January 30, 2026 – Svetlana Lokhova: Senator Mark Warner must face a criminal investigation for his central role in the Russia collusion hoax

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Why Senator Mark Warner Must Face a Full Criminal Investigation for His Central Role in the Russia Collusion Hoax, as part of the Grand Conspiracy to Subvert an American Election and Presidency

The American people were sold one of the greatest political lies in history: that Donald Trump was a Russian asset, secretly elected with Putin’s help, and that patriotic Americans who questioned this fairy tale were “conspiracy theorists.”

The Steele Dossier, a Clinton-campaign-funded compilation of lies, was the poisonous seed. The FBI used it to spy on a presidential campaign. The media used it to terrorize the country for years. And sitting at the very center of Congress’s “bipartisan” Russia investigation was Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), the man who did more than almost anyone to keep this hoax alive long after it had been exposed as garbage.

Declassified documents, leaked text messages, whistleblower testimony, and the Durham investigation prove he was an active participant in a coordinated effort to weaponize the intelligence community, foreign intelligence assets, opposition researchers, and billionaire donors against a sitting president.

This is the real conspiracy, not the imaginary kind Warner spent years chasing .

Here are the facts that demand Warner be hauled before a grand jury, placed under oath, and investigated for abuse of power, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and possible violations of the Logan Act, Espionage Act, and campaign finance laws.

1. Warner Ran a Secret Back-Channel to Christopher Steele Through a Russian Oligarch’s Lobbyist, While Publicly Screaming About “Russian Influence”
In February 2018, Fox News published explosive text messages between Mark Warner and lobbyist Adam Waldman. Waldman represented Oleg Deripaska – yes, the same sanctioned Russian oligarch at the center of so much of the “Russia collusion” nonsense.

What do the texts show?

-Warner desperately wanted a secret call with Christopher Steele, the discredited former MI6 officer who promoted the dossier.

-Warner explicitly told Waldman he did not want Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) to know about it.

-Warner instructed Waldman to set up the call with “no paper trail.”

-When Steele got cold feet, Warner pushed harder: “Important… this all stays strictly between us.”

Let that sink in. The ranking Democrat on the committee investigating Russian interference was secretly negotiating with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch to get off-the-record access to the author of the central piece of evidence in that investigation – and he wanted zero official record of it.

This is the same Mark Warner who spent years on television warning about “Russian disinformation” and the danger of back-channel contacts with Russians.

Yet here he was, running his own back-channel through Deripaska’s paid representative to the single most compromised source in the entire scandal.

Why the secrecy? Because Warner knew the dossier was collapsing. Steele had already been terminated by the FBI as a source for lying. His “primary sub-source”, Igor Danchenko, was later indicted for lying to the FBI. Warner didn’t want official scrutiny – he wanted to keep the narrative alive behind closed doors.

2. Warner Coordinated with Dan Jones, The Man Who Took Over Funding Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele and Kept the Hoax Machine Running After the Election

After Trump won, the Clinton campaign and the DNC stopped paying Fusion GPS and Steele. Enter Daniel Jones, former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer for Dianne Feinstein and close Warner ally.

Jones admitted under oath that he raised approximately $50 million , much of it from Silicon Valley billionaires (Reid Hoffman) and George Soros-linked groups, to continue the “research” into Trump-Russia ties through his organizations: the Penn Quarter Group and The Democracy Integrity Project (TDIP).

What did Jones do with the money?
– Paid Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele to keep digging.
-Fed opposition research directly to the FBI, the State Department, and, crucially, to the Senate Intelligence Committee that Mark Warner was now helping lead.

-Ran a media influence operation that planted hundreds of collusion stories in major outlets.

Jones was in constant contact with Warner’s circle. Declassified materials and reporting show Warner’s team relied on Jones/Fusion material while pretending their investigation was pristine and independent. The final SSCI Russia report, released under Warner’s vice-chairmanship and later chairmanship, still cited dossier-sourced claims that had already been debunked.

This was not oversight. This was outsourcing a partisan smear operation to private actors and then laundering their “findings” through an official Senate committee to give them legitimacy.

3. Warner Oversaw a Committee That Leaked Like a Sieve and Protected the Hoax Architects
Under Warner’s watch, classified information from the Senate Intelligence Committee flowed to friendly reporters. Security director James Wolfe was caught leaking the Carter Page FISA application to his girlfriend Ali Watkins and others. Wolfe got a slap on the wrist, two months in prison, after the DOJ mysteriously dropped 18 U.S.C. § 641 charges that could have sent him away for years.

Who benefited from the leaks? The same media outlets pushing the collusion narrative Warner wanted alive.
When the Wolfe scandal broke, Warner’s response was not outrage at the breach, it was to attack reporters who exposed it.

4. Warner Repeatedly Lied to the Public and Pushed for Investigations He Knew Were Based on Garbage
Warner went on television countless times claiming the Senate Intelligence Committee had seen “incredible evidence” of coordination between Trump and Russia.

Yet when the Mueller Report found no such thing, Warner quietly pivoted to “counterintelligence concerns,” never admitting the central role the discredited dossier played in launching the entire probe.
He pushed for the Mueller special counsel within days of Comey’s firing , before the dossier’s problems were fully exposed.

He defended the FBI’s handling of the FISA warrants on Carter Page even after Inspector General Horowitz found 17 major errors and omissions.

This Was a Conspiracy , and Warner Was Near the Center