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Bull Durham, Master Of The Bleeding Obvious:
The Russia Hoax Really Was A Hoax

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Posted By: earlybird, 5/15/2023 11:13:45 PM

So that’s the big news after all these years—the Russia Hoax really was a hoax. As if anyone with an IQ above room temperature ever doubted it. Here’s Zerohedge’s summary of this not-so-stunning revelation: According to Just the News, the report concludes that the FBI had no verified intelligence or evidence when it opened up an investigation into Donald Trump and his campaign in the summer of 2016. Durham placed blame on the FBI and DOJ for failing to follow their own standards in a probe which should have never taken place - including the agency's surveillance of an American citizen without basis.

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Mark Wauck, lawyer, former FBI specisl sgrent. Wauck reported his suspicions about brother-in-law and fellow FBI agent Robert Hanssen to the FBI. Nothing was done about Hanssen for 10 years, during which time he did seriously damaging spying for Russia and the USSR. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/12/16/book-says-fbi-was-told-in-90-hanssen-might-be-spy/bf02236d-7b30-4763-b800-59d8adb5906e/

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Reply 1 - Posted by: mifla 5/16/2023 6:46:30 AM (No. 1470347)
So when does Hillary get arrested?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Judy W. 5/16/2023 6:48:15 AM (No. 1470350)
Wow, thanks, OP. I always read Mark Wauck and I was going to post this article, but I didn't know he was connected to Hanssen. I knew that someone had reported Hanssen but I didn't connect it, as I had never heard of Wauck until I started reading his Substack.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: RCFLyer98 5/16/2023 6:58:38 AM (No. 1470358)
Once again, we have been "Hoaxed". Always by the Democrats, nearly always by the Republican'ts, and again by Barr, and Durham. Millions of dollars spent, perhaps billions even . . . months and years of time gone by . . . for what? The obvious answers to obvious questions, the guilty line up from horizon to horizon, and no charges, no indictments, the guilty go scot free. We've been "hoaxed" again and again. We are so screwed.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Kitty Myers 5/16/2023 7:06:48 AM (No. 1470365)
For those who are wondering why the perpetrators of this BIG LIE have not, and will never be, arrested, read Sundance's post: "John Durham Releases 316 Page Report About FBI, DOJ, Intelligence Community and U.S. Govt Targeting Donald Trump" "The justice system in DC is designed to protect itself. Holding DC officials accountable for criminal conduct first requires the deconstruction of the silos that protect them. Deconstructing those silos requires strategy and legislative willpower…." https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/05/15/john-durham-releases-316-page-report-about-fbi-doj-intelligence-community-and-u-s-govt-targeting-donald-trump/
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Samsquanch 5/16/2023 7:09:12 AM (No. 1470366)
How much of our money did Mr Scowl waste on the obivious again?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Kitty Myers 5/16/2023 7:10:56 AM (No. 1470367)
#4 PS ... It was Sundance who was "perhaps the only person who tracked down and subsequently interviewed the investigators on the Durham team, and as a person who subsequently came away with a full understanding of how the silo operation inside this investigation was going to play out, I can reasonably assure you that notation and reference by team Durham is entirely directed to us."
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Reply 7 - Posted by: petrichor 5/16/2023 7:16:35 AM (No. 1470373)
Half of the Dems still think Trump is a Russian agent. So there's that.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: WimeTarmerFable 5/16/2023 7:16:38 AM (No. 1470374)
The only “hoax” here was the Sheeple believing the outrageous lie that there was Trump-Russia Collusion. Durham did one favor for us, Adam Schiff is now a certified lying weasel, and for that I am grateful, but the scorn, hatred, vile lies and political persecution of President Trump and all Patriots will continue unabated. The Deep State, Jihad Junta, Cabal, WEF/WHO/UN can now proceed with their vile “Great Reset” unabated by the truth. It is disgusting.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: NancyD 5/16/2023 7:18:52 AM (No. 1470377)
I read the article linked to this headline, the I will read the other article listed by the poster. First of all, this is Treason. The media, FBI members, deep state have all committed Treason and they should held liable. Nothing less should be accepted. Second, these idiots interfered with an election, Presidency and the reputation of the USA These criminals didn't want President Trump to work with Russia in a way that could benefit all, they wanted War. Anytime Trump spoke about Russia, the media would say that Trump was "colluding with Russia". They knew he wasn't, but they didn't care, they wanted WAR. Well they hogtied Trump for 4 years, turned the American People against him with lies and now they've got their War with Russia with the help of Biden. Now Billions of dollars are being laundered in Ukraine, Thousands of people are dead, lives destroyed. We've read articles about Ukraine officers buying fancy "stuff". We know what's going on. The mainstream media in this country needs to be dissolved.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Lazyman 5/16/2023 7:19:55 AM (No. 1470379)
Trump appears to have a civil case against Hillary. The government has done all the work and proving "intentional affliction of emotional distress," caused knowingly by her would seem easy along with exposing her deep state lackeys.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: NancyD 5/16/2023 7:29:24 AM (No. 1470385)
Read the Hanssen article. It seems our FBI is full of those who want to damage our Nation. Whether it be spies or citizens within the FBI. Something needs to be done. Maybe the FBI has run its course. Shut it down. If we as US Citizens Cannot Trust the Government, something needs to change. This is getting absurd.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Clinger 5/16/2023 8:04:06 AM (No. 1470406)
This "hoax" as people are prone to call in was in fact a component, an essential moving part, of a deep state treasonous coup. And a critical mass of the voting public will go on their merry way believing everything else the exact same people have told them to the point that they will still gladly shame you if you dare reflect on the 2020 election in the context of what has been proven about 2016.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Strike3 5/16/2023 8:10:30 AM (No. 1470414)
Government has always been corrupt and most people will just shake their heads and realize that life goes on. This time, however, we paid an excessively huge price, lost trillions of dollars, continue to be embarrassed in front of the entire world and suffer daily abuse at the hands of a barely breathing president and the perverted communist goons who continue to pull his strings. They will not get away with this one like it was some third world dictatorship shenanigans. Obama started this and he will be the first to answer for it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Hazymac 5/16/2023 8:46:58 AM (No. 1470443)
Powerful essay. Of course, we around here knew from the start that the Russia Russia Russia meme was pure, unadulterated bovine scatology. All the attacks on Trump were based on nothing factual, and yet those attacks were, and are, believed by the deliberately misinformed. How is that undone when the media is in the tank for the Left? I like the fact that Durham's overdue report absolutely tags Adam Schiff as a shameless liar; Schiff should but won't disappear. The lies they promulgated propelled them back to political power in the Executive Branch, which they exercise illegally and unworthily. I think President Trump should sue the (two expletives) out of Hillary and the DNC. I mean sue them until there's not enough left of them to fill a matchbox. This is an open and shut case.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: bad-hair 5/16/2023 9:04:35 AM (No. 1470458)
FTA ... So that’s the big news after all these years—the Russia Hoax really was a hoax. As if anyone with an IQ above room temperature ever doubted it. Three years and how many tens of MILLIONS of dollars. The DC lawyer brigade lives well.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: joew9 5/16/2023 4:18:19 PM (No. 1470801)
The thing is, that this was a hoax was obvious from the beginning. It was obvious that Hunter's laptop was real. It's also obvious to me that the DNC didn't get hacked by Russians but rather the emails were revealed by Bernie Sanders supporters working at the DNC. It's also obvious to me that the Clinton Foundation was only a way to launder money.
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