'There must be accountability': Tulsi Gabbard details 'treasonous conspiracy' Obama admin launched against Trump

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has said that there "must be accountability" for Obama administration officials involved in what she has called a "treasonous conspiracy" against Trump after the 2016 election.

"In the months leading up to the 2016 election, the intelligence community assessed, and this is what the documents detail, the intelligence community assessed, essentially Russia doesn't have the tools, the capability, or the intent to try to change the outcome of the US presidential election. Donald Trump pulls of a historic victory against Hillary Clinton in November of 2016," Gabbard told Fox and Friends.

Gabbard added, "Even in the days after that election, the intelligence community continued their consistent assessment that reflected the same thing in the months leading up to the election, all of a sudden, in the early days of December, there was a President's daily brief that was drafted. This is put together by the different elements of the intelligence community that reflected that same assessment: Russia did not try to hack the election. ... That document was pulled hours before it was supposed to be published for the President to see that following morning.”

"That document was never published until we released it yesterday. One day later, President Obama calls a meeting of his National Security Council, his top officials, to be held on what they called a 'sensitive topic.' And the results of that meeting, which we released yesterday, and these over 100 documents that talk about in detail how President Obama and his team, he directed a manufactured piece of intelligence that detailed—not if—but how Russia tried to influence the outcome of the United States election,” Gabbard said.

She referred to the media cycle and attacks on Trump following the meeting with the Obama administration officials as "a coup" against Trump, where he and his family members were "smeared and attacked; faced lawsuits [and] depositions."

"The implications and the consequences of these actions that were taken demand accountability. The American people not only deserve the truth and accountability when we look at the future of our country as a democratic republic and the American people's ability to have faith that when they go and cast a vote at the ballot box," Gabbard added.

On Friday, Gabbard called for a full investigation and prosecution of those who were responsible for the actions, and said that "their goal was to usurp President Trump and subvert the will of the American people.”