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New York Post
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- New York Post
It's important to get answers on Hillary Clinton's RussiaGate plot
'Deflection,' 'Distraction' and 'Dishonest' are just some of the accusations leveled at President Trump recently for saying he'd like to look into past Democrat conspiracies against him. The President's critics have claimed that he is simply trying to push attention away from the Jeffrey Epstein story. Even some of the President's defenders have sighed that surely he should focus on moving forward and not get distracted by these past problems. But putting aside for a moment the fact that President Trump has shown himself able to do more than one thing at a time, he is right to bring up the Russian collusion hoax and more. The Hillary Clinton campaign and the entirety of the Democrat court media spent four years exciting themselves and boring the American public with their claims. When Trump won his surprising election victory in 2016, the Democrats already had their Russia attack lined up. Because the DNC had been hacked that year, exposing some of the unbelievable chicanery that was going on, they were already ripe for a Russia angle. When Trump jokingly said that he'd like the Russians to expose Hillary Clinton's notorious emails they put their spin into overdrive. 'Trump is asking the Russians to hack us,' they said. 'Trump is openly colluding with Putin' they went on — showing themselves intent on turning an off-the-cuff joke into some sort of national security alert. Once Trump was in office they more than doubled-down. Hillary Clinton, the Democrats in the House and Senate and their whole Amen-chorus in the media decided that Trump had only got into office because the Russians had 'hacked' the 2016 election. In doing so they not only told a lie, they also undermined the idea that American elections are safe and secure and that the ballot is accurate. For four years they then tried to bring Trump down. 5 Hillary Clinton speaks onstage during a conversation with Margaret Hoover for 'Something Lost, Something Gained' at 92NY on May 01, 2025, in New York City. Getty Images They tied him up in investigations. They tied him up in impeachments. Every single night hosts like the unwatchable Rachel Maddow worked themselves into a frenzy promising that they had the evidence. Congressman Adam Schiff and others insisted to the American people that there was a smoking gun, that they had the smoking gun and that they were going to produce the smoking gun it if not today then tomorrow, or the day after that. They worked themselves, their audiences and voters into a fever pitch. And what evidence did they end up providing for their claims? Nada, nothing, zilch. A big fat nothing. And then, having spent four years lying and exaggerating and slandering and plotting, they got away with it. The people who had insisted that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump had colluded to steal an American election just moved on and hoped that nothing would happen, or that no one had noticed. Adam Schiff moved seamlessly into the Senate. Maddow and the hosts of the asylum-outbreak that is 'The View' kept pretending that they had been right all along. 5 President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 31, 2025. REUTERS At present the mainstream media seems to have decided to pretend that they never pushed the Russia hoax and that they don't know what Trump and his supporters are even talking about. Fortunately not everybody has their Biden-esque short-term memory problems. Speaking to my colleague Miranda Devine this week, President Trump said that he had resisted calls to go after Hillary Clinton during his first term in office, despite all the rally chants against her. As he told the Pod Force One, he felt that it would be 'inappropriate' to go after his political opponent in that way, and to pursue his former rival in the courts. And there was a time when that might have been the case. 5 Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during Russian-Laotian talks at the Kremlin on July 31, 2025, in Moscow, Russia. Getty Images To have pursued a former First Lady, Senator, Secretary of State and Presidential candidate would undoubtedly have been divisive. Unfortunately for Trump the Democrats had a different set of standards. They had no problem going after him even after he had won an election fair and square. They had no problem toxifying the political landscape and undermining the sanctity of the voting booth. Now they say that Trump is being merely vindictive, or trying to distract attention, by going back to these issues. 5 Former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton speaks at the New York State Democratic Committee Convention at the Sheraton Times Square in Manhattan. Stephen Yang But they are important issues. If elected officials and parts of the media spend years pushing conspiracy theories that have absolutely no evidence to back them up then there should be a price to pay. And there should, at the very least, be some kind of investigation. After the disaster that was January 6, 2021 the House had no problem at all with setting up a Committee to look into what happened that day. If there can be a House Committee on January 6th why shouldn't there be one on the Russia collusion hoax? 5 Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Sberbank's CEO German Gref in Moscow, Russia, July 29, 2025. via REUTERS Why shouldn't we find out which parts of the intelligence community knowingly worked on promoting lies about a sitting US President? And why shouldn't we learn just how wide, deep and high-up that conspiracy really went? President Trump can easily focus on moving this country forward. Another week of trade deal successes shows that. But as a country we can´t just move beyond an era in which powerful people tried to undermine the Presidency and then just got away with it. Keep up with today's most important news Stay up on the very latest with Evening Update. Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Never miss a story. Check out more newsletters The Time's lie about Gaza makes peace harder Talking of pushing lies, the New York Times has had to about-turn this week after lying to their readers on the front-page. A terrible photo of a sickly child in Gaza was given to Times readers as evidence of a 'famine' in Gaza. In fact the poor child has been sick since birth, having been born with cerebral palsy. The Times quietly changed its headline to acknowledge that the child in question had 'pre-existing health problems.' By then the Times had pushed its lie around the world. This week Hamas hardened its negotiating position, making a peace deal harder. One of their calculations seems to be that international pressure on Israel will force Israel — not Hamas — to a compromise. Seems its OK to embolden terrorists if you're the lying Gray Lady.
