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Government Corruption

Russiagate roundup: Anatomy Of A Soft Coup - McCabe's Unprecedented Criminal Investigation Of A Sitting President

2025-08-14

[American Liberty] The election of Donald Trump in November 2016 was, for the entrenched political class, a thunderclap. It was not supposed to happen. The experts, the pollsters, the seasoned operatives had assured the country that Hillary Clinton’s victory was inevitable. Yet by the morning of November 9, the White House was preparing to receive a president unlike any in modern history: a political outsider with no government experience, an instinctive distrust of Washington, and a willingness to discard its conventions. For some in the outgoing administration and the permanent bureaucracy, this was not merely a surprise. It was a crisis to be managed, or better yet, undone.

That undoing began in earnest just four months into Trump’s presidency, when Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, with the approval of FBI Counterintelligence chief Bill Priestap and General Counsel James Baker, authorized a criminal investigation into the sitting president of the United States. This probe did not arise from fresh evidence of presidential misconduct. It rested on the same thin reeds that had underpinned the Russia collusion narrative since mid-2016: opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign, laundered through the Steele dossier, and presented as intelligence. It was a case study in how partisan disinformation can metastasize into official action when it finds a willing audience inside the government.

To understand how extraordinary this was, one must appreciate the context. Intelligence reports later declassified in the Durham Annex revealed that, as early as March 2016, the Clinton campaign had hatched a plan to tie Trump to Russian operatives, not as a matter of national security, but as an electoral tactic. These plans were known to senior Obama administration officials, including John Brennan, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe, before the election. Yet when Trump won, the machinery they had assembled did not wind down. It shifted purpose: from preventing his election to destabilizing his presidency.

Courtesy of Fred:

Comey's media mole told FBI he shaped Russia narrative, needed 'discount' to deny leaking intel

[JUSTTHENEWS] The FBI concluded numerous legacy news media stories that crafted the false Russia collusion narrative contained illegally leaked classified intelligence but failed to definitively identify the leakers. But agents did force a stunning admission that ex-FBI Director James The spine of the FBI is the rule of law Comey
James <q>The spine of the FBI is the rule of law</q> Comey

James <q>The spine of the FBI is the rule of law</q> Comey

The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI...
used a special conduit to the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
in his bid to polish his image and push for a special prosecutor to take down President Donald Trump
...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman admitted to agents in interviews he routinely communicated on behalf of Comey, his longtime friend, with Times news hound Michael Schmidt, whose work was among the newspaper's 2018 Pulitzer-winning stories on Russian election interference. The goal, Richman told the FBI, was "to correct stories critical of Comey, the FBI and to shape future press coverage" outside of the bureau's official press office, according to internal FBI memos that current Director Kash Patel delivered to Congress this week.

While Richman was known to have been publicly quoted in news stories as an advocate for Comey, he admitted to agents — who were part of the FBI's Arctic Haze classified leaks inquiry — that he was given access by Comey to what turned out to be highly classified information up to the SCI level and sometimes provided information to news hounds on an anonymous basis.

Richman insisted he did not believe he had confirmed or provided classified intelligence to news hounds but said he could not be 100 percent, the memos state, noting he could only make his leak denial ''with a discount.''

"Richman was pretty sure he did not confirm the Classified Information. However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
Richman told the interviewing agents he was sure 'with a discount' that he did not tell Schmidt about the Classified Information," one FBI memo recounted.

In the end, the Justice Department decided not to pursue any criminal charges against Comey or any of his lieutenants or now-Sen. Adam Schiff
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation" Elected to Senate in 2024 by grateful Californians...
despite potential evidence of leaks, saying it could not be certain of who leaked what and when.

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PLOT THICKENS 🚨

Comey gave classified info to Daniel Richmond a Columbia law Professor who then gave it to the (NYT) in order to set the Russia Collusion narrative

Comey used this as a backdoor to get dirt in the media on Trump

Jon Solomon is all over it... H/T Benny Johnson pic.twitter.com/BSTfX8uHBB
— @Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 (@Chicago1Ray) August 13, 2025

Posted by:Besoeker

#3 This is the stuff that they were comfortable documenting. What about the squirrelly stuff that they did without documentation?

You mean squirrelly stuff like the assassination attempts?

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-08-14 11:55

#2 These plans were known to senior Obama administration officials, including John Brennan, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe, before the election.

Likely ~~known~~ planned and orchestrated by "Brennan, Comey, and McCabe."

Posted by: Besoeker 2025-08-14 07:26

#1 There is enough documentation to sink the lot of them, but by the iceberg analogy this is probably 10% of what they were up to. This is the stuff that they were comfortable documenting. What about the squirrelly stuff that they did without documentation?

Posted by: Super Hose 2025-08-14 06:16

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