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The Real January 6 Wasn’t at the Capitol – It Was at Trump Tower
RealClear Politics ^ | 26 Jul, 2025 | Steve Cortes

Posted on 07/26/2025 6:57:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber

January 6 has become a date of hallowed pagan sacredness to the ruling class – a supposed talisman marking chaos, a shorthand for “threats to democracy.” But the media, predictably, has focused on the wrong January. And the wrong threat.

Because the real January 6 – the one that changed everything – wasn’t in 2021. It happened four years earlier, in 2017. Not at the Capitol, but rather in a glass-walled conference room on the 26th floor of Trump Tower.

That morning, President-elect Donald J. Trump received a classified briefing from top intelligence officials – a routine, transitional step for any incoming commander in chief.

But what he got wasn’t intelligence. It was a malicious setup, a trap.

FBI Director James Comey entered the room alone and handed Trump the political equivalent of a political grenade: the now-debunked Steele dossier. A document so flimsy, partisan, and salacious, it wouldn’t pass editorial review at Mother Jones, let alone FBI verification. And yet, veracity wasn’t the point.

The objective wasn’t to actually inform the incoming president, but instead, Comey arrived at the behest of President Obama and CIA Director Brennan with two missions. First, he sought to bait Trump into some sort of dubious false confession. Second, once the briefing was made, the even bigger trap was set.

How?

Because once the FBI told Trump about the dossier – even informally, even off the record – that fact became the news hook, it became the poisoned seed to grow the entire Russian collusion hoax. The contents of the briefing were leaked to legacy, Trump-hating media, likely by Brennan himself.

Within hours, BuzzFeed and CNN were live. The chyron wrote itself: “President-elect Trump briefed on Russian kompromat.” Boom. Mission accomplished. The fuse was lit.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 201701; 20170106; blackmailattempt; comey; deepstate; jamescomey; teumptower; trap; trumptower

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1 posted on 07/26/2025 6:57:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Maybe they won’t get away with it.


2 posted on 07/26/2025 6:57:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I certainly hope they don’t.


3 posted on 07/26/2025 6:58:45 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber

Good - the “nitty gritty” as opposed to all the blah blah we’re getting from the news. Thanks....


4 posted on 07/26/2025 7:05:58 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: MtnClimber

They will surely have to hang together or all will hang separately. Personally, I don’t care how they hang just so it is accomplished.


5 posted on 07/26/2025 7:07:44 AM PDT by healy61
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To: No name given

I think the further significance was that Comey was threatening the President elect by sharing this - in essence saying don’t you dare consider firing me. By presenting it to the President elect alone he was underlining what Schumer famously said about the IC having 9 ways to undermine you. Trump did not have the power to fire Comey at that moment, but he should have done it at 12:01 pm on 1/20/2017.


6 posted on 07/26/2025 7:14:11 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: MtnClimber

The fact that key members of the GOP-e plus the Bush family opposed Trump indicates they knew this was coming.
John McCain told them it was coming.


7 posted on 07/26/2025 7:16:50 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zathras

And that twink Lindsey Graham.


8 posted on 07/26/2025 7:21:53 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: MtnClimber

He likes sea shells, so do I. -John Wick


9 posted on 07/26/2025 7:33:33 AM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could fight - Romeo company)
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To: MtnClimber

The stress and panic this must be having on these clowns is delicious right now


10 posted on 07/26/2025 7:45:07 AM PDT by albie
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To: MtnClimber

Democrats, for the most part, are useless in the real economy. They know it. Without power, they don’t have an income, much less social status.

Hence the shrieking on J20, 2017.


11 posted on 07/26/2025 8:00:41 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: MtnClimber

It was IN the Capitol. And White House.


12 posted on 07/26/2025 8:22:01 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: MtnClimber

The Dems and GOP were all in on it, so they will get away with it unless a deal is struck to sacrifice Comey and Brennan and Clapper and then stop looking around after that.


13 posted on 07/26/2025 8:35:18 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: No name given

Some heads need to roll. These traitorous weasels - no matter their current mental status - need to be perp walked and made to pay the piper. No deals, no amnesty. It’s fast approaching the point where 2A will supersede pardons and amnesty.


14 posted on 07/26/2025 8:48:55 AM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (Caution: When you bring them here you also bring there here.)
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To: albie

The
Clinton,Obama,Biden WETWORKS Crew.
.
These Players are the Strong Arm.


15 posted on 07/26/2025 9:11:22 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Thank You Rush
...Coming Up, DOJ and FBI may be investigating {insert-democrat} with possible new shocking revelations on {insert-scandal} next {insert-random-day-of-month}, Don't Miss It! (but first a word from our sponsor ) /end-less-promises4
16 posted on 07/26/2025 9:13:39 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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To: epluribus_2
...Coming Up, DOJ and FBI may be investigating {insert-democrat} with possible new shocking revelations on {insert-scandal} next {insert-random-day-of-month}, Don't Miss It! (but first a word from our sponsor ) /end-less-promises
. . . and one revelation after another, in reality, worse than Watergate.

17 posted on 07/26/2025 10:26:22 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: MtnClimber

18 posted on 07/26/2025 10:30:29 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: MtnClimber

bkmk


19 posted on 07/26/2025 4:28:46 PM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MtnClimber

Bookmark


20 posted on 07/26/2025 6:12:36 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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