“There has been much confusion in the media — and thereby, the public — about who funded the infamous Trump dossier. Some outlets have incorrectly reported that Republicans began financing the dossier before the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee took over last Spring. But that is incorrect. Democrats are solely responsible for the dossier, which was passed around by …
April 2016 – NYC purges 200,000 voters and it isn’t a mistake
“In anticipation of voting in the April 19, 2016, presidential primary in New York, Kathleen Menegozzi checked her registration online. The Brooklyn resident, a registered Democrat since 2008, learned three weeks before the election that she had been struck from the rolls. Another Brooklyn Democrat, Casey James Diskin, who first joined the party in 2012, discovered five days before the primary that …
April-September 2016: Unpacking the other Clinton-linked Russia dossier – A closer look at the Shearer memos/dossier
“Rep. Nunes is not the first Republican to question what role the Shearer memo may have played in the FBI’s investigation into the Trump team and its possible role in securing the warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Chairman Charles Grassley and Sen. Lindsey Graham of the Senate Judiciary Committee alluded to the Shearer document in a memorandum attached to …
The FBI warns “dozens of lawmakers” that they are being targeted by hackers.
On July 25, 2016, the Washington Post will report that the FBI warns the “Clinton campaign and dozens of lawmakers” that they are being targeted by hackers. Later reporting by Yahoo News will indicate that the Clinton campaign is first warned by the FBI in March 2016. The timing of the warning to lawmakers is less clear, except that the …
April 4, 2016 – The US embassy presses Ukraine to drop probe of George Soros group during 2016 election
“While the 2016 presidential race was raging in America, Ukrainian prosecutors ran into some unexpectedly strong headwinds as they pursued an investigation into the activities of a nonprofit in their homeland known as the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC). The focus on AntAC — whose youthful street activists famously wore “Ukraine F*&k Corruption” T-shirts — was part of a larger probe by Ukraine’s …
April 5, 2016: Huma Abedin gives hints about her multiple email accounts that the FBI fails to properly follow up on.
Huma Abedin, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, is interviewed by the FBI. During the interview, she discloses she had four email accounts while working at the State Department: an official State Department email account. an account on Clinton’s clintonemail.com private email server. a personal Yahoo account. another personal email account that she had previously used to support the political activities …
April 6, 2016 – Burisma’s American legal team meet with Ukraine prosecutors and say Biden’s claim about Shokin corruption is a “false allegation”
“Former Vice President Joe Biden, now a 2020 Democratic presidential contender, has locked into a specific story about the controversy in Ukraine. He insists that, in spring 2016, he strong-armed Ukraine to fire its chief prosecutor solely because Biden believed that official was corrupt and inept, not because the Ukrainian was investigating a natural gas company, Burisma Holdings, that hired …
April 7, 2016 – Panama Papers reveal Clinton’s Kremlin connection
The revelations of the so-called Panama Papers that are roiling the world’s political and financial elites this week include important facts about Team Clinton. This unprecedented trove of documents purloined from a shady Panama law firm that arranged tax havens, and perhaps money laundering, for the globe’s super-rich includes juicy insights into how Russia’s elite hides its ill-gotten wealth. Almost lost among …
April 9, 2016: Cheryl Mills is interviewed by the FBI; she isn’t concerned about classified information in emails she forwarded to Clinton.
Mills was Clinton’s chief of staff when Clinton was secretary of state and since then has been one of Clinton’s lawyers. The date and most details of the interview will remain secret until it’s mentioned in a September 2016 FBI report. Mills refuses to answer some questions, claiming attorney-client privilege. The FBI shows Mills seven emails that she forwarded to …
April 9, 2016: Cheryl Mills tells the FBI she never knew Clinton’s emails got deleted.
