Below is my column in Fox.com on the release of the last declassified material on the origins of the Russian collusion investigation. After the release, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote in the New York Times insisted that they never relied on the Steele dossier. The column only reaffirmed the level of dishonesty and duplicity that marked their tenures in office. (The Times still printed this claim despite being demonstrably untrue).
The documents quote Brennan in overruling career analysts and intervening to include the dossier in the intelligence assessment. Moreover, the column echoes the media spin that the investigation was about an attempted Russian interference while dismissing the collusion claim that consumed much of the first term. (Even after leaving office, Brennan continued to push the false collusion claim). Both countries routinely hacked each other’s emails — that is why we have the most recent incriminating evidence on the Clinton campaign’s funding and spreading the false collusion claims. We hacked their emails. We have also regularly tried to influence the elections of other nations. The key to the dossier and the Russian investigation was the allegation of collusion and the central role of the Clinton campaign in creating the narrative that Trump was a Russian asset.
Here is the column:
This week, Washington was rocked by new releases in the declassification of material related to the origins of the Russian investigation. The material shows further evidence of a secret plan by the Clinton campaign to use the FBI and media to spread a false claim that Donald Trump was a Russian asset. With this material, the public is finally seeing how officials and reporters set into motion what may be the greatest hoax ever perpetrated in American politics. There never was a Russian collusion conspiracy. This is the emerging story of the real Russian conspiracy to manufacture a false narrative that succeeded in devouring much of the first term of the Trump Administration.
What is emerging in these documents is a political illusion carefully constructed by government officials and a willing media. The brilliance of the trick was getting reporters to buy into the illusion; to own it like members of an audience called to the stage by an illusionist.
The effort closely followed the three steps of the classic magic trick: The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige.
The Pledge
The trick began with the pledge, the stage where the public is set up by showing ordinary events with the suggestion that it is about to transform into something extraordinary. The key is to make something seem real that is actually not.
The Clinton campaign delivered the pledge by secretly funding the Steele dossier, using Fusion GPS and a former British spy named Christopher Steele, to create a salacious account of Trump being an agent of Russia. New emails state that Hillary Clinton personally approved the operation.
It was Elias who was the general counsel to the Clinton presidential campaign when it funded the infamous Steele dossier and pushed the false Alfa Bank conspiracy. (His fellow Perkins Coie partner, Michael Sussmann, was indicted but acquitted in a criminal trial.)
During the campaign, a few reporters asked about the possible connection to the campaign, but Clinton campaign officials denied any involvement in the Steele Dossier. After the election, journalists discovered that the payments for the Steele dossier were hidden as “legal fees” among the $5.6 million paid to Perkins Coie under Elias.
When New York Times reporter Ken Vogel tried to report the story, he said, Elias “pushed back vigorously, saying ‘You (or your sources) are wrong.’” Times reporter Maggie Haberman declared, “Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year.”
Later, John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, appeared before Congress for questioning on the Steele dossier. Podesta emphatically denied any contractual agreement with Fusion GPS. Sitting beside him was Elias, who reportedly said nothing to correct the misleading information given to Congress.
The FEC ultimately sanctioned the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee over the handling of the funding of the dossier through his prior firm.
The Turn
The next step is the turning point when the ordinary becomes something extraordinary. This required the involvement of the government. The Clinton team worked behind the scenes to feed the dossier to the FBI. It would be the criminal investigation that would transform the ordinary accounts, like Carter Page speaking in Moscow, into an elaborate Russian plot. Even though the FBI was warned early on that Page was a CIA asset, not a Russian asset, the Clinton team found eager officials in the Obama Administration to assist in the illusion.
The newly disclosed evidence shows how the turn was made. In July 2016, Brennan briefed former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s “plan” to tie then-candidate Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.” The original Russia investigation — funded by Clinton’s campaign — was launched days after this briefing.
Months later, it would be Brennan who overruled his own CIA analysts in his ordering of a second last-minute assessment at the end of the Obama Administration in support of the Russian allegations. It would help make the turn with the all-consuming Russian investigation that would follow.
Career analysts were not buying the turn. They objected that the reliance on the Steele dossier “ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles and ultimately undermined the credibility of a key judgment.” One CIA analyst told investigators that “[Brennan] refused to remove it, and when confronted with the dossier’s main flaws, [Brennan] responded, ‘Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?’”
That is the key to the turn; it needs only to be enough to fool the audience.
The Prestige
The final stage is called the Prestige, where the magician faces the toughest part of the trick. As explained in the 2006 movie “The Prestige,” the viewer is “looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled.” However, “making something disappear isn’t enough; you have to bring it back.”
The difference is that this trick was designed to derail Trump and it worked. In the end, however, the Special Counsel and Inspector General both rejected the Russian collusion claims. The public then reelected Trump. Now, the prestige may be revealed by the CIA.
Reports indicate that the CIA is about to declassify material showing that foreign sources were also in on the trick. The information reportedly indicates that foreign sources were aware of the move to create a Russian collusion scandal and expected that the FBI would play a role in the plan. That was before the bureau launched its controversial Crossfire Hurricane probe. One source said the foreign intelligence predicted the move “with alarming specificity.”
The most recently declassified material shows that the Russian actors in 2016 hacked emails from the Open Society Foundations, formerly known as the Soros Foundation. The emails reveal a broader network of activists and allies who were aware of the Clinton conspiracy.
Leonard Bernardo, who was the regional director for Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations, explained that “during the first stage of the campaign, due to lack of direct evidence, it was decided to disseminate the necessary information through the FBI-affiliated…from where the information would then be disseminated through leading U.S. publications.”
Bernardo added, “Julie (Clinton Campaign Advisor) says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump. Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later, the FBI will put more oil into the fire.”
