Declassified Russiagate Documents Reveal Ongoing Deceptions by the Feds Regarding Trump and Their Coup Efforts

The federal authorities are continuing to mislead and obscure facts regarding the Russiagate conspiracy against Donald Trump: A recent disclosure, long overdue and heavily censored, reveals a document related to the initiation of the FBI investigation.

This information only came to light due to the relentless dedication of the team at RealClearInvestigations.

The most significant detail still concealed by the Bureau is the “articulable factual basis” upon which its 2017 investigation into Trump’s alleged connections with Russian intelligence was founded.

It has been clear for years that there was no factual support for this investigation.

To understand why this is the critical issue and why the Bureau must fully disclose the truth, it’s essential to examine the entire troubling history…

In 2016, the Hillary Clinton campaign, eager to divert attention from her unlawful use of a private email server to improperly share classified information, enlisted former spy Christopher Steele to fabricate false claims that her electoral opponent, Donald Trump, was colluding with Russia.

Steele then commissioned an “assistant” to concoct some damaging information; these fabrications—compiled into the now-notorious Steele Dossier—were used to justify an investigation into Trump’s campaign.

Clinton evaded legal consequences for her email misconduct as FBI Director James Comey recommended against prosecution; meanwhile, Trump triumphed in the 2016 election amidst a haze of unfounded allegations, which a left-leaning media complex further exaggerated.

In November 2016, the FBI severed ties with Steele as a source; in January 2017, Steele’s principal fabricator, Igor Danchenko, informed the FBI that there was “zero” substantiation for the claims in the dossier and that the Russia-Trump narratives he relayed to Steele stemmed from “word of mouth and hearsay.”

In May 2017, after Trump dismissed Comey, just days later, the FBI reestablished communication with Steele—who was now known to be thoroughly discredited—and initiated a new investigation, the focus of the RCI’s Freedom of Information Act request.

This investigation was instