Media goes into virtual hiding, refusing to report on the repudiation of Trump-Russia collusion
Special Counsel Durham detailed in a 13-page filing just how deeply the campaign to elect Hillary Clinton president was involved in creating the false narrative of Trump-Russia collusion.
Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was involved in creating a false narrative linking President Donald J. Trump to Russia collusion efforts, claiming Russia wanted Trump, not her, to win the election. (Photo: Eric Sonnenberg/Associated Press) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The mainstream media is getting a wake-up call after new allegations in the Durham investigation that President Trump and his campaign were being spied on leading up to and following the 2016 election.
Special Counsel John Durham released in a filing Saturday that the Hillary Clinton campaign hired techs to "infiltrate" Trump Tower and White House servers to establish a "narrative" to link Trump to Russia. The new findings contradict various doubtful media coverage from programs like CBS’ "60 Minutes."
In an October 2020 interview, Trump appeared on the newsmagazine to address the ongoing investigation and his claim his campaign was spied on. He was shot down by host Lesley Stahl, who insisted the president was spreading unverified information.
"There’s no real evidence," she said. "This is ’60 Minutes.’ We can’t put on things we can’t verify."
Meanwhile, former CNN dynamic duo Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo criticized John Durham and the Trump administration back in December 2019 for being adamant about uncovering the truth yet coming up short.
"Nothing happens and they just move on to the next conspiracy theory," Lemon said to Cuomo during a handover. "It is never going to end and guess what? People who want to believe that BS are going to believe it."
In an October 2021 episode of MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow suggested the intention behind efforts to probe the investigation was always to re-route the investigation away from Trump himself.
"It’s a boomerang," she said. "Because it’s apparently an ongoing, concerted Republican and pro-Trump project to try to turn the investigation of the Russia scandal into some kind of scandal itself."
The irony is, the refocus of the investigation is exactly what should have taken place. It has become obvious over the last three years that Clinton was the real colluder with Russia, conspiring with many of the same people named in Durham’s filing to create the false narrative pushed by Democrats and the media known as the Steele Dossier.
Since Durham’s bombshell report dropped, media pundits on the left have gone largely quiet. Publications like the Washington Post and The New York Times have failed to commission any coverage of the latest allegations as of Monday, nor has CNN, MSNBC or the alphabet broadcast networks.
Twitter users like author and cartoonist Scott Adams translated the media blackout as if networks like CNN were actively trying to avoid the "biggest story" of the current news cycle.
Special Counsel John Durham, leading the investigation into the false narrative of Trump-Russia collusion, all but sank the Democrat and media storyling that Russia interferred in the 2016 election to get Donald Trump elected president. (Photo: U.S. Department of Justice) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Saturday, Durham detailed in a 13-page filing just how deeply involved the campaign to elect Hillary Clinton president was involved in creating the false narrative of Trump-Russia collusion. His brief details how Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who is charged with lying to the feds, paid an internet company to “infiltrate” servers at Trump Tower and the White House in order to link Donald Trump to Russia.
The filing from the special counsel’s office investigating the origins of the FBI’s Russian probe served to throw cold water on Democrats’ longstanding allegations of collusion.
Sussmann allegedly told the FBI he was not working on behalf of Clinton when he presented the agency with documents that supposedly linked the Trump Organization to a Kremlin-tied bank two months before the election. The lawyer has pleaded not guilty to the charge of making a false statement to a federal agent in having made that claim.
Durham’s motion reportedly alleged Sussmann “had assembled and conveyed the allegations to the FBI on behalf of at least two specific clients, including a technology executive (Tech Executive 1) at a U.S.-based internet company (Internet Company 1) and the Clinton campaign.”
Records showed he “repeatedly billed the Clinton Campaign for his work on the Russian Bank-1 [previously identified as Alfa Bank in Moscow] allegations,” which involved an investigative firm, a tech executive, cyber researchers and numerous employees at internet companies, the motion reportedly stated.
In 2017, Sussmann provided “an updated set of allegations” about then-President Trump’s Russian connection to another government agency, the motion said, according to the outlet.
Among the accusations leveled at that time was that suspicious DNS lookups by Russian-affiliated cell phone IP addresses “demonstrated Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations,” the motion reportedly said.
The allegations “relied, in part, on the purported DNS traffic” that Rodney Joffe, [identified in Durham’s brief as “Tech Executive-1”] and other unnamed co-conspirators “had assembled pertaining to Trump Tower, Donald Trump’s New York City apartment building, the EOP, and an unnamed Trump healthcare provider,” according to sources close to the investigation.
