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Russiagate Revisited: Uncovering the Truth (Part 2 of my notes on the 38 minute Podcast)
justthenews.com ^ | July 30, 2025 | John Solomon, Senator Johnson, Congresswoman Claudia Tenney,Mike Benz

Posted on 10/13/2025 3:54:22 PM PDT by ransomnote

https://justthenews.com/podcasts/john-solomon-reports/russiagate-revisited-uncovering-truth
Russiagate Revisited: Uncovering the Truth

John Solomon Reports

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Part 2, starting at 17:30 min/sec into the Video.
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Solomon notes that Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY) has been on this since the beginning. Hillary Clinton played a dirty political trick on Donald Trump first before the election, then after the election. Now we know the FBI opened up this 'grand conspiracy' case that looks at the last decade of wash, rinse and repeat. If a Democrat has a problem, clear them and investigate a Republican for something FAKE and keep going. They did it with Russia, Ukraine, the classified documents etc. Do you think the FBI's investigation could rise to criminal charges?

Congresswoman Claudia Tenney(NY) says she believes the current FBI investigation into grand conspiracy will rise to criminal charges. This goes back to 2018 for her. She was a freshman member of Congress and she teamed up with Ron DeSantis, who is a JAG attorney. They were looking at all these significant acts after the explosive Nunes' memo came out. She and DeSantis prepared a criminal referral on Hillary Clinton, Lisa page, Peter Strzok, James Comey - everybody, that were engaged in this deceit.

Back then they had a synopsis of it, but now we posses the document that has now been declassified that shows there were numerous intelligence agents looking at creation and analyzing this document, and out of fifteen intelligence agents three thought there might be some way that Putin might have supported President Trump indirectly, but there were thirteen of those intelligence agents which said 'no way' and this is not what was going on.

The Russians thought Hillary Clinton would win and they were looking for leverage on her, they found a lot of information they disclosed on her. Then what do they (conspirators) do? They're hysterical. Donald Trump wins. Nobody thought he would win. Obama calls them all together and tells them 'we've got to get a way to use this..." Really what it is, it was a calculated effort to try to obstruct the President of the United States to; as Liz Cheney, the J6 Committee and all the Democrats like to project on us; as they would say, 'attempt to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power', a phrase they repeated over and over and over.

They were impeaching Donald Trump numerous times, the J6 Committee (show trial) was another form of impeachment. They accused Trump from interupting the peaceful transfer of power; that is what the group working together to frame Trump was doing. When Donald Trump was certified for winning that election, they knew and how is this not perjury? How is this not a direct lie? Of putting in false documents (28 USC sec. 1000). There are so many sections of criminal law that need to be looked at now that we have a department of Justice with an open mind and we have an FBI which is actually going to look into this.

We may not have them all gone (those working to undermine the presidency), but we've got to have some decent people at the top of the food chain in the CIA that are going to look at this intelligence and say there's a problem and we need to investigate it all for one reason: to restore the credibility of our system of government that is mostly revered around the world except when things like this happen, in a political partisan witch hunt against our former, and now current, President.

Mike Benz asks her if she sees a difference now when it comes to consensus among her colleagues in Congress, we talk about the DOJ, FBI, potentially CIA, different leadership, what is her take on the willingness to moving forward with investigations and prosecutions. Is it different now than it was then?

[21:50 min/sec into video]

Congresswoman Claudia Tenney(NY) says it's different because everyone was under the fog of war, nobody really knew the information we have now, and so I think people are much more inclined to say, 'wow, we actually have evidence that this was happening.' And then we have numerous statements and comments and other documents of the people who were perpetrating this, and for what reason. Now you're seeing a plethora of articles being written on that very issue.

She's concerned commentators are saying, including some Republicans, 'Oh this is lawfare..." She doesn't believe this is lawfare. Lawfare is when you are cooking up some kind of fake legal case to bring against somebody in a way that is like malicious prosecution, abuse of proces (e.g., Leticia james). But this is real stuff. She aggrees with john ratcliffe, this is a continuence, it never stopped. This ongoing conspiracy of 'how can we take down Donald Trump - anyway, anyhow, any shape, any manner?' They've tried to do- he's been shot at, two impeachments, the J6 trial, the Odessy- raiding Mar A Lago. The Dems using our taxpayer dollars through powerful government agencies to take down the elected President of the United States twice now.

