How Russiagate is Really Hillarygate

For months now, the Swamp has been pouring millions upon millions of dollars into the destruction of Donald J. Trump and his presidency.  The Establishmentariat has employed the Leftist Jackasses, the Right-wing RINOs, the Shadow Weasels of the Deep State, the HOGS Funding Corporation (Hillary, Obama, and George Soros) and finally, the Fake News Industrial Complex; all for the sum gain of zero indictments, zero evidence, zero fall guys, and zero confessions of wrongdoing.  Perhaps with another few hundred-million, they might be able to indict Trump’s dog for peeing on the azaleas in the Rose Garden.

ZeroHedge writer, Tyler Durden has been mulling over a concept that the Russian collusion story should actually be looked at in a different way.  Instead of looking at it from the point-of-view of a Trump-Russia connection, why not look at it from a much more feasible angle:  That Hillary Clinton is actually the colluding individual and her campaign guilty of not only developing the Trump-Russia connection narrative, but that they were also the financial backers for the Trump Dossier.  A very interesting theory, to say the least, Durden draws it together and ties it up with a bunch of information about time lines starting with the whole “siren call” on election night when Hillary’s people began yelling Russian collusion.  He also ties in the so-called Dossier information.

According to an insider account, the Clinton team, put together the Russia Gate narrative within 24 hours of her defeat. The Clinton account explained that Russian hacking and election meddling caused her unexpected loss. Her opponent, Donald Trump, was a puppet of Putin. Trump, they said, “encourages espionage against our people.” The scurrilous Trump dossier, prepared by a London opposition research firm, Orbis, and paid for by unidentified Democrat donors, formed a key part of the Clinton narrative: Trump’s sexual and business escapades in Russia had made him a hostage of the Kremlin, ready to do its bidding. That was Hillary’s way to say that Trump is really not President of the United States—a siren call adopted by the Democratic party and media.

The most under-covered story of Russia Gate is the interconnection between the Clinton campaign, an unregistered foreign agent of Russia headquartered in DC (Fusion GPS), and the Christopher Steele Orbis dossier. This connection has raised the question of whether Kremlin prepared the dossier as part of a disinformation campaign to sow chaos in the US political system. If ordered and paid for by Hillary Clinton associates, Russia Gate is turned on its head as collusion between Clinton operatives (not Trump’s) and Russian intelligence. Russia Gate becomes Hillary Gate.

Neither the New York Times, Washington Post, nor CNN has covered this explosive story. Two op-eds have appeared in the Wall Street Journal  (Holman Jenkins and David Satter). The possible Russian-intelligence origins of the Steele dossier have been raised only in conservative publications, such as in The Federalist and National Review.

So, a couple of things. I fully accept the whole Clinton involvement in the Trump Dossier, especially knowing that McCain himself is involved and also taking into account that McCain was a NeverTrumper and would most likely have voted for Hillary Clinton. To have assisted her in this endeavor would have been expected and not really surprising. And we should stop expecting the Fake News Industrial Complex to begin covering negative reports or actually committing to journalism when it comes to Clinton or any Leftist issue for that matter.

What I do take issue with, however, is the notion from Durden that this was initiated on a late night gathering of the Clinton campaign officials to spin this the right way by claiming Russian collusion. My information stems from a January 2016 attempt by the Obama administration to mandate through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that the states elections systems would be designated as critical federal infrastructure and therefore, overview and scrutiny of its operations would fall under the umbrella of the federal government.

This story got little traction, but the point is, that attempts were made early on in the opening months of 2016 to establish that the states election systems were faulty and non-secure. This narrative that they were faulty, I believe, eventually led to the assertions that the Russians had become involved. I believe that Obama recognized Clinton’s inherent weakness in the campaign to uphold his legacy and I believe that more than a few top DNC officials were aware that Clinton was way behind in the polls where she should have been; hence, her tirade in front of a microphone to the unions shrieking “Why am I not ahead by 10 points!” I believe she was already advised how far behind she was.

