Summer 2016
The FBI had in its possession an unverified dossier outlining many salacious accusations against candidate Donald Trump. They knew the dossier was, through a convoluted process, the product of Hillary Clinton’s campaign’s opposition research.
Surveillance of the Trump campaign was an FBI imperative and to make it happen a FISA warrant needed to be issued against a member of Trump’s team. What most people don’t understand is how powerful a FISA warrant is. Once the warrant is in place, every contact the warranted individual has ever had, and any contact with that person and so on can be monitored. In effect, if a low-level member of Trump’s team was under FISA surveillance the exponential expansion of surveillance would quickly go right to the top of Trump’s campaign. Carter Page was the mark, but the FBI needed the FISA judge to believe the salacious Trump dossier was verifiable. The day before the FISA warrant was submitted, the FBI offered the dossier’s main author, Christopher Steele, 1 million dollars to verify any part of it. He could not. Undaunted, the FBI included the unverified dossier in a FISA warrant submission, it was signed off by the DOJ and presented to the FISA court judge. The FISA court allows no independent rebuttal of submitted information, Consequently, the judge approved the warrant. Over the next year, the warrant was reapproved 3 times, extending surveillance into the Trump White House.
Donald Trump was elected President and Senator Sessions was confirmed as Attorney General.
In over his head, Sessions was soon cajoled into recusing himself from any investigation into Trump- Russian collusion. Director of the FBI, James Comey, manipulated the situation and Assistant AG Rod Rosenstein, without any credible reason, green-lighted a special prosecutor to look into Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election. Former FBI Director Robert Mueller was assigned the case. With extreme hubris, Rosenstein stated that if a DOJ official signed a FISA application and it was not truthful there would be severe consequences. Mueller recruited a team of partisan progressive prosecutors and after two years and 30 million dollars, came up with what the FBI had always known, there was no Russian collusion involving President Trump’s campaign.
During Mueller’s ill-fated investigation,
there were many examples of unethical DOJ/FBI behavior, but the most egregious example was the treatment of General Michael Flynn. Flynn faced a bogus charge of lying to an FBI agent. And if he did not plead guilty to something he didn’t do, prosecutors threatened to bring new unrelated charges against his family. Broke and without recourse, he gave in. Finally, Attorney General Barr withdrew the charges. But that did not stop a deranged Federal Judge from trying to jail General Flynn. It took a Flynn Presidential pardon to finally overcome the corrupt FBI/DOJ and overrule the egomaniacal Federal Judge. AG Barr also stopped bogus obstruction of justice charges from being used as a pretense to impeach President Trump. It was the final coffin nail in the deep state’s plan to overthrow a duly elected president.
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The Office of the Inspector General {OIG} investigation
determined there were 17 factual errors in the original FISA application. Although OIG did not conclude there was provable bias in the applications, AG Barr, in a rare public announcement, disagreed. Rod Rosenstein testified he would not have signed the FISA application warrant if he knew it contained serious errors. 270 times under oath Director Comey could not recall details regarding the most important investigation he has ever been part of. Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony was embarrassingly inept and inconsequential.
FBI director James Comey was fired,
Assistant AG Rob Rosenstein retired from government service, Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe was fired, Special Agent Peter Strzok was fired, FBI attorney Lisa Page was fired, and Senior DOJ official Bruce Ohr was reassigned and quietly retired. The Federal Judge, Emmet Sullivan, who oversaw the General Flynn prosecution/persecution was pressured into retirement. Bob Mueller disappeared into Washington DC’s social circles. His rabid prosecutors went back to the private world, but not before they “accidentally” and irreversibly, wiped their cell phone hard drives. All were allowed to collect their government pensions. Powerful progressives opened private sector doors and rewarded most of the disgraced deep state operatives with lucrative employment/ book deals.
AG Barr assigned a special council, John Durham, to look into the Russiagate investigation. Three years later the special prosecutor has brought three prosecutions. FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty to falsifying an email that was essential to obtaining a FISA warrant extension. He was given a slap on the wrist with no significant ramifications. A tainted Washington DC jury found Clinton Attorney, Michael Sussman, who demonstrably lied to the FBI, not guilty. An obviously guilty Russian Dossier sub-source was similarly acquitted.
The DOJ and FBI deep-state offenders are never going to be held accountable,
but to Durham’s credit, he used the trials to expose exactly what happened. There never was any evidence of Russian collusion with Donald Trump’s campaign. Hillary Clinton gave her direct approval for the Russian hoax. The DOJ and FBI deep state operatives abused their authority, tried to cover it up, and attempted to take down a sitting president. In other countries, these types of actions would rightfully be labeled treason.
In October 2020 FBI agents met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
and warned him about an imminent Russian disinformation dump. Zuckerberg, along with the other tech titans dutifully suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story, tilting the Election to Biden.
Fifty former intelligence assets besmirched themselves
by signing a letter stating the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. During a Presidential debate, Biden finished the deep state’s Hunter Biden laptop disinformation campaign. Lying to the nation as he promoted the letter, signed by the intelligence elites, as truth.
The Summer of 2022
An FBI team exercised a search warrant at President Trump’s Florida residence. Ostensibly looking for missing classified documents, they took away 11,000 documents of which only approximately 100 have classified markings.
The covert plan was to scour the seized documents and find a reason to indict former President Trump on whatever charge the DOJ could muster, hoping to shift the nation’s attention away from Biden’s failed presidency and blunt the rising 2022 Republican red wave.
A federal judge threw a wrench into the shenanigans and appointed a “Special Master “to look at all the documents. The DOJ has become frantic because it knows up to 90% of government-classified documents have nothing in them that is dangerous to the country. And if the “Trump-held” classified documents are reviewed by independent eyes and found to be prosaic, the DOJ’s decision to raid Trump’s home will take on the bad odor of another bogus deep state attack on former President Trump.
FBI whistleblowers have come forward
Fingering an FBI special agent for suppressing the Hunter Biden Laptop investigation. The agent was relieved of his post and has since resigned from the Bureau.
On November 8th there is an election.
It’s time for a Republican Congress.
It’s time for real investigations. It’s time to root out the progressive-enabled FBI/DOJ rotten apples because if it’s not done, just like in Hitler’s Germany, someday they’ll come for you.
Vote!!