CNN
2 hours ago
- CNN
$200 million ‘Trump-style' ballroom coming to the White House
$200 million 'Trump-style' ballroom coming to the White House Construction for a new ballroom on the White House campus will begin in September on a $200 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom, fulfilling a 15-year ambition by President Trump to construct an event space on the White House grounds that expands the building's entertaining capacity. 01:16 - Source: CNN Automated CNN Shorts 11 videos $200 million 'Trump-style' ballroom coming to the White House Construction for a new ballroom on the White House campus will begin in September on a $200 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom, fulfilling a 15-year ambition by President Trump to construct an event space on the White House grounds that expands the building's entertaining capacity. 01:16 - Source: CNN Storms drop dangerous, flooding rain Dangerous torrential rainfall and flash flooding are underway in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast Thursday with millions at risk along the Interstate 95 corridor, with video already showing cars stranded submerged under water along the Clearview Expressway in Queens. 00:37 - Source: CNN United Nations' Relief Chief: If anyone can shift Israeli Government, 'It's of course, the Americans' UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour that if anyone can shift the Israeli government, it's the US, and addresses reports of how food aid is being intercepted. 02:09 - Source: CNN New research reveals origin of potatoes Scientists traced the lineage of potatoes to a wild genetic fusion about 9 million years ago between a tomato ancestor and a tuberless plant. 01:07 - Source: CNN Zohran Mamdani confronts his past calls to defund the police Zohran Mamdani, Democratic candidate for the mayor of New York City, says he does not plan on defunding the New York Police Department if he wins in November, contradicting previous statements he made before running for mayor. Mamdani's stance on defunding the police gained increased scrutiny after a mass shooting in Manhattan left four people dead, including one member of the NYPD. CNN's Gloria Pazmino reports. 01:07 - Source: CNN Double murder suspect arrested at hair salon The intense search for a man accused of a grisly double murder in northwest Arkansas over the weekend ended Wednesday in a hair salon. CNN's Dianne Gallagher recounts what happened. 01:11 - Source: CNN How MAGA media is handling Epstein fallout CNN senior correspondent Donie O'Sullivan talks to Brian Glenn of Real America's Voice at the White House about how MAGA media outlets are covering the Epstein files as President Trump tries to shift the focus away from his former friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. 01:35 - Source: CNN Key players in Trump's attacks on the Fed President Donald Trump's escalating pressure campaign to force Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to lower rates reached new heights when he toured the Fed's $2.5 billion renovation last week. CNN's Phil Mattingly digs into the key allies aiding Trump's unprecedented power play. 03:21 - Source: CNN Blake Lively to be deposed against Justin Baldoni Blake Lively is set to be deposed Thursday in her legal battle against Justin Baldoni. 00:24 - Source: CNN Bombshell admission in helicopter crash investigation NTSB hearings to figure out what caused a deadly mid-air collision on January 29th between an Army helicopter and a commercial flight are underway. CNN's Pete Muntean reports on one of the significant revelations from the hearing. 00:54 - Source: CNN
New York Post
2 hours ago
- New York Post
‘Russiagate' was never anything more than Hillary Clinton's paid-for lies
Newly declassified intelligence files bring fresh, hard proof that Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign completely cooked up Russiagate — a total lie that top intelligence officials nonetheless proceeded to amplify, and that all too many Democrats still believe. These memos from the first half of 2016 center on 'confidential conversations' between members of the Democratic National Committee and top staff at George Soros' Open Society Foundations — and the info is damning. 'Julie [sic] says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump,' runs one quote of July 25. 'Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire.' That shows a clear expectation that government agencies would be colluding in the scheme — making it far more than just a campaign trick. Yet the campaign's plans included 'raising the theme of 'Putin's support for Trump' ' and 'subsequently steering public opinion toward the notion that it needs to equate' Russian influence campaigns with actual hacking of voting machines. Not only did the memos envision the FBI eventually helping out, that later happened under bureau boss Jim Comey and his No. 2, Andrew The memos also envisioned the FBI eventually supporting the phony scandal — as later actually happened under bureau boss Jim Comey and his No. 2, Andrew McCabe. Clinton OK'd the scheme to create a distraction from the scandal of her email abuses as secretary of state — and then-President Barack Obama and his top intelligence officials were all briefed on the campaign's intentions. Yet Obama, Comey, CIA chief John Brennan and others all seemed to forget about it when the planted 'information' began rolling in later in 2016, prompting the absurd Crossfire Hurricane investigation of Donald Trump's campaign and (eventually) the Mueller investigation that plagued Trump's first two years as president. Brennan and Comey even made the Steele Dossier — an utter fiction ordered up by the Clinton campaign — part of the official, post-election 'intelligence finding' that cherry-picked info to claim that Russia had worked to elect Trump. Clinton's scheme was a dirty trick (that failed to turn the 2016 election for her), but it was Obama & Co. who truly betrayed the American people here. Obama actively spread the lie in his final days in office, telling a pack of progressive journalists that 'the Russia thing is a problem,' and suggesting the new prez could have a 'relationship with a foreign entity' that 'might shade' policy. Then came the endless string of New York Times and Washington Post stories citing anonymous 'current and former intelligence officials' — completely fake news that consumed the nation's capital in Trump-Russia hysteria. It's all now been 100% debunked, but only after kneecapping a presidency — and with all too many Americans failing to realize even now that it was nothing but lies from start to finish. Obama, Brennan and the rest pulled off the greatest smear campaign in American history: For shame.
