Despite the leftist mainstream media’s best effort to hide the truth about the hate-Trump Russia Collusion Hoax hatched by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign team, the truth surfaced thanks to the investigation and prosecutions of Special Counsel John Durham.
Clinton torpedoes paid for British spy Christopher Steele to manufacture his famous dossier. Legmen who went to the FBI with anti-Trump information lied about working for her campaign. Inside the FBI, agents hatched a plot to block Trump from becoming president. They not only discussed invoking the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, but also, apropos of the collusion lie, launched the Crossfire Hurricane probe.
So now Durham has released the report about his investigation. Much of it replows old ground, but one item in the 316-page document bears repeating. In detail. Top agents wanted Clinton to win the election, and blocked or stopped investigations into her campaign’s improprieties. But they also passionately hated Trump and waged an unethical if not illegal campaign to stop him from becoming president.
Ignoring Contrary Evidence
Such was the obsession to stop Trump inside the bureau, the report says, that agents simply ignored information that contradicted sources who claimed Trump was working with the Russians.
Crossfire Hurricane wasn’t a serious probe to find out whether Trump had done what “sources” said he did. Rather, it was a political hit stage-managed by hate-Trump fanatics inside the bureau.
“Our investigation also revealed that senior FBI personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor towards the information that they received, especially information received from politically affiliated persons and entities,” the report says:
This information in part triggered and sustained Crossfire Hurricane and contributed to the subsequent need for Special Counsel [Robert] Mueller’s investigation. In particular, there was significant reliance on investigative leads provided or funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump’s political opponents. The Department did not adequately examine or question these materials and the motivations of those providing them, even when at about the same time the Director of the FBI and others learned of significant and potentially contrary intelligence.
But again, Durham exposed the Clinton campaign’s role during his prosecutions.
To derail Trump, the Clinton hit team needed insiders willing to ignore information that didn’t fit the narrative it was retailing through hoaxsters such as Steele.
“It seems highly likely that, at a minimum, confirmation bias played a significant role in the FBI’s acceptance of extraordinarily serious allegations derived from uncorroborated information that had not been subjected to the typical exacting analysis employed by the FBI and other members of the Intelligence Community,” the report continued:
In short, it is the Office’s assessment that the FBI discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia. Similarly, the FBI Inspection Division Report says that the investigators “repeatedly ignore[d] or explain[ed] away evidence contrary to the theory the Trump campaign … had conspired with Russia.… It appeared that … there was a pattern of assuming nefarious intent.” An objective and honest assessment of these strands of information should have caused the FBI to question not only the predication for Crossfire Hurricane, but also to reflect on whether the FBI was being manipulated for political or other purposes. Unfortunately, it did not.”
Team Clinton also needed insiders to squelch any investigations into their wrongdoing. Those insiders dutifully did so. They deep-sixed an investigation into a source who contributed to the campaign, possibly illegally, on behalf of a foreigner. More famously, the insiders simply ignored intelligence that showed that Clinton’s hit squad concocted the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax.
Strzok and Page
The two key players at the top of the FBI’s chain of command who were involved in the collusion hoax were Peter Strzok, deputy assistant director of counterintelligence, and Lisa Page, a special assistant to Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
“Strzok and [Page] had pronounced hostile feelings toward Trump,” the report says:
In text messages before and after the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the two had referred to him as “loathsome,” “an idiot,” someone who should lose to Clinton “100,000,000-0,” and a person who Strzok wrote “[w]e’ll stop” from becoming President.”
The report helpfully discloses just how much the pair hated Trump. Their messages “express a very clear prejudice against Trump,” the report says.
There follows a frightening transcript that reveals what two unsupervised totalitarians thought they could accomplish with the awesome power of the federal government:
August 16, 2015:
Strzok: [Bernie Sanders is] an idiot like Trump.
December 20, 2015 (After exchanging an article about Trump):
Page: What an utter idiot.
Strzok: No doubt.
March 3, 2016:
Page: God [T]rump is a loathsome human.
Strzok: Yet he may win [the Republican nomination]. Good for Hillary.
Page: It is.
Strzok: Would he be a worse president than [C]ruz?
Page: Trump? Yes, I think so.
Strzok: I’m not sure. Omg [Trump’s] an idiot.
Page: He’s awful.
Strzok: America will get what the voting public deserves.
Page: That’s what I’m afraid of.
Strzok: God, Hillary should win 100,000,000 – 0.
May 3, 2016:
Page: And holy [expletive] Cruz just dropped out of the race. It’s going to be a Clinton Trump race. Unbelievable.
Strzok: What?!?!??
Page: You heard that right my friend.
Strzok I saw [T]rump won, figured it would be a bit. Now the pressure really starts to finish [the Clinton email investigation] …
Page: It sure does.
July 18, 2016 (During the Republican National Convention):
Strzok: Oooh, TURN IT ON, TURN IT ON!!! THE DOUCHE BAGS ARE ABOUT TO COME OUT. You can tell by the excitable clapping
Page: And wow, Donald Trump is an enormous douche.
July 19, 2016:
Strzok: Hi. How was Trump, other than a douche?
Page: Trump barely spoke, but the first thing out of his mouth was “we’re going to win soooo big.” The whole thing is like living in a bad dream
July 21, 2016:
Strzok: Trump is a disaster. I have no idea how destabilizing his Presidency would be
July 27, 2016:
Page: Have we opened on him yet?
Strzok: Opened on Trump? If Hillary did, you know 5 field offices would …
Strzok, of course, “both drafted and approved the Crossfire Hurricane opening Communication,” but anyway, Page and Strzok also left these fingerprints at the scene of the crime:
August 8, 2016:
Page: [Trump’s] not going to become president, right? Right?!
Strzok: No. No, he’s not. We’ll stop it.
Another hate-Trumper was the bureau’s Kevin Clinesmith, a lawyer of the Office of General Counsel. He made “troubling statements demonstrating a blatant political bias against Trump,” the report says. On November 9, 2016, the day after Trump defeated the Deep State Combine out to stop him, Clinesmith said this to “fellow FBI personnel,” the report says: “viva le resistance.”
Clinesmith, recall, doctored an email to help justify a surveillance warrant against Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
“Although those involved in opening the Crossfire Hurricane investigation denied that bias against Trump was a factor in opening the investigation,” the report amusingly avers, “the communications quoted above quite clearly show, at least on the part of certain personnel intimately involved in the matter, a predisposition to open an investigation into Trump.”
No wonder the report concludes that the FBI and Justice Department FBI “failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law.”
Maybe if hate-Trump hatchet men weren’t running the DOJ and the FBI, they wouldn’t have failed. Then again, upholding the law wasn’t their mission. Stopping Trump was.
