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Sky News AU
7 days ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Perjury charges ‘possible' for Hilary Clinton after explosive Russiagate hoax revelations
Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer discusses revelations that the FBI never probed confidential talks between the Democrats, including the Clinton campaign in 2016, and employees of billionaire George Soros' Open Society Foundation. Soros' operatives, Open Society Senior Vice President Leonard Benardo, held confidential conversations with the Democratic National Committee and Hilary Clinton's campaign team, to push the false Russian collusion narrative to smear US President Donald Trump. 'Hilary Clinton had 33,000 emails for high-security state department official duties on a private server,' Mr Hammer told Sky News host Rita Panahi. 'Some perjury charges are definitely within the realm of possibility there.'
Fox News
01-08-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Brooke Singman Details The Latest Shocking Russiagate Revelations
Fox News Digital Political Reporter Brooke Singman joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to shed light on some of the explosive details in the appendix to former Special Counsel John Durham's report which was released by the Senate Judiciary Committee. 'Basically this document today confirms those notes that we knew about. George Soros, who runs nonprofits and obviously is a left-wing Hillary Clinton ally, her best buddy Huma Abedin just married George Soros's son So you can't say that there's no connection there. But somebody who was working for George Soros back in 2016 with communicating with someone over email days before the FBI opened the investigation into Trump and Russia saying that the FBI was going to pour more oil on the fire and investigate the Clinton plan to tie Trump to Russia. So basically, you got a Soros connected person from his Open Society Foundation communicating with someone over email, an email that was ultimately hacked by the Russians, days before the FBI opens the investigation saying, hey, I know the FBI is going to open this investigation. How? Oh, well, maybe because it was all part of this broader plan to do this. And that's essentially what I believe we will continue to uncover.' Brooke Singman On The Media's Portrayal Of Pete Hegseth To hear what else Brooke had to say, check out the podcast!
Fox News
01-08-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
DAVID MARCUS: The Russia hoax is simple. Democrats lied and half the country believed them
The United States of America has now spent almost a decade embroiled in "Russiagate," and its citizens have been bombarded from both sides with theories, names, and anonymous quotes. But it all really comes down to one thing: Democrats lied, and half the country believed them. In the 24 pages of never-before-seen declassified files released Thursday, we saw in cold, calculated black and white exactly how the Clinton campaign crafted the lie that Donald Trump was colluding with Russia to influence the 2016 election. One email allegedly shows Leonard Benardo, vice president of the George Soros backed Open Society Foundation, writing in July 2016 that, "Julie [sic] says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump," adding "Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire." Julie is Julianne Smith, then a foreign policy adviser to the Hillary Clinton campaign. You know who the FBI is. Just two days later, Bernado would allegedly send another email. "HRC approved Julia's idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections," it read. "That should distract people from her own missing email, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level." Benardo would also allegedly write, and this is key, "The point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue," adding, "In absence of direct evidence, Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect will supply the media…" This all leads to a gem in the annex to John Durham's Russia hoax probe, released Thursday, which concluded, "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 'attic-based' technical structures that are involved in cybersecurity…from where the information would then be disseminated through leading US publications." The Clinton campaign knew all too well that their lackeys in the media would eat up this half-baked nonsense with a spoon, and probably win awards for it, which is exactly what happened. What the media wasn't told at the time was that field officers in the CIA objected to the lies and were run over because, according to their then-Director John Brennan "it rings true." This ludicrous legal standard of "rings true," was used to convince