That's why we're in a different place now. People see more than we had, more evidence than we had before because it was sort of at the conspiracy level then. Now we know that it's real. It's actually ongoing. It's really the other side, attempting to stop the president and use their power in this unjust, and I think illegal, way which is why she thinks criminal referrals are appropriate.

John Solomon says Chuck Grassley will release the Annex to the John Durham report. We got a preview of what the report probably says when John Durham testified to Congress in 2023. There's a Russian intelligence intercept where Russia had learned that Hillary CLinton had approved the whole plan to hang this fake Russian shingle on Donald Trump's campaign house. We're going to learn tomorrow the Russians had evidence that the FBI had agreed to participate in the plot, meaning they would open up an investigation so that it would give credence or accelerate the allegations in the media, and in the political space.

Solomon notes that he knows it's a Russian intercept, but it was important enough to tell President Obama and the entire intelligence community was briefed on it, so it was taken seriously and yet nobody stops for a second when Hillary Clinton walks in the Dossier with her team, or the Alpha Bank, or the allegations from their friend in Australia and says, 'wait this might be part of that ruse'. They just keep doing it. They played into it rather than stop it.

Congresswoman Claudia Tenney(NY) says she's learned in her short tenure on the Intelligence Committee that, as much as we regard Russia as adversaries, there's a deep amount of respect for their ability to perform surveillance and their deep ability to be spies. Putin was a KGB agent. They're good at it. They had a lot of this information and Obama and co. knew about it. They (Dems) love to project. They projected the Russia collusion hoax. They're using Russian information and documents, yet they say Donald Trump is the one colluding with the Russians, and then they make up stories with all the most disgusting things on Earth in this Dossier. They destroyed so many lives in the meantime.

She thinks the document by Chuck Grassley is going to be very important (i.e., Durham Annex). People will start to piece it together - how can we not look at criminality? She understands President Obama probably has some kind of immunity, but everybody else in this does not. She thinks they need to be held accountable and she doesn't think the statute of limitations has run out on this. If they can go after the President of the United States, they can go after any and every citizen on the street, which is what happens in authoritarian marxist/communist type regimes.
[26:39 min/sec in video]

Mike Benz says John Durham (ransomnote: I think he meant to say Robert Muller) was unable to speak about the genesis of the original Russia investigation. He asks, As someone who was there in the beginning, how did you feel, what was your takeaway of that testiony by Robert Mueller. Was that in any way similar to what we saw happen with Joe Biden in the last administration?

Congresswoman Claudia Tenney(NY) says his (Mueller's) testimony was disappointing and unimpressive. This was supposed to be this big deal; he really didn't have anything. It was incredible, for all the time, effort and money that went into this they had nothing. That let her back to the original referral that she did with Ron DeSantis and others; that referral showed 'there's nothing here' and 'this is actually the opposite, it's the other side trying to frame the President of the United States, or the incoming President of the United States.

That's why in 2018 we made that referral. She thinks all these things, the Mueller investigation and the Durham investigation were excercises in futility. We don't need to do a Special Counsel; we already have Kash Patel in place; we have the people that can do this; we have the documents. As John (Solomon) said, we have these burn bags that were discovered in the back of the FBI's warehouse to be thrown out. It will be interesting to see what are in those, and what they reveal about even more people that are involved in this real kind of conspiracy, and criminal level conspiracy, to frame and destroy the President of the United States and his reputation, and everything he could do to preserve and protect our constitution, ironically.

Solomon says one more good one (interview) to go. We would have unraveled the Biden scandal, the classified documents scandal, the Pandemic's origins and RussiaGate much sooner if we hadn't been censored and pinned down, called Russian disinformation, accused of jeopardizing the American people by telling people the truth. Censorship. Deplatforming. Cancel Culture. A false machinery. The Industrial Complex of censorship. Mike Benze exposed it. He's going to describe why it's directly related to the present moment in this grand conspiracy operation investigation. Mike Benz, the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online. Mike Benz is the founder. He's the chief of crushing the censorship.

Solomon notes censorship was a big part of the conspiracy, right?

Mike Benz said censorship was absolutely vital to the beating heart of the conspiracy, the censorship component of it. He thinks people don't remember after the Pandemic and Biden administration that this censorship all started with RussiaGate. The Internet Censorship apparatus inside America did not have a political home, did not have a legal home, until the RussiaGate crowbar gave it one under the false pretense of some hostile foreign nation state hacking our election, or interefering on Social Media on behalf of Donald Trump. It was through the National Security state, before it came to the NGO complex, the advertisers. It became something staffed up with hundreds of different people at all the different Social Media companies. Censorship came to the United States through the National Security state by way of RussiaGate.

