Posted on 11/21/2025 6:49:31 AM PST by bitt
When Obama administration officials manufactured U.S. intelligence tying Donald Trump to Moscow following his stunning 2016 victory, they had no idea Trump’s own political appointees would help them undermine Trump’s presidency – and his chances of reelection in 2020.
RCI’s review of recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews with former Trump officials reveals for the first time how key members of Trump’s cabinet and other appointees during his first term shrouded the previous administration’s machinations and either deliberately or inadvertently misled the public into thinking the fake Russiagate intelligence was real.
Former Special Counsel John Durham, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former CIA Director Gina Haspel dismissed or buried evidence that cast doubt on a foundational document of the Russigate hoax – the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) prepared in the waning days of the Obama administration.
Durham, who was appointed by Attorney General William Barr, stopped the declassification and release of key exculpatory evidence debunking the ICA on the eve of the 2020 election, which has not been reported previously.
The ICA helped frame the false narrative, which led to multiple espionage investigations that dogged Trump throughout his first term: that Russian President Vladimir Putin had authorized dirty tricks to help Trump win the 2016 election. A 2018 government review of that document, which was chiefly prepared by Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan and his National Intelligence Director James Clapper, found that its most explosive claims were based on “one scant, unclear and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from one of the substandard [intelligence] reports,” according to a recently declassified report that Trump administration and, later, Biden administration officials had helped keep locked away in a CIA vault. It also cited as supporting intelligence debunked political dirt paid for by Hillary Clinton’s
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We all knew that McTurtle was largely playing gatekeeper to Trump's first term appointees.
It’s bad enough that they undermined Trump, but it seems no one in DC wants any part of revealing the WHOLE TRUTH, & nothing but the truth. About ANYTHING!
Mitch getting the electric chair seems reasonable.
He can feel free to fall down into it, once led there. Treasonous behavior!
When can these court cases begin?
It’s hard to know what’s in people hearts, but Trump biggest mistake in his first administration wasn’t getting fresh faces loyal to him. All of the people in DC were connected/hired/raised or promoted by Obama/Clinton/Bush and they all had it out for him. It wasn’t Trump they were setting up, it was the voices of the American people. These people did sedition against the citizens of this nation, and they should be prosecuted. If we had a real DOJ, the dirty cops (Comey, Wray) and AG’s (Holder, Barr, Lynch, Garland) would be in Florence by now.
The gaslighting by the media has allowed so much to happen, that should have never been. From a media perspective, the CIA/FBI/FedGov was paying the bills under Obama so they must have felt loyalty to King Obama and not the nation itself.
Deep State was never going to be delenda est in a day.
They are the enemy within.
They hide in plain sight.
And they still have control over people and assets.
Folks need to be in this for the long haul.
Every one who was involved should be tried for treason and if found guilty, executed. What if a group of people had done that to Bill Clinton? What would Hillary most assuredly have done? SOMEONE ANSWER THE QUESTION!!!
The timeline:
Hillary -> FusionGPS -> McCain -> CIA/FBI -> Liz, Romney, Ryan, Turtle, Linda.
It wasn’t until Ryan started whispering to his minions that the rest of found out.
Don’t forget that scum bag Mike Pence!
Yet another connection to London
The rump UK Empire have always tried to control the USA
Your post is the first one.
bttt
The fact is that Clinton colluded with Russia to create the false impression that Trump colluded with Russia.
Clinton/DNC $> Perkins Coie>Fusion GPS>Steele>Russian operatives. Klintoon admitted this after a complaint by White House Watch.
HANG! everyone of them.
I never trusted that chubby ass Homo Pompeo.
“Trust Barr!!!” Croaked the Q Balls…
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“I never trusted that chubby ass Homo Pompeo.”
Don’t forget Nikki Haley, conspiring with Pompeo to hijack the 2024 GOP ticket. I saved this post by PJ-Comix last July:
“A verrrrrry interesting timeline about Nikki Haley inviting herself to speak at the GOP convention:
“Haley posted she was invited to the RNC at 5:42 on J13. Trump said she invited herself. He was shot at 6:11. @barnes_law reported Pompeo told Iowa delegates he would be VP. Was never on DJT’s list. With Trump gone you would have seen a Haley/Pompeo ticket. They knew.— Valley Frog 1776 (@ValleyFrog1776) July 20, 2024
“11 posted on 7/21/2024, 11:31:25 AM by PJ-Comix”
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