The declassified releases from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in relation to the Russiagate hoax just keep coming, and the revelations are increasingly startling.
The latest drop involves a formally classified appendix from Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report that sheds additional light on the Clinton campaign’s plan to falsely tie Donald Trump to Russia and how the FBI went along with it.
The annex, which was declassified at the request of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), confirms Hillary Clinton was desperate to distract from her private email server scandal and greenlit a plot to smear Trump as a Russian asset ahead of the 2016 election. More stunningly, the intelligence in it strongly suggests the FBI helped the Clinton campaign orchestrate the hoax to distract from its investigation into her email.
On Thursday’s show, Megyn was joined by independent journalists Glenn Greenwald and Aaron Maté to break down the new information and provide the context of how it relates to what was previously known about the Russiagate hoax.
Hillary Clinton’s Role
Megyn and Greenwald discussed how the declassified Durham report appendix sheds new light on Clinton’s plan to ruin Trump’s 2016 candidacy, what the report reveals, how Clinton is still acting like Trump stole the election, and more.
FBI Involvement
A closer look at what the appendix shows about how the FBI helped cover up the Clinton campaign’s plan to vilify Trump as a Russian asset, the media’s complicity in disseminating the smears, and more.
Damning Email Trail
Maté joined Megyn and Greenwald to examine the emails revealed in the newly declassified document that appear to lay out the Clinton campaign’s plot, the involvement of the Obama administration, and more.
Megyn’s Take
The appendix was released not long before Megyn went to air on Thursday, and she admitted she was still trying to wrap her arms around the scope of it. But she did not mince words in her initial take on the revelations:
“Sen. Chuck Grassley just released the declassified appendix to the Durham report. We told you about this earlier this week. There had been a report on Fox News Digital that this was going to drop, and that it was expected to show a link between Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the FBI – some sort of tacit or explicit cooperation on Hillary’s plan to ruin the Trump candidacy with these Russiagate allegations.
Can I just stop for a second? This woman should be in jail. Literally, Hillary Clinton should be behind bars and so should the people who work for her who did this. This is so blatantly corrupt. She wanted to distract from her email scandal. She cooked up a plan to accuse Trump of being a Russian agent in order to distract from her own legitimate scandal. She made up a scandal about Trump being a Russian asset, and they banked on the intel agencies working with her to perpetuate this lie. And it appears they were only too happy to assist.
That is what this scandal is about.
Pieces of it we knew. New pieces are coming in by the day thanks to these declassifications, and it is downright shocking. Do not believe that there’s no there there. The people who are saying that are wrong. They’re wrong.
What just broke today moments before we came to air… was obviously provided to Michael Shellenberger and his Substack page Public before two minutes ago. He has a fantastic breakdown of what’s in… the annex to the Durham report.
John Durham was the special counsel appointed under Trump to go through what had been done to him and try to figure out who did it, who helped, and whether anyone should be prosecuted. Well, even his information was not made entirely public.
The Durham report… investigated how the FBI’s [2016] Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump allegedly being a Russian agent and/or members of his team allegedly being Russian agents got started. How did this massive fraud get perpetrated on Team Trump and on the American people? That was Durham’s charge, and they already made clear that that the Clinton campaign had a mission of trying to push this lie…
Remember we were talking this week… with Aaron Maté about how it now looks like the Russians didn’t hack the DNC… but they were hacking other people. And what appears to have happened is they hacked a couple of high-level operatives who were connected with the Clinton campaign, or were friendly with it, and they caught on to this plot. The Russians caught onto her plot to try to paint Trump as an agent of Russia, and the Dutch were spying on the Russians. The Dutch spies got their hands on the Russian intel that the Russians had stolen from its hacks of people around team Clinton, and then the Dutch told us…
Instead of [then-FBI Director] Jim Comey saying… ‘This is the Hillary Clinton ruse’… not only did they not dismiss the bullsh-t coming into them from Hillary’s operatives, but they doubled down and they opened up an investigation into Trump and his campaign and started arresting people and using the Hillary-generated information like the Steele Dossier and more…
What she did – I don’t even have the words. She is still walking around acting like she won and he stole [the 2016] election… and that it was not legitimate. She is not delusional. She is a liar to her core, and she has been supported by everyone around her and by the intel apparatus that was in place under Obama and, frankly, thereafter. There are so many officials who were fine doing this.
What the new appendix to the Durham report reveals is that the CIA had the intel to show the goal of Clinton’s plot was to distract from that email scandal. We had heard Durham make reference to this. It’s right there, black and white, in the appendix. But then the FBI, when when notified of this, rejected the intel about Clinton’s plot. They said, ‘Oh, it looks like hearsay.’ They rejected it like, ‘We don’t believe it.’ You don’t believe it? Because there are other pieces in here, and they believe those. But they don’t believe the stuff about Hillary.
Shellenberger writes it up this way: There are strong suggestions in the Durham appendix of the Clinton campaign working hand-in-glove with the intelligence community. She had a receptive audience at FBI instead of a skeptical one for her lies. And that’s really how this whole thing got started.
They actually named some names that I have never heard of before and there are attempts to get these people to admit what’s in the documents that the Russians got their hands on that we found out about thanks to the Dutch. Why haven’t these people been arrested? Why was Michael Flynn prosecuted but not these people? Why did Carter Page get spied on but not these people?
…The media and these top Democrats just continue to act like anybody who has these questions or is actually just acknowledging these facts is a nutcase. It’s infuriating.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Greenwald and Maté by tuning in to episode 1,120 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.