{"id":3469,"date":"2023-05-18T12:52:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T17:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2023-05-18T12:52:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T17:52:25","slug":"durham-report-confirms-mueller-report-hillarys-dirty-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3469","title":{"rendered":"DURHAM REPORT CONFIRMS MUELLER REPORT \u2013 HILLARY\u2019S DIRTY TRICK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-84-1024x546.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-3470\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-84-1024x546.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-84-1024x546.png 1024w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-84-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-84-770x411.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-84-293x156.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-84-390x208.png 390w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-84.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the 2016 presidential election, the Hillary Clinton campaign engaged in a massive dirty trick \u2013 to concoct \u201cevidence\u201d that then-candidate Donald Trump was (1) under threat of being blackmailed by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and (2) was coordinating and conspiring with Russia\u2019s meddling in the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The primary \u2013 and only \u2014 \u201cevidence\u201d was a Dossier alleging Trump\u2019s improper and salacious activities in Russia.&nbsp; It was said to have been received by former British intelligence agent Michael Steele from a \u201csource\u201d in Russia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">https:\/\/googleads.g.doubleclick.net\/pagead\/ads?client=ca-pub-1116480047858304&#038;output=html&#038;h=280&#038;adk=3322636124&#038;adf=1092427522&#038;pi=t.aa~a.3486721017~i.5~rp.4&#038;w=766&#038;fwrn=4&#038;fwrnh=100&#038;lmt=1684432231&#038;num_ads=1&#038;rafmt=1&#038;armr=3&#038;sem=mc&#038;pwprc=7371149189&#038;ad_type=text_image&#038;format=766&#215;280&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fpunchingbagpost.com%2Fdurham-report-confirms-mueller-report-hillary-dirty-trick%2F&#038;host=ca-host-pub-2644536267352236&#038;fwr=0&#038;pra=3&#038;rh=192&#038;rw=766&#038;rpe=1&#038;resp_fmts=3&#038;wgl=1&#038;fa=27&#038;adsid=ChEI8JmXowYQldau-qCZ6OfYARI9AOXD7Z_FEm0W-BQzSsMY2Cp1kk2Q98IYkoQutu5-DiAa4TNT4snroHa-Emzo-ie1iuTb-_USMhQV-hWk0g&#038;uach=WyJXaW5kb3dzIiwiMC4zLjAiLCJ4ODYiLCIiLCIxMDkuMC41NDE0LjE0MSIsW10sMCxudWxsLCI2NCIsW1siTm90X0EgQnJhbmQiLCI5OS4wLjAuMCJdLFsiR29vZ2xlIENocm9tZSIsIjEwOS4wLjU0MTQuMTQxIl0sWyJDaHJvbWl1bSIsIjEwOS4wLjU0MTQuMTQxIl1dLDBd&#038;dt=1684432231432&#038;bpp=2&#038;bdt=1312&#038;idt=2&#038;shv=r20230515&#038;mjsv=m202305160101&#038;ptt=9&#038;saldr=aa&#038;abxe=1&#038;cookie=ID%3D79a5edb9f8dafc00-2208f1dbc3de006b%3AT%3D1678736489%3ART%3D1678736489%3AS%3DALNI_MaviS651RjVz4R3_OJkV5KqXFpkwQ&#038;gpic=UID%3D00000bd8b618c0f0%3AT%3D1678736489%3ART%3D1684432032%3AS%3DALNI_MaA-f6n2brPj5HOgw0nBXK547zYMw&#038;prev_fmts=0x0%2C886x280%2C766x192%2C304x250%2C304x250&#038;nras=2&#038;correlator=8610850710298&#038;frm=20&#038;pv=1&#038;ga_vid=1412233094.1678736452&#038;ga_sid=1684432231&#038;ga_hid=1263740479&#038;ga_fc=1&#038;ga_cid=1329592890.1684432023&#038;u_tz=330&#038;u_his=1&#038;u_h=768&#038;u_w=1366&#038;u_ah=728&#038;u_aw=1366&#038;u_cd=24&#038;u_sd=1&#038;dmc=4&#038;adx=128&#038;ady=1579&#038;biw=1349&#038;bih=657&#038;scr_x=0&#038;scr_y=0&#038;eid=44759927%2C44759842%2C44759876%2C31071259%2C31074601%2C31074673%2C44788441%2C44792088%2C21065724&#038;oid=2&#038;pvsid=1777962592478623&#038;tmod=1688073559&#038;uas=0&#038;nvt=1&#038;ref=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativeroundup.com%2F&#038;fc=1408&#038;brdim=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C1366%2C0%2C1366%2C728%2C1366%2C657&#038;vis=1&#038;rsz=%7C%7Cs%7C&#038;abl=NS&#038;fu=128&#038;bc=31&#038;ifi=8&#038;uci=a!8&#038;btvi=3&#038;fsb=1&#038;xpc=sITOIMvYIV&#038;p=https%3A\/\/punchingbagpost.com&#038;dtd=25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Steele Dossier \u2013 as it was dubbed by the media \u2013 was obtained by the Clinton campaign and leaked to the media.&nbsp; It was also provided to the FBI by a lawyer claiming to be acting in the public interest.