The media (including the Washington Post and New York Times, which won Pulitzer prizes for reporting on the debunked claims) are apoplectic in dismissing these disclosures. The last thing they will do is report on how they helped sell a political hoax. The problem is that they never said it was a trick. They said it was the truth. That is why they cannot honestly cover the story. To do so would not be coverage, it would be a confession.
It appears that everyone was in on the trick: the U.S. government, the media, even foreign governments. The only chumps were the American people. Now they are about to see how it was done.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
It was suggested that any trial in D.C. or New York would be dead on arrival. DOJ should consider using a military tribunal to get to the truth and administer justice since Obama was Commander in Chief. He may not have been a “member” of the military, but he was the highest serving official. In “extraordinary” circumstances a military court is permitted to try a case that would not otherwise come before it.
Lincoln moved quickly to the military and “suppressed” the “rebellion,” which was not prohibited and actually fully constitutional, declared martial law, suspended habeas corpus, issued military proclamations, etc.
Oh, no! Not the Beatles too!
“Well, She Was Just Seventeen, Uh, You Know What I Mean!”
Before the DOJ files any charges, it should make sure that all “venue corruption” has been eradicated because trials such as these will be DOA in D.C., the Southern District of New York, etc., which are the “kill zones of Democrat ambushes.”
Obama et al. should face juries in OKC or Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
“Obama et al. should face juries in OKC or Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.”
I would very much like to see a venue outside of DC and the NE Corridor. However, I am skeptical of your OK City recommendation, as FedGov has quite a large footprint there…
Jonathon, I’m interested in what criminal violations these despicable people committed.
Want to start with the basics? Perjury while under oath, testifying in Judge Boasberg’s (that name sound familiar to you) FISA courts that their “Trump-Russia Dossier” was 100% verified intelligence agency evidence, as per the mandatory Woods Procedures.
Uttering false documents to Judge Boasberg’s FISA courts – the felonious “Trump-Russia Dossier”, entered as official US intelligence agency findings when it was 100% Obama/Clinton criminal fiction.
Weird how Law Professor Turley doesn’t recognize perjury committed committed by his fellow Democrat lawyers in FIA courts… His fellow Democrat lawyers like Obama Attorney Generals Loretta Lynch and Sally Yates and Obama FBI Directors Mueller, Comey, and McCabe.
Professor Turley is the Sgt Schultz of the Washington DC Bar Association: “I see NOTHING… I know NOTHING!!!!”
Professor Turley points out the president of the US was working with foreign nations in the electiontion of a president and the hindering of his administration once elected.
If not treason then certainly high crimes and misdemeanors. Proceed with the trials and incarceration. The coup was in election of Obama. Unravel that , Ms Gabbard. Europe was laughing at the US from time forward.
Yes, the greatest trick of all tricks.
*. Ask AI
Collusion with foreign nations to alter an election, deflect interest away from Clinton computer files using government resources, perjury, undermining a presidency. Basic high crimes and misdemeanors outside of a presidents powers and not within the penumbra. Basic treason.
For starters.
*. ^^ It’s global, as well. Their hearts are revealed. Their hatred is revealed. The losers want revenge. We live now in loser world where there are no winners.
What is it with all of the loser trolls here being named “George”?
What is it with all the loser MAGA morons here being named Anonymous ??
You just proved Anon’s point.
George stopped using his name to declare Lincoln’s actions as unconstitutional once I pointed out that the South was providing war material to Britain. Britain attacked Washington and Burned the Whitehouse in 1812. The sails on the ships that bombarded Washington D.C. were made with cotton that came from the southern states where Cotton was King. Now George is doing the same thing under the disguise of Anonymous. Once I pointed out George’s total lack of historical knowledge he simply has tried to make it look like his anti Lincoln B.S. is coming from someone else. I started calling him Know it all George when he declared himself to be an authority on MS-13 hand tattoos. I believe the accuracy of this moniker becomes more accurate with each new post scribed by the one and only Know it all George. George, we know that the Anonymous is you. George thinks he’s fooling us.
The only thing that has been revealed is how many Democrats – particularly Democrat Lawyers – spent YEARS attempting to deny any knowledge of the police state fascist crime cartel of felon Democrat Lawyers in the Obama Administration who carried out this CRIMINAL attempt to first fix an election. And when that failed, attempted to destroy the presidency of the president who beat their candidate they attempted to fix the election for.
Books were written by investigative journalists and lawyers about this YEARS AGO. Columns were written by journalists like Kim Strassell at the Wall Street Journal and Peter Schweitzer.
But now, here, we have one of those Washington DC area Democrat Lawyers who turned a blind eye to the crimes committed by his fellow Democrat Lawyers involved in the felonious “Trump-Russia Dossier”, claiming that only now is he and the public learning of their crimes. Crimes – not a “dirty trick”.
A short list of the felon Democrat Lawyers who are your fellow members of the Washington DC Bar Association who were instrumental in committing these felonies on behalf of Obama and Clinton, Professor Turley:
Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch
Obama Attorney General Sally Yates
Obama FBI Director Robert Mueller
Obama FBI Director James Comey
Obama FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
Obama FBI Deputy Director Glen Ohr
Obama FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok
Obama FBI Special Agent Lisa Page
… it’s a long list Professor Turley – several dozen Democrat Lawyer felons working in Washington DC for first Obama and then later many of them working for Biden.
You don’t know any of them, Professor Turley? Never chat with them at Washington DC Bar Association meetings?
You ignoring their criminal conduct for all these years helped facilitate those felonies after the fact. Where you Democrat lawyers are concerned, there is no Professional Code of Conduct: about the best some of you can do is refrain from committing felonies yourselves.
Well, there’s a new top prosecutor in DC as of today and her name is Judge Jeannine Pirro. Take no prisioners Judge. Congratulations!
