Special Counsel John Durhram (R-Conn.), 72, lost another case in trial, this time with 44-year-old Igor Danchenko accused to lying to FBI agents about his role in feeding former British MI6 Agent Christopher Steele fake information about 76-year-old former President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to the Kremlin. Durham was commissioned in Dec. 2020 by 72-year-old former Atty. Gen. Bill Barr. Barr wanted Durham to investigate the Russian Hoax, a five-year witch-hunt to tie Trump to the Kremlin to discredit his 2016 presidential campaign. Danchenko gave Steele fake information about Trump’s alleged ties to prostitutes in Moscow, something former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gladly used to discredit Trump’s 2016 campaign. When the dust settled Nov. 3, 2016, Trump has won the presidency over what looked like one of the great political hoaxes in U.S. history.
Durham’s latest failure in federal court was touted by U.S. media organizations as the death knell to his over two-year investigation. New York Times, Washington Post and Associated Press [AP] all proclaimed Durham’s work a failure, proving that the years of fraudulent news stories tying Trump to the Kremlin was the epitome of fake news. Barr understood but couldn’t prosecute any of the Obama administration players that participated in the Russian Hoax against Trump. Former President Barrack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former, former Deputy Atty. Gen. Sally Yates, former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein, former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan all participated in the conspiracy to frame Trump as a Russian asset during the 2016 campaign and his presidency.
Brennan and Comey readily participated in the conspiracy after given Hillary’s Steele Dossier by the late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), fabricating claims about Trump’s ties to Putin and the Kremlin. It didn’t matter in the summer of 2016 whether the Steele Dossier was considered fake or not. All that counted were fake charges against Trump that he was part of wider conspiracy to steal the 2016 presidential election. McCain, a known enemy of Trump, Comey gladly handed the Steele Dossier to Brennan and Comey. McCain would have done anything, like Hillary, to prevent Trump from becoming president. All three conspired to concoct a counterintelligence investigation into Trump accusing him and his foreign policy aid Carter Page of conspiring with Russia. Comey went to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] court to claim he needed a warrant to wiretap Page’s phone.
Comey’s affidavit to the FISA court omitted the fact that Page worked previously for the CIA. Former FISA Court chief justice Rosemary Collyer said if she knew Carter worked for the Agency, she would have never granted the warrant. Comey’s rogue investigation into Trump’s alleged ties to Moscow was never questioned by anyone, especially those that knew that Hillary’s Steele Dossier was total fabrication. Steele was forced to admit in open court that there were no underlying sources because he deliberately deleted all the source files to the dossier. So, the longstanding fraud approved by Obama and Biden, run through the Department of Justice, FBI, CIA and NSA, was widely reported by the U.S. media as factual. So now that Durham failed again to get any traction in federal court, the fake news claims victory. It’s not victory when the U.S. press participates in the Russian hoax.
No one was more guilty of conspiracy than 62-yar-old former FBI Director James Comey, who acted clueless and dumbfounded when Barr accused him April 10, 2019 of spying on the Trump campaign. Opening up a counterintelligence investigation based on the fake Steele Dossier, Barr wanted, as his last act as attorney general, to appoint Durham as Special Counsel to get to the bottom of the fake investigation into Trump’s alleged ties to Russia. When Trump fired Comey May 8, 2017, Democrats and the fake news went crazy, pressuring Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein to appoint 77-year-old former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel. Democrats saw the Russian hoax and Mueller investigation as their best way of getting rid of Trump. All House Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), believed the Steele Dossier.
All the euphoria in the U.S. press is completely misguided, recognizing they played an integral role in promoting the Russian Hoax. No a single story written by the New York Times, Washington Post and reported nightly on major TV and cable networks had a shred of validity, all promoting the fake Steele Dossier against Trump like the bible. Rep. Adam Schiff, even after Mueller concluded his 22-month, $40 million probe saying there was no criminal conspiracy with Trump or his campaign, insisted he had all the facts necessary to prove Trump was a Russian asset. House and Senate Democrats today still believe Trump worked with the Kremlin to get elected in 2016. Democrats and the U.S. press used the Steele Dossier knowing it was completely fake. Steele came closest to admitting as much in a civil trial in 2019. Yet Democrats and the media rejoice Durham’s failures.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
