{"id":6981,"date":"2026-05-04T10:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetwistzone.com\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:02:48","slug":"gabbard-makes-criminal-referrals-linked-to-first-trump-impeachment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetwistzone.com\/?p=6981","title":{"rendered":"Gabbard Makes Criminal Referrals Linked To First Trump Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The quiet move by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to send criminal referrals to the Justice Department drags the 2019 impeachment drama back into the spotlight, but with the cast reversed. Instead of Donald Trump, the focus is now on the whistleblower who helped trigger his impeachment and on former intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, whose judgment once carried the full weight of official credibility. Newly declassified records, released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, suggest that elements within the intelligence community may have coordinated to drive a narrative about Trump\u2019s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Atkinson has stood by his decision, insisting the complaint met the legal threshold of an \u201curgent concern,\u201d even while admitting it relied heavily on secondhand accounts and came from a source showing signs of political bias. Supporters see a by-the-book watchdog; critics see a partisan operation cloaked in procedure. Now, with criminal referrals in DOJ\u2019s hands and no public word on an investigation, the country is left in a familiar place: staring into a fog of secrecy, wondering whether this was a genuine defense of the rule of law or a weaponization of it, and knowing that whichever story prevails will rewrite the history of Trump\u2019s first impeachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quiet move by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to send criminal referrals to the Justice Department drags the 2019 impeachment drama back into the spotlight, but &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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