Cry Harder….
Rut roh, da plot thickens!
“How Soros is entangled in the Russiagate scheme: Durham annex”
–By Mia Cathell, August 2, 2025 7:00 am
Excerpt:
“The newly declassified annex to former special counsel John Durham’s final 2023 report ties George Soros to the Russiagate scheme by placing a key grantmaking entity of the Democratic megadonor at the advent of the FBI investigation.”
“According to the 29-page document declassified Thursday, intelligence gathered from foreign actors indicated that a Soros associate knew the FBI would play a role in pushing the Russian collusion plotline before the bureau ever launched its Trump-Russia investigation, codenamed Crossfire Hurricane, on July 31, 2016.”
“The annex said Russian intelligence operatives had reportedly hacked and gained access to the emails of numerous U.S. nonprofit organizations, including Open Society Foundations, the main grantmaking outpost of the Soros nexus, funded primarily by the billionaire financier.”
“Two of the apparently hacked emails appear to have originated from the Open Society Foundations,” per the Durham appendix.”
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-Oddball
“Take it easy Big Joe, some of these people got sensitive feelings.”
Oops, forgot the citation:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3489114/george-soros-russiagate-scheme-durham-annex/
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-Oddball
“Take it easy Big Joe, some of these people got sensitive feelings.”
Helsinki press conference:
REPORTER (Jeff Mason from Reuters): President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election, and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
PUTIN: Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the US/Russia relationship back to normal.
Oooooh, Trump-hating deranged little dweeb gotta come on here and spread his little hatred, vent his little spleen. What a small, sorry, empty, pathetic little loser of a man you are, george227.
“PUTIN: ‘Yes, I did. Yes, I did.'”
You’re lying through your teeth.
That wasn’t Putin’s answer. He never answered the second question (“did you direct”).
(And his answer to the first question has been known since 2018.)
One thing that I’ve learned here is that all Georges are liars.
Proof geroge, not hear-say.
I’ve argued w/ someone else in an internet forum about this. It’s flatly false, as one can see by watching a video of the press conference. The difficulty arises b/c there are different transcripts of the press conference that have the words George quoted. Other transcripts (one by NPR, one by Politico) show different wording.
The question Putin asked was unrelated to the election. It was about a treaty between the US and Russia on investigating crimes overlapping both jurisdictions. Video can be found by searching “Youtube Watch Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s full press conference.” Time mark 32:20. To get some of the context, I recommend starting at 31:15, when Putin makes remarks about a financial crime committed by a Mr. Browder.
Putin’s lead-in, the question, and his answer go as follows:
… The way the money was earned was illegal. We have a solid reason to believe that some intelligence officers, guided these transactions. So we have an interest of questioning them. That could be a first step. We can extend it. Options abound. They all can be found in an appropriate legal framework.
QUESTION: Did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
PUTIN: Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the u.s./russia relationship back to Normal.
… extracted from a Politico transcript, which IMO most closely follows what was shown in the video.
Such as Trumpelthinskin?
English much?
“TRICK”?
The use of that word instead of the most appropriate word for the most grave conspiratorial transgression ever perpetrated against the United States’s constitutional federal republic and the citizens who hold the authority, power and duty to oversee and protect it.
The only applicable word in the English language for plotting and carrying out their vile plan against a free nation is: TREASON.
Tricks are for clowns—
These people destroyed lives, took lives; destroyed economic growth and our country’s economic freedom, they destroyed our sovereignty and our mores, they put evil on a pedestal and incriminated morality, spirituality, goodwill and truth; they replaced virtues with perversity and replaced reality with a sinister delusion.
These people did more than attempt to overthrow a duly elected president— they overthrew We the People, who are and always have been the only legitimate power in America.
There are 100s of thousands of people in America who operate professionally every day as flaks….as opinion-shapers for various interests, commercial, political. Moreover, as a consequence of the borderless design of the Internet, they are joined by 100s of thousands overseas who project influence into the U.S. without stepping foot across our border. Some of those have the intent of destroying America.
Deceitful infowarfare will likely be our downfall unless we can figure out a way to balance 1st Amendment rights with responsibilities for authenticity and trustworthiness. I agree that the Russia Hoax is a massive failure on our part to police the public square for deceptive infowarfare, and it’s had serious, lasting consequences in breaking down trust. That said, it’s just the most visible tip of the iceberg at the moment.
If this moment passes without serious consideration how we can require authenticity and accountability as a condition for access to the public infospace, this country will descent further into a morass of artful half-truths and clever manipulations.
One idea I’ve contemplated is expanding defamation law to cover Public Frauds of political motivation. In the earliest days of the Russia Hoax, this would have permitted a lawsuit to immediate confront the Buzzfeed article which parrotted the Steele dossier as “FBI intelligence”. Fast subpoena and deposition due-process would have zeroed in on the provenance of the dossier, and the involvement of Marc Elias and the Hillary Clinton campaign as paying client.
It seems to me that is what we need — a legal way to quickly investigate and unravel these secretive infowarfare campaigns, exposing the perpetrators and their motives. That lawsuit approach is far superior to prosecution — because the govt. cannot be entrusted with deciding who is lying and who is telling the truth. Our Founders gave that decision to Juries of 12 Americans. And, if we can establish Public Frauds lawsuits with lightning-fast due-process (to deny the infowarrior legal delay as a tactic), then The People will have new powers of investigation we currently lack. My belief is that an effective legal counterforce to Public Frauds equipped with the advantage of response-time will deter domestic-originating whoppers. Isn’t that worth considering?
Bellowing accusations of “treason” isn’t going to fix the problem, and it could make things worse considering how easily those kind of accusations are used by dictators to attack those who dissent. We don’t want political disagreement, and normal political competition to be riddled with deceitful tactics and counter-accusations of treason. There are more level-headed ways to reign in the incentive to opinion-shape with half-truths.
