WASHINGTON — As the national intelligence director, Tulsi Gabbard is responsible for guarding America's secrets and discovering threats from overseas. But when she made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room Wednesday, her targets were President Donald Trump’s political enemies .

Escalating her attempts to undermine the long-settled conclusion that Russia tried to help Trump beat Hillary Clinton for the presidency nearly a decade ago, she unspooled what she called unshakable proof that then-President Barack Obama and his advisers plotted nothing short of a coup .

“They conspired to subvert the will of the American people,” she said, claiming they fabricated evidence to taint Trump’s victory.

Little of what she said was new, and much of it was baseless. Gabbard s

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