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July 25, 2025 - Tulsi Gabbard discusses Obama’s Russia hoax on The Matt Gaetz Show

In an exclusive interview on The Matt Gaetz Show, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard reveals explosive evidence tying President Obama, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper to the origins of the 2016 Russia collusion hoax. Gabbard details how senior intelligence officials were overruled, how discredited sources like the Steele dossier were knowingly used, and how a DOJ strike force is now investigating criminal referrals. She says this wasn’t about national security. It was a political hit job against Donald Trump.

July 27, 2025 - CIA Ratcliffe confirms more evidence in the Russia collusion hoax is about to drop and it implicates Hillary Clinton

CIA’s been working w DOJ to declassify for release–likely this week–explosive new info from long-class. Appendix to Durham Report showing FBI accelerated plan by Hillary to frame Trump as a Russian traitor. Underlying intel puts Brennan, Comey, Hillary in perjury jeopardy.

“What intelligence shows is that part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan, but part of it was an FBI plan to be an accelerant to that fake Steele dossier, to those fake Russia collusion claims by pouring oil on the fire, by amplifying the lie and bearing the truth of what Hillary Clinton was up to.”

New details have emerged regarding a highly classified intelligence memorandum relating to alleged plans by Hillary Clinton to tie Trump to Russian hackers. As Sleuth News previously covered, the memorandum was originally created by Russian intelligence and forwarded to the CIA by the Dutch, who had infiltrated Russian groups.

Hillary Clinton and Jennifer Palmieri on the 2016 campaign trail. (Credit: public domain)

According to sources familiar with the matter, the memorandum is based on an email sent in March 2016 from Jennifer Palmieri, a senior official in Hillary Clinton’s campaign, to Leonard Bernardo, a Democrat operative with ties to the party’s leadership employed by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. This email, sources claim, outlined a strategic plan that included leveraging the FBI to amplify allegations of Russian collusion against then-candidate Donald Trump, weeks before the Russians are alleged to have hacked the Democratic National Committee.

The latest report builds on Sleuth News’ earlier reporting and adds to 2023 reporting by the New York Times which took note of Special Counsel Durham’s inquiries relating to Bernardo. The Times report also suggested, without evidence, that US officials viewed the intelligence memorandums as Russian disinformation, and offered no explanation for why the Russians would have moved to cut off Dutch access if the memorandums were in fact a disinformation product.

For Special Counsel Durham’s part, he found no evidence of any attempt by the FBI to vet the intelligence:

As previously noted, Bernardo is also allegedly tied to the Renteria memo, involving an agreement memorialized in an email from Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Bernardo, which outlined an alleged conversation between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and staffer Amanda Renteria where Lynch agreed not to let the investigation into Clinton’s email server progress too far.

Jennifer Palmieri was previously known to be tied to an email released by Wikileaks which notes a February 2016 “swift boat plan”, further buttressing the core elements of the alleged Russian intelligence memorandums:

According to Sleuth News sources, Palmieri is the foreign policy advisor referenced in John Ratcliffe’s declassified memorandum regarding Clinton’s approval of a plan to tie Trump to Russian hackers. (Read more below)

July 27, 2025 - Schweizer: Former CIA Director Gina Haspel should be investigated

Gina Haspel swears in as the first woman to direct the Central Intelligence Agency, on May 21, 2018. (Credit: public domain)

On this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” GAI President Peter Schweizer said former CIA Director Gina Haspel should undergo further investigation regarding the alleged Russia collusion intelligence efforts by former President Barack Obama and his top officials.

Schweizer said, “One name I’d like to see out there more is Gina Haspel. She was the CIA director, appointed by Donald Trump. She certainly had access to this material. It’s interesting to me that she was the London chief of the CIA in the 2000s. In 2014, CIA Director John Brennan sent her back there, which was a highly unusual move, and she was there during this period. Much of the fake Russia collusion intel, from Steele and others, was coming out of London. So, what role did she play in creating this? And also, what role did she play in suppressing it when she was CIA director and she was supposed to be serving Donald Trump rather than the CIA establishment?”

On former staffers denying they saw any of President Joe Biden’s mental decline, Schweizer said, “The notion that White House staffers were insisting that ‘he seems fine to us’ is ridiculous. Just look at the numbers. In 2021, he had 58 known phone calls with foreign leaders. By 2024, that was down to 20. Look at the press conferences. He went from having nine solo press conferences to zero in 2024. There were conscious decisions being made to make sure he was not being exposed to the public.”

(Breitbart, 7/27/2025)  (Archive)

July 27, 2025 - Ratcliffe: Lisa Page confirmed under oath the FBI was ordered by the Obama DOJ not to arrest Hillary Clinton

(Timeline editor’s note: Although this story was covered on July 13, 2018, I realized the importance of revisiting Lisa Page’s timeline tag to refresh my memory. Be sure and check her tag below to see the broader picture that Ratcliffe wants us to revisit.

We have been compiling information all these years, for this moment. Please feel free to share far and wide.)

July 28, 2025 - Former FBI Peter Strzok deletes all of his @X posts; Wayback Machine excludes his @X address

July 29, 2025 - ‘The Real Russian Conspiracy’: Turley explains how media and Clinton campaign ‘derailed’ Trump’s first term

GWU law professor Jonathan Turley appeared on Fox News Tuesday to explain the timeline that led to the derailment of President Donald Trump’s first term.

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard released declassified evidence showing that former President Barack Obama and his national security team “manufactured and politicized intelligence” following Trump’s 2016 victory. During an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle,” Turley noted the role of the media in perpetuating the narrative.