&nbsp; Turned out he was operating on behalf of the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">https:\/\/googleads.g.doubleclick.net\/pagead\/ads?client=ca-pub-1116480047858304&#038;output=html&#038;h=192&#038;slotname=8560558598&#038;adk=3320249053&#038;adf=1092427522&#038;pi=t.ma~as.8560558598&#038;w=766&#038;fwrn=4&#038;lmt=1684432230&#038;rafmt=11&#038;format=766&#215;192&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fpunchingbagpost.com%2Fdurham-report-confirms-mueller-report-hillary-dirty-trick%2F&#038;host=ca-host-pub-2644536267352236&#038;wgl=1&#038;uach=WyJXaW5kb3dzIiwiMC4zLjAiLCJ4ODYiLCIiLCIxMDkuMC41NDE0LjE0MSIsW10sMCxudWxsLCI2NCIsW1siTm90X0EgQnJhbmQiLCI5OS4wLjAuMCJdLFsiR29vZ2xlIENocm9tZSIsIjEwOS4wLjU0MTQuMTQxIl0sWyJDaHJvbWl1bSIsIjEwOS4wLjU0MTQuMTQxIl1dLDBd&#038;dt=1684432230512&#038;bpp=1&#038;bdt=393&#038;idt=219&#038;shv=r20230515&#038;mjsv=m202305160101&#038;ptt=9&#038;saldr=aa&#038;abxe=1&#038;cookie=ID%3D79a5edb9f8dafc00-2208f1dbc3de006b%3AT%3D1678736489%3ART%3D1678736489%3AS%3DALNI_MaviS651RjVz4R3_OJkV5KqXFpkwQ&#038;gpic=UID%3D00000bd8b618c0f0%3AT%3D1678736489%3ART%3D1684432032%3AS%3DALNI_MaA-f6n2brPj5HOgw0nBXK547zYMw&#038;prev_fmts=0x0%2C886x280&#038;nras=1&#038;correlator=8610850710298&#038;frm=20&#038;pv=1&#038;ga_vid=1412233094.1678736452&#038;ga_sid=1684432231&#038;ga_hid=1263740479&#038;ga_fc=1&#038;ga_cid=1329592890.1684432023&#038;rplot=4&#038;u_tz=330&#038;u_his=1&#038;u_h=768&#038;u_w=1366&#038;u_ah=728&#038;u_aw=1366&#038;u_cd=24&#038;u_sd=1&#038;dmc=4&#038;adx=128&#038;ady=1689&#038;biw=1349&#038;bih=657&#038;scr_x=0&#038;scr_y=0&#038;eid=44759927%2C44759842%2C44759876%2C31071259%2C31074601%2C31074673%2C44788441%2C44792088%2C21065724&#038;oid=2&#038;pvsid=1777962592478623&#038;tmod=1688073559&#038;uas=0&#038;nvt=1&#038;ref=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativeroundup.com%2F&#038;fc=1920&#038;brdim=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C1366%2C0%2C1366%2C728%2C1366%2C657&#038;vis=1&#038;rsz=%7C%7CpEebr%7C&#038;abl=CS&#038;pfx=0&#038;fu=128&#038;bc=31&#038;ifi=3&#038;uci=a!3&#038;btvi=1&#038;fsb=1&#038;xpc=7GDYTyufIg&#038;p=https%3A\/\/punchingbagpost.com&#038;dtd=222<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dossier did not serve its purpose \u2013 to snatch the election for Clinton.&nbsp; Trump won.&nbsp; However, it was then used to launch an investigation of Trump and his campaign in the hope that the conspiracy with Russian claims would lead to impeachment and Trump\u2019s removal from office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it turns out, \u201cevidence\u201d of a conspiracy between Trump and Russia did not exist.&nbsp; The Dossier was proven to be fake.&nbsp; Even worse.&nbsp; The phony Dossier \u2013 and its political uses \u2013 were funded by the Clinton campaign.&nbsp; It was arguably the most elaborate political dirty trick in American history \u2013 and unprecedented in terms of its use \u2026 make that misuse \u2026 of government agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-mueller-report\">MUELLER REPORT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it did not stop Trump from being elected President of the United States \u2013 and did not lead to his removal from office \u2013 it was used by Democrats and their media allies to smear Trump for more than four years. It triggered the naming of Special Counsel Robert Mueller \u2013 in the hope that he would find Trump guilty of criminal conspiracy with Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats and the left-leaning news platforms issued daily statements and reports of the certainty of Trump\u2019s guilt.&nbsp; California Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff \u2013 an outspoken advocate of the conspiracy accusations and Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee \u2013 announced publicly that he had seen incontrovertible evidence of Trump\u2019s guilt.&nbsp; He was lying, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the best efforts of the anti-Trump folks in government and in the media, after two years of investigation at a cost of more than $35 million, Mueller reported that there was no evidence of any such conspiracy between Trump or his campaign and Russia.&nbsp; It was all a huge political hoax empowered by politically compromised government officials and baseless (fake??) news reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fake narrative was so embedded in the leftwing establishment that the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;won a Pulitzer Prize for reports supporting the phony conspiracy theory.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p 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class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That came long after the FBI \u2013 using the Dossier as their sole rationale \u2013 launched the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.