In the government’s latest bid to distract from Donald Trump emerging ties to alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard unveiled supposedly “new evidence” Wednesday that members of the Obama administration had pushed the “lie” that Russian President Vladimir Putin preferred Trump over Hillary Clinton.

Gabbard made public more than 100 pages of records Friday that show efforts by Obama officials to whip up an alternative assessment about the “boldest yet” Russian influence campaign