the FISA court to renew warrants on Trump officials, which was not only a free federal law enforcement fishing expedition, but created smoke and the appearance of fire. In December of 2016, in the dying days of the Barack Obama administration, intel reports were massaged to once again create the illusion that Trump was a traitor who became president only through Russian assistance. Thus was launched Robert Mueller's investigation, which would last for years at a cost of more than $30 million, but ultimately exonerate Trump. Perhaps worst of all, in the midst of this Kafkaesque trial by media and secret courts, people's lives were destroyed, crushed by false allegations, legal bills and a process that was the punishment. One of them is Michael Caputo, a long-time member of Trump's orbit who I talked to on Friday. "It is precious little comfort knowing we were right, we need accountability, but even accountability doesn't feed the bulldog," he told me, which was to say the damage to him and his family cannot be undone. Accountability comes in many forms. Caputo may never get the perp walks by former Democrat officials that he understandably desires, but this dastardly lie concocted by Democrats to smear Trump and maintain power has at least been been exposed. According to a Suffolk poll in December of 2018, "Forty-six percent are convinced that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, while 29 percent said there was no such coordination, and 19 percent weren't sure." Every serious person, whether Democrat or Republican, now admits that this simply was not true. What they must also then admit is that half of Americans believed the lie only because Democrats told it so deceitfully. It was Walter Scott who wrote in his 1808 poem 'Marmion', "What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." But in this case, Democrats wanted the web, a web so dense with so many loose ends and round corners that the truth would be forever hidden. It was Shakespeare who wrote "the truth will out," and so it has come out, albeit not before shaking a country to its core and crushing innocent lives. Whatever else comes from the current investigation of Russiagate, one thing is now clear, ready to be etched in the stone of history: The Democrats invented the Russian collusion lie, they did it intentionally, and they suckered their voters into buying it. To everyone involved in this hoax, the message must be clear: This is your legacy, your attempt to deceive the American people and destroy the man they elected to lead them. That is who you are.
Russia Today
31-07-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Declassified document links Russiagate hoax to Soros
A newly unclassified document suggests George Soros' Open Society Foundation was involved in the effort by the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 to falsely accuse then-candidate Donald Trump of ties to Russia. The document, a 29-page annex to John Durham's 2023 Special Counsel report, was released by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday shortly after it was declassified. It sheds more light on what Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) described as 'one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history.' 'Based on the Durham annex, the Obama FBI failed to adequately review and investigate intelligence reports showing the Clinton campaign may have been ginning up the fake Trump-Russia narrative for Clinton's political gain... These intelligence reports and related records, whether true or false, were buried for years,' Grassley said in a statement. The annex cites several emails allegedly sent by Leonard Benardo, senior vice president of Soros' Open Society Foundations, throughout July 2016, which provide details on the Clinton campaign's plans to falsely accuse Trump of Russia links and tie him to the alleged Democratic National Committee (DNC) hack. Analysis by the Durham team concluded the Benardo emails 'were likely authentic,' the annex states. '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 'attic-based' technical structures… in particular, the Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect companies, from where the information would then be disseminated through leading US publications,' one of the emails reads. Another email purportedly sent by Benardo states that the 'media analysis on the DNC hacking appears solid' and suggests that 'later the FBI will put more oil into fire,' apparently predicting the probe by the agency. It also cites an individual named 'Julie,' identified in the annex as Clinton's foreign policy adviser Julianne Smith, who said the future Russiagate 'will be a long term affair to demonize [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and Trump.'