“It’s fascinating the response of the media with the Russian collusion narrative that was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign secretly. They denied that they funded the Steele dossier. But they took that, didn’t question it. And it turns out that all these other people had heard about Hillary Clinton’s plan, but these reporters that got Pulitzers for this didn’t seem to bother to pursue those types of leads,” Turley said.

Turley said pivotal moments unfolded as early as July 2016, when CIA Director John Brennan briefed Obama on Hillary Clinton’s plan to fabricate a Russian collusion narrative.

“Laura, we’re finally seeing parts of the timeline filled in, and it’s creating a very damning picture. Remember, in July 2016, [then-CIA Director] John Brennan went to Obama and briefed him that Hillary Clinton was going to invent this Russian collusion theory to distract from her email scandal,” Turley told host Laura Ingraham. “And so that was back in July. And then we now know, because of recently declassified material, that months later, it was Brennan who intervened, overruled people at CIA, and put the Steele dossier, this infamous debunked report, into the assessment being used by the Obama White House at the very end of Obama’s term.”

Turley laid out how foreign sources were aware of the FBI’s involvement before the investigation was officially launched. (Read more: The Daily Caller, 7/29/2025)  (Archive)

July 29, 2025 - Judicial Watch: ‘China is happy’: Emails reveal Biden DHS and FBI iInvestigations of Tim Walz and communist China

Judicial Watch announced today it received 47 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit about Gov. Tim Walz’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party. DHS and the FBI counter-intelligence investigation into Walz’s CCP connections determined that “China is happy” with Walz being selected as Kamala Harris’s running mate on the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket. Walz’s connections to the CCP were extensive and a concern to the intelligence community, according to the documents produced.

The documents were released in response to a Judicial Watch March 2025 FOIA lawsuit for lawsuit  (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:25-cv-00625))

(…) An email dated August 6, 2024, the day Walz was officially named the Democrat vice presidential nominee, shows Homeland Security personnel discussing how they were aware communist China had a plan to target politicians likely to end up in DC, specifically Walz and Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo.

A Homeland Security official whose name is redacted states:

Walt’s got the Vp. You all have no idea how these feeds into what prc [People’s Republic of China] has been doing here with him and local gov. It’s seriously a line of the intel. Target someone who is perceived they can get to DC

Another official responds: “this speaks too to the rin [raw intelligence] you reviewed for us”.

A participant adds: “the perception narrative that has been pushed with one of the local ngos [non-governmental organizations] had direct ties to the former Gov here in Nevada. FBI has lead on a couple of things the only issue is being in the 9th circuit.”

A participant states: “Good to know and yes there involvement with HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] and fbi on things here”.

Another adds: “If anyone has interest I can give provide context in a classified setting.”

An official noted: “But this has more of strategic impact then obviously the general public knows”.

A BBC article titled “‘Harris’s no 2 taught in China’: Chinese internet reacts to Walz.” is posted to the non-classified, Microsoft Teams group chat, on August 7, 2024, by a redacted Homeland Security participant in the group.

The article states that Walz “spent a year in the south-eastern province of Guandong in 1989 – a topic that was trending on Weibo with 12 million views.”

 “The fact that it happened in 1989 – the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre – was not lost on those commenting on Chinese social media,” the article adds.

A participant in the August 7, 2024, group chat with a name states: “China is happy”

Another noted: “you need components”

Someone adds: “and CIFTs [Counterintelligence Task Force] too”

A group chat participant states: “with FBI mission in the CI [counterintelligence] field i believe they need to get included….” 

Another clarifies: “CITF [corrects the previous acronym above]”

A group chat participant adds: “I think this conversation is FOIA-able…”

A participant states: “makes a great point about CITF coordination, I will state though that folks need to be cognizant of who the primary players even with FBI being the executive agency for CITF. ie dealing with SAPs [Special Access Programs] here so CI depends on what the problem set is and who will take point”

On October 29, 2024, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said a Homeland Security whistleblower told the committee that Walz was a “target” of the Chinese Communist Party as “someone they can get to DC.” The whistleblower also disclosed “that officials from DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) have been involved in the Department’s investigative and/or intelligence work connected with the CCP, the state of Minnesota, and Governor Walz.”

The documents show a skeptical internal DHS discussion about Wang’s contacts with Walz.

In the nation-state threat Bi-weekly sync conversation dated September 12, 2024, a DHS participant who has a redacted dhs.gov email address states: “I need someones thoughts (please keep internal to DHS)”

Another participant explains: “so this person requested a meeting with Walz due to the house investigation they have walz for his relationship china. Then he drafted this letter for upcoming travel he has to china assuming he will get detained”.

The person who requested the meeting with Walz, Chang Wang, is a U.S. citizen, an attorney, adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, and vice chair of the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans. Wang writes to Walz that he fears being “forcibly detained” upon an upcoming visit to China. He also includes a copy of his itinerary while in China which includes being a witness in a court case.

One participant responds: “I read this as TNR but what am I missing”.

Another adds: “that’s what it looks like…begs the question, if he anticipates being detained, why go? weird.” 

Someone replies: “I know right”.

Another group chat participant adds: “I am working with hsi (Homeland Security Investigations) on it”.

A question follows: “what is TNR?”

Another participant clarifies: “transnational repression”.

One person elaborates: “i’m not sure it counts as TNR since it seems to assume being snatched while in China, so it isn’t crossing borders. if he claims they have been pressuring or seeking to coerce him while he’s home in, apparently MN, that would count as TNR. I don’t know the background on him. [Redacted] is my TNR lead.” 

