Vladimir Putin kept claims Hillary Clinton had physical, ‘psycho-emotional’ problems under wraps

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 Sept. 18, 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.

Clinton, now 77, was apparently suffering from “Type 2 diabetes, Ischemic heart disease, deep vein thrombosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease” at the time.

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.

In the 44-page document, buried intelligence points to Putin not having a preference for who would win the 2016 election — despite then-CIA Director John Brennan pushing for the inclusion of since-debunked details from the Steele dossier suggesting Russia’s leader favored Trump because he may have been able to blackmail him.

“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,” added Gabbard.

The report was initiated by former House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and handed over to the CIA, ODNI and White House by current chair Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) in March.

“The Russia hoax will go down as one of the most troublesome event[s] in U.S. history,” Crawford said in a statement. “A President of the United States was falsely accused, and a nation had to endure lies fabricated by rogue personnel within their own Intelligence Community.

“To this day, our country is more polarized than ever before, and the Russia hoax played a role in that. There are still Americans who passionately believe the fabricated narrative. That is why releasing this document to the public has been so important.”

Crawford added that he and Nunes had to endure “untold levels of obstruction by the CIA” to ultimately release the information to the public.

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