This was done through the FBI, through DHS, through CIA, through DOD. There was no predicate before that. We had a culture for 250 years of free speech in the United States. We had an iron clad First Amendmentand there was no way that domestic politics could ever have broken that, but when you invoke a National Security predicate, it allows you to do things that you can't do with ordinary politics. It creates an emergency situation. The idea that social media had been taken over by the Russians, and our elections, and hearts and minds were taken over by the Russians, that allowed DHS, FBI, CIA and DOD and the whole apparatus to not just themselves pressure social media, but to weaponize all of their assets in the NGO and civil society spaces.
[32:07 min/sec]

All the NGO's we have around the world in Central and Eastern Europe, in Africa, in Latin America, the same assets we built during the cold war, could all be weaponized against the homeland under the presupposition that Donald Trump was backed by the Russians, so therefore every Trump supporter is actually not really a Trump supporter - that they're a Russian pawn, and this could justify mass censorship of tens of millions of Trump supporters by proxy.

And so the collateral damage of Russiagate is eternal in the chapters of history. We are still confronting the Censorship-Industrial Complex, which could not have take root without Russiagate. As far as Benz is concerned, 10 years is the blink of an eye compared to the damage that this has unleashed across the world.

[33:00 min]

Solomon's guest asks Mike to compare the size and scope of the alleged Russian social media influencing concord management situation. How big was the alleged Russian social media influencing compared with what our own intel agencies did on the platforms.

Mike Benz: Let me make this completely clear. This is how much of it was ever substantiated - nothing, none of it. If you read the January 6, 2017 CIA report on Russian interference, all they allege is that Russian social media accounts, like Russia Today and Sputnik, had gotten far more engagement during the 2016 election cycle, and that they hypothesized that the Russians favored Trump, and so therefore Sputnik and RT were having an influence.

It was only after that that they came up with Russian bots and trolls. And here's how much they claimed to find, about $150,000 worth of the Facebook ads, half of which supported Hillary Clinton. None of that was corroborated. We don't know if those were just random Americans using a Russian VPN so that their IP address look like it came from Russia. That was a popular thing to do; to use VPN to pipe in from Central and Eastern Europe, or Belarus, or Russia, to mask your IP address.

The groups that did the digital forensics to make these allegations were groups like New Knowledge, staffed by Rene DiResta and a bunch of Obama State Department employees who themselves got busted in what the NYT described as an elaborate False Flag operation to give the impression that Roy Moore, remember the 2017 Senate runnoff election, that same group New Knowledge which drafted the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference on Social Media was busted themselves for creating fake Russian bots and mass subscribing them to Republican candidates for office to create a False Flag, in their words.

They ended up getting tossed off of FaceBook for this, and written up by the New York Times and Washington Post. So the people who made the allegations that Russians were creating bots to help Trump, were themselves caught creating fake Russian bots, to subscribe to Republican Candidates.

The whole thing was a fraud from top to bottom, and frankly, the ball is now on Pam Bondi's desk. I don't think that history can continue in America with trust in our intelligence agencies unless there's somebody that people look back on and say, "I don't want to be that guy because he got indicted." (ransomnote: Wiki's article on DiResta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_DiResta).

John Solomon asks Benz, If Vladimir Putin was trying to influence the election like John Brennan's re-made assessment said, why did he stop all counter-measures in the United States in October 2016 when voters were making up their minds, when the debates were going on. He pull's back - that seems to be a guy who decided not to tip the election.

Mike Benz says everyone knows the answer, which is that Putin did not interfere on behalf of Donald Trump. This was an attempt to use the National Security state to pull off, with Democratic voters and what anti-Trump Republican donors and high level officials could not do, which was defeat Donald Trump. They couldn't defeat him fair and square at the ballot box, and so they used the National Security state's 'Department of Dirty Tricks' to do it. Bob Mueller ran a two and a half year investigation; they came up with nothing. They were bluffing the entire time.

John Brennan had advance awareness of on August 3, 2016 in his hand written notes that Hillary Clinton had a plan to vilify Donald Trump by both stirring up a scandal that Trump was backed by the Russian Security Services. They knew that was false information, that it was junk. Incidentallly, we're now learning that Hillary Clinton approved that plan to tap Christopher Steele to do the Steele Dossier and all this on July 28, that's the same day we're now seeing text messages from Peter Strzok around the FBI opening up this counter intelligence investigation on Trump.

