If you’ve ever wondered whether the Russia-Trump hoax was just political theater or a carefully orchestrated op from the highest levels of government, buckle up—because investigative reporter John Solomon just dropped what Steve Bannon is calling a "smoking gun.”
During a Thursday WarRoom segment, Solomon walked through what might be the most important date in the entire Russiagate saga: December 19, 2016. That’s the day Barack Obama sat down for an interview with NPR and said, with full confidence, that he expected the CIA to conclude Vladimir Putin interfered in the election to help Donald Trump.
Here’s the problem: The CIA hadn’t even started its assessment yet.
Quick Clip:
JOHN SOLOMON: Obama predicted the CIA's conclusion before they even completed their report.
Almost like he already knew what it would say…
Probably because he ordered it.@jsolomonReports pic.twitter.com/XkG5Ny6sl9
— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) August 7, 2025
Solomon lays it out clearly—either Obama had supernatural foresight, or he already knew what the outcome of the intelligence report would be because he helped script it. And the documents now back that up. Thanks to recent declassifications pushed by Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and former Intel Chair Devin Nunes, we now know the intelligence community had previously briefed both Congress and Obama that Russia wasn’t trying to help Trump at all.
So how did Obama "know” what the CIA would eventually say? Solomon says it’s because the fix was in—and the entire narrative was crafted to cripple the incoming Trump presidency before it even began.
Quick Clip:
JOHN SOLOMON: Intel said Russia wasn’t backing a side.
Obama didn’t care. He wanted a Trump-Russia scandal.
So he made one up.@jsolomonReports pic.twitter.com/4yC3CW3Tol
— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) August 7, 2025
Bannon compared this to Watergate, but said what Obama did was far worse. Back in Nixon’s day, Republicans turned on him over just the attempt to weaponize the CIA against political opponents. Obama, on the other hand, allegedly succeeded—and no one on the left even blinked.
That’s why this matters. If a sitting president used intelligence agencies to launch a false narrative that would kneecap his successor, we’re no longer operating in a constitutional republic. We’re looking at banana republic behavior, where political power is maintained not by winning elections, but by rigging the game before it even starts.
Solomon says this isn’t just about 2016. It’s part of a 10-year conspiracy—and thanks to brave whistleblowers from inside the intelligence community, we’re finally starting to peel back the layers. One of the first to step forward was a top cybersecurity official who flagged the use of the discredited Steele dossier as a massive breach of protocol. That single act has already triggered a wave of others coming forward.
And it’s not over. Solomon teased that more whistleblower documents will drop in August, and the Department of Justice may already be gearing up for indictments. He believes the case will likely be based out of Fort Pierce, Florida, and a grand jury is quietly being formed.
Even more explosive? Solomon says a congressional "truth commission” may be in the works—something that could operate alongside the DOJ’s investigation. And here’s the kicker: if a witness lies to Congress, federal agents could arrest them on the spot. That’s how serious this is getting.
So why should Americans care? Because this isn’t about Trump or Obama anymore. It’s about whether the intelligence agencies we pay for can be weaponized to lie to us—and then cover it up for nearly a decade.
As Bannon put it, "If there are no consequences for this, we will not survive as a constitutional republic.”
