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Special Prosecutor John Durham’s recent filing in his case against the Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer who is accused of lying to the F.B.I. served little else except reminding Americans that Russia is not to be trusted.
Durham, who has been tasked by former Attorney General William Barr with investigating Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election, issued a recent motion that conservative media incorrectly seized on as evidence that Hillary Clinton’s campaign staffers infiltrated servers inside the White House to spy on former President Trump.
Michael Sussmann, a former lawyer for the Clinton campaign who has been indicted for allegedly lying to the F.B.I. in 2016, was at the center of the new filing. His lawyers came out swinging against organizations like Fox News that treated the filing as though it was a blockbuster revelation and the latest example of Clinton’s corruption.
But Sussmann’s lawyers brushed off the filing as a nothing burger. Clinton, who gave a speech, hinted that she could end up suing Fox News after saying it seemed the network was approaching “actual malice” in its reporting. (Notice how the network has become silent on the matter.)
The Wall Street Journal reported that Durham’s three-year probe has only yielded three cases.
Russia’s alleged ties to the Trump campaign has been a source of suspicion and innuendo in the American media. The theory is that a “wide-ranging group of Russians” hacked the Clinton’s campaign, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Democratic National Committee in order to dig up dirt and get their boy, Donald Trump, elected.
The group is also accused of spreading propaganda on social media.
The U.S. does not allow anyone to question these allegations. In 2018, then-President Trump took heat for committing the mortal sin of questioning U.S. intelligence.
After meeting with Putin in Helsinki, Trump said he had “great confidence” in U.S. intelligence, but said Putin was “extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.”
“Dan Coats [director of national intelligence] came to me and some others, they said they think it’s Russia,” Trump said. “I have President Putin. He just said it’s not Russia. I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be.”
NPR pointed out at the time that Trump’s refusal to accept the intelligence assessment was met with vitriol on Capitol Hill. The late-Sen. John McCain, called Trump’s “performance” one of the most disgraceful by a president in recent memory.
“The damage inflicted by President Trump’s naiveté, egotism, false equivalence and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate. But it is clear that the summit in Helsinki was a tragic mistake,” McCain said.
The Durham filing against Sussmann was vague but asked the court to study potential conflicts of interest for the law firm defending Sussmann.
Reports said a tech executive tied to Sussmann had a “sensitive arrangement” and access to servers in the White House. Sussmann met with the C.I.A. and raised concerns that he learned about data that showed YotaPhones, which are made in Russia, in proximity to Trump and the White House, the NYT reported.
But the report pointed out that the filing did not mention when the data was collected, or even if Trump was even in the White House at the time.
TRENDPOST: Beyond Russiagate, we note this article to illustrate the anti-Russia campaign that has been going on since the end of World War II. And, how Russia, America’s ally back then, were Cold War enemies while its WWII deadly enemies, Japan and Germany, are now close allies.
TRENDPOST: On 24 September 2019, when it was announced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi initiated the impeachment process against President Donald Trump, Gerald Celente was asked by Daniela Cambone, Editor-in-Chief of Kitco News, how it would unfold.
Celente said impeachment “could possibly happen, but it won’t mean anything because if they impeach Trump then it has to go to the Senate for conviction. It needs a two-thirds Senate vote, and the Senate is controlled by the Republicans, so it’s not going to happen. It’s going to be more of a waste of time, and it’s more of ‘Russiagate’.”
And that’s precisely what happened.
Throughout the tax-payer costly, time-wasted impeachment process, the Democrats kept pumping the propaganda that the Russians were responsible for Hillary Clinton losing the race to the White House because of the Russians and Donald Trump’s ties to Russian President Putin… and because Russia hacked into the Democratic National Committee computers.
Celente called it propaganda because not one shred of evidence was provided to support the Democrats accusations.
Most Americans buy the “hate Russia” propaganda, just as Washington has been brainwashing the public to hate the Iranians.