Posted on 07/24/2025 7:25:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Megyn Kelly and Matt Taibbi look at the documents released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that President Trump says implicate President Obama in "treason."
MATT TAIBBI: I understand the confusion about this. I don't think that the report as it was released did a particularly good job of explaining what exactly the significance of these documents was. But they were very significant.
If you remember before the election, there was a story in The New York Times, for instance, on October 31st, saying, "FBI sees no link between Russia and Trump and the election." This was sort of what officials were telling people in the media. There were a few fringe attempts to kind of work the Steele dossier material—this full-on Trump-Russia conspiracy narrative—into the media, but for the most part, they didn't get there.
After the election, it was the same thing until this moment on December 9th, 2016, when Barack Obama convened this meeting, ordered a new intelligence assessment, and then immediately that same night, there were leaks from the administration telling people that there had been interference by Russia specifically to help Donald Trump.
MEGYN KELLY: Let me stop you right there. Let me just stop you right there.
So they call this meeting with all the Obama top people, and the new revised PDB has been issued yet—no revised Intelligence Community Assessment has happened yet. The last thing that happened in the intel community was, "We're going to tell them that there really was no significant Russian interference, at least insofar as election apparatus goes." And the FBI said, "We're out, we're going to issue our own." And then Clapper said, "All right, let's just pause everything." Then everybody gets together.
That night, right after that, before any revised intel happened—before anything happened—they began
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
2. What triggered the December 2016 meeting referenced in this article was a development that took place a week or two earlier. This was the remarkable event where NSA head Mike Rogers — against the orders of his superiors in the Obama administration — traveled to Trump Tower in New York City and informed the Trump team about the surveillance that had been taking place for months up to that point. This meeting took place right around Thanksgiving in 2016, as I remember it.
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h/t alberta’s child!
great breakdown of the event that got the ball rolling
As it turns out the Pulitzers went to the ones who covered it up.
Review
(1) What was the crime?
(2) When did the crime take place?
(3) Who committed the crime?
Thanks to any one who can explain this to me.
So on December 9th, the day of the meeting, somebody was already laying the groundwork for the undocumented and false narrative that Russia interfered. The Times, Post, and CNN bought it whole hog.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for honesty among propagandists.
Russians were in fact involved in political influencing activity in that election. For that matter, so were UkrainIan’s, and Chinese, and probably other countries such as the UK, Germany, and France.
What is false - what there was no evidence for - is the Democrat allegation that Trump and Russia were collaborating. Also false was the claim made by the Clinton folks that Russia wanted Trump to win. Russia was just fomenting chaos.
October 31, 2016 : () Once the Alfa Bank allegations were developed, Seago met with journalist Franklin Foer (who would write the October 31, 2016 Alfa Bank article in Slate). The purpose of that meeting was to discuss “the allegations of communication between the Trump Organization and Alfa-Bank.”
Obama always was a crooked little shit.
Thank you!!
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