President Donald Trump told reporters on April 10 while discussing the origins of the investigations into his campaign that there had been an attempted coup.
“This was an attempted coup, this was an attempted takedown of a president,” he said.
The president is right.
During the past two years, numerous details have emerged about how America’s intelligence and law-enforcement agencies were used against Trump during the 2016 elections.
The scandal has become known as “Spygate” and refers to the creation of the Russia-collusion narrative, which was used in an attempt to prevent Trump from becoming president and subsequently to remove him from office. Specifically, during the 2016 elections, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into his campaign cast a shadow over it, and following Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, a whirlwind of false allegations that Trump colluded with Russia to win the elections were spread by media and politicians, leading to talk of impeachment.
The so-called “Steele dossier” played a crucial role in the creation of this false narrative.
It was Hillary Clinton’s campaign, as well as the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which had hired Fusion GPS—through their law firm Perkins Coie—to produce the dossier. Fusion GPS, in turn, hired former MI6 officer Christopher Steele and worked with former CIA contractor Nellie Ohr, wife of high-ranking DOJ official Bruce Ohr.
Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and Steele pushed this false information to the FBI through different channels, including the DOJ and State Department, as well as to reporters in U.S. media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Yahoo News, and CNN.
We also know, based on statements by then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), that no official intelligence product existed to open the FBI’s counter-intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.
Former CIA Director John Brennan has publicly admitted that he passed intelligence on Americans obtained by the CIA—likely from foreign nations—to the FBI.
“It served as the basis for the FBI investigation to determine whether such collusion [or] cooperation occurred,” Brennan said in a May 23, 2017, congressional testimony.
Associates of Trump’s campaign, such as Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, were targeted by a series of unusual meetings involving intelligence assets.
We also know that key FBI agents involved in the investigation were fiercely opposed to Trump. One such example is a text message one of the lead agents on the case, Peter Strzok, sent to Lisa Page, who at the time was special counsel to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, saying “we’ll stop” Trump from becoming president.
And while Bill Priestap, then-director of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, was officially overseeing the investigation, McCabe would have frequent meetings himself, in his office, with agents involved in the case.
It was this high-level involvement at the FBI that would help subvert the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process. Trisha Anderson, the former No. 2 lawyer at the FBI, testified to congressional investigators in August 2018 that she signed off on the FISA warrant application on former Trump campaign adviser Cater Page without reading it, due to the involvement of other high-ranking FBI officials.
Her boss, then-FBI general counsel James Baker, would himself admit to congressional investigators how unconventional the investigation into the Trump campaign was.
“I had a jaundiced eye about everything, yes. I had skepticism about all this stuff. I was concerned about all of this. This whole situation was horrible, and it was novel and we were trying to figure out what to do, and it was highly unusual,” Baker told lawmakers in August 2018.
The spying continued well into Trump’s presidency as the FISA on Carter Page was renewed three times for 90-day periods. FISAs on other members of the campaign or transition team may have been issued.
Other methods of spying on the Trump campaign involved the use of national security letters, which allow the FBI to subpoena customer records from banks, phone companies, internet service providers, and others, and the so-called practice of unmasking, which involved the un-redacting of the identities of members of the Trump campaign in intelligence reports.
Notably, after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on May 9, 2017, it was McCabe’s FBI that reached back out to Steele in an apparent attempt to re-invigorate or create new investigations into Trump.
This came after the FBI had officially terminated its relationship with Steele due to his unauthorized contacts with reporters, as well as after his dossier had been publicly discredited following Buzzfeed News’ release of the document in January.
Trump said he hopes the attorney general will go “back to the origin of exactly where this all started.”
And it appears that this is what Attorney General William Barr is doing.
During two days of testimony on Capitol Hill, Barr told lawmakers that he believed there was spying on the Trump campaign and that he is looking into the conduct of officials who worked the Russia investigation.
“I am going to be reviewing both the genesis and the conduct of intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign during 2016,” Barr said. “I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal, it’s a big deal … I think spying did occur.”