Another offers: “can reach [redacted] as well, my China lead.

A group chat participant writes: “mind you, if he’s a known dissident they probably were pressuring him while he was in the U.S. If he went back anyway, Navalny style, and got pinched, it’s just that part that might not be treated as TNR. There’s no TNR statute per se (only proposals) so FBI investigates it as elements of the underlying offenses (like the stalking, extortion, assault, kidnapping, etc.” 

Another group chat participant adds: “Not my area but his itinerary entry for 9/29 is interesting appears he is a witness for the plaintiffs in a court case. Could be related to why he thinks he may be detained. Also is there additional context on why he requested that meeting or the proposed topic?”

“These documents uncovered by Judicial Watch show that the Biden administration covered up intelligence concerns about Tim Walz’s connections to China. This is a major scandal,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. (Judicial Watch, 7/29/2025)  (Archive)

July 30, 2025 - Clapper crony threatened DNI whistleblower who refused to sign off on fabricated Intel Assessment

A crony of then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper threatened to withhold a promotion from a senior intelligence official unless he concurred in the fake Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, notes obtained exclusively by The Federalist show.

The notes made public for the first time today recount a conversation the top analyst in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) had with an unnamed superior who worked closely with the then-Director James Clapper, according to sources familiar with the document.

The release of the notes represents the latest cache of documents declassified by the Trump administration official concerning the ICA that outgoing President Barack Obama ordered, which falsely assessed that Putin “aspired” to help Trump win the election. An earlier release by the current Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, revealed the senior intelligence official — whom her office identified as an ODNI whistleblower — had been charged with conducting a “scrub,” which is a review, of the intelligence in the non-compartmented ICA. Emails released last week by Gabbard show the top analyst expressing shock over the ICA’s reliance on the Steele dossier because the versions the analyst reviewed included no intel relying on the Hillary Clinton-based fairy tale of opposition research.

According to a person familiar with the notes, the analyst documented his recollection of the conversation on March 31, 2023 — more than six years after the conversation occurred. The delay, The Federalist’s source explained, occurred because the analyst’s efforts to share his concerns, first with the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IC), and then later with Special Counsel John Durham and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, proved unsuccessful. Only later did the analyst receive an inquiry for more information about his claims, leading to the drafting of the summary of his recollections.

Those notes capture the analyst claiming in early January that his supervisor told him, “There is reporting you are not allowed to see,” adding that “if you saw it, you would agree” with the ICA. After noting he concurred “with varying confidence with most of the 2017 ICA’s Key Judgements,” the analyst explained that he “would need to review any reporting myself in order to consider it.”

“You need to TRUST ME on this,” Clapper’s crony countered, stating to the analyst he “would need to demonstrate [his] ability to ‘outgrow’” his refusal to sign off on assessments he did not share, in order to be recommended for a promotion. The analyst remained firm, according to the notes, which led his exasperated superior to reply, “I need you to say you agree with these judgements, so that DIA will go along with them!”

The DIA is the Department of Defense’s “Defense Intelligence Agency,” and the notes explain that ODNI sought “to bring DIA on board as an additional IC Agency signing on to the 2017 ICA.” The ODNI whistleblower then relayed that the conversation turned to the “DIA’s supposed trust in me, and the necessity of me proving my ‘corporate IC officer’ bona-fides by doing what it took to bring DIA on board …” The analyst refused to alter his assessment, and the DIA did not join the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency (NSA) in signing off on the final non-compartmented versions of the ICA.

“I remember this conversation very clearly,” the analyst explained, stressing “it was a difficult situation and I listened, and chose my responses, with care.” “I was aware that I was defying the [National Intelligence Officer’s] direction to me (to misrepresent my views to DIA) based on a conscious decision to adhere to IC standards, tradecraft, and ethics,” the notes concluded. (Read more: The Federalist, 7/30/2025)  (Archive)

UPDATE 8/17/2025

July 29, 2025 - Newly declassified Strzok/Page texts detail open “counter intelligence” investigations BEFORE Crossfire Hurricane

July 30, 2025 - California Grift: Adult school spends $180M on luxury trips, fake students, 6-figure salaries & contracts

Each member of the board of directors overseeing Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools in Sacramento either resigned or was removed weeks after the release of a report by the California State Auditor that found the school improperly received over $180 million in education funding.

In addition, the report, published June 24, says the adult charter school engaged in “questionable financial transactions” and conflicts of interest, including unlawful gifts, luxury travel and the hiring of unqualified individuals. The school avoided accountability for student progress and did not conduct standardized testing of students.

The Sacramento charter school board resigned after a state audit showed the school misused $180 million in taxpayer funding. They gave six-figure jobs to relatives, had fake students, and misrepresented attendance. They gave lucrative contracts out to their “star,” one Mr. King (see below).

And it’s a school for adults that received K-12 funding they weren’t eligible to receive.

The most remarkable thing is they got away with this since 2018 when they first went under scrutiny.

The audit report says multiple agencies are to blame for the lack of action since the 2018 report, including the charter’s authorizer, Twin Rivers Unified, the Sacramento County Office of Education and the California Department of Education.

“Twin Rivers conducted only minimal annual oversight of Highlands, and instead relied heavily on annual audits that we found had inaccuracies,” said California State Auditor Grant Parks in the report. “If Twin Rivers had conducted more thorough oversight, it could have identified some of the violations we identified as part of our audit and taken action to address them earlier.”

