Washington, D.C., July 21, 2025 — In a panel discussion during The Todd Starnes Show on Newsmax2, Nestpoint Managing Director John Thomas addressed explosive claims surrounding a declassified intelligence plot to undermine President Trump during his first term—framing the developments as evidence of entrenched political weaponization inside U.S. intelligence agencies.
The discussion followed public statements from Tulsi Gabbard, who served as Director of National Intelligence, alleging that senior Obama-era intelligence officials knowingly pushed disinformation to initiate investigations into Trump-Russia ties. Thomas emphasized the credibility of the source and the severity of the implications.
“This isn’t partisan speculation,” Thomas said. “When people in power knowingly spread false narratives, anticipating the chain reaction they’d cause—smearing a sitting president—that’s not just unethical, it’s strategic sabotage. They knew the cloud it would cast.”
While fellow panelist Kaivan Shroff challenged the legitimacy of the claims, citing bipartisan support for prior findings of Russian interference, Thomas returned focus to the broader concern: the erosion of public trust in federal institutions. “This is about accountability and transparency,” he said. “If we want to restore faith in our agencies, we have to correct the record. Americans deserve to know how intelligence tools were potentially used to engineer political outcomes.”
Thomas also addressed the legal and procedural complexity surrounding calls to prosecute former officials, including President Obama. “Presidential immunity is a real legal boundary,” he noted. “Even if laws were broken, the path to accountability is unclear. But that doesn’t mean we turn a blind eye. This is about precedent—so it doesn’t happen again.”
The conversation widened to examine broader implications of politicized intelligence and executive overreach. Thomas cited past examples of federal agencies using coercive power not only against political candidates, but against businesses and private individuals. “The deep state, as some call it, wields enormous power,” he warned. “During COVID, we saw attempts to debank people and silence dissenting voices. It’s a pattern—when institutions prioritize control over truth, democracy suffers.”
In closing, Thomas pointed to the disarray in Democratic leadership as both a symptom and a cause of institutional instability, noting that a vacuum of coherent strategy on the left is paving the way for Republican momentum.
As a firm that advises leaders on geopolitical risk, Nestpoint continues to monitor the long-term impacts of political destabilization, government overreach, and institutional mistrust—factors that increasingly shape the global business and investment climate.
The full discussion originally aired on Newsmax2 and can be viewed here.
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