Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on Monday alleged that the Obama administration knew Hillary Clinton’s campaign plotted to “smear” President Donald Trump for colluding with Russia but “kept silent.”
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released documents and a memo Friday detailing what she called a “years-long coup” against Trump after he defeated Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. Jarrett said the Obama administration’s decision not to speak out about a now-discredited dossier authored by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele led to years of “lawfare” against Trump. (RELATED: More Whistleblowers Want To Speak Out On Anti-Trump Plot That Began Under Obama, Tulsi Gabbard Says)
“It all begins with Hillary Clinton. [In the] summer of 2016, the CIA director John Brennan discovers Hillary has approved this plan to falsely smear Trump for colluding with Russia and helped to finance the bogus dossier,” Jarrett told “Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade. “We now have Brennan’s handwritten notes recounting two meetings at the White House that included Obama, Biden, Clapper, Comey, and they knew it was all phony, but instead of telling the truth to the American people, they kept silent.”
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“They secretly joined in the scheme to vilify Trump. They altered intel documents to propel the scandal, even though U.S. intelligence determined there was no Russian interference in helping Donald Trump win,” Jarrett continued. “So, you know, this was the beginning, Brian, of a decade long lawfare campaign which could actually constitute a vast conspiracy case and I think that’s one of the things the FBI is now looking at, Brennan and Comey are already under investigation, but I suspect it may morph into something much larger.”
Steele’s dossier was repeatedly cited on MSNBC and other corporate media outlets to advance the unproven claims that Clinton lost the 2016 presidential race due to Russian interference in the election.
Special counsel John Durham released a report on May 15, 2023, on the origins of the FBI investigation of allegations that Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russia that found that the FBI “did not and could not corroborate” the claims from the now-discredited dossier, which was used to obtain warrants to monitor communications by Carter Page and other associates of Trump. FBI analyst Brian Auten testified in an October 2022 trial that the FBI offered Steele $1 million if he could corroborate the claims in the dossier, but Steele did not provide the corroboration.
Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee were fined by the Federal Election Commission in 2022 for their involvement in the since-discredited Steele Dossier, which was used to further allegations of collusion, CNN reported.
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