The Sacramento-based Highlands Community Charter School boasted star power across its hundreds of employees: an influential Black community leader, a retired police chief and a former Sacramento Kings player. (Read more: Independent Sentinel, 7/30/2025)  (Archive)

July 31, 2025 - Durham Annex: FBI never investigated evidence for Obama AG, Loretta Lynch, and her role in Clinton email coverup

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch stonewalled Congress on July 12, 2016, on the details of the Hillary Clinton email case, refusing to get into the specifics of her decision not to prosecute for mishandling classified material. (Credit: CSpan)

We now have plausible intelligence suggesting the attorney general may have assured Clinton allies that the FBI investigation into Hillary’s emails would go nowhere.

The FBI never investigated explosive allegations that Attorney General Loretta Lynch coordinated with the Clinton campaign to suppress Hillary Clinton’s email server scandal. Those allegations stem from a secret Russian intelligence memo that circulated inside the U.S. government in 2016. The memo was so concerning that it pushed FBI Director James Comey to break ranks with Lynch during the Clinton email probe. Now, thanks to the newly released appendix [annex]of Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, that memo is public, and it appears to confirm long-held suspicions about how the Clinton investigation was handled.

Some of the same intelligence recently appeared in the “Clinton annex” released by Sen. Chuck Grassley on July 21, but the newly released Durham Appendix [Annex] provides a more comprehensive account of this intelligence stream, tracing it from early allegations involving Lynch through to the later scheme to frame Donald Trump as a Russian agent.

While much attention has focused on the Clinton plan to smear Trump, the alleged coordination between Lynch and the Clinton campaign to suppress the email server scandal has so far received less scrutiny.

(…) Durham’s report acknowledges that while some of the phrasing in the intelligence may have suffered from translation issues or conflation, intelligence officials deemed it to be authentic.

According to one of the newly released memos, in a Jan. 12, 2016 conversation with Goldstein, Wasserman Schultz revealed that the Obama White House was applying pressure on Comey via Lynch to shut down the email investigation because the scandal was damaging the Democratic Party and threatening Obama’s legacy:

“Obama has no intention to darken the final part of his presidency and ‘legacy’ by the scandal surrounding the main contender from the DP [Democratic Party]. To solve the problem, the President puts pressure on FBI Director James Comey through Attorney General Lynch, however, so far without concrete results.”

Wasserman Schultz also allegedly noted that the FBI lacked strong evidence against Clinton due to the “timely deletion of relevant data from mail servers.”

But it’s the March 5 alleged follow-up conversation between Benardo and Wasserman Schultz that contains the most damning allegation: “The political director of the Hillary Clinton staff Amanda Renteria regularly receives information from Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the plans and intentions of the FBI.”

If true, this would mean that while the FBI was actively investigating Clinton, the sitting Attorney General was secretly updating her campaign on its progress, compromising not only the DOJ’s independence, but the entire premise of equal justice under law.

The memo further claims that,“Barack Obama sanctioned the use of all administrative levers to remove possibly negative effects from the FBI investigation of cases related to the Clinton Foundation and the email correspondence in the State Department.” (Read more: The Federalist, 8/06/2025)  (Archive)

July 31, 2025 - DNI Tulsi Gabbard confirms 2020 election fraud revelations coming — Feds knew about voting machine vulnerabilities and stayed silent

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard confirmed that the 2020 election was compromised, and the federal government knew about it.

Earlier this year, during a high-level Cabinet meeting with President Trump, she disclosed that the Intelligence Community has been investigating election interference and tampering with electronic voting systems, including signs of foreign and domestic actors manipulating vote totals.

“I’ve got a long list of things that we’re investigating. We have the best going after this, election integrity being one of them,” Gabbard said.

She continued, “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections.”

Appearing on Benny Johnson’s show, Gabbard revealed that a whistleblower from CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) came forward with alarming evidence showing the government was aware of massive vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines ahead of the 2020 election, but deliberately chose to stay silent.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 8/1/2025) (Archive)

August 1, 2025 - FBI whistleblower reinstated after case exposed political bias and abuse in security clearances

The whistleblower who threw open the curtains on the FBI’s weaponization of the security clearance process against Trump supporters, COVID vaccine skeptics, and 2nd Amendment advocates has now had his security clearance reinstated.  The Justice Department has also agreed to cancel his indefinite suspension after more than three years, provide full backpay with benefits, and rehire him at the FBI.

More than a year ago, Empower Oversight unveiled shocking documents that showed the FBI forcing its client’s co-workers to answer improper political questions during a security clearance probe. Those documents led to a Justice Department Inspector General investigation, which is still ongoing.

In the FBI Security Division’s investigative file of Empower Oversight’s client, a preprinted interview outline listed the following questions:

  • “Vocalize support for President Trump?”
  • “Vocalize objection to Covid-19 vaccination?”
  • “Vocalize intent to attend 01/06/2021?”

The FBI interview outlines indicated that co-workers were also interrogated about their colleague’s other First Amendment expression outside of work, including attendance at a rally in support of the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.

“The FBI security clearance process was completely secret, with generally no oversight from the inspector general or Congress. That’s an environment ripe for abuse and easily taken advantage of. Without these back-room documents, we never would have known about the abuse within the Security Division, and that political considerations were right there in black and white as real factors in the decision-making process,” Leavitt said. “We appreciate the Trump administration giving this patriotic FBI employee an opportunity to move forward with the Bureau and look forward to resolving matters for other whistleblowers who suffered from the same bias.”

