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To Cap an Action-Packed Week of #Winning, Tulsi Nukes ‘RussiaGate’

Posted on | July 19, 2025 | Comments Off on To Cap an Action-Packed Week of #Winning, Tulsi Nukes ‘RussiaGate’

Easy to see now why the Deep State went all-in to try and wreck Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination as Director of National Intelligence. I have more thoughts, but let’s get the news out of the way first:

The Obama administration’s top officials committed a “treasonous conspiracy” by manufacturing and politicizing intelligence to create the false narrative that led to the years-long Trump-Russia collusion probe, according to newly-declassified documents released by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard. . . .
Despite the intelligence community’s consensus that Russia “lacked the intent and capability to hack U.S. elections” prior to Trump’s 2016 win over Hillary Clinton, Gabbard said Obama’s officials changed their tune soon after the president won, ignoring the evidence. . . .
On the day the [Presidential Daily Briefing] was supposed to be published on December 9, NSC officials including 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, and others, met in the White House Situation Room to discuss Russia. . . .
Following the meeting, Clapper’s assistant emailed intelligence leaders telling them to create a new assessment “per the president’s request,” detailing the “tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election.”

You can read the rest. The most important revelation — based on newly declassified documents, keep in mind — is the extent to which the “Intelligence community,” in assembling this frame-up against Trump, were acting on direct orders from Obama. We’ve known the basic outlines of the Russian “collusion” hoax for a while now, but what Gabbard has done is to prove that Obama administration officials perpetrated this hoax on the basis of presidential orders. That’s what the December 9, 2016 meeting was about, and Tulsi’s got the receipts to prove it.

As I said previously, I have some thoughts about this, e.g., do you believe it is just a random coincidence that, hours before Gabbard released this RussiaGate bombshell, the Wall Street Journal published a flimsy smear about Donald Trump sending a birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003?

Because I do not believe it’s a coincidence. Democratic operatives of the Deep State, and their media minions, are certainly not naïve as to how this game is played. It took many weeks for Gabbard’s team to put together the contents of that document trove she dumped on Friday, and this Epstein thing was timed as a “spoiling attack,” as such tactics are called in the military. So I don’t doubt for a minute that the timing of the Wall Street Journal story was part of an attempt to distract from Gabbard’s release of the RussiaGate documents. Despite every effort that Gabbard might make to keep the preparation of this report a secret, the Deep State still has assets inside the bureaucracy who would tip off Democrats about what was coming down the pike and, having advance notice of when it was slated for publication, this “spoiling attack” was set up to be published previous to Gabbard’s bombshell. That’s not paranoia talking, it’s a logical deduction based on facts:

One of the co-authors of the WSJ report, Joe Palazzolo, previously wrote for a publication called Main Justice, which was founded by Mary Jacoby, who happens to be the wife of Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS founder behind the debunked Steele Dossier and the Russia hoax. Both Simpson and Jacoby previously worked at the Wall Street Journal themselves, which tells you everything you need to know about the political rot festering in that newsroom.

Anyway, a lot of people are demanding “accountability,” i.e., criminal prosecutions of everyone involved in the RussiaGate scandal, up to and including Barack Obama himself. While I would enthusiastically applaud such a Payback Is Hell and Karma Is a Bitch reprisal — given everything these vile swine did to Trump — I don’t think it’s likely.

It is one thing to expose such scandals, and another thing altogether to turn the scandal into a criminal indictment that can result in a jury voting unanimously for conviction. There is a reason why the protest mobs who wave signs demanding “#Justice for [Insert Dead Criminal’s Name Here]” are so often disappointed when the local District Attorney announces that the cops won’t be charged for shooting the suspect. Our criminal justice system is, thank God, designed to make it difficult to get a felony conviction in court. In the case of a suspect getting shot by cops, before a prosecutor can charge the cops with any wrongdoing — even mere negligence, let alone deliberate murder — he must first ask whether the cop can make a plausible case for self-defense or otherwise justify the shooting as necessary to public safety. Over and over again, in such cases, the prosecutors find themselves facing a self-defense argument they can’t beat. This is why, even when it’s a Soros-funded anti-police district attorney like Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, the cops aren’t prosecuted for shooting suspects, no matter how sketchy the case may seem to Ben Crump and the #Justice mobs. And so it is with RussiaGate.

Those of us who’ve been angry for years about the Steele Dossier, etc., now find ourselves in the shoes of the urban protest mobs demanding #Justice. We know damned well that Team Obama and Team Hillary engaged in wrongdoing, and that they deserve to be punished for it, but what are the chances that Pam Bondi could actually get a criminal conviction in a federal court? Not good — not good at all.

As egregious as the RussiaGate scandal is, the overwhelming likelihood is that nobody involved in this sordid mess will ever be charged with a crime, and that if somehow Bondi does find a way to get indictments against Brennan, Clapper, Comey, et al., the subsequent trial will end in a verdict of acquittal. “Guilty as hell, free as a bird,” to quote Weather Underground alumnus Bill Ayers. “America is a great country.”

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