In late March 2015, Paul Combetta, an employee of Platte River Networks (PRN), deleted all of Clinton’s emails from her private server and then used a computer program to permanently wipe them. Cheryl Mills, one of Clinton’s lawyers and her former chief of staff, had communications with Combetta in that time period, including speaking in a conference call in which …
April 12, 2016 – Strzok and Page discuss a meeting the DoJ and FBI are to have concerning ““privilege and ethics issues we are facing”
“In an April 12, 2016, email exchange initiated by an email from Strzok to [Redacted] within the Justice Department’s National Security Division (NSD), Strzok asks the NSD official if he’d like to add anything to the agenda of a meeting to occur three days later between FBI and DOJ attorneys. [Redacted] NSD official responds: Would like to see what you …
April 13, 2016 – The DOJ OIG report recommending Andrew McCabe’s termination is released
The DOJ Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz, releases the investigative report of Asst. FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that led to his firing. Inspector General Michael Horowitz referred the issues with McCabe’s false testimony under oath to the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). After a review of the IG investigation, and after discussion with Deputy Director Andrew McCabe …
April 18, 2016 – The Clinton Foundation, AGT International and possible Russia/China related crimes
“A 2016 DOJ criminal investigation was suppressed and buried by the DOJ/FBI that involved a major NY Democratic power broker, the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation. The investigation revolved around the illegal sale of controlled US Homeland Security technology to Russia and China in the years before the 2016 election by a company named AGT International. The DOJ terminated its …
April 18, 2016 – NSA Director Rogers shuts down all outside contractor access to raw FISA information, particularly contractors working for the FBI
(…) “In March of 2016, NSA Director Rogers became aware of improper access to raw FISA data (Page 83 of Court Ruling). In April of 2016, Rogers directed the NSA’s Office of Compliance to conduct a “fundamental baseline review of compliance associated with 702” (Senate testimony & Page 83-84 of Court Ruling). On April 18, 2016, Rogers shut down all …
April 19, 2016 – Did Obama Read the ‘Steele Dossier’ in the White House?
“A Tablet investigation using public sources to trace the evolution of the now-famous dossier suggests that central elements of the Russiagate scandal emerged not from the British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s top-secret “sources” in the Russian government—which are unlikely to exist separate from Russian government control—but from a series of stories that Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and his wife Mary …
April 19, 2016 – Mary Jacoby, wife of Glenn Simpson (Fusion GPS), appears on White House visitor logs
“Remember, previous media reporting -in conjunction with Clinton campaign admissions- have confirmed the DNC and Clinton Campaign financed Fusion-GPS through their lawyers within Perkins Coie. Fusion then sub-contracted with retired British MI6 agent Christopher Steele to write the dossier. The dates here are important because they tell a story. The origin of the Clinton effort with Fusion-GPS was April 2016. …
April 20, 2016 – Nellie Ohr deletes emails from her husband’s Justice Department email account
Nellie Ohr, the wife of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, told her husband she was deleting emails sent from his government account. The revelation comes as both Ohrs remain under intense scrutiny for their ties to Fusion GPS and British ex-spy Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier that was used to obtain warrants to wiretap a member of …
April 25, 2016 – August 22, 2017 – Obama’s official campaign organization pays nearly a million dollars to the same law firm that funneled money to Fusion GPS
“Former president Barack Obama’s official campaign organization has directed nearly a million dollars to the same law firm that funneled money to Fusion GPS, the firm behind the infamous Steele dossier. Since April of 2016, Obama For America (OFA) has paid over $972,000 to Perkins Coie, records filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show. The Washington Post reported last …
April 26, 2016 – Professor Mifsud tells Papadopoulos the Russians have obtained “dirt” on Clinton and is the flashpoint of Spygate and Russiagate
“In London, Papadopoulos met an unidentified Russian academic (referred to as “the Professor”), who claimed to have significant ties to Putin-regime officials and who took an interest in Papadopoulos only because he boasted of having Trump-campaign connections. There appears to be no small amount of puffery on all sides: Papadopoulos suggesting to the Russians that he could make a Trump …
April 27, 2016 – Trump gives a foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel, the media pushes empty Russian conspiracy
“Attorney General William P. Barr may have one particular storyline in mind when he says liberal media were doing “all they could to sensationalize and drive” the empty Russia scandal: the Mayflower Hotel. The press wrote scores of stories in 2017 about candidate Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech at the downtown D.C. landmark. The articles promoted scandalous Russia ties and supposed out-and-out lying. They centered on three …
Late April 2016 – Clinton’s law firm hires Crowdstrike, Fusion GPS, and they are the lone sources for the ‘Russian hookers’ and ‘Russian hackers’ claims
The Washington Post reports that Michael Sussman, a partner with Perkins Coie and who represents the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, is responsible for hiring Crowdstrike. “DNC leaders were tipped to the hack in late April. Chief executive Amy Dacey got a call from her operations chief saying that their information technology team had noticed some unusual network activity. “It’s never …
April, 2016 – The Hillary Clinton Campaign and the DNC helped fund the Steele dossier
“The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about President Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said. Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to …