So it looks like the Clinton campaign was working with the FBI and the CIA was organizing, under John Brennan, the Intelligence Community to basically prove the case that Hillary Clinton couldn't prove, and then classify all the evidence so no one could see the CIA's proof and now it's all coming out now, and the whole thing was a lie, and frankly, a criminal conspiracy.



TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: johnsolomon; nobodyaskedkaren; nobodyaskedyou; russiagate

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All the guests John Solomon had on his podcast are impressive of their experience and observations. All of it was worth my time. I'm not jaded yet - I'm still shocked at the details coming out. 

My reaction to the content changed significantly when I reached Mike Benz's portion of the video.

"Censorship was absolutely vital to the beating heart of the conspiracy." (ransomnote: It still is)

Benz is able to put into words what our nation lost in such a way that it really hurts. It's not something to listen to (or read in  my notes) before going to bed, because he makes observations like, "....the collateral damage of Russiagate is eternal in the chapters of history."

Benz describes more of what we lost, saying, "We had a culture for 250 years of free speech in the United States. We had an iron clad First Amendment and - there was no way that domestic politics could ever have broken that."

But they did break it. Benz proves they had zero evidence - "They were bluffing the entire time." (see excerpt below)

Even after we had a culture of free speech for 250 years, we almost lost everything, including freedom around the world, and the lives of all our children, should we survive long enough to see them die, and we almost lost it over nothing.

Russiagate Revisited: Uncovering the Truth
 (excerpt) John Solomon Reports

July 30, 2025

SNIP

Mike Benz: This was done through the FBI, through DHS, through CIA, through DOD. There was no predicate before that. We had a culture for 250 years of free speech in the United States. We had an iron clad First Amendment and - there was no way that domestic politics could ever have broken that.

SNIP

All the NGO's we have around the world in Central and Eastern Europe, in Africa, in Latin America, the same assets we built during the cold war, could all be weaponized against the homeland under the presupposition that Donald Trump was backed by the Russians, so therefore every Trump supporter is actually not really a Trump supporter - that they're a Russian pawn, and this could justify mass censorship of tens of millions of Trump supporters by proxy. We almost lost everything good in the world because these people were bluffing.

And so the collateral damage of Russiagate is eternal in the chapters of history.

SNIP

Mike Benz: Let me make this completely clear. This is how much of it was ever substantiated - nothing, none of it. If you read the January 6, 2017 CIA report on Russian interference, all they allege is that Russian social media accounts, like Russia Today and Sputnik, had gotten far more engagement during the 2016 election cycle, and that they hypothesized that the Russians favored Trump, and so therefore Sputnik and RT were having an influence.

It was only after that that they came up with Russian bots and trolls. And here's how much they claimed to find, about $150,000 worth of the Facebook ads, half of which supported Hillary Clinton. None of that was corroborated. We don't know if those were just random Americans using a Russian VPN so that their IP address look like it came from Russia. That was a popular thing to do; to use VPN to pipe in from Central and Eastern Europe, or Belarus, or Russia, to mask your IP address.

SNIP

They were bluffing the entire time.

We have to build the skeptical anon mentality into our culture. Assertions must be backed with proof. 'Experts' have to be fact-checked. 'Public servants must answer to us.' Open discussions must return to our nation. Others must not be trusted to represent us - we have to fact check them too, and fire them when don't.


1 posted on 10/13/2025 3:54:22 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

bump


2 posted on 10/13/2025 5:09:07 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Columbus Day! We're back, Italians! We love the Italians, okay?” Trump said. )
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To: ransomnote

ransomnote, I thought I heard where a bunch of these had been merged into one video-do you know anything about that?


3 posted on 10/13/2025 5:12:38 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: ransomnote

Ransom, you are all over the place tonight (lots of postings)! Keep up the good work, sir!


4 posted on 10/13/2025 7:12:55 PM PDT by power2 (JMJ)
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To: ransomnote

“...when you invoke a National Security predicate, it allows you to do things that you can’t do with ordinary politics.”


The money line.


5 posted on 10/13/2025 7:22:16 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Are you now, or have you ever been, a Democrat?)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Only O.J. Simpson can uncover the real truth.


6 posted on 10/14/2025 6:43:23 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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