Oxferd Comma - the FBI's criminal probe of President Trump

The Reactionary ^ | August 5, 2026 | Techno Fog

[lasereye]

The White House has released new documents concerning the FBI’s criminal probe of President Trump - Oxferd Comma - that was initiated in May 2017, just months after his inauguration.

As we all know, Crossfire Hurricane was officially opened in the summer of 2016. That investigation continued even after Trump’s election in November 2016. By May 2017, the FBI and the rest of the Intelligence Community was increasingly desperate. The FISA warrants on Carter Page revealed no useful intelligence, thus requiring the submission of increasingly deceptive renewals that altered the truth and included both the omission of material facts and outright lies to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).

With that desperation in mind, FBI management was undoubtedly pleased when President Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey on May 9, 2017. After all, to those who had been targeting Trump and his associates for nearly a year, the firing wasn’t the Executive faithfully executing his duties or exercising his prerogative to replace a corrupt and embattled FBI Director.

Instead, it was an opportunity to open a criminal (and counterintelligence) investigation that had two parts:

1. Whether President Trump “may be or has been, wittingly or unwittingly, involved in activities for or on behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation which may constitute violations of federal criminal law or threats to the national security of the United States.”

2. Whether President Trump “obstructed and/or conspired to obstruct any associated FBI investigation.”

At this time, the basis for any type of counterintelligence or criminal investigation into Trump and Russia was non-existent. Nearly 12 months of a formal investigation had passed by this point. FISA warrants had collected evidence since October 2016 – approximately 7 months of intelligence that provided zero justification for continuing an investigation into whether Trump was a Russian agent.

But that didn’t matter to the FBI. The investigation needed to be opened not on the basis of sound law enforcement principles, but because the Trump Presidency needed to be ended. And so the criminal investigation – OXFERD COMMA – was officially opened. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was informed of the investigation that same day.

Curiously - if you believe in such coincidences - Robert Mueller was appointed Special Counsel by Rod Rosenstein the very next day. It’s like the FBI set it all up, happy to open the investigation to force the hand of Rod Rosenstein to appoint a Special Counsel that had near limitless powers to run down a baseless investigation and ruin lives in the process. An act which would also help insulate these same top FBI officials from accountability.

What was the Trump/Russia predicate? A disputed discussion over drinks between Australian Diplomat Alexander Downer and George Papadopoulos, a low-level campaign aide. Part of the same predicate that was used to justify opening Crossfire Hurricane in the first place. According to the newly released FBI Opening Electronic Communication:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fbi; mueller; russiahoax

[lasereye]

The rest of the article is behind the paywall.

The linked FBI document that opened the criminal investigation of Trump says in part:

The FBI is predicating the investigation on predetermined criteria set forth by the CROSSFIRE HURRICANE investigative team based on an assessment of reliable lead information received during the course of the investigatior.

• In May 2016, a named member of the Trump campaign team indicated he was knowladgeable that the Russians made a suggestion to the “Trump team” that they [the Russians] could assist the Trump campaign with an anonymous release of information during the campaign damaging to the Clinton campaign.

That was what Papadopoulos allegedly said to Downer in the bar in England. Papadopoulos has consistently denied that he said any such thing.

Other things in the document are ridiculous.

Open source information indicates that President Trump has had long-standing business and real estate ties in Russia and former Soviet states, stemming from the late 1980s.

the Trump campaign intervened during the course of the GOP platform committee discussion on Ukraine in the run-up to the 18-22 July 2016 Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland. Allegedly, through this intervention, the Trump campaign members were able to amend the GOP platform language on US support for Ukraine away from “[the provision of] lethal defensive weapons” to a more anodyne call for “appropriate assistance.”

It says that Trump's stated reason for firing Comey "has changed over time". So what?

I note this interesting information:

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[BenLurkin]

Sometimes it seems as if the whole of the Federal Government exists to make sure that the American people can’t choose who governs them.

[Repeal The 17th]

This, that, and the other.

[nicollo]

Here's the key:

because the Trump Presidency needed to be ended

Why?

To protect Obama and the Clintons and their protectors. Looks like it worked. Despite Hitlery's worry upon Trump's election, she's still free. Shouldn't be.

[goodnesswins]

Been wondering when we will hear from the Clintons re: cimmies in the hood

[Major Matt Mason]

Oxferd? Another misspelling to avoid being found in a search, perhaps?

[vivenne]

That or those really cool FBi guys thinking they were being really cute and clever.

[22for22]

Stupid operation.

But I’m in favor of the Oxford comma.

[chuck allen]

James Comey @Comey

Check the actual cover. I’m all about Oxford commas.

Nov 2, 2017 · 1:16 PM UTC

https://x.com/Comey/status/926075654197731333

[HKMk23]

I’m up for Military Tribunals and Firing Squads.

But — HELLO French Revolution — gotta be careful whatcha wish for...

[DUMBGRUNT]

Oxferd?

An AI hallucination.

No extra charge.