Victor Davis Hanson Explains How Left Spent Three Years Trying To Destroy Trump In Three Separate Ways

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson said on Fox News Monday that the left waged a relentless, multi-pronged campaign to destroy President Donald Trump—career-wise, presidential-wise, and psychologically.

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard released declassified evidence Friday showing former President Barack Obama’s national security team politicized intelligence after Trump’s 2016 win. During an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle,” Hanson said Democrats and their allies in the intelligence community spent three years undermining Trump’s legitimacy.

“They wanted Donald Trump’s administration to fail, and they wanted to destroy him career-wise, presidential-wise, psychologically,” Hanson said. “They wanted to destroy him. And so they went through the collusion-false narrative in 2015 and 16. That failed.”

Hanson said the left launched a coordinated, three-year effort to cripple Donald Trump’s presidency, accusing them of using investigations and impeachment to try to overturn the 2016 election.

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“Then they ate up 22 months and $40 million of his administration to destroy it. Then they took a little breath, and they went into the first impeachment Zelensky phone call and Venman and the quote-unquote whistleblower. And so this was a three-year project to overturn the will of the American people and to destroy [the] administration,” Hanson told host Laura Ingraham. “[It] makes Watergate, as people have remarked on Laura, look like small potatoes.”

Despite the coordinated attacks, Trump managed to win reelection in 2024. Hanson dismissed the long-pushed narrative that Trump was soft on Russia as an outright fabrication.

“One of the worst things they did, they created this false narrative that Donald Trump was soft on the Russians. And when you look at his administration, it was the only one in four administrations where Putin didn’t leave his borders. He was tough on them. He sent Zelensky javelins. He got out of an asymmetrical missile deal,” Hanson said.

Hanson said Trump opposed the Nord Stream pipeline and took a tougher stance on Putin than Obama, who was caught offering concessions on missile defense.

“He lectured the Germans. Don’t do the Nord Stream pipeline. He was far stronger than Biden or Obama. And yet, Obama was the one with a hot mic and soul and had this quid pro quo about missile defense in exchange for giving him space,” Hanson said. “So it had all dimensions, so many dimensions of fraud.”

Journalist Matt Taibbi reported that the intelligence community withheld key findings showing no large-scale foreign tampering in the 2016 election, even as Trump was entitled to see them in his daily briefings. An internal email titled “POTUS Tasking on Russia Election Meddling” said top officials moved to draft an assessment at Obama’s request. (RELATED: Tulsi Gabbard’s Files Release Raises Question About Claim From Obama Deputy National Security Advisor)

According to a newly released ODNI report, intelligence officials began leaking to the media and falsely claiming Russia influenced the election’s outcome. Despite years of investigations, Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

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