Russia hoax
April 3, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I have never met Pam Bondi, but everyone I know who has worked with her thinks the world of her. “You couldn’t meet a more delightful person,” is how one friend recently summed up his experience with Bondi. So I was sad to see her fired as Attorney General, despite having achieved notable successes in her short time in that role. President Trump praised her as he let her go,
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December 23, 2025 — John Hinderaker
John Brennan, the disgraced former Director of the CIA, committed perjury before the House Intelligence Committee in May 2017 when he lied about his role in the Russia Collusion Hoax. The statute of limitations on perjury is, however, five years. But Brennan told essentially the same lies to a House Judiciary Committee investigator in May 2023. Those lies could be the basis of a perjury prosecution. I wrote about these
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November 2, 2025 — John Hinderaker
If you created a list of the worst people in public life during modern American history, John Brennan would be near the top. As CIA Director, the (allegedly) former Communist betrayed the American people to a greater degree than any other public employee I can think of. On Thursday, Brennan participated in some sort of conference, during which he was questioned by a guy who was in the office of
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August 19, 2025 — John Hinderaker
James Comey betrayed the trust of the American people as Director of the FBI, and did damage to that organization from which it may never recover. From the very beginning of the first Trump administration, Comey tried to undermine and ultimately destroy Trump’s power to govern. To his everlasting shame, Comey collaborated in publicizing the Steele “dossier,” which he and everyone else knew to be complete fiction. He did this
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August 12, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The FBI has declassified interview memos that may shed light on how fake Russiagate leaks came into being. The witness or witnesses whose interviews are memorialized in these memos laid the blame squarely on Adam Schiff, who at the time was the ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. You can read the memos here, and draw your own conclusions. These are some of the good parts:
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August 10, 2025 — John Hinderaker
As I have said many times, I think the Russia Collusion Hoax is by far the worst political scandal in American history. However, as I wrote here, I also think it is far from clear that any of the perpetrators of that hoax will be, or should be, criminally prosecuted. Vice President JD Vance doesn’t share my doubts: Vice President JD Vance said in an interview Sunday that “a lot
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July 31, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Durham report on the Crossfire Hurricane investigation included an Appendix or Annex that was classified. It has been declassified at the request of Senator Chuck Grassley, and Grassley released the materials earlier today. You can read Grassley’s press release here and the documents here. Grassley’s release is titled “Newly Declassified Appendix To Durham Report Sheds Additional Light On Clinton Campaign Plan To Falsely Tie Trump To Russia And FBI’s
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July 31, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The broad outlines of the Russia collusion hoax have been known for quite a while, but more details are being painted in as intelligence-related documents are released by the administration, in particular the DNI’s office. The most recent is the account of a Deputy National Security Officer who was heavily involved in analyzing Russian participation in the 2016 presidential election. In fact, this officer “led the production of the Intelligence
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July 30, 2025 — John Hinderaker
A new trove of documents has been unearthed inside FBI headquarters. It sounds as though they may contain new information about the Russia collusion hoax: FBI Director Kash Patel found a trove of sensitive documents related to the origins of the Trump–Russia probe buried in multiple “burn bags” in a secret room inside the bureau, sources told Fox News Digital. *** Sources told Fox News Digital that multiple burn bags
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July 24, 2025 — John Hinderaker
One of the debates now raging over the Obama administration’s falsification of intelligence relates to Vladimir Putin’s motive in trying to impact our 2016 presidential election. Barack Obama and John Brennan pushed the idea that Putin wanted Donald Trump to win the election, while the intelligence professionals saw little or no evidence of that preference, and believed that Putin was just trying to sow discord. But my question is: since
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July 24, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Director of National Intelligence has declassified a 2020 House Intelligence Committee report that includes information gleaned from Russia’s intelligence service. The Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee’s files–remember that?–and found DNC documents about Hillary Clinton and her campaign: The revelation came from a long-classified House Intelligence Committee report made public by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday. The report, dated Sept. 18, 2020, says Russia’s Foreign Intelligence
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July 23, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Recent days have seen a series of revelations relating to misconduct by Obama administration officials. Today DNI Tulsi Gabbard confirmed in a press conference that she has referred allegations against Barack Obama, among others, to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation: On Wednesday, Gabbard confirmed during a White House press briefing that her office has officially referred Obama to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation over his leading
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July 19, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has released a memorandum on the intelligence community’s assessment of Russian participation in the 2016 presidential election, that includes email excerpts and a time line. Gabbard herself says that these documents reveal a “treasonous conspiracy” against the Trump administration and the American people. I yield to no one in my contempt for James Comey, John Brennan and others who perverted America’s intelligence apparatus to
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July 14, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Miranda Devine previews the results of a Rasmussen poll to be released today on the Russia hoax: Astonishingly, 60% of Democratic voters still think “the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election”, according to the poll of 1,014 Likely Voters conducted on July 6-7. A whopping 69 percent of liberal voters still cling to the Russia collusion hoax, compared to 27 percent of conservatives, and
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July 5, 2025 — John Hinderaker
You may have read about the report that the Deputy Director of the CIA for Analysis recently submitted to CIA Director John Ratcliffe on the CIA’s anti-Trump effort at the end of 2016. The report is dated June 26, 2025, and is embedded below. I am not sure who wrote it. Google’s AI says that the Deputy Director for Analysis position is currently open. Maybe Michael Ellis, the Agency’s Deputy
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March 8, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Top Democratic Party lawyer Marc Elias and his then-law firm, Perkins Coie, played a disgraceful part in the Russia collusion hoax. I am not sure why no one in the Hillary Clinton campaign, nor anyone at Perkins Coie, was criminally prosecuted as a result of that fraud, which included the filing of false documents with the FEC. Perhaps investigators concluded that no crime was committed, or perhaps a policy decision
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January 11, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Russia hoax was concocted by the Clinton campaign with attorney Marc Elias serving as a cutout. They undertook the hoax with the full knowledge and assistance of the Obama administration, including CIA Director John Brennan, Vice President Biden, and Obama himself. The underlying documents were handed off to the press and the FBI, whose senior leadership then sought to surveil, sting, and depose President Trump in the early days
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