Helsinki press conference:
REPORTER (Jeff Mason from Reuters): President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election, and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
PUTIN: Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the US/Russia relationship back to normal.
And whatever Putin says is true, right, like he’s never lied about anything, he’s the most truth-telling person in the history of the world, we know that everything he says is the gospel truth.
Like Trump?
We told you they were the same.
How is it that they are the same ?
Obama lied to us.
Biden lied to us.
Putin will say whatever is best for him without regard for the truth.
Trump kept most of his 2016 promises – and those he did not he tried hard as h311.
Trump is currently trying to keep most of his 2024 promises.
The reason that you, the media, and the left hate Trump is specifically because he DOES keep his promises.
If his campaign promises were as big a lies as those of other 21st century presidents – you would be fawning over him.
You are livid because
he has secured the border.
he is forcing the world to trade fairly with the US
he is deporting people who are here illegally
he did negotiate the largest and only mideast peace deal since Carter,
he is working to expand that deal.
he did get NATO to pay for their share of their defense.
he did increase US energy production
he is working to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US
he is strongly supporting the 1st and 2nd amendment
he is ending he weaponization of the US government against the american people.
he is reducing immigrant crime.
he is fighting drug cartels by cutting off their supplies – that is a major factor in the trade negotiations with china
he is rebuilding the military focusing on lethality, not political correctness
he is working to eliminate federal green subsidies – buy whatever car you want, buy whatever power you want – but pay the market price.
he is getting the federal government out of pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology and other inappriate racial, sexual, and political content on children
he is working to keep men out of womens sports
he is deporting pro-hamas radicals and making our campus’s safe for students.
he is working to secure our elections – with voter ID, same day voting, paper ballots and proof of citizenship.
All of the above is why you hate him.
You do not hate him because he is a liar.
You hate him because is ISN’T a liar.
Because he is doing what he promised,
and what he promised gores all your sacred cows.
You’re the pathological liar, here.
You doctored the transcript. Putin did not answer the second question.
zeop proof. try again
President Obama: If you like your health plan, you can keep it
“PUTIN: ‘Yes, I did. Yes, I did.'”
So you lied twice about the same transcript. Well done.
For those motivated by the truth: Putin did *not* answer the second question. The commenter doctored the transcript.
Spot on. It was treason and we all want to see arrests, protections and prison.
We got criminal, felony convictions.
Now we need to Imprison The Felons!
Is that you, Hillary? So you’re saying you should be in prison? Agreed.
Hillary does not owe tens of millions of dollars to E Jean Carrol for sexual predation.
Nor will Trump.
E Jean Carrol is less credible than Clapper or Brennan.
Regardless why in response to an article on political dirty tricks used to derail Trump in 2016 would you rant about political dirty tricks used to derail Trump and 2024.
“E Jean Carrol is less credible than Clapper or Brennan.”
Seriously. What day did this alleged rape take place? Month?? Year??? She doesn’t know, but that’s good enough for a partisan NY jury.
And can we pleased stop with the statue of limitations monkey business?
E. Jean Carrol is the very personification of “venue corruption.”
The communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) know how to charge in those districts.
15 Facts About E. Jean Carroll’s Allegations Against Trump the Media Don’t Want You to Know – breitbart
1. Bergdorf Goodman has no surveillance video of the alleged incident.
2. There are zero witnesses to the alleged sexual attack.
3. Carroll first came forward — conveniently — with the allegations while promoting her book What Do We Need Men For? in 2019, which featured a list of “The Most Hideous Men of My Life.”
4. Carroll was unable to remember when this alleged attack even occurred. She told her lawyer in 2023, “This question, the when, the when, the date, has been something I’ve [been] constantly trying to pin down.” She has jumped years — originally beginning with 1994, then moving to 1995, and even floating to 1996. She cannot remember the season in which the alleged attack occurred either.
5. The Donna Karan blazer dress she claims to have worn during the alleged incident was not even available at the time of her claims. Trump Attorney Boris Epshteyn told reporters, “She said, ‘This is the dress I wore in 1994.’ They went back, they checked. The dress wasn’t even made in 1994.”
“And that’s why the date’s moved around. This is the 80s. Is it the 90s? Is it the 2000s? President Trump has consistently stated that he was falsely accused, and he has the right to defend himself,” he added.
6. She never came forward with these allegations over the years despite constantly being open about sexuality, posting things that were very sexual in nature on social media — many of which Trump has shared. They include remarks such as “How do you know your ‘unwanted sexual advance’ is unwanted, until you advance it?” and “Sex Tip I Learned From My Dog: When in heat, chase the male until he collapses with exhaustion … then jump him!”
7. She said she was never raped, telling the New York Times’ podcast, The Daily, “Every woman gets to choose her word. Every woman gets to choose how she describes it. This is my way of saying it. This is my word. My word is ‘fight.’ My word is not the ‘victim’ word. I have not — I have not been raped,” she continued. “I have — something has not been done to me. I fought. That’s the thing.”
8. She named her cat “Vagina.” “Her dog, or her cat, was named ‘Vagina.’ The judge wouldn’t allow us to put that in — all of these things — but with her, they could put in anything: Access Hollywood,” Trump told CNN.
9. Joe Tacopina, an attorney for Trump, pointed out in May 2023 that Carroll’s entire story has incredible similarities to a 2012 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In that episode, titled “Theatre and Tricks,” an individual talks about a rape fantasy in Bergdorf Goodman — the same department store where Carroll claims the incident took place.
10. Speaking of shows, Carroll loved Trump’s show The Apprentice.
11. Carroll made a joke associating sex with Bergdorf Goodman in a November 1993 edition of Elle, which was before the alleged Trump attack took place.
12. Carroll is financially backed by anti-Trump Democrat megadonor Reid Hoffman, who has openly admitted to visiting convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s private island.
13. Democrat party activists back her as well,
14. The lawsuit was only able to proceed after Democrats created the Adult Survivors Act in 2022. She conveniently pursued this suit in November following the law going into effect, which allowed her to avoid the statute of limitations for this case.
15. Carroll once said, “Most people think of rape as sexy.”
Donald Trump Jr. also retweeted a list of facts about Carroll, urging others to take a look:
Brennan is the worst of the American traitors, because of him, when he was CIA station chief
in Saudi Araabia, he xermitted the 18 Saudi terrorists to have their visas to enter the United States
stamxed by Brennan, causing Sextember 11, 2001 to develoxe.
She owes American taxpayers $42M and up for false persecution in her Mueller fraud special counsel
George227 is back. Dennis quit. His pay was cut from 1 Yen per word. Is George227 getting 1 Yen per posting? If so, they are overpaying.
And neither does 47.
poor billary. worried she is
January 6 must go down in history when we lost the United States to Trump and Putin and Epstein.
LOL
God, are you pathetic. Get a life you loser. Nobody cares about Jan 6 anymore.
ROFL
Again in an article on dirty tricks in the 2016 election by democrats – why would you raise dirty tricks in the 2020 election by democrats ?
Democrats tried to steal the 2016 election – what has been revealed is Far worse than Watergate.
AG Mitchell could not weaponize the alphabet agencies against political enemies. Nixon had to create the plumbers.
Democrats then tried to sabotage Trump’s presidency continuing the hoax that failed during the campaign.
Democrats tried to steal the 2024 election.
Idiots like you expect all of us to beleive despite the myriads of dirty tricks of the democrats – that 2020 was the only honest election in the past decade+.
On J6 voters peacefully expressed their anger at a rigged election. Minor violence resulted when the Capitol police accidentally tear gassed themselves and then tear gassed a peaceful crowd.
There was no violence at all anywhere outside of the west Tunnel entrance where the incometence of the CP resulted in some violence. There are over 100,000 hours of protestors peacefully and even reverently moving through the capitol. There are maybe 15 minutes of violence – that is 1/400,000th of the event.
And after that you left wing nuts demanded loyalty oaths from the national guard.
And you sicced the DOJ on ordinary americans for first amendment protected activities – prosecuting thousands.
We have seen far more violence by the left since Trump was elected, yet far fewer are being prosecuted – and then only for serious violent crimes, and still they are receiving slap on the wrist sentences.
Which BTW has always been the norm for crimes with a first amendment political element.
You rant about insurrection – yet here we have daming evidence that the democratic presidential candidate, top staff, billionaire supporters, leaders of numerous federal agencies, and the democrat president and vice president of the US conspired to rig the 2016 election, and when that failed to use a hoax to attempt to remove the president elect and later president.
The only “insurrection” is yours.
J6 protestors known what we all know now – their would have been 10 times as many, and congress would have refused to certify the 2020 election.
Had honest courts known what we know now,, they would would have allowed real investigations into the most corrupt election in my life time.
Don’t give up you day job to be a comedian, you are not very good at comedy.
“Don’t give up you day job to be a comedian,”
This might be the schmuck’s day job…
Poor george. You sound very worried. I bet, just think O-dumber could go to jail for this stupid stunt
I watched the 0700 morning MSM news this a.m., flipping between ABC and NBC while eating breakfast.
Amazing that both (and regularly/daily) have a habit of inserting any reported statement by Trump with either a preface or epilogue of “without evidence.” e.g., “This morning, Trump said, without evidence, that ………”
Correct me if I am wrong, but I do not remember similar contemporaneous cautions -as in, part and parcel of the original report- when reporting Biden’s ubiquitous falsehoods.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3850219-the-seven-biggest-lies-biden-told-this-week/
https://www.newsweek.com/bidens-lies-outshine-dnc-highs-opinion-1942037
This is also true with the non-stop reporting yesterday and today about the downward adjustment of BLS jobs reporting.
Just 11 months ago, (which means five months before the end of Biden’s presidency, we see this:
“Revised figures reveal a significant overstatement in the Harris-Biden administration’s job creation claims, with 818,000 fewer jobs than initially reported—marking the largest downward adjustment in 15 years.
“This revision indicates a monthly overcount of 68,000 jobs, including notable discrepancies in sectors such as manufacturing, with 115,000 fewer jobs, trade, transportation, and utilities down by 104,000, and construction jobs reduced by 45,000.”
(link provided below)
(Of course, the majority of those “jobs” represented no more than employers reopening after the pandemic.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/revised-data-exposes-overstated-job-creation-claims-by-harris-biden-admin-revealing-818000-nonexistent-jobs/ar-AA1pc1Ez
Lin, you’re correct that the MSM relies on the “without evidence” language only for conservatives. People both left and right make statements all the time, and they usually don’t give evidence. That is not what people are doing when they make statements. Generally if there is evidence to the contrary the media will report it but the speaker most of the time doesn’t say: and here is my evidence. So the “without evidence” qualifier is a bad-faith attempt to denigrate the statement, but again, it’s only applied to a conservative speaker. Bottom line: the MSM is so desperate, they can’t hide it, and they are also losing so much of their audience as a result of their blatant bias. I stopped watching or listening to them over 30 years ago because of this. Thank God for the new media.
It is not specifically the “without evidence” langauge that is the big deal. It is that uniformly the MSM adds subjective language favoring democrats and disfavoring republicans to all their purportedly straight reporting.
The have done this for my entire life – as far back as Walter Cronkite. But 20 years ago they atleast tried to had behind a fig leaf of pretend objectivity.
No more. Today it is impossible to tell news anchors from opinion shows.
This is not about specific language like “without evidence” it is the inclusion of negative commentary to anything republicans – particularly Trump says. Ane the inclusion of positive commentary to anything democrats say.
And as we have noticed increasingly – the entirety fo the MSM is in lock step today – miming the exactly same words and phrases, as if whatever they say must be blessed by the same political commisars.
Sorry, but you cannot distract us from knowing the Failure of Day One.
January 20, 2021?
But, but, but….. Trump! Epstein! Abrego Garcia!
If the Epstein files are going to expose Obama, Clinton, and other left wing politicians. Why won’t trump release them?
Is Epstein Jewish? I’m not a cat.
Project Veritas did a expose on Epstein island and the shrine or sanctuary for their dark worship. It shows their idol Baal and writing on a whiteboard that looks to be hebrew, beneath it is notation of deception and distraction. It would be great to have these writings translated and transcribed. Whatever he was aside of a grifter, blackmailer, a pedophile and a sexual predator, he’s dead and that is a good thing.
“he’s dead and that is a good thing.”
Is it really? Because he is dead, he cannot implicate the other, prominent, sexual violators of children, and they remain largely unaffected. Because they are not implicated, and remain unaffected, they not only have avoided the deserved negative consequences of their conduct, but they continue to wield undeserved influence in our society, and in the the daily lives of many people. Which, I have very little doubt, is the very reason Epstein is dead.
Madman, what you say is curious and interesting. I’m interested in what may have been written, but find no credible sources on the net or any reproductions or translations. Are you able to provide a link, and if it is only in a video, the time the questioned writing is seen? He sounds like a Hedonist, unattached to any religion.
It was on a Veritas podcast with James O’Keefe himself last week on YouTube. It was very interesting Mr. Meyer, it had an onsite video of Epstein Island and documented videography of his Temple. That is where they showed the Statue idol Baal and a whiteboard of what appeared to be Hebrew and then the words deception and deceit in English below, like someone was giving a lesson or class. Weird but I would like to know what it says. There is another podcast follow up by Epstein’s niece reporting that the Epstein brothers followed Baal and her sexual abuse allegations by her own family, for whatever it was worth (she/he lacked credibility). Good luck
Madman, can you provide the address for the video and the time it appears? Since he has somewhat eccentric taste, it could be anything, even Aramaic, which is closely related to Hebrew and was used in parts of the Talmud.
James O’Keefe is great. I must have missed this video.
Oh the cutest thing ever.
Sorry guys. Treason is precisely defined in the Constitution. The US has to be in a state of war. Not metaphoric war. Not even the Rosenbergs were charged with treason.
There are plenty of real crimes to investigate and charge here. Those on the right should not make the same mistake the left does constantly and stick to the constitution and the law. Not go way over their skis.
In keeping with the theme of the column, trying to change the subject is the misdirect.
“Why won’t Trump release them?” Umm…because they would also reveal the sexual hijinks of DJT and his former Republican pals? Not to mention “Prince” Andrew. Maybe he enjoyed getting his butt paddled, too. 🤣
Of course there’s always redaction to use as an option, but that would be no fun. Let’s have our dish served uncut and uncensored.
Hahahaha. Yeah 4 years of the autopen DOJ not leaking that. Sure bud.
If there DOJ as derogatory information on Trump – it would have been leaked between 2020-2024.
The DOJ leaks like a seive when the target is a republcian and particularly Trump.
“Why won’t trump release them?”
I read an analysis on another blog this morning that asserts (among other things) that the Epstein info is more valuable to Trump for leverage on the sly against his political enemies than for official investigations and prosecutions that could well prove to be futile. I’m not buying into that at this time, but it is an interesting hypothesis. So are some of the other speculations (and I regard them as exactly that) contained in that analysis.
The education of Donald Trump
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-08-01/education-donald-trump
“The success of Trump’s mission, whatever that mission be, largely depends on his political power. For all the chaos he and his government are creating and dealing with, their number one priority is solidifying their own power, and that battle is waged on their own home turf in Washington DC. In that sense, the documents they obtained from Epstein’s magnum opus are extremely valuable. The disappointing aspect of this whole story was the way Trump went about breaking his promise, resorting to insulting deception and obfuscation. As far as justice goes, both for Epstein’s clients and for their victims, it was never a likely outcome, even if all the files were released.”
Because releasing grand jury information is illegal.
Because releasing anything on an investigation that does not result in a prosecution is a constitutional violation.
“Because releasing grand jury information is illegal.”
Unless it hurts a Republican.
Seems I recall Grand Jury jurors discussing their testimony on air about their efforts in going after Trump for J6. I think it was pushed by and during Fatti Fanny Willis.
Does anyone else look at these revelations and ask, what can be done so that, the next time a huge whopper is dropped to deceive The People, instead of taking 9 years to expose the perpetrators, it is spilled in 9 days?
Is the point is strengthen our nation’s public decisionmaking against deceitful manipulation? Or, is it about getting even from 9 years ago?
Where is the cool, dispassionate, forward thinking “can do”? All I’m getting from Turley is anger-stoking infotainment.
I expect more proactive thinking at this point from a leading Constitutional lawyer. How do we prevent the next thorough duping at the hands of PsyOps-trained infowarriors and sympathetic media? Only a complete fool thinks it won’t be tried again.
Seems your take on the recent events has pushed you over the edge. Seek help Asap.
See what I’m talking about? “Can do” thinking to improve the way our country operates is now labelled as mentally ill.
Excuse me, but you’re nobody. An anon person here trying get a bunch of stupid (and I mean really stupid) commentators to rise up and take back the country.
Ironic to see an “Anonymous” berate a poster that, at a minimum, has a unique commenting handle.
To restate: Prof. Turley seems to relish getting down to the details of how our country was duped by intel officers (who receive specialized training in psychological infowarfare at Langley and Quantico). From what I’ve gathered from his writings, duping the nation that way is a free-speech right of the dupers.
The important thing is being able to complain about it publicly long after the lie had its intended effect.
Actually, doing something to prevent the next big political whopper is not on his radar. I wish it were, because of anyone, he would know what is possible within the Constitution to deter and prevent mass deceit and manipulation by our own government officials.
“doing something to prevent the next big political whopper is not on his radar.”
Turley is a champion of unfettered free speech rights, as am I, and many others here. I suspect that Turley has reached the conclusion that, absent significant encroachments on 1A rights, there is nothing that can be done to PREVENT (your word, which obviously advocates for some variety of prior restraint of speech) “political whoppers”, which are an intractable, historical aspect of electoral politics in the U. S. There might possibly be something that could be done about educating a public that is all too ready to accept political distortions and outright lies that do nothing more than confirm their pre-existing biases, but that would require such changes as reforming public education, and other long-term structural changes for which we traditionally have little or no patience.
Perhaps severely reining in those “intelligence” agencies, which have long pursued their own foreign policy agenda irrespective of the interests and intentions of the People, would be a good start. The concept of delegating specific policy decisions from the people to representatives that forms the backbone of our Republic does NOT extend to unelected, unaccountable spooks.
Who’s Asap?
A famous fabulist.
Oh, so like our “George” troll? Except for the famous part, naturally.
We punish the perpetrators without mercy
*. It appears DJT sees a remediation as downsizing government itself because the corruption of self interest and greed, revenge is ingrained. The cuts aren’t massive enough. The number of elected officials requires gutting.
There’s too many people to hate and so many things to buy.
IMO
MAGA media promoted the notion that Epstein had the goods on large numbers of well-connected and wealthy men who wanted an avenue to take advantage of underage girls, many of whom were Democrats, and because of that, he was murdered. What people forget is that one of those well-connected Democrats was, at the time, Donald J. Trump–yes, he WAS a Democrat. It was reported this morning that Kash Patel took 1000 FBI agents off of their regular duties to scour over 100,000 items in the Epstein files for the purpose of redacting the names of those well-connected and wealthy men, and the victims’ names were redacted as well. But–Trump did unconditionally promise he would release the files, and then he reneged, and it’s costing him support from his most-ardent supporters, who believed him when he claimed to be an outsider who was going to reveal the truth about Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. Video footage of the entrance to Epstein’s cell was released–turns out, it was not the “raw footage” Bondi claimed it was, but it was a video that had been edited using Adobe Pro software, and there are up to 3 minutes missing from the crucial time period. Those folks at “Wired” can’t be fooled–they know how to suss out metadata. Trump’s supporters still doubt that Epstein committed suicide because the video has been doctored.
IMHO, something will eventually be released, but it won’t tell you anything you don’t already know, and it certainly won’t tell you anything useful about the information gathered by law enforcement against Trump and the men who participated in one of the biggest child sex trafficking rings in US history. The wealthy and well-connected men who abused these girls will get away with it, but Trump still has the goods on them that he can use for leverage–for political favors, campaign contributions for Republicans, and other uses. The media isn’t the problem here–Trump is, and he is using the FBI to cover up his involvement and that of his cronies. Trump could absolutely just have the victims’ names redacted and release the rest–which IS what he promised–but he’s not going to–AND, that’s what you MAGA supporters should be pissed off over. And although MAGA media is trying to blame mainstream media, Democrats and everyone else for Trump losing support and for continuing to report on the fallout from this broken promise–this is a self-inflicted wound—he LIED to his supporters, and there’s no sugarcoating it. And, it doesn’t help when Republicans do everything they can to prevent members of Congress from subpoenaing the files.
Hey GIGI. Did anyone read this? Nope. Loser.
What loser actually upvoted this pile of Gigi crap? George??
What is required is an intelligent electorate.
Many of us heard the evidence in 2016 and early 2017 and drew conclusions supported by that evidence that those less capable of critical thinking have finally concluded 9 years later.
The only thing new is the immense volume of evidence from official records of what many of us were able to conclude from the available evidence in 2016 and 2017.
Hopefully people will learn from this – who they can trust and who they can’t.
It is self evident fromt he posters on th left here – that atleast some people will continue to trust those who lied to them over and over, no matter what.
Hopefully they are a small minority.
I most respectfully disagree with Professor Turley. When Brennan and Clapper said they never relied on the Steele dossier, their statements were not “demonstrably untrue”. To the contrary, they were being honest.
Neither Barak Obama nor anyone else on his team ever relied on the Steele dossier. They knew the Steele dossier was hogwash. They did what they did for one simple reason … they wanted to do it.
They believe the end always justifies the means (so long as they get to pick what the end is) … the Constitution and Bill of Rights notwithstanding.
They proudly preach and rebel against the Constitution and Bill of Rights … Electoral College, Supreme Court, Supremacy Clause, First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Tenth Amendment.
To better understand what constitutional law professor Barak Obama thinks about the Fourth Amendment, I suggest reading the December 16, 2013 Memorandum Opinion by the Honorable Richard J. Leon, U.S.D.J. in the action titled Klayman v. Obama, Civil Action No. 13-0851, United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Oh yeah, that’s all we need, some unknown guy on a blog has the solution for what ails the USA. Geezz….
He would have better results than literally any official from the Democrat party, however.
*. It’s all so vulgar. It reminds me of conversion therapy. The ordinary moral, happy person is being converted to a hateful, unhappy , borderline personality person. Is this black culture?
Btw, the American Eagle jeans ad is vulgar.
It was not a trick, it was a treasonous coup.
