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Wednesday, 23 July 2025

Russiagate Comeuppance

First, it was Russia-gate, the claim that Russia had influenced Trump's 2016 electoral success and that Trump was in cahoots with Russia. It spawned two years of investigations costing millions of dollars and sabotaging the first two years of Trump's presidency. After this was exposed as a hoax, the Democrats did their best to forget it ever happened. But,  a re-elected Trump and his committed team, many of whom suffered from the weaponisation of the justice system under Biden, are now looking for justice. 

So what’s the real story behind the Russia-gate madness? Matt Taibbi dropped some serious truth bombs in the video “Alleged Obama ‘Treason’ EXPLAINED, and the Key Russia-gate ‘Smoking Gun’.” And it’s not pretty.

Here's the deal:

  • Following direct instruction from Obama, the FBI and CIA fabricated the claim that Russia interfered with the US Presidential election in 2016 in favour of Trump, effectively delegitimising his election

  • For three years, the FBI and CIA ran a full-blown narrative framing Trump as traitorous. Taibbi calls it either the biggest setup or the most significant espionage scandal ever, and it was entirely fabricated.

  • A whistleblower confirms leaks: A former State Department official, Steven Schrage, taped conversations that show people like Halper (who liaised between spies and Trump aides) had inside information about Flynn’s FBI bust before it went public. That suggests co-ordination, not coincidence.

  • There are at least allegations that Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence under Biden, orchestrated leaks to reporters—“pull the kill shot”—leading to Flynn’s downfall. That’s not oversight; that’s political sabotage.

Why it matters:

This wasn’t a minor screw-up. It was intelligence agencies weaponising leaks and pushing a false narrative that drove an entire media frenzy—and nearly tanked a presidency.

Make no mistake: even though it's a scandal of historic proportions, you're not hearing this in your mainstream feed. The fallout from these leaks destroyed careers, eroded trust, and set a precedent for intelligence abuse.

So yeah, the “secret smoking gun” was just smoke and mirrors. And the real emergency? Not foreign interference—it was lies coming from within.

Here is the video

















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