New York Post
12-07-2025
- Business
- New York Post
Soros funneled $37 million to lefty groups backing Mamdani's mayoral run
That's rich. Socialist Zohran Mamdani has declared billionaires shouldn't exist, but it's unlikely he'd be the front-runner to become the Big Apple's next mayor if it wasn't for one — far-left kingmaker George Soros, financial records reviewed by The Post show. Mamdani recently told NBC News' 'Meet the Press, 'I don't think that we should have billionaires, frankly' while doubling down on his plan to jack up property taxes on 'richer and whiter neighborhoods' if elected mayor. Advertisement But in less than a decade, Soros' ultra-woke grant-making network Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled a combined $37 million to the Working Families Party and at least other nine left-wing groups whose endorsements and get-out-the-vote groundwork played a pivotal role in helping Mamdani upset ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, the foundation's records show. Since 2016, the far-left, socialist-friendly WFP — which helped score Mandani the Democratic line by brokering cross-endorsement deals that squeezed out Cuomo — has pocketed a staggering $23.7 million from Soros through its nonprofit fundraising arm Working Families Organization Inc. 5 Billionaire George Soros' grant-making network Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled more than $37 million combined to the Working Families Party and nine other left-wing groups who played a pivotal role in helping socialist Zohran Mamdani (pictured) win New York City's Democratic mayoral primary, the foundation's records show. Michael Nigro Advertisement And at least another $13,944,005 went to the nine nonprofits and their offshoot fundraising entities — including the Make The Road Action ($3,515,00), and social justice nonprofits Community Voices Heard ($2,635,000) and Move On ($2.3 million), and the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace Acton ($650,000), according to records. All those groups backed the Queens assemblyman's mayoral campaign – as well as his Marxist agenda that includes advocating for criminal migrants and condemning Israel. 'While Zohran Mamdani attacks job creators and rails against wealth, the truth is he's benefiting from millions in support from billionaires and the very nonprofit network he pretends to stand apart from,' Mayor Eric Adams told The Post. 5 Billionaire George Soros has a long history of funding socialist and other lefty causes — and politicians who support them. AFP via Getty Images Advertisement 'You can't have it both ways. We need leadership that brings people together — not politicians who demonize success while quietly cashing in on it,' added Adams, a registered Democrat seeking re-election as an independent. The mayor touted he's a great example of the 'American Dream,' considering he was born into poverty 64 years ago in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and now runs the 'greatest city in the world.' 'The idea that billionaires or successful people shouldn't exist isn't just extreme — it's un-American,' Hizzoner added. 5 The Working Families Party tapped Mamdani as its favored candidate in the mayoral race. LP Media Advertisement Douglas Kellogg, state projects director for the conservative anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform, said no one should be surprised Soros' money is quietly driving Mamdani's campaign. 'George Soros is like a comic-book villain, James Bond villain who's funding a movement designed to undermine individual freedom and liberty across the globe,' said Kellogg. 'And he's been doing it for years, and he's continues to do it and finds new effective faces to put in front on it. If communism and socialism was popular, he wouldn't have to spend so much money and take so much time to try to achieve it.' 5 A breakdown of how Soros's money is being used to assist Mamdani's mayoral run. Tam Nguyen / NYPost Design Kellogg also said he believes there will be a mass Big Apple exodus of 'productive, law-abiding citizens who make New York great' if Mamdani is mayor, 'so the taxpayers and businesses have a lot to lose.' Although Soros and his family didn't directly donate to Mamdani's campaign, Patrick Gaspard, a former Open Society Foundations president who is now a distinguished senior fellow for a liberal think tank heavily funded by Soros called Center for American Progress, did play a key role. Gaspard, a longtime pal of far-left ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio who served as a top aide to former President Barack Obama, quietly helped guide Mamdani throughout the campaign, the New York Times reported. This included Gaspard meeting up with Mamdani and City Comptroller Brad Lander last month at Yara, a Midtown Lebanese restaurant, where over plates of fattoush, hummus and eggplant both mayoral candidates agreed to cross-endorse each other to help defeat Cuomo. Advertisement 5 Soros sitting with son Alex Soros, who chairs the Open Society Foundation. alexsoros/Instagram Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa said he believes Mamdani 'doesn't want to get rid of billionaires. He only wants to destroy the ones who don't bankroll his radical agenda.' 'If you're George Soros or part of the far-left donor class, you get a free pass and a seat at the table,' he said. 'Mamdani will drive out everyone else and turn New York into a city run by untouchables, where the Soros machine calls the shots.' Advertisement Billionaire John Catsimatidis, who owns the Gristedes supermarket chain, said Mamdani should be more transparent about his ties to Soros. 'I think America is the land of the free, and if it's billionaires . . . who are providing jobs, what is wrong with that?' said Catsimatidis. New York City is home to more billionaires than any city in the world — 123. Both Mamdani and Catsimatidis have butted heads over the Democratic Socialist's pie-in-the-sky pledge to establish city-run grocery stores. Advertisement Catsimatidis has threatened to sell his stores if Mamdani is elected mayor, but said this week it's more likely he'd 'reduce operations.' Neither Soros nor Mamdani returned requests for comment.
