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The Russia Collusion Hoax Is Worse Than You Think
The Federalist ^ | 29 Jul, 2025 | John Daniel Davidson

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


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: clinton; collusion; coup; distraction; domesticenemies; fusiongps; graspingatstraws; hitlery; obama; russiagate
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To: MtnClimber

We knew all this.

Hillary Clinton, her campaign, and the DNC colluded with Russia to create the false impression that Trump colluded with Russia. And a compliant media, which knew it wasn’t true, reported it as true.

Which it was under the Liberal Rules of Truth:

1. Truth is whatever serves the Party.
2. If you repeat something often enough, it’s true.
3. If the facts contradict the narrative, the facts lie.


41 posted on 07/29/2025 8:12:06 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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To: Kleon
An anonymous source citing anonymous foreign sources. This scandal is in need of some substance if it's going to have any legs.

Trump and Ratcliffe are declassifying the annex so that we won't have to rely on sources to find out what's in it.

That should assuage your concern.

42 posted on 07/29/2025 8:46:09 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: MtnClimber

With all this knowledge now about what really happened with the elections, I think what most Americans really want to know is ...when is someone going to get the needed prosecution for this?


43 posted on 07/29/2025 10:37:18 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Carl Vehse

An awful lot of people would agree with that.


44 posted on 07/29/2025 10:38:42 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Kleon
The DU is ‘missing’ you. Go give them some substance.
45 posted on 07/29/2025 10:38:59 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thi)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s far worse than any of us can imagine. And believe me, I have a vivid imagination when it comes to career politicians and government employees.


46 posted on 07/29/2025 10:41:08 AM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: avital2

I’m as impatient as anyone, but I’ve given up with people who think the traitors should have been perp-walked on January 21st.

The Deep State in ubiquitous in DC, and has been for probably 40 years.

Heck, judges have stopped Trump/Bondi from firing DOJ lawyers and withdrawing security clearances from deep rat law firms.

Toss in that half of Congress are marxist enemies, and it is no wonder why we know so little.


47 posted on 07/29/2025 1:44:09 PM PDT by Jacquerie
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