“The information brought to light through this whistleblower’s case showed clear government wrongdoing, and not just for this person, but for tens of others who suffered from the political bias of the FBI under the previous administration. We hope this is the first of many resolutions for those who have suffered for years without pay or a security clearance, leaving their lives in limbo. My work to find a resolution for other whistleblowers who’ve been wronged will continue,” Senator Chuck Grassley said. Grassley was a champion for the FBI whistleblower within the Department of Justice as they worked to restore the whistleblower’s employment and clearance

During a June 2024 interview with Tucker Carlson, Empower Oversight president Tristan Leavitt outlined the case about how these documents were discovered.

When Empower Oversight revealed the documents in June 2024, Leavitt wrote a letter to then Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, outlining the findings and asking for an investigation.

Empower Oversight had also previously provided the inspector general with evidence that the FBI’s Deputy Director told a large group of FBI executives that anyone who disagreed with the FBI’s handling of January 6th cases did not belong in the FBI. These whistleblower documents suggested that at least some FBI personnel believed they had a license to purge employees with certain views and abused their power to conduct security clearance probes as a pretext to achieve that goal.

When Rep. Tom Tiffany asked then-Director Christopher Wray in a House Judiciary Committee hearing about the so-called “Trump questionnaire,” Wray responded that the questionnaire was used by an outside contractor for the FBI’s Security Division who was no longer with the FBI. Empower Oversight subsequently revealed that such questioning is conducted almost entirely by contractors in the Security Division, but their work is often reviewed by career FBI employees. Furthermore, the contractor in question had been scheduled to retire at the time the questions were used and was not disciplined in any way for the use of the questionnaire as Wray’s comment implied.

August 1, 2025 - The NYT and other MSM outlets, gaslight their readers about the Durham Annex declassified docs

That’s not what it shows at all. The New York Times is straight up lying.

1) The Durham annex never states at all that the specific intelligence was “fabricated.” It says the opposite, that his office was never able to “determine definitively whether the purported Clinton campaign plan [intelligence]…was entirely genuine, partially true, a composite pulled from multiple sources, exaggerated in certain respects, or fabricated in its entirety.”

2) At the time the intel which Ben Smith says was “fake” was received, John Brennan took it so seriously that he briefed Obama about it, took notes about it, and stashed the notes away in his safe.

3) James Comey specifically went under oath and cited the Clinton plan intelligence as one of the major reasons he chose to unilaterally usurp the authority of Loretta Lynch and to declare that the U.S. government would not charge Hillary Clinton for her use of an illegal private email server.

4) Comey told Congress that he believed the Clinton plan intelligence was “genuine.” “So far as I knew at the time, and still think,” Comey testified on December 7, 2018, “the material itself was genuine[.]”

5) FBI general counsel James Baker said he was “greatly concerned” about the intel and specifically Lynch’s reaction when confronted with it. Durham’s report said Baker “did not dismiss the credibility” of the intel reports. Andrew McCabe likewise said he was struck by Lynch’s “odd” reaction to the allegations.

6) Everyone on earth knows the Clinton campaign launched a scheme to falsely claim that Trump colluded with Russia. This new claim that somehow it was a fabrication that the Clinton campaign ran an op to falsely tie Trump to Russia is beyond insane. It’s sociopathic.

It’s sad that we have to constantly go through this exercise with media figures obsessed with false narratives.

Sean is correct, as he lays out the fact pattern about the attempted takedown of President Trump.
I STRONGLY caution you against accepting media driven narratives about the collusion hoax, given their roles in promoting the hoax in the first place, and the discovery of new information since the Director and I took over.

One of the most striking revelations in the newly released Durham Appendix is that the steady stream of intelligence flowing from Russian sources throughout 2016 abruptly ended in late July. This intelligence covered everything from Hillary Clinton’s efforts to cover up her email scandal to her campaign’s plan to smear Donald Trump with false Russia collusion allegations. The documents span from January through late July 2016, the moment when U.S. intelligence discovered that Russian operatives were aware of Clinton’s plan to vilify Trump.

Here is where the story takes a darker turn. That crucial late July intelligence was briefed to President Obama by then–CIA Director John Brennan on August 3. The very next day, Brennan placed a direct call to his Russian counterpart, Federal Security Service Director Aleksandr Bortnikov. Officially, Brennan warned Russia to cease election interference. Yet at that time, no confirmed interference had occurred. In fact, even months later, both the FBI and NSA expressed strong skepticism about the central claim that Russia had hacked and leaked Democratic National Committee emails.

So what did Brennan really communicate to Bortnikov? The sudden stop of the intelligence stream right after the Clinton plan was exposed strongly suggests Brennan signaled to the Russians—either directly or indirectly—that U.S. intelligence had uncovered their knowledge of Clinton’s scheme. The result was the immediate drying up of that valuable intelligence channel.

In other words, Brennan’s phone call appears to have sabotaged a critical intelligence pipeline to protect Hillary Clinton from further scrutiny, prioritizing dirty politics over national security

August 1, 2025 - DOJ official who approved $2 million payout to Strzok/Page has been identified as left-wing activist Brian Netter

The Department of Justice official who signed off on $2 million in taxpayer-funded payments to disgraced Russia collusion hoax participants left the Department of Justice to help lead the “legal resistance” to President Donald Trump and other duly-elected Republicans, new records reviewed exclusively by The Federalist reveal.

FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, sued the Department of Justice over the release of messages detailing their role in pushing the Clinton campaign’s Russia collusion hoax. They said the release of the messages that were written using government resources violated their privacy. The Biden administration rewarded the duo with lucrative payouts. Strozk received $1.2 million in taxpayer funds while Page received an $800,000 settlement.

“[W]e have identified Brian Netter, Deputy Assistant Attorney General as the individual that approved the settlement agreements,” a DOJ official told the Center to Advance Security in America, which had filed a Freedom of Information Act request in 2024, when the payouts were publicly announced. Netter was the deputy assistant attorney general for the Federal Programs Branch during the term of President Joe Biden.

Netter currently serves as the legal director at Democracy Forward, a Democrat Party-affiliated group launched in 2017 to fight President Trump with lawfare. The group brags that it took Trump to court more than 100 times in his first term in office. It has continued its use of the courts to win political battles into his second term in office. “Liberal Legal Group Positions Itself as a Top Trump Administration Foe,” touted The New York Times last November.

Marc Elias, the attorney known for his work damaging the integrity of both the 2016 and 2020 elections, chairs the board of Democracy Forward. Elias, as the Clinton campaign general counsel, signed the checks for her campaign’s Russia collusion hoax. To hide the Russia collusion hoax’s origins, the funding was fraudulently run through Elias’s law firm as “legal services.” Clinton was fined only $113,000 for the false claims she made to hide her role. Elias also ran Democrats’ legal effort to destabilize the 2020 elections with the sudden expansion of unsupervised mail-in balloting operations staffed by Democrat-run nonprofit groups. (Read more: The Federalist, 8/1/2025)  (Archive)

Karen Dunn is an American attorney and political operative. Dunn is a former partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. As an attorney, she has represented clients including Apple, Oracle, and Uber, and in 2021, she defended Apple in a lawsuit brought by Epic Games. Dunn is a specialist in debate preparation in Democratic politics, particularly for candidates for president and vice president. Dunn and Ron Klain co-led President Barack Obama’s presidential debate preparation team in 2012 and led the presidential debate preparation for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Wikipedia

The couple that litigates together: Brian Netter and Karen Dunn, May 2016. (Credit: Evy Mages)

August 1, 2025 - There are yearslong examples of Hillary Clinton colluding with the media to push Russia Russia Russia

2016

At the July 25 – 28, 2016 Democratic Convention, Clinton foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan drove a golf cart from one TV-network news tent in the parking lot to another, pitching producers, anchors, correspondents and even some NBC network executives a story that Trump and his advisers were in bed with Putin and possibly conspiring with Russian intelligence to steal the election. He also visited CNN and MSNBC, as well as Fox News, to spin the Clinton campaign’s unfounded theories. Sullivan even sat down with CNN honcho Jeff Zucker to outline the opposition research they had gathered on Trump and Russia.

…On Oct. 31, 2016 Jake Sullivan hyped the story on Twitter, claiming in a written campaign statement that Trump and the Russians were operating a “secret hotline” through Alfa Bank and speculating “federal authorities” would be investigating “this direct connection between Trump and Russia.” He portrayed the discovery as the work of independent experts — “computer scientists” — without disclosing their connections to the campaign.

“This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow,” Sullivan proclaimed.

Clinton teed up that statement in an Oct. 31 tweet of her own, which quickly went viral. She warned voters: “Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.”

Also that day, Clinton tweeted, “It’s time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia,” while attaching a meme that read: “Donald Trump has a secret server. It was set up to communicate privately with a Putin-tied Russian bank called Alfa Bank.”

At the same time that Simpson was working Slate, he leaked to a friend at the New York Times that the FBI had evidence of the Trump-Alfa link, providing the Times and other friendly media outlets a serious news hook to publish the unfounded rumors on the eve of the November election. (Real Clear Investigations, 1/27/2022) (Archive)

(…) In September 2016, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” which is co-hosted by Stephanopoulos, aired parts of the Millian report. Later that day, Hillary Clinton tweeted out a campaign video incorporating heavily edited quotes from Millian and suggesting they were more evidence Trump was “an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” Above the video she posted on Sept. 22, Clinton personally tweeted: “The man who could be your next president may be deeply indebted to another country. Do you trust him to run ours?”

In effect, Clinton broadcast to her millions of followers a story her campaign had helped manufacture through a paid contractor.

April 5, 2016

October 19, 2016

October 19, 2016

2017

November 4, 2017

Trump campaign officials may have been drawn into contact with Russia via the promise of a mythical stash of Hillary Clinton emails. Joy Reid and her panel discuss.

2018

September 10, 2018 – Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman released a new secret recording in which President Donald Trump can be heard discussing Hillary Clinton and the Russia investigation.

November 28, 2018 – The Bill and Hillary Clinton road show opened in Toronto last night, where they had some choice words for President Trump. NBC’s Kate Snow and Philippe Reines, former deputy assistant secretary of state under Hillary Clinton, join Craig Melvin to discuss.

 

July 22, 2018 – Hillary Clinton has criticised Donald Trump’s performance at the Helsinki summit. ‘The great mystery is why the president has not spoken up for our country,’ said the former US secretary of state, speaking at OzyFest in Central Park, New York. She also said she believes Russian agents are targeting the November midterm elections

2019

May 2, 2019 – Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks with Rachel Maddow about the successful Russian interference in the 2016 election and the dangers of Republicans putting partisanship ahead of national security just because their candidate was the beneficiary of that interference.

2020

August 21, 2020 – The Russians actively interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump, Sec. Hillary Rodham Clinton warns on the heels of the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Report release, and the Trump administration has done nothing to stop them from interfering in the next one.

