White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed Wednesday that Russia did try to sow "distrust" in the 2016 election results, but Obama intelligence officials manufactured claims of Trump–Russia "collusion.

President Donald Trump is rehashing longstanding grievances over the Russia investigation that shadowed much of his first term.

The U.S. intelligence community in 2017 said Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election and sought to hurt Clinton while trying to help Trump.

Retired CIA official Susan Miller, an author of the agency’s 2017 intelligence report on Russian election meddling, is vowing to fight any potential criminal charges brought by the Trump administration.

A former CIA officer who helped investigate Russian election interference denied Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s claim that the Obama administration cooked up intelligence on Russia to undermine Trump’s 2016 election win.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fired back at former President Barack Obama, accusing him of deflecting from his administration’s “absolute failure” to do basic vetting of intelligence reports used to fuel narratives of Russian collusion with the 2016 Trump campaign.