White House's Stephen Miller: Hillary Clinton, Obama officials should be prosecuted for 'coup'

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Sunday that newly declassified documents on the Russia collusion hoax reveal a “coup” against President Trump and that those involved should be prosecuted for “one egregious felony after another.”

“It was a coup to overthrow a democratically elected government, a coup carried out by the intelligence apparatus of this country, by the deep state, by Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party,” Mr. Miller said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

Mr. Miller said Ms. Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, is among the officials who should be prosecuted for having “knowingly and willfully perpetrated this plot.”

He also named former Obama administration officials CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, and FBI Director James B. Comey and California Sen. Adam Schiff, who served as the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee at the time.

“The new information that has been revealed by the Director of National Intelligence and by the FBI eliminates any scintilla of doubt about the intention, the premeditation, the planning and orchestration of this conspiracy,” Mr. Miller said. “It meets all of the criminal elements of a seditious conspiracy against the United States. It means the criminal elements of an insurrection.”

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard worked with the House Intelligence Committee to declassify a report the panel’s staff put together in September 2020 that she says details how the Obama administration manufactured an Intelligence Community Assessment to promote a “contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win.”

Mr. Miller said he has “complete confidence” that the Department of Justice, which has launched a strike force to examine the matter, will follow the “avalanche of evidence” to hold “the coup plotters, the schemers and the insurrectionists” to account.

“If we continue to create the impression and the reality that there is not a criminal, a severe criminal penalty for such contact, it will never stop,” he said.

Mr. Brennan and Mr. Clapper published an opinion piece in the New York Times last week dismissing the conspiracy claims as “patently false.”

“Every serious review has substantiated the intelligence community’s fundamental conclusion that the Russians conducted an influence campaign intended to help Mr. Trump win the 2016 election,” they said.

Those “most noteworthy” of those reviews was a unanimous, bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee, which was led at the time by Marco Rubio, now Mr. Trump’s secretary of state, they said.

Mr. Brennan and Mr. Clapper said the Obama administration’s intelligence assessment “made no judgment about the impact of Russian information operations on the outcome of the election,” nor did it mention “collusion” with the Trump campaign.

“There is a remarkable irony about this whole affair,” they said. “Despite claims by Trump administration officials of a nefarious political conspiracy, we did everything we could at the time to prevent leaks of intelligence reports, including Russia’s preference for Mr. Trump, a requirement that President Obama regularly emphasized. We knew such reports would be political dynamite. And despite substantial reporting on the matter, we succeeded in preventing such leaks before the election.”