Documents released Friday by National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard “completely explode” claims that Russia interfered “specifically to help President Donald Trump” in the 2016 presidential election, reporter Matt Taibbi said Friday to Newsmax.

“Now that we know what that conclusion rested on, among other things, that the key piece of evidence was a single fragment of a single comment made to the director of the CIA personally by a Russian defector in Virginia, and we don’t know whether it’s opinion or what the original source of it was. That’s incredibly damning,” Taibbi told “National Report.”

“And it’s damning that [former President Barack Obama’s] own team tried to avoid including it,” he added.

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