Putin kept claims Hillary Clinton had physical, ‘psycho-emotional’ problems under wraps because he thought she would win 2016 election: Gabbard

WASHINGTON — Russian intelligence obtained damaging information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s health amid her 2016 presidential campaign — including evidence that she had “psycho-emotional problems” that were being treated with severe sedatives — but Vladimir Putin chose not to release it before that year’s election because he thought the Democrat would win.

The astounding revelations were contained in a 2020 House Intelligence Committee report that reviewed Russia’s influence on the 2016 contest and was declassified and made public Wednesday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Russia’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR, “possessed DNC communications that Clinton was suffering from ‘intensified psycho-emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression. and cheerfulness,’” the report stated.

“Clinton was placed on a daily regimen of ‘heavy tranquilizers’ and while afraid of losing, she remained ‘obsessed with a thirst for power.’”

By September 2016, some of those communications showed then-President Barack Obama and Democratic party bosses found the state of Clinton’s health “extraordinarily alarming” and fretted that it could have a “serious negative impact” on her ability to beat Trump that November.

A full picture of the former first lady’s condition was guarded by Clinton advisers with the “strictest secrecy.”

The SVR also “possessed a campaign email discussing a plan approved by Secretary Clinton to link Putin and Russian hackers to candidate Trump in order to ‘distract the [American] public’ from the Clinton email server scandal.”

The revelations, which were taken from emails hacked from Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee accounts, even found that the Russians concealed details about Clinton shaking down religious organizations for campaign donations by pledging more favorable treatment by a future Democratic State Department.

“[D]ocuments leaked during the election were far less damaging to Secretary Clinton than those Putin chose not to leak,” the report determined.

“The report goes into great detail about the information that Russia and Putin had on Hillary Clinton, which included possible criminal acts,” Gabbard told reporters Wednesday during a White House briefing.

“Then-CIA Director [John] Brennan and the Intelligence Community mischaracterized intelligence and relied on dubious, substandard sources to create a contrived false narrative that Putin developed a ‘clear preference’ for Trump.”

Reps for Clinton did not immediately respond to a request for comment.