 

July 20, 2020 – On President Trump’s reluctance to criticize Russia from the 2016 election to the bounty plot, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says, “I am glad that Vice President Biden, with all of his experience in foreign affairs … is trying to warn the American people that what happened in 2016 is sadly underway again.”

2021

November 4, 2021 – Jesse Watters discusses how the media latched on to the Russia collusion narrative on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’

2022

September 16, 2022 – Hillary appears on Morning Joe and shares her thoughts on the FBI investigation into Donald Trump.

@msnbc On #MorningJoe, Hillary Clinton shares her thoughts on the FBI investigation into #Trump ♬ original sound – MSNBC

April 3, 2022 – In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, former Secretary of State and former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton talks about American support for Ukraine as they push back the Russian invasion.

2023

September 25, 2023

2024

September 16, 2024

September 19, 2024 – During her appearance on #MorningJoe, Hillary Clinton emphasized the dangers posed by Donald Trump and his enablers, warning that the country is facing a stark choice between “freedom and oppression”:

“This is a contest between freedom and oppression, democracy and autocracy, bringing people together and further dividing us. And that’s what has to be communicated every single day between now and the election.”

@msnbc During her appearance on #MorningJoe, Hillary Clinton emphasized the dangers posed by Donald Trump and his enablers, warning that the country is facing a stark choice between “freedom and oppression”: “This is a contest between freedom and oppression, democracy and autocracy, bringing people together and further dividing us. And that’s what has to be communicated every single day between now and the election.” #hillaryclinton #trump #donaldtrump #kamalaharris #harris #freedom #news #politics #election #election2024 #democracy #republican #democrat ♬ original sound – MSNBC

September 18, 2024 – Robby Soave and Amber Duke discuss how Hilary Clinton wants to threaten Americans’ free speech rights.

2025 – The tables turn

July 31, 2025 – Tulsi Gabbard TORCHES Hillary’s ‘TREASONOUS’ Actions to RIG Election as She Drops ‘Smoking Gun.

July 24, 2025 – The Department of Justice is now going through the massive number of files in their investigation of what Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said was a treasonous conspiracy by the Obama administration to undermine Donald Trump’s presidency and the 2016 election.

July 31, 2025 – THE DURHAM FILES UNSEALED: Clinton Exposed, Burn Bags, and a Deep State Meltdown*

President Trump’s administration has **officially declassified the hidden segments of the Durham Report**, and it’s even more explosive than anyone expected. For years, Americans demanded to know the full truth—and now, the curtain has been pulled back. Turns out, **the most damning evidence was classified on purpose**.

And it gets even wilder: *thousands of FBI documents set to be destroyed* were intercepted just in time. These “burn bags” were packed with **Hillary Clinton-related evidence**—including emails, handwritten notes, and intel summaries that point to her as the **orchestrator of the Trump-Russia hoax**. We’ve always known it smelled rotten. Now the **paper trail is alive and breathing**.

According to *John Solomon* of Just the News*, one key email from **Leonard Bernardo**, now revealed to be closely connected to George Soros, is sending shockwaves through D.C. Bernardo, who holds a top position at the Open Society Foundations, appears to be **deeply entangled in the planning and cover-up* of the false Russia collusion narrative. Two of his emails—once buried—now link directly to strategic misinformation campaigns.

*Glenn Beck* broke even more news, hosting *DNI Tulsi Gabbard**, who confirmed that **former Obama-era officials involved in the Russia hoax are still embedded in the federal government today**. Some of those recently named have **locked down their X (formerly Twitter) accounts* or made them private, attempting to vanish just as sunlight begins to expose everything.

**Karoline Leavitt**, press secretary for Trump 2024, issued a powerful statement on behalf of the campaign, saying the revelations prove the **FBI and DOJ were turned into political weapons under Biden and Obama**—but that justice is finally catching up.

The Clinton machine knew exactly what it was doing. Carefully worded media appearances. Doctored talking points. And a cooperative press that ran with it—all while Americans were told they were “conspiracy theorists” for asking questions. But now, *video clips of Hillary Clinton doubling down on the Russia lie* are resurfacing—and they did not age well.

Whistleblowers are finally speaking out, saying they were *threatened into silence**. One said: “We didn’t know who we could trust—it felt like everyone at the top was part of it.” Investigative analyst **Mike Benz* confirmed that *former agents from the CIA, NSA, and FBI* coordinated the entire operation like a shadow government.

It’s not just Hillary. *Adam Schiff**, **Jake Sullivan**, and even **Susan Rice* are back under the microscope. And while *Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez* try to dismiss the revelations as “old news,” this is the first time we’re seeing *physical documents**, **verified communications**, and **internal memos* directly implicating key players.

The swamp is deeper than we thought—but the declassification of these documents may finally be the match that lights the fire. *Hillary Clinton is no longer safe behind the curtain.* As Trump said: “In the end, truth always wins.”

 

July 31, 2025 – Megyn Kelly is joined by Glenn Greenwald, host of Rumble’s “System Update,” and independent journalist Aaron Mate to discuss the emails revealed in the newly declassified Durham report annex that appear to lay out the Clinton campaign’s plot to smear Donald Trump as a Russian agent, the involvement of the Obama administration, and more.

 

July 31, 2025 – The truth is finally coming out. Chuck Grassley just dropped declassified documents that were hidden in burn bags at FBI headquarters—documents exposing how Hillary Clinton’s campaign allegedly orchestrated the Trump-Russia hoax. This isn’t just about dirty politics—this was a coordinated takedown, and it’s time people go to jail for it.