&nbsp; They used the phony Dossier to obtain wiretap authority without telling the FISA Court that the \u201cevidence\u201d was unvetted and had been paid for by the Clinton campaign.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More disturbing is the fact that most of those promoting the conspiracy accusations and the ensuing investigation knew that the Dossier was phony \u2013 a product of the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was such a fiasco, that even those involved could not prevent the spotlight from turning on them and their roles in propping up the fake Dossier and launching the investigation against Trump.&nbsp; Top officials in the FBI (Director James Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Assistant Deputy Director Peter Strzok, and others) were complicit in a conspiracy against Trump.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The false narrative was supported by officials of the outgoing Obama administration and former intelligence officials, such as former CIA Director John Brennan and former head of national intelligence James Clapper.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DURHAM REPORT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Department of Justice official John Durham was named special counsel to investigate the role of the investigators \u2013 after the FBI\u2019s Inspector General had raised concerns about the legitimacy of Crossfire Hurricane.&nbsp; The essential question was whether FBI officials acted properly in handling the Dossier and the Trump investigation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like the Mueller Report, The Durham Report contained no recommendations of indictments against officials who abused power to launch the investigation of Trump, but it did answer questions left unanswered by Mueller.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did government officials \u2013 especially those in the upper ranks of the FBI \u2013 proceed with a major investigation of a presidential candidate without sufficient evidence \u2013 or any real evidence at all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Durham Report is unequivocal on that question.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They did, indeed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is clear from the Durham Report that political considerations trumped credible evidence in launching Crossfire Hurricane \u2013 and that key individuals had abused their power based on political biases to weaponize the offices they held at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SUMMARY<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whatever one thinks of Trump \u2013 or what even his culpability may be in the various court cases he faces \u2013 we should all be able to agree that the entire Russian conspiracy controversy was nothing more than a political dirty trick by the Clinton Campaign that led to dangerous abuses of power by politically compromised individual in key positions \u2013 damaging the image and credibility of the FBI, the CIA, and the Justice Department as non-partisan law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the left points to various paranoid conspiracy theories on the right, they turn their back on the largest, most destructive, and dangerous conspiracy theory in history \u2013 a conspiracy created and proffered for years by Democrats, partisan government officials, and a biased news media solely for political purposes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the exposure by the Durham investigation is no reason to abandon concern.&nbsp; The role of the FBI in supporting the initial false claim that the Hunter Biden laptop was merely a Russian invention \u2013 and the signatures of 51 former intelligence officials on a letter reinforcing the false claim that the laptop was a Russian trick \u2013 is sufficient reason to do a little more investigating of what was \u2013 and perhaps is \u2014 going on within the intelligence and law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, there \u2018tis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/punchingbagpost.com\/durham-report-confirms-mueller-report-hillary-dirty-trick\/\">https:\/\/punchingbagpost.com\/durham-report-confirms-mueller-report-hillary-dirty-trick\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2016 presidential election, the Hillary Clinton campaign engaged in a massive dirty trick \u2013 to concoct \u201cevidence\u201d that then-candidate Donald Trump was (1) under threat of being blackmailed by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and (2) was coordinating and conspiring with Russia\u2019s meddling in the election. 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