So you think the solution is labelling it? You and I both know there will be many more attempts at manipulating the public with lies. Which would be better?…preventing them through deterrence?…or letting it happen every decade and then railing against the perpetrators a decade after the lie had its intended effect?
I’m sensing the latter.
Yes, accomplished by a thousand stabbings, Jon.
They’re criminals but don’t know it. It’s like a thief takes half the money in your wallet and says I didn’t steal your money. I gave you money.
There’s not a way to make them see it.
I really tried to get someone to find the second hour of Biden’s first state of the union where he said, it takes too long for a democracy to become an autocracy but it is coming and we will be the leaders. This was when he was off prompter. On the government’s website they only “para-phrased “ the second half. I tried to get news outlets to find it in their saved videos but they never got back with me. He also said that other times off promoter. I thought it was important.
It would be important if Biden didn’t have dementia. At this point Biden can’t tell the truth, while before he chose to not tell the truth. He’s living in his mind, and the statement you remember is probably true, but Biden is no longer in any condition to testify, but there’s evidence of what people did, including him.
Well let’s see if this causes the MSM to clean up its act by providing the public with the truth and their “naive” acceptance of a false narrative. Your recent article indicated that Comey, Brennan etal can’t be prosecuted because too much time has passed; we certainly need to strip them of any access to government information and removal of any pensions. Perhaps Trump can sue them all for defamation of character. Very sad to see that MSM put its hand on the scale of justice and lost public trust. Thanks for your objectivity!
I’m not sure that statute of limitations gets applied with treason.
If we had Public Frauds lawsuits, we’d have a way to counterattack a deceitful media campaign in its earliest phases.
This is nuts to be exposing the skullduggery NINE YEARS LATER, and (gulp) feeling satisfied that it’s finally being unearthed. A great country (a superpower) will figure out how to adapt the torts system to begin rapidly unravelling similar whoppers before they gain traction.
The “statute of limitations issue in the context of this attempted coup is extended with each act of conspiracy, or documented lies told in furtherance of said conspiracy. So it’s the conspiracy that will hang around their necks like a Tiberian Bat.
https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-652-statute-limitations-conspiracy
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-Oddball
“Take it easy Big Joe, some of these people got sensitive feelings.”
Turley et.al. need to re~look at Rodney Joffre, the tech exec. that was part of the Alfa Bank crap. Rodney worked for Neustar at the time and helped gin up phony DNS data to link Trump to Alfa. Rodney did a lot of work with the gov’t via Neustar as well as separate companies he owned. He was hoping to get a position in the Hilary Clinton admin as a reward. He was good buddies with Chris Krebs, former CISO that Trump eventually fired. These two need to be looked at again.
What astounds me is how few people knew this was going on. Was like a giant pink elephant walking through an apartment and most people couldn’t see it. Why? Completely brainwashed. Believed everything they were told. Believed everything they were shown. Believed everything they read. Damn fools. There is a dark storm on the way. Most have no idea. You have been deceived beyond words. Russian collusion is one seashell at the bottom of a thousand mile ocean. You can’t prepare for the horizon. Your mind can’t go there at this time. Your voyage has been carefully constructed to remove you from the darkness. So slowly the boat is turning that most are unaware. Born into a ‘cage’ and told you were free. And…. You believed it. Just know it’s already been taken care of. You just have to step through the re-run of information and rebuild. A thought out operation destroys the weapons of its enemy before the battle begins. Saved by The Art Of War & The Art Of The Deal
What storm Mr President? You’ll find out! It’s only just begun. This hole runs deep. Stop being so distracted. Focus!
The MSM ran complete cover for them. You were not supposed to believe your lying eyes.
The skilled inforwarrior thrives on “people believe what they want to believe”. The only way to change that is for each individual in society to not approach information as comfort food, but rather as signals with intentions behind them. If you aren’t sure of the intentions, then you reject the info.
America will only be great again when pursuit of the truth overtakes pursuit of emotional comfort and entertainment.
“The only way to change that is for each individual in society to not approach information as comfort food, but rather as signals with intentions behind them. If you aren’t sure of the intentions, then you reject the info.”
Unfortunately, we have a public education system that conditions students that objective truth does not exist. For the change you seek to occur at any significant scale, that fault first must be remedied.
Fantastic. Thank you Jonathan Turley, and Mollie Hemenway for your courage. Now we know us folk were not insane afterall. I knew H Clinton was an evil witch. God protected DJT.
She’s the true meaning of the word Demoncrat
What kind of wife, family and / or political party would put an 82 year old man with moderate neurocognitive impairment and stage 4 prostate cancer that has spread to his bones with a Gleason score of 9 out of 10 on stage, to deliver a speech at a public gathering, only to slur his words throughout, to attack the US Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches, but especially the Supreme Court?
Democrats under Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton and MSM in 2016 were only getting started.
I wish I could say same for the executive branch, but seems doing his best to dismantle the constitution. Oh, I’m I’m being deadly earnest, man. Yeah, which seems to be seems to be what’s going on, you know, and they’re doing it all too often with the help of a Congress that’s just sitting the sidelines and enabled by the highest court in the nation. the rulings they’ve made. My god folks
– Joseph Biden
*. It’s babble.
AND WHO IS GOING TO JAIL!!
None of them are going to jail, silly. They’re Democrats who repeatedly committed felonies in Washington DC, where judges and jurors both are radical Democrats.
The kind of parasites that owe their entire existence to said 82 year old. There is a reason why after a failed coup, people like this are lined up against a wall. These ridiculous attempts by the Left to seize power are going to lead us to civil war. We’re probably already in the early stages of a cold one. Juries of our peers, impartial judges, admissible evidence, guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Our legal system was not designed to deal with political subversion. I am afraid that the community organizers out there realize this too and are well trained in destroying this country from within.