama.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[9222,50410,5045,5894,37546],"class_list":["post-2466073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-9222","tag-controversy-2","tag-government","tag-politics","tag-transfer-of-power"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Trump-Obama.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466077,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466073\/revisions\/2466077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2466074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}