America cannot successfully move past the Russia collusion hoax until its founders and lawbreaking participants receive the legal reckoning they deserve.
The recent passing of former FBI Director and Special Counsel
To better understand the egregiousness of it all requires delving back into the scheme’s origins.
At the time, a 2016 presidential matchup between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and real estate billionaire Donald Trump may have seemed a bit unorthodox when compared to the typical national elections Americans were accustomed to. Little did the public realize that this sentiment extended far beyond normal politics, and that the prospects of a Trump presidency were something the D.C. establishment was not willing to tolerate — not Clinton herself, and certainly not the U.S. intel apparatus.
To prevent such a possibility from becoming reality, Clinton manufactured a narrative to tie Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Part of this baseless conspiracy involved her campaign’s law firm (Perkins Coie) paying opposition research firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on the New York billionaire. Enlisting the help of ex-British spy Christopher Steele, Fusion cooked up the “Steele dossier,” which contained unsubstantiated and salacious allegations about Trump and Russia.
Shopped by Steele to the FBI beginning in summer 2016, the dossier was ultimately used by the agency to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump campaign official Carter Page in the lead up to the November election. What was equally significant about the dossier, however, was how it became foundational to the Obama administration’s hard launch of the Russia collusion hoax that Mueller and his team of anti-Trump partisans would later use to hamstring Trump’s first presidency.
Thanks to records declassified by Director National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard last year, we now know that the way in which the hoax was jumpstarted was way worse than originally thought.
After reports began circulating that Russia had attempted to interfere in the 2016 election, President Obama gathered his intel chiefs and ordered the creation of an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that would be used to further the Russia collusion narrative. His FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper delivered, with a rushed January 2017 ICA that came away with a “key judgement” that Russia “aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances” — a conclusion that was instrumental in the Trump-Russia hoax’s creation.