Newly released details about the FBI investigation connected to the Russia Hoax, details coming from the appendix to Special Counsel John Durham’s report that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley finally succeeded in having released, show a previously unknown connection between George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and the hoax.
As background, the annex to the Durham Report, or the appendix containing a great many extra details and the like, was discovered in “burn bags” inside the FBI by Director Kash Patel and then released to the public by Chairman Chuck Grassley, who had long been demanding its release in the name of transparency.
According to the details released in the appendix, the supposedly credible foreign sources that the Democrats used to push the salacious investigation forward were, in reality, allegedly tied to George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, as was revealed in one of the documents declassified by Grassley on the morning of Thursday, July 31.
Chairman Chuck Grassley, who worked to release the information alongside CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, described the situation as revealed by the declassified documents as “one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history.”
In the documents that were revealed, emails obtained by the Russians and included in the Durham Report appendix show that Open Society Foundations regional director for Eurasia Leonard Bernardo worked with the Obama Administration, failed nominee Hillary Clinton, and actors within the DNC to intentionally smear President Trump with the Russia collusion hoax.
In one of the emails released, Bernado described how to push the fake information forward, writing, “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…technical structures… in particular, the Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect companies, from where the information would then be disseminated through leading U.S. publications.”
He also wrote, commenting on how the Democrats could smear Trump, “The media analysis on the DNC hacking appears solid …. Julie (Clinton Campaign Advisor) says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump. Now it is good for a post-convention bounce.” He added, in the released email, seemingly showing coordination with the FBI, “Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire.”
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In another email, Bernado showed seeming coordination with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, referred to as HRC, noting that she had agreed with how to present the attacks on President Trump, saying, “HRC approved Julie’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections.”
He added, in the released email, noting that the smear could be used to distract from Clinton’s own issues, saying, “This should distract people from her own missing email, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level.” Building on that, he said, The point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue. Say something like a critical infrastructure threat for the election to feel manic since both POTUS and VPOTUS have acknowledge the fact IC would speed up searching for evidence that is regrettably still unavailable.”
Describing what it thinks of the OSF’s regional director’s involvement, the Durham annex noted, “The Office’s best assessment is that the … emails that purport to be from Benardo were ultimately a composite of several emails that were obtained through Russian intelligence hacking of the U.S.-based Think Tanks, including the Open Society Foundations, the Carnegie Endowment, and others.”
Watch Brett Baier comment on how the FBI covered for Clinton here: