Posted on 07/29/2025 5:02:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber
New revelations suggest a conspiracy at the heart of the Obama White House to target Trump as a Russian agent.
It’s beginning to look like the Obama administration was all-in on the Russia collusion hoax long before Trump won the 2016 election.
On Monday, Fox News reported that before the FBI ever launched its politicized probe of the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies had “credible foreign sources” indicating the FBI would help spread the Russia collusion hoax, which of course is exactly what happened.
It’s the latest twist in a string of shocking new revelations about how the U.S. intelligence community, at the behest of then-President Barack Obama, manufactured and disseminated a false narrative that Moscow was working to get Trump elected in 2016.
The “credible foreign sources” that predicted the FBI would run an intelligence operation against Trump in the summer of 2016 were almost certainly Russian sources. Back in September of 2020, my colleagues Sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway reported that then-Director of National Intelligence (now CIA director) John Ratcliffe told congressional officials that top U.S. intelligence officials knew that Moscow was aware of Hillary Clinton’s campaign plan to accuse Trump of being a Russian asset.
Former CIA Director John Brennan, said Ratcliffe, personally briefed then-President Obama and top U.S. national security officials that Moscow had determined Clinton had approved a plan in late July 2016, “to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services,” according to Brennan’s own handwritten notes.
In September of that year, former FBI Director James Comey was sent an investigative referral regarding Moscow’s alleged knowledge of Clinton’s plans to paint Trump as a treasonous Russian agent. But instead of investigating whether the Clinton campaign had been infiltrated by Russian intelligence, Comey went about obtaining federal warrants to spy on Trump’s campaign.
What’s more, we know that Christopher Steele, whose infamous dossier wound up being a key source for the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that falsely claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin “aspired” for Trump to win the election, was at the time on the payroll of sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. And his primary subsource for the dossier, Igor Danchenko, was long suspected of being a Russian intelligence asset.
All of which helps shed light on what was reported Monday. Ratcliffe, according to Fox News, is going to declassify the underlying intelligence that reveals that “credible foreign sources” knew about the FBI’s plans to promote the Trump-Russia narrative. Part of that intelligence is a classified annex in former Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe.
Fox News quoted an anonymous source familiar with the contents of the annex who said that the intelligence collected from these foreign sources predicted the FBI’s next move, in the summer of 2016, “with alarming specificity.”
“Ultimately, the release of the classified annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan inside the U.S. government to help the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia,” the source told Fox News.
Together with what we now know about Obama’s involvement in all of this, especially after Trump had won the election, it looks very much like what Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard called it last week: a treasonous conspiracy and a years-long coup against a duly elected president.
In particular, as my colleague Margot Cleveland reported in these pages yesterday, the extent of Obama’s personal involvement is deeper than previously reported. Last week’s release of the House Permanent Selection Committee on Intelligence’s (HPSCI) report summarizing its investigation into the drafting of the ICA exposed how then-CIA Director Brennan ordered the publication of three substandard intelligence reports. These reports, together with the Steele dossier, “became foundational sources for the ICA judgments that Putin preferred Trump over Clinton.”
But as Cleveland notes, the recently declassified HPSCI report also reveals Obama’s central role in this scheme. Investigators and the ICA authors were “denied access to a trove of information on grounds of executive or congressional privilege,” according to the HPSCI report. One FBI analyst, the report says, argued that this intelligence should be shared with those responsible for drafting the ICA, but the Obama administration “denied ICA drafters access to this intelligence on grounds of Executive or Congressional privilege.”....SNIP
Ratcliffe has been working on declassifyiing Durham annex- which no one even knew about before Sunday. we’ll see if its release is accompanied by a criminal referral to DOJ. Ratcliffe forwarded criminal referral of Brennan about a week ago.
Most lefties erect active barriers to seeing inconvenient truths.
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Yup.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/07/28/hardwired-to-obey-why-we-keep-believing-the-lie-1571485/
Hardwired to obey: Why we keep believing the lie
July 28, 2025 | Maureen Steele
The Russia collusion hoax wasn’t just a political scandal. It was a masterclass in obedience psychology. Americans didn’t believe it because it made sense. They believed it because someone in authority told them to.
( Aka scientists experts academic liars, but I repeat myself - cuz61)
Fast forward to COVID. A doctor appeared on your television and told you to stay inside. Wear a mask. Take the jab. If you hesitated, you were selfish. A threat. An enemy of the people. The same experiment was being run again, but this time, at scale. And just like Milgram’s results, most people obeyed. Not because they understood the science. Not because they evaluated the risks. But because someone in authority said so.