I don’t believe that the Republicans, indeed all non-liberals, fully understand what our country is going through. There was an outright coup being orchestrated against President Trump, and the Republican leaders all seem to regard this as just another day of “playing politics”. This was an attempted coup, not what some used to call “dirty politics”.
The Republican Party should back the President and our Justice Department under William Barr when,
not if, indictments for sedition are sought. I’ll say it right now, if the Republicans behave in their usual way, all of this anti American activity will just go on and on, until the Democrats regain power in Washington, D.C. That will be the time that the march toward socialism will start back up in earnest.
The privately owned rifle is now a symbol of liberty. If worse comes to worst, the rifle will become a TOOL of liberty just as it was for the Founding Fathers. No sane citizen wants to witness a great upheaval. but there is something even more horrific, i.e. the loss of our individual freedoms. How divorced from reality are the Democrats who cannot fathom the idea that those who believe in the intents found in the Constitution, will react violently if the liberals achieve success in their drive to Marxism? King George could not see the handwriting on the wall, and neither can the liberals. If the great civil struggle between liberty and socialism ends with an authoritarian style government, the mortal storm of civil war will descend upon our world. ……………..The liberals will be running for their very lives.
This obviously goes up to odummy, anyone with half a brain knows it. And the evidence will continue to come out. I believe he’s already implementing his getaway.
It makes me wonder, why the Democrats are not more afraid about their pathetic actions against a sitting President? Are they so sure of their Two Tier Justice system and that it will not be dismantled? Or are they all just to superior feeling that they think their lies will always be believed. Then I have to ask, Isn’t what the Dems are trying to do against any laws on the books already, or do we have to rally to make them now so that no party can do this UN-American act against ANY sitting President in the future?
Dems, know their Coup attempt is based completely on their lies and purposely deceive the American People in hopes that their tactics will turn Americans away from the Person they voted for. How is that legal? How is this moral? How is this allowed by the leaders in Congress? Think all involved in this Attempted Coup should be prosecuted to the fullest. And that goes to even the slightest involved. This whole thing is a sham and Makes America’s Congress and Justice System look petty and the most corrupt in American History. When will we the people get to see True and real Justice against these Traitors to America? Just follow the proof and evidence, there is enough there not to loose your way to the truth!
Anyone that had knowledge of the Steele dossier being fake and still allowed an investigation based upon it should be tried for treason. That includes Obama, Holder, all Clinton’s, Lynch, Comey, Brennan, and any member of Congress.
What gets my goat is this is the President of the United States, Commander Of it’s armed forces and people need to respect wether they agree or not that position. Never has a president been so persecuted. Lord put your Hand back on this country in Jesus Name AMEN
This whole circus cost Americans alot of money, loss of integrity in our agencies as well. Those who are responsible need to be found, stripped of all their assets aND credentials and tried for treason! This should never have happened and we need to be sure it never happens again!
The omnipresent overlay for my mind when I read any synopsis of the Deep State coup attempt against President Trump is that these events served a double purpose: to specifically cover up Clinton’s crimes by any and all means, and to keep the public focused on the President so they wouldn’t look at Clinton. Each accusation against the President has a near-match actual crime committed by Democrat Clinton and her crime machine.
Her deeds? Benghazi, contracting 20% of our uranium supply to enemy state Russia in exchange for millions going into her money-laundering foundation, concealing a private internet server inside the bathroom of a small business shop and using it to funnel top secret government files to foreign entities, using her private email address to exchange email with Obama, holding a “fire” in her garage to get rid of subpoenaed documents, smashing her phones and internet devices with a hammer after removing their SIM cards and deleting 30,000 subpoenaed emails, laundering payment through her NY law firm for the “Steele dossier” prepared by a British spy working with Russian contacts, which dossier would be used as verity 4 times before a FISA court by our own intelligence agencies to spy on the Trump campaign and presidency–and the list goes on and on.
———-14 April 2019 Sunday
It will be great that after AG Barr does his investigations on the genesis and conduct of the Russian-Trump fake collusion mess, that all the guilty players will be exposed so that it will be their turn to be investigated and exposed and brought t0 justice at long last, as this “monster” had gone on far too long……..and what did it accomplish….absolutely nothing but damaging our President’s good name and kept him mostly from doing his job as president as they blocked him every step of the way, wasted tax dollars for nothing and are still complaining that they are not quite done with Pres. Trump yet.! They still don’t get it yet, but hopefully they will as soon as AG Barr finishes his investigation and start to see heads rolling! I think that is what America is waiting for!!
You know what smelled so bad in the 0bama whitehouse? The 0bama political litter box. It all looked nice, but now that they’re starting to dig, they’ll be finding some serious zhit that’s been covered up. This attempted coup on Trump was a top down operation, coordinated with 0bama and Hillary’s crew so that she could finish off America with part 2 of the plan 0bama / Soros / ect had started. When America said ‘hell no you’re not’, the plot started to unravel even though they dragged it out for 2 years. When they start closing in on Hillary, look out for several more ‘suicides’ by ‘friends and acquaintances’ (maybe a few 0bama operatives as well) as they have happened many times in the history of the Clintons.
Sounds like, to me, that this whole thing was so illegal, that there is any number of people who used their Government positions to break US Law! They violated not only Trump’s, but also many of his associates’ Constitutional Rights! All I know is, if this was happening to ANY other politician, no, any other PERSON, the entire “No Trump Party” would be absolutely beside themselves telling us about it! TRUMP 2020! MAGA!
And let’s not forget, those who did nothing but volunteer in the Trump campaign, even though they had absolutely nothing to do with being anywhere near Russia or any of its citizens, were subpoenaed to testify before Congressional committees or the special investigator, often on more than one occasion, having to spend hundreds of thousands of $$ in transportation, motels and attorney’s fees. The message from the radical left is “if you have anything to do with our opponents, we’ll try to financially ruin you”. Well, its now Clinton, Obama and their lackey’s turn!! Let’s get this special investigation going and see how much they like losing a big chunk of their savings and sweating the perjury trap.
Political spying by government. Isn’t this what took Nixon down? The characters in this plot to spy on Trump and his campaign should be treated in the same manner and removed from office and criminally charged.
Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!
I’m sorry, I just had to say that. This whole thing started at her request, and if anything is uncovered from this investigation it will have her fingerprints all over it.
I just hope that after all the money spent on Mr. Mueller and his pack of ALL Democrat partizan attack dog attorneys that we now have an Attorney General that will go after the people responsible for the lying to the FISA judges, the DNC and the Clintons and the Obama’s for paying for and allowing for the fake Steele document used in an illegal manner to obtain the FISA warrants. I don’t care who it is, from Barry or Michelle or Bill or Hillary or whoever……..I don’t care if it is half of the Democrats in Congress, any and everyone involved in this literal coup attempt against a duly elected President of the United States should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. If TREASONOUS activity is found then again I don’t care how high a level a person is that committed that act they should face the consequences of the capital crime that treason is.
We as a nation have been torn apart by the actions of an out of control and politically partizan Justice Department. Former President Obama should be brought before Congress and it should be demanded of him just how and why he oversaw this group of criminals prior to the election and force any and all information from that man that he has on those that continued the illegal activities after the election.
Also, if the complicit members of the press continue to inaccurately portray what really occurred vis a vis the entire “Russiagate” fiasco then the FCC should take immediate action and look into whether or not these corporate “news” outlets should be allowed to keep their broadcast licenses.
It has been too long, the truth about our President has been made clear, he is guilty of nothing and each and every one of the Democrats with knowledge of the lies that made up the entirety of the Mueller probe should be at the very least censured on the floor of the Senate or House of Representatives……the Democrats are the ones guilty of colluding with traitors.
Thank God for Atty Gen Barr & David Nunes who will finally reveal the crimes the Democrats committed on Pres Trump, his whole family & totally innocent men in his campaign!
Let’s start seeing some prisons filled with swamp people!
I hope these DemocRATs are scared poopless. I wonder how many will have the backbone to admit they were “misled.”
Wake up America
Destruction is knocking at our door
Wake up America
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Wake up America
Destruction is knocking
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How do we demand a honest investigation in this high crime and bring those responsible to be held accountable? I want to see the Obama Administration made to answer questioning concerning this criminal behavior!
