Durham's report nails the slimy Democrats who plotted to smear Trump

A comprehensive analysis that puts the conspiracy in its full and ugly light, exposing as a lie that it's nothing new and inconsequential.

Move along, nothing to see here.

The liberal media that bothered to report on Durham’s investigation into Trump and Russian collusion reflected Leslie Nielsen’s famous line in the movie Naked Gun.

Or to paraphrase what President Joe Biden might have said, “It’s a little ef…..g deal.”

Which leads me to ask: Did they actually read Special Counsel John H. Durham’s evidence that Donald Trump did not collude with the Russians? In fact, it revealed how Hillary Clinton, Democrats, top dogs at the FBI and a broad collection of anti-democrat conspirators concocted Russiagate.

“Nothing new,” they pronounce. “We already knew everything in it” (Even if they didn’t report it.)

What they’re missing is how the report is the complete telling of the collusion fiction. The whole story is greater than the sum of its parts. All the chicanery, hateful plots, backroom scheming and false accusations, of which they are many recounted, are tied together into a single, devastating description of perhaps the greatest plot to bring down a president. In some places, it’s called a coup.

The report has to be read like the final chapter of a mystery when everything comes together in an ah-hah moment,

The enter affair is much more of a threat to our democracy than Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal. Or another threat, the mob that stormed the Capitol to stymie the seating of Joe Biden as president.

The evidence to start with was so flimsy the FBI should never have start the investigation, Durham sad. The report concluded:

Based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we conclude that the [Justice] Department and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report. As noted, former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith committed a criminal offense by fabricating language in an email that was material to the FBI obtaining a FISA surveillance order. In other instances, FBI personnel working on that same FISA application displayed, at best, a cavalier attitude towards accuracy and completeness. FBI personnel also repeatedly disregarded important requirements when they continued to seek renewals ofthat FISA surveillance while acknowledging - both then and in hindsight - that they did not genuinely believe there was probable cause to believe that the target was knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of a foreign power, or knowingly helping another person in such activities.And certain personnel disregarded significant exculpatory information that should have prompted investigative restraint and re-examination.

Damnable.

Between the beginning and end, the evidence pilled higher and higher. One troubling part is how the FBI slow-walked before the 2016 election a probe of a possibly illegal foreign contribution to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. It also had a lead into a “Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server.” Instead:

The FBI never opened any type of inquiry, issued any taskings, employed any analytical personnel, or produced any analytical products in connection with the information. This lack of action was despite the fact that the significance of the Clinton plan intelligence was such as to have prompted the Director of the CIA to brief the President, Vice President, Attorney General, Director of the FBI, and other senior government officials about its content within days of its receipt. It was also of enough importance for the CIA to send a formal written referral memorandum to Director Corney [sic] and the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, Peter Strzok, for their consideration and action. The investigative referral provided examples of information the Crossfire Hurricane fusion cell had "gleaned to date."

Yet, the warnings got buried

On the other hand, the FBI rushed to open “full investigations on four members of the Trump campaign team: George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn.”

I could go on and on. But to get the full impact, you must go directly to the full Durham report. There you will find an excruciating. detailed explanation of why no criminal charges were urged. It’s not easy reading, because the conspiracy against Trump was complicated and far-reaching with a operatic-like cast of characters.

There’s a lot of lawyer speak in it, stuff that I don’t understand, but at least I gave it a shot. Unlike the wind-up-and-jabber talking heads who said such things as “there’s nothing new.” That’s bunk and proof that they based their analysis on what their producers told them. Or worse.

Speaking of the media, let’s turn to the Pulitzer Prices awarded to the New York Times and Washington Post for their reporting on what we’re supposed to believe is Russiagate.

Here’s what the Pulitzer committee said why the two papers deserved journalism’s highest accolade :

For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration. (The New York Times entry, submitted in this category, was moved into contention by the Board and then jointly awarded the Prize.)

At once, laughable and distressing. Not unexpected from the politically compromised award committee. The paper’s should return the awards, but the Post says it stand by the stories. No shame there.

This is an historically low point in American politics and media. A combine of the powerful to discredit and frame a president to force his removal is a high crime. History will regard the scheme as hard to believe it really happened.

Thank God it didn’t.