August 1, 2025 - Google received a subpoena from FBI for copies of all Dan Scavino's Google documents and via court order, kept Scavino in the dark

Imagine patriotically and proudly serving in the first Trump White House for four years, and departing in January of 2021 . . . Then, during the four years you’re out, BIDEN LAWFARE kicks in, and you receive the below email five weeks before re-entering the White House again in January 2025…

“Google received and responded to a legal process issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation compelling the release of information related to your Google account. A court order previously prohibited Google from notifying you of the legal process…”

I’ve never shared this—but this is a small taste of the INSANITY that many of us went through—right here in the United States of America. LAWFARE at its finest. A Complete and Total Disgrace!!!!!

Imagine working in the White House—
then getting secretly investigated by Google, gagged by the FBI, and legally muzzled without a whisper of due process.

Welcome to Biden’s America.

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It’s not just censorship.
It’s surveillance with a smile.
It’s digital espionage wrapped in court orders.
And it’s all hidden until the next election cycle.

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The regime doesn’t need to arrest you.
They let Google do the dirty work.
They let secrecy do the silencing.

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This isn’t lawfare.
It’s techfare.
A quiet war fought with servers and subpoenas.

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If they can do this to a White House official…
what do you think they’re already doing to you?

August 2, 2025 - The U.S. Office of Special Counsel opens an investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has opened an investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith, who may have unlawfully targeted President Donald Trump.

The OSC has Smith under a microscope regarding the possibility that he violated the Hatch Act, which says government workers are not allowed to take part in certain political activities, Fox News reported on Saturday, noting it received confirmation of the probe from the office and that Smith is not being criminally investigated.

The OSC is a government watchdog that operates independently as a federal investigative and prosecutorial office. In July, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) asked its members to investigate whether Smith, who was the special counsel for former Attorney General Merrick Garland, engaged in unlawful political activity to influence the 20204 presidential election and targeted Trump in doing so.

“President Trump of course vanquished Joe Biden, Jack Smith, every Democrat who weaponized the law against him, but President Trump’s astounding victory doesn’t excuse Smith of responsibility for his unlawful election interference. I therefore ask the Office of Special Counsel to investigate whether Jack Smith or any members of his team unlawfully acted for political purposes,” the senator wrote in is request.

It’s going to be difficult for the media and Democrats to dismiss the U.S. Office of Special Counsel investigating former Special Counsel Jack Smith on allegations that he improperly used his prosecutorial powers to stop President Trump in 2024.

Smith was widely disparaged for trying to rush his Trump cases on classified documents and January 6 trial scheduling to occur before the 2024 election, violating the standard DOJ 60 day rule that prohibits DOJ action before a vote for the purpose of influencing elections.

He disobeyed a court-issued stay of proceedings, submitting discovery and filings after the order anyway on his January 6 case, which Rep Elise Stefanik described as “a lawless breach of trial ethics.”

He’s accused of timing trial proceedings to coincide with election milestones—such as the Iowa caucuses.

He filed a super-lengthy brief (165 pages) in the January 5 case just one month before the 2024 election that included secret grand jury testimony and was widely covered in the media, thereby disadvantaging Trump. His disclosure of sealed grand jury materials was widely seen as an attack on Trump.

Critics said it resembled a campaign opposition research dump, timed one month before the election.

Smith also chose favorable legal venues (e.g., Washington, D.C.) and judges (Tanya Chutkan) perceived as unfriendly to Trump. D.C. jury pools were viewed by critics as politically hostile to Trump.

Also he previously prosecuted Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) for corruption, a case the Supreme Court unanimously overturned in 2016.

This case has been used by Trump and allies to argue Smith has a pattern of overreaching with high-profile Republicans. (Read more: Breitbart, 8/3/2025)  (Archive)

August 3, 2025 - FDA Commissioner Dr. Makary says NIH ‘brewed up a virus that killed 20 million people worldwide’

Newly appointed FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary pulled no punches as he directly accused the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of funding the lab responsible for creating the virus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic and claimed the lives of over 20 million people globally.

Speaking to NewsNation’s Connell McShane, Dr. Makary blasted the former NIH leadership for pouring taxpayer dollars into unaccountable pet projects, including the now-infamous lab that engineered the virus that triggered a global pandemic.

Dr. Makary:
The way it used to be. We’re planning to change our health agencies for a generation or longer. Look at the NIH. When J. Bhattacharya came in there, it was a mess. Fourteen percent of the grants were descriptive studies on health equity.

And the NIH had just funded a lab that brewed up a virus that killed 20 million people worldwide. So they’re getting back to studying root causes, a cure for cancer, debilitating neurodegenerative diseases, and they’re going to do good work.

Connell McShane:
Right, but you have to do it with fewer people. Is that a challenge with the cuts, or is that not really what it’s made out to be either?

Dr. Makary:
The FDA is strong, and it’s going to continue to be strong. The cuts were consolidations. There were no layoffs to scientific reviewers or inspectors at the FDA.

There was consolidation of the twelve travel offices at the FDA. And so we’re going to institute teamwork and break up the fiefdom culture within the agency. It’s an interesting conversation.

Earlier this year, Trump’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) issued a new analysis on the origins of the COVID-19 virus, which favors the theory that COVID escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 8/3/2025) (Archive)

August 3, 2025 - Schumer extorts Trump for Dem support to pass appointments; Trump responds "go to hell'; RINOS then block Trump appointments