Durham said his office found “no support for these allegations,” claiming the supposed evidence Sussmann provided was a mixture of incomplete reports, skewed data and outright fabrication.
Though not yet identified as a suspect, former software security firm senior vice-president Rodney Joffee is shown in Durham’s report to be heavily involved in creating the Trump-Russia collusion fraud. (Photo: Neustar, Inc. webpage) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
According to Joffe’s LinkedIn profile, he retired “for the third time” in September 2021 from Neustar, Inc., a TransUnion company, enables connections between companies and people.” Durham makes no indication as yet that Joffe is suspected of any wrongdoing.
In 2013, he became one of the first civilians to be awarded the FBI Director’s Award for Cybersecurity, according to his profile on the Forbes website.
That honor involved the discovery of malicious software dubbed the “Butterfly Botnet,” which was used to infect more than 11 million computers more than 11 million computers around the world. The cyberattack led to the theft of credit card, banking and other information that caused more than $850 million in losses before being stopped.
In 2015, he was among the cyber experts who called for the firing of Katherine Archuleta as director of the Office of Personnel Management under then-President Barack Obama in the wake of a massive cyberattack on OPM’s computer network.
Suspected Chinese hackers swiped the personal information of more than 22 million current and former government workers in one of the biggest cyberattacks in history.
“This is not a security thing,” Joffe said at the time.
“As a manager, she should have been managing the process, and she didn’t…If you put a program in place, you have to make sure the metrics you set are acceptable.”
Archuleta, a former teacher who was Obama’s 2012 national political director, was later forced to resign.
According to Sussmann’s indictment, days after Trump’s victory, Joffe emailed someone and said, “I was tentatively offered the top [cybersecurity] job by the Democrats when it looked like they’d win.”
“I definitely would not take the job under Trump,” he added.
Durham’s filing says Sussman’s “billing records reflect” that he “repeatedly billed the Clinton campaign for his work on the [Alfa Bank] allegations.”
Sussman and Joffe had met and communicated with a law partner ― believed to be Democrat operative, election meddler and managing partner of the law firm he founded, Mark Elias ― who served as General Counsel on the Clinton campaign.
Per Durham, in 2016, Joffe worked with Sussman, an American investigative law firm {Elias Group], several cyber researchers and employees at multiple internet companies to “assemble the purported data and white papers.”
By the time debate season rolled around in 2016, Hillary Clinton was already deeply involved increating a false narrative designed to undermine Donald Trump’s popularity and to steal the election for herself. (Photo: Rick T. Wilking/Associated Press) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The filing states, “In connection with these efforts, Tech Executivbe-1 [Joffe] exploited his access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data. [Joffe] also enlisted the assistance of researchers at a U.S.-based university who were receiving and analyzing large amounts of Internet data in connection with a pending federal government cybersecurity research contract.”
“[Joffe] tasked these researchers to mine Internet data to establish ‘an inference’ and ‘narrative’ tying then-candidate Trump to Russia,” Durham states, “In doing so, [Joffe] indicated that he was seeking to please certain ‘VIPs,’ referring to individuals at Law Firm-1 [The Elias Group] and the Clinton Campaign.”
President Donald Trump said he was vindicated by Durham’s filing. In a Saturday evening statement, the former Republican president said there was a time that Sussmann’s alleged crime “would have been punishable by death.”
The document “provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia,” the former chief executive’s statement read.
“This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution.”
Republican Rep. Kash Patel, who was chief investigator of the House’s probe into Trump’s alleged Russian ties, told America’s Conservative Voice that Durham’s filing was “definitive” evidence that Clinton’s campaign orchestrated “a criminal enterprise to fabricate a connection between President Trump and Russia.”
Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was the first person charged with making a false statement in connection with Durham’s investigation. He pleaded guilty in 2020 to falsifying a document ― supporting evidence for the Steele Dossier ― used by the FBI to surveil Carter Page, a Trump aide during the 2016 campaign.
This latest in the Clinton-Russiagate investigation is chilling, in that is confirms that Clinton and the Democrat apparatchiks care far more about power and subverting the U.S. Constitution than they do about the rule of law and morality. All they want is to seize control of the U.S government and become the elitist power center of a Fascist police state.
Why else would they go to such illegal, immoral lengths to achieve their goals? If in your mind you cannot immediately answer that question, you have become a major part of the problem facing our United States of America.
Mike Nichols is an advocate of the counterrevolution with a four-step plan to defeat Leftist Fascism: We Organize. We Stand. We Resist. We Fight. He is a regular contributor to several conservative news websites and has a regular blog and Facebook presence at Americas Conservative Voice-Facebook.