Posted by For years, I believed that Mr. Trump had been hounded by the Left for no justifiable reason. I believed that left-wing ideologues weaponized the CIA, the FBI, and the Department of Justice, including the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Court system in order to prevent Mr. Trump from becoming President and, when he became President anyway, to prevent him from governing effectively. For believing this, I was called a right-wing fanatic, a NAZI, a white supremacist, a racist, and a political nut by the cool-aid drinkers of the Marxist globalist left.
Over the past three years, facts emerged one by one that showed that the Mueller investigation was a fraud from its inception. No there there. And Mr. Mueller knew it. Two impeachments, one paradoxically when Trump was already out of office. And nothing. No evidence. No impeachable offences.
And now we finally have the Durham report about his investigation of the FBI’s so-called “Crossfire Hurricane” project and related machinations, which started in July of 2016 with the sole purpose of showing that Mr. Trump and his campaign were colluding with the Russians, in particular Mr. Putin, in order to prevent Hillary Clinton from becoming President of the USA.
Centerpiece of the Crossfire Hurricane project was the so-called “Steele Dossier”. As the Durham Report shows, this Dossier was entirely fiction. Triggered by “unevaluated intelligence information from Australia” Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Peter Strzok, jumped on the Crossfire Hurricane project with great energy and zeal at a time when the “FBI had no information in its holdings indicating that at any time during the campaign anyone in the Trump campaign had been in contact with any Russian intelligence officials”. Both had “pronounced hostile feelings toward Trump”. They “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”.
Christopher Steele, a former British secret agent, supplied the FBI with the “Steele Dossier”. The Dossier was actually not generated by Steele himself but based on “information” provided by a Russian operative named Igor Danchenco. Danchenco lived in the USA for several years and then returned to Russia.
On page 11 of his report Durham writes:
Our investigation determined that the Crossfire Hurricane investigators did not and could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations contained in the Steele reporting. Nor was Steele able to produce corroboration for any of the reported allegations, even after being offered $1 million or more by the FBI for such corroboration. Further, when interviewed by the FBI in January 2017, Danchenko also was unable to corroborate any of the substantive allegations in the Reports. Rather, Danchenko characterized the information he provided to Steele as ‘rumor and speculation’ and the product of casual conversation.
In plain words: the entire dossier was a freely invented bunch of lies. Imagine this. Here you have highly paid, studied, and trained professional intelligence officers sitting together in a back room pondering, at the taxpayer’s expense, what they could possibly write in the Dossier that would let Trump appear as a genuinely despicable slimeball. And these adult men, on whose actions the security of our nation depends, cook up an infantile story about Trump hating Obama so much that he had prostitutes come into the Moscow hotel room where Obama had stayed to make them urinate on the bed in which Obama slept! This is beyond sick. This is dangerously deranged. Even for our braindead times.
Mr. Durham characterizes the findings of his report as “sobering”. Mr. Durham is obviously an understatement guy. As I see it, his report finds his equals in Cicero’s report about the Catiline Conspiracy or in the French Dreyfus Affair. What he uncovers is by far the most widespread and deep-rooted case of endemic government corruption and abuse of government power for political gain ever to have existed in the USA.
Our Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA have all been converted into political weapons. And the hounding of the J6 protagonists continues. Extensive incarcerations with no due process. And Trump is still being harassed with frivolous lawsuits.
After reading the Durham Report, I cannot help but conclude that Mr. Trump was telling the truth and that his opponents and accusers have been lying, all along.
But the worst player in this travesty of Western Democracy is not the government or the deep state. It is journalism, journalists, and the agitprop media of a left-wing persuasion that made it all possible. Journalism throughout the Western world has mostly degenerated into a left-wing cheer group. Too many journalists have changed from acting as a control and counterweight to government power to acting as a propaganda tool of government power. Journalism has failed its constitutional mission epically. I wonder if journalism will ever be able to recover from this failure.
The words “We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.” Are commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin. However, no proof can be found that he actually said or wrote this. If he did not say or write it, perhaps he should have, because it might well be true.
Yet, Durham’s report gives me hope that we might not need that revolution after all to repair our republic. It gives me the hope that the American democratic republic may still be capable of fixing itself with the tools provided in its tool kit. It all depends on what happens next. If there will be no consequences for the liars, cheaters, and abusers of power, then the Franklin quote may still apply. I look forward to seeing Hillary Clinton, whose campaign financed the Steel Dossier of lies, Comey, Strzok, and other key power-abusers behind bars. If and when that happens, I will sing again “… o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”