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2016 documents now prove Obama and his top intelligence officials conspired to create the Russian collusion hoax

Evidence Obama conspired to overthrow Trump
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Treason: Documents now released from 2016, just after Trump’s election victory, now prove without doubt that Obama and his top intelligence officials conspired to create Russian collusion hoax, despite having assessments by their intelligence agencies declaring Russian actions did not include Trump and had no impact at all on the 2016 election.

That assessment is nicely summarized by the screen capture to the right.

We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure.

After getting that negative assessment, Obama immediately called a meeting to rewrite the conclusions, in order to create a fake political issue aimed directly at destroying Trump’s presidency.

The following day, Dec. 9, 2016, a meeting convened in the White House Situation Room, with the subject line starting: “Summary of Conclusions for PC Meeting on a Sensitive Topic (REDACTED.)” The meeting included top officials in the National Security Council, [National Intellitence director James] Clapper, then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice, then-Secretary of State John Kerry, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, among others, to discuss Russia.

The declassified meeting record, obtained by Fox News Digital, revealed that principals “agreed to recommend sanctioning of certain members of the Russian military intelligence and foreign intelligence chains of command responsible for cyber operations as a response to cyber activity that attempted to influence or interfere with U.S. elections.”

…After the meeting, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Clapper’s executive assistant emailed intelligence community leaders tasking them to create a new intelligence community assessment “per the president’s request,” that detailed the “tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election.”

“ODNI will lead this effort with participation from CIA, FBI, NSA, and DHS,” the record states. Later, Obama officials “leaked false statements to media outlets” claiming that “Russia has attempted through cyber means to interfere in, if not actively influence, the outcome of an election.”

By Jan. 6, 2017, a new Intelligence Community Assessment was released that, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, “directly contradicted the IC assessments that were made throughout the previous six months.” [emphasis mine]

The result was a four-year-long witch hunt against Trump, including the investigation of special council Robert Mueller that in the end found nothing, but made believe something might still be there.

These revelations are not really news, as ample evidence has existed since 2020 of this coup attempt, further documented by the Durham report released in 2023. What is different now is that Trump’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, now has access to the files from that time, and has released those documents publicly, providing us actionable legal and unequivocal evidence of treasonous actions by these officials, including Obama.

Will Obama, Clapper, Brennan, Rice, Kerry, Lynch, and McCabe ever face charges for their actions? At the moment it appears that Brennan might, along with former FBI head James Comey, based on a criminal investigation recently launched by the Trump administration at the FBI. It was Comey’s FBI that pushed back the most against that initial negative assessment, making up the Russian collusion hoax out of nothing.

A short list of recent lies by our propaganda press
A short list of recent lies by our propaganda press

What should infuriate every ordinary American is that the Russia and Trump collusion accusation was clearly utter garbage and unbelievable from day one. I noted this fact in 2017, stating that “on its face it is absurd. As noted repeatedly by even Trump’s critics, there is no evidence of any illegal acts by anyone.”

An intelligent press that was at least attempting to cover the news objectively should have seen through this tissue of lies immediately, and at a minimum ignored it. Instead, our propaganda press not only never questioned its absurdity, it piled on, spending years ginning up this fake crime for partisan reasons expressly designed to help the Democratic Party and hurt Donald Trump.

A free society cannot function when all its news sources are corrupt in this way. Fortunately, our free society has a solution, in that its laws require freedom of speech. The result is the springing up in the past decade of an alternative press, all far more willing to report the news instead of being dumb mouthpieces for the Democratic Party.

This is why Trump won in November. It is why his budget cuts will go forward in some manner, because the incessant pro-government propaganda from the propaganda press no longer controls the narrative. People can now see through it, and because of this, progress can finally be made to change things in Washington.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

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