It was a conspiracy against the constitutional order. Plain and simple. It’s a gross violation of their sworn oath. It’s what evil does.
I respectfully disagree. I agree with you in that there will be no perp walks among the upper brass. But Obama and co. will spend a large portion of their wealth fighting it in court, like Trump had to. The only difference being that Trump had to fight lies, while the Dims will have to legally fight truth.
And even when it does lead to perp walks of the lower tier Dims in the WH, it'll be like Rush said about Obama. Obama didn't have to give the orders because he appointed like-minded people under him who knew what treasonous things to do without being told by Obama.
I want the whore Jarrett to be punished
“Just another unrelated coincidence” that the Russian hoax was in circulation BEFORE the 2016 election. Timing, in politics, is everything, and it was trotted out just a little too late to have a measurable effect on the turnout, which had reflected the growth of the MAGA movement to well beyond just a few diehard America Firsters.
Thoughtful US citizens were at the end of their rope, so far as “affinity” candidates for the office were being served up, with pre-designated winners and losers. Donald J. Trump was so far outside the mold that he had to be an improvement over anybody else in the running. Herself lost that election, fair and square, it was not “stolen” or “bought”.
The conspirators have believed, with some justification, that many Americans would find it difficult, even impossible, to grasp the magnitude of the conspiracy and the extent to which intelligence officials, government agents, news reporters, bureaucrats, politicians, and other peripheral co-conspirators would participate in the conspiracy.
This shield was shattered by the heroic puissance of Donald Trump.
Nothing will come of this since Trump has signaled that as long as we have a good economy nothing else matters. Trump wants us to always look to tomorrow and forget what happened yesterday, as though what happened yesterday will not be repeated tomorrow without the rule of law. He is scared to death to use law enforcement and prosecutions.
You had us at “I still think...”.
Which your ex-friends obviously happily and dutifully stopped doing years ago.
Bkmk
Trump feints like Messi.
Some think his going soft on the Epstein situation is an effort to draw Democrats in to induce them to demand what he low key is already planning to do.
We’ll see if that’s true or not. But if you wait long enough, you’ll probably see that Trump eventually outsmarts everyone—Elephant Party members, or Donkey Party members, whoever.
This Russia Collusion story sticks around like a hangnail.
I have stopped expecting for it to be resolved in the courtroom. Presently, both parties use it to either threaten the other side with exposure, or throw the other party off message.
The conclusion will be worse.
My guess is that the plan also included prosecuting Trump and sending him to prison.
THIS is what the Epstein saga is trying to distract us from. Obama must be confronted. No more of his 2 sentence denials in the media. EXPLAIN YOURSELF OBAMA, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!
I’ve got to start taking better care of myself so I can live long enough to relieve myself on his grave. Obama is EVIL!
Agreed.
Jarrett and Holder were probably behind the entire thing.
I agree that Trump won’t do anything about this. Hasn’t he already said that he could put Hillary in jail but hasn’t because she’s the wife of a former president?
Much of what Trump is accomplishing is the result of executive orders which can easily be reversed when the Demorats are in office again. He can’t even get his judicial nominees appointed. The Congress is dragging its feet and going on vacation. It’s a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. Tulsi’s efforts will be wasted. Bondi is too chicken to act on any of it.
Republicans are gutless. They mostly sat back and let Trump be slandered, investigated, and threatened with lifetimes in prison over cooked up Democrap charges. They’re not backing Gabbard now, either. If something doesn’t change, our constitutional republic is going down the drain.
Holder went back to his law firm in the spring of 2015. Loretta Lynch was AG at the time. Good point about Jarrett, she has slithered under the radar in Russia hoax discussions. Although she wasn't Obama's COS, she was a top advisor. Denis McDonough was Obama's COS for Obama's 2nd term. His name is never mentioned either. They may not have been part of concocting the hoax, but it is hard to believe they wouldn't have known about it.
Ditto. I didn't watch a lot network news back then. However I did watch the local news in the morning on CBS. When they broke away to the national news segment, it was get Trump 24/7 for 4 years. It was the same with CBS radio. Rush was on the local CBS affiliate. He often spent many segments debunking the hoax. At the top and bottom of the hour, the national news was suggesting Trump is in big trouble now..
BTTT
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