Democrats have engaged in numerous unfounded lies over the past few years thanks to their media allies. And while each is harmful in its own way, the unsupported claim that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to take the 2016 election was one of the biggest and possibly most devastation theories perpetuated by these stars and Americans ‘ own state.
Liberals spent years making up the conceit that the New York-born tycoon had orchestrated a plot to undermine American “democracy” and claim Hillary Clinton the White House despite a total absence of “actual” supporting evidence. Even worse, many of these theories were supported by U.S. intelligence organizations like the FBI, who conducted the” Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into Trump’s first administration using shoddy “evidence” purchased and paid for by a Clinton campaign-hired law firm.
The destruction the crime had done to Americans ‘ confidence in elections was already over, according to Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 evaluation of the FBI’s antics, which was consistent with what The Federalist had previously stated for years: there was no evidence to support the company’s anti-Trump investigation. The scheme’s baselessness is further demonstrated by recently released documents, which were almost two years after Durham’s bomb report.
The roughly 700 webpages of government records, which were obtained by The Federalist late last year, provide an introspective look at the FBI’s efforts to deceive Trump through its stale Crossfire Hurricane functioning.
The Steele Dosier
It is necessary to learn where Crossfire Hurricane came from in order to fully understand how the Russia collusion fake was realized.
In order to find out more about Trump ahead of the November election, the Clinton party’s law firm, Perkins Coie, hired Fusion GPS, an opposition research organization, and hired the agency in early 2016. According to Margot Cleveland of The Federalist, Fusion hired ex-British detective Christopher Steele to focus on Trump’s links to Russia “in May or June of 2016; by June 20, 2016, Steele had written the first of some 17 notes that would ultimately make what is now known commonly as the Steele report.”
On July 5, 2016, Cleveland continued Steele shopped his FBI handler about Trump’s “initial memo,” which contained fabricated and lurid allegations about him.
Where did Steele get the information for his Trump-related report?
The ex-spy acknowledged that his anti-Trump ace research mainly relied on statements from a “primary subsource,” as further confirmed by the newly sealed records, which details Steele’s September 2017 discussion with FBI officials. According to the records, Steele claimed that this person is a tribal Russian and is a US resident, adding that there is no way the source may have access to him outside of Russia.
Steele described him as a famous asset, and Steele trained up his principal subsource, the papers read.
Igor Danchenko, a Russian nationwide, has been the main sub-source in the years since Steele’s 2017 meeting. According to Cleveland, Danchenko was charged in late 2021 with “making misleading claims to the FBI” and “alleged to have invented some of the alleged apple contained in the report.” A North Virginia-based judge later found her innocent on suspicion of lying to the company in October 2022.
[READ: Media Shame Durham After Danchenko Verdict, But It’s Russia Hoaxers Who Should Be embarrassed ]
The bottom line is that the document consisted of a few well-known information and a plethora of false allegations that Danchenko and others concocted before being sold by Steele and the Clinton strategy as the function of a previous MI6 Russian professional, according to Cleveland.
FISA and” Uncorroborated” Information
The Steele dossier’s scandalous nature is only the tip of the iceberg that led to the dangerous Russia collusion hoax, though.
Durham made it known that on July 19, 2016, Steele sent this FBI handler yet more hearsay about the Trump plan,” this time relating to battle employee Carter Page,” as The Federalist’s Elle Purnell noted two weeks prior to Durham’s revelations. On July 28, the manager sent both studies to the assistant special adviser in charge of the New York Field Office.
The agent informed Durham’s investigators that the assistant special agent had just informed him that the FBI leadership had learned of the information ‘ life, according to Purnell. Three days later, the research into the Crossfire Hurricane was opened.
However, the FBI’s obvious use of the dossier in launching Crossfire Hurricane was even more heinous because it used it as a weapon to smuggle information about the Trump campaign. In the run-up to the 2016 election, the FBI primarily relied on the dossier to obtain several Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ( FISA ) warrants to monitor Page and, by default, the Trump campaign. Andrew McCabe, a previous FBI Deputy Director, admitted this, Purnell noted.
Despite knowing that these statements were unverified, the FBI apparently did this in the recently released Crossfire Hurricane data.
For instance, records from the then-President-elect Michael Rogers ‘ 2017 FBI interview revealed that Rogers met with then-President-elect Trump, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and National Intelligence Director James Clapper to “brief” him on” the Intelligence Community Assessment ( ICA )” regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. The document states that “[T]he assembled group ] should be the one to tell [ Trump ] about the contents of the” Steel dossier.”
The records went on to detail how” Admiral ] Rogers noted the contents of the” Steel dossier” in the body of the product in one draft of the ICA, which he did not recall seeing in previous drafts.” In accordance with the papers, Rogers” told the group he was uneasy why the ICA needed to concentrate on the report because it was generally uncorroborated” [emphasis added ] during an earlier January 2017 meet with the above then-intel leaders.
The document states that” Comey responded that the information was pertinent, and that [Admiral ] Rogers suggested that the information be listed in an annex or appendix rather than prominently in the nearly one-page summary he had seen.”
Comey’s notes indicate that Trump’s initial press release was a failure.
However, Rogers ‘ issues arrived too late. Months had passed since the FBI used the report to obtain Page’s first FISA permit to spy on her. The FBI subsequently renewed this permit numerous times throughout 2017.
A dangerous monster chase
These cited snippets are only a small portion of the information contained in the unopened Crossfire Hurricane documents, which more confirms the lies of the Russia collusion hoax, which hampered the majority of Trump’s first presidency. The alleged leak of classified information about the investigation by congressional Democrats and their employees to reputation advertising are just a few examples of the examples given.
One of the biggest monster hunts in U.S. history was launched by America’s national intelligence agencies, as further evidenced by these recently released documents shows. And despite their best efforts, involved” editors” and lying Democrats cannot change that.
Shawn Fleetwood is a University of Mary Washington student and a team author for The Federalist. He previously worked for Convention of States Action as a condition material poet, and his articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Conservative Review, RealClearPolitics, and RealClear Health. Following him on Snapchat at @ShawnFleetwood