A typo Should read “You can’t believe any of them”
The FBI and all US intelligence agencies that participated in what should be a scandal should be tried for treason. The way I was raised tells me all that remained in their job are also complicit. The talk that “99% of FBI agents are honest is pure B.S. What they are are cowards for not coming forward to tell the American people how disgusted and embarrassed they are. Remaining in an organization that has 0% credibility is a poor excuse for anyone that says they will protect & serve. There is nothing this organization can do to earn back my trust.
So here’s what happened…. The Socialist Left knew they broke the law and when Trump won they knew they were in big trouble because the truth would eventually come out. So they concocted a brilliant plan. Yell “Collusion!!! Impeach Trump!!! Investigate!!!” knowing there would be no evidence. Then when the real crimes are brought to the light of day and the Democrats are investigated and charged with crimes, the Left will claim it’s all tit for tat and everyone will say “The Democrats accuse the Republicans then the Republicans accuse the Democrats. It’s all just politics. You can believe any of them.” And then go back to watching the ball game until the Republic is lost. At the close of the Constitutional Convention when Ben Franklin was asked what kind of government we were getting, the wise old sage replied “A Republic, if you can keep it!” The big question today is “Can we?” Or bettered yet “Will we?”
Those who have betrayed the foundations upon which this country was founded should be brought to justice. If we are to remain one nation under God we need to turn to him with the realization that ultimately there will be justice for Everyone who has done wrong. In the meantime I am praying that William bar and those with whom he is working will work with integrity and accuracy that will truly set our country on a good course again.
What? Now democrats are insulted that they may be investigated? May be accused of spying! GIVE US A BREAK! The trail of evidence always lead to the democrat party! The Trump/Russia collusion investigation was nothing but an attempted coup and a massive detour! Technically, it shouldn’t be called an investigation – it didn’t follow any of the evidence. It was nothing but an unconstitutional witch hunt!
This is the kind of stuff that happens in banana republics. If you let enough illegals in from these countries you start to act like them.
We all know that Hillary Clinton was the one that started the whole thing because she can’t accept defeat! She & her back door cronies are still at it! The Democrats party is really upset now because AJ Barr is now investigating the whole affair & some more heads are going to roll!
We have all known that the Mueller investigation was nothing more than the Deep State’s attempt to tie President Trump’s hands and limit his control of his own Justice Department for the past two years. Thanks to AG Barr, the Mueller investigation is over, and the gloves are now off. President Trump can now clean house in the Justice Department.
What angers me is when Baker gave that testimony. Why wasn’t criminal referrals made right away? But I know the answer. There was no one at the DOJ that could be trusted with this information. Our government needs to be exposed wide open.
The demon-rats truly and literally ARE traitors! Always remember that the Democrat Secretary of State Dean Rusk back in the early 1990s admitted to sending the North Vietnamese communists American military plans during the Vietnam War. Thus, he literally committed treason and stabbed three million Vietnam Veterans and hundreds of American pilots in the back. His actions caused our pilots to be shot down, captured, imprisoned, and tortured by the communist North Vietnamese. The demon-rat Congress also committed treason in 1973 when they sold out and handed the South Vietnamese people AND America over to the North Vietnamese communists.
I have waited and waited and waited for over 50 years and hoped to see these demon-rat traitors arrested, indicted, found guilty, and shot for treason. Instead, I continue to wait and wait and wait and continue to watch the demon-rats (AND the RINOs) destroy, destroy, destroy everything we hold dear in America.
NOW the demon-rats are not only committing treason, they are now supporting infanticide – the cold-blooded murder of new born babies. I wonder how the demon-rats will like their future dwelling place – the deepest pit of hell. Maybe they can find a nice air conditioner to help with the intense heat. But, for those demon-rat traitors, as far as I am concerned, just turn up the heat.
These are dangerous times. All that were involved in the coup should be delt with quickly.
Mr. Barr needs to investigate this to the greatest extent possible, and ensure that those who are responsible, up to and including Obama, who was almost certainly behind it, are punished to the full extent of the law. And anyone found guilty of treason should get what they deserve, which is a firing squad.
It is amazing to watch President Trump standing tall against all the opposition. I think that President Trump is president because it is the will of God. I think God is giving our nation another small window of time time to repent of our sins and get right with him. We have become a very sinfull and perverse nation. You can see it on the news most nights. All the lying, cheating, stealing, coveting, adultery, fornication and murder. When President Trump is gone and if America doesn’t repent and turn back to God I believe the hammer is going to fall on us big time.
We need another Special Counsel to investigate and charge those involved. This is the deepest part of the swamp!
Grubby socialists need to be stopped. All they do is lie to get more power. This is America, Love it or get out.
Unfortunately, nothing will be done. The lib elites are above the law using the MSM and judges as a shield.
Whatever happened to TREASON charges?
What a waste of government resources. The folks accusing should have to pay $ back, as Jussie Smollet is being asked to.
I believe a lot of people are trying to ‘soft peddle’ the attempted coup d’état . This was a real and actual attempt to overthrow the newly elected federal government by “leaders” of the fbi, the democrats, and the mainstream media. Their attempt was so slick and with such great aplomb that hardly anyone noticed it was underway and they almost got with it. They used the color of law as cover for their conspiracy. I think Rosenstein and Mueller were the ‘slickest’ of the bunch with the possible exception of Steele. Just exactly who is Steele and where did he come from ??????? Were there international ‘players’ in the coup attempt ? How did the “leadership” of the fbi know Steele ? How did Fusion GPS know Steele ? Does Fusion GPS use their ‘opposition’ research to extort pols. This coup attempt has raised so very many questions in my mind. And I want the matter fully investigated. But who investigates the matter if the investigators themselves are in on the coup ? In the States where certain activities of the coup attempt occurred should be conducting their own investigations. So, are there any STATE investigations underway and why not ?
If ALL of these subversive scum are not punished, our federal govt. will be a hollow dysfunctional shell. It will be no better than any 3rd-world sham democracy that’s out there.
Obama and the “smoking gun” go hand in hand. Many of these people who went after the President were appointees of his. But I’m sure Obama has skillfully buried his involvement in all this so that he will come out of this somewhat unscathed. The media is the next big player along with all the billionaires (who made their money IN AMERICA but want to bring this country down) joining the plot and you have the perfect dirty trick played on our country.
I hope, under the rule of law, our once corrupted FBI and DOJ will clean house and hold those responsible for this attempted coup accountable. The reputations of the FBI and DOJ depend upon it. Both agencies need to make things right and show the world we ARE a nation of laws, justice, fairness, and equality for ALL !!!!
I hope Attorney General Barr takes the investigation all the way, regardless of who is involved, Go all the way!
I serious believe that these individuals who orchestrated this coup believe, in their twisted mind, that they did nothing wrong or broke any law. We know full well that this came from the top! The liberal leftist progressive socialist communist ideology indoctrinates it’s subjects to the fact, that the (State) or the government should be in control (power) of everything! They believe they, “ARE THE LAW”! So, they were following the dictates of their criminal corrupt ideology! We actually have a lot of individual dictators sitting in Congress! Our Constitution states that the power resides with the PEOPLE (CITIZENS). It is so despicable to see elected officials in authority acting like dictators instead of citizen representatives. No apparent objective willingness my certain individuals to seek the truth, apologize and obey the law! WE THE PEOPLE SHOULD BE UTTERLY APPALLED AT THIS AND CONTACT OUR REPRESENTATIVES!
It’s sad that our country is divided and the infinite hatred towards freedom and the President. I salute him for not caving to all the imaginary accusations. As many of you said let be justice for all. We are the USA. Amen
We are paying the Senate & Congress to fight our President- what have they accomplished since President Trump took office? Wasting tax payers money to attack & stop each & everything he try’s to accomplish.
Socialistcrats are the enemy of the American people.
Well they did the act of Treason and carried it out over two years. Now I want everyone of them no matter how little they were involve punished to the full extent of the Law all the way and that goes double for any congress or senate person, and I want it all in the next year and a half. We must not leave any of them