The Public is Finally Learning How Democrats Pulled Off the Greatest Political Trick in History

Aug 01, 2025

Below is my column on Fox.com on the release of the last declassified material on the origins of the Russian collusion investigation.

After the release, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote in the New York Times to deny the allegations and insisted that they never relied on the Steele dossier.

The column only reaffirmed the level of dishonesty and duplicity that marked their tenures in office (The Times still printed this claim despite being demonstrably untrue).

The documents quote Brennan in overruling career analysts and intervening to include the dossier in the intelligence assessment.

Moreover, the columns echo the media spin that the investigation was about an attempted Russian interference while dismissing the collusion claim that consumed much of the first term (Even after leaving office, Brennan continued to push the false collusion claim).

Both countries routinely hacked each other’s emails - that is why we have the most recent incriminating evidence on the Clinton campaign’s funding and spreading the false collusion claims.

We hacked their emails.

We have also regularly tried to influence the elections of other nations.

The key to the dossier and the Russian investigation was the allegation of collusion and the central role of the Clinton campaign in creating the narrative that Trump was a Russian asset.

Here is the column:

This week, Washington was rocked by new releases in the declassification of material related to the origins of the Russian investigation.

The material shows further evidence of a secret plan by the Clinton campaign to use the FBI and media to spread a false claim that Donald Trump was a Russian asset.

With this material, the public is finally seeing how officials and reporters set into motion what may be the greatest hoax ever perpetrated in American politics.

There never was a Russian collusion conspiracy.

This is the emerging story of the real Russian conspiracy to manufacture a false narrative that succeeded in devouring much of the first term of the Trump Administration.

What is emerging in these documents is a political illusion carefully constructed by government officials and a willing media.

The brilliance of the trick was getting reporters to buy into the illusion; to own it like members of an audience called to the stage by an illusionist.

The effort closely followed the three steps of the classic magic trick: The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige.

The Pledge

The trick began with the pledge, the stage where the public is set up by showing ordinary events with the suggestion that it is about to transform into something extraordinary.

The key is to make something seem real that is actually not.

The Clinton campaign delivered the pledge by secretly funding the Steele dossier, …

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