“Trump-Russia Collusion” was a scam born from the twisted mind of Hillary Clinton and her campaign to detract from her email investigation.

May 16, 2023

Durham Conclusion? Trump Collusion an FBI Delusion

Al Perrotta

A happy … if hectic … Tuesday for you.

Today’s Brew is served with a dose of Russia, Russia, Russia.

John Durham Report Released. FBI Ran Politically-Motivated Con

The “Trump-Russia Collusion” was a scam born from the twisted mind of Hillary Clinton and her campaign to detract from her email investigation. The FBI, without questioning the source or validity of the Hillary-backed claims, launched a counter-terrorism effort against then-candidate Donald Trump called Crossfire Hurricane. The FBI never had evidence and they never found the evidence, and yet still trashed FBI regulations and rules and procedures along the way in its senior officials' single-minded, myopic, partisan pursuit of Donald Trump.

That’s the gist of the long-awaited Durham Report released Monday.

We have the full story at “The Durham Report: 306 Pages, One Conclusion: FBI Ran a Con on America.”

You can read the full report here.

A Couple Quick Nuggets

Durham picked up how quickly the FBI used the (bogus) Steele Reports to justify spying on Trump and his campaign via FISA. "Within days of the receipt, the unvetted and unverified Steele Reports were used to support probable cause in the FBI's FISA applications." It wasn't a dossier. It was a golden ticket to spy on the Trump campaign.

Techno Fog breaks down how Durham discovered to what extent the FBI — particularly Andrew McCabe — went to block two Clinton investigations. Pretty disgusting stuff.

Jonathan Turley noted the media’s immediate effort to push away the Durham Report, just as they pushed away last week’s bombshells about the Biden Family corruption. In fact, yesterday, some outlets were putting more focus on 81-year-old Martha Stewart making Sports Illustrated’s “Swimsuit Edition.”

No knock on Martha, but c’mon.

Snake News Alert: Beware Those Using the Phrase “Fake Electors”

One of the maddening skills of the Left is to co-opt language, creating false narratives before us normal folks know what hit us. Here is one now circulating in the news that is sure to be heard a lot as the Soros-funded D.A. in Fulton Country gets set to charge Trump over his efforts to examine the 2020 election in Georgia. The phrase is “fake electors.” This refers to the slate of Trump electors to the Electoral College named as his legal challenges in Georgia (and elsewhere) continued. Democrats and the media talk about these “fake electors,” connecting them to Trump’s “insurrectionist” effort to “overthrow” the results of the 2020 election.

One huge problem, as Margot Cleveland of The Federalist so brilliantly explains: Trump’s team was following to the letter the precise and proper legal strategy employed by Democrats in Hawaii during the 1960 election. The Hawaii vote was contested, with Republican Richard Nixon first being declared the winner. Both Nixon and John Kennedy offered up slates of electors as the vote was contested. No one called Kennedy’s slate “fake electors.” The court decided that Kennedy had won Hawaii after all … and his slate went forward.

The only difference, says Cleveland, between Kennedy’s legal challenge in Hawaii in 1960 and Trump’s challenge in Georgia 2020?

“The Hawaii state court promptly resolved the merits of Kennedy’s legal challenge, while in violation of the Georgia Election Code that requires lawsuits contesting elections to be heard within 20 days, the Fulton County court delayed assigning a judge to hear Trump’s election dispute and then delayed the first scheduled hearing until Jan. 8, 2021 — two days after Congress certified Biden the winner of the 2020 election.”

So when you hear the phrase “fake electors” in regards to Trump, know you’re being played.

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Along The Stream

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