In talking about the book, “Shattered,” where these accusations about an election night hatching of the Russian collusion idea was first broached by its authors, The Lid news site itself mentions: “The Campaign didn’t invent the Russia story, but after the Hillary loss they began an incredible marketing effort with the help of every Democrat and the mainstream media.”  This backs up my claim that I don’t believe it was hatched on election night.

The Russia collusion story was the DNC-Obama “Plan B” story of why they lost the election. I believe that after the loss they naturally gave their idea to the campaign, who then implemented it. I don’t think that Hillary Clinton would ever have entertained the notion (during the campaign) that she was possibly going to lose. That was unfathomable. She had paid her dues. Her time had come. There was no way she was going to lose, ESPECIALLY to Donald Trump!

As for Durden’s ideas about the Dossier, I’m not going to rehash all the details of that situation. We already know more than we need to know in order to understand that this was a character assassination attempt and it failed spectacularly, thanks in part to the incompetence of James Comey.

While leaks from within the investigation focus on possible obstruction of justice, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s writ – to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election – requires him to consider “matters” that Dems would prefer be left alone.

Special Counsel Mueller has been given a broad charge and no deadline — a formula for trouble. He is supposed to “investigate Russia’s intervention in the 2016 election.” Given the many accounts of Russian contacts of Trump campaign officials and hangers-on, Mueller must follow these leads, which apparently have lead nowhere over a nine month investigation as reported even by Trump unfriendly sources like CNN. Mueller, therefore, should not require much time to rule out coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia state actors. Mueller must be careful to avoid detours into loosely related issue by scalp-hunting investigators. Mueller also must shut down leaks from within his office, if he wishes his reports to be credible to the American people.

Mueller must also conduct an investigation which is perceived as fair to both sides. On the Clinton/Democratic side, there are a number of unanswered questions related to Russian electoral intervention. Among them is the question of whether the “wiped clean” Clinton e-mails are in Russian hands (as asserted by the Steele dossier), whether  the tarmac meeting of Bill Clinton and the Attorney General quashed the investigation of Hillary’s e-mails, and whether the  Clintons and Russian uranium interests engaged in quid pro quo and “pay to play” operations. 

The most important unanswered question is whether the Clinton campaign funded the Orbis Trump smear campaign and did they understand the campaign could be conducted by Russian intelligence?

Mueller must question Steele himself on his sources and some of the sources themselves, investigate whether they could be Russian intelligence agents, and determine the role of Clinton donors and campaign officials in the funding of the anti-Trump dossier.

The Fusion-Steele matter is explosive because it suggests that Russia’s most damaging intervention in the 2016 campaign may have been its creation of the Steele Dossier, remarkably paid for by the Clinton campaign! If so, the Clinton campaign (not Trump) was the prime sponsor of Russia’s intervention in the 2016 election.

True, true and true.  All of the above.  As for Mueller shutting down all the leaks, that’s never going to happen.  The nature of this business requires some level of positive public opinion.  In a situation like this, where the investigation is already overshadowed by the specter of being a “witch hunt,” and there’s not a shred of evidence so far that links any member of any Trump official to any wrongdoing, Mueller’s going to need all the Fake News Industrial Complex help he can muster.  And that, my friends, can only be achieved through excessive leaks.

Secondly, he doesn’t have to appear to be balanced in his attacks.  The Leftists in charge of this investigation and who are spearheading the charge to have Trump removed from office are not interested in the truth, nor are they interested in fairness.  Using Trump’s “witch hunt” comparison once again, these Leftists are like the villagers who have so many things going wrong on their own farms that it’s easier to put the blame on some imaginary supernatural power, than to just admit that there’s no such things as witches and fix the damned problems themselves.

Russiagate will not transform magically into Hillarygate, but with a little help from Mueller, perhaps unintended facts will be exposed that will help shine a brighter light on the real threat to democracy:

The Democrat Party and their lackeys.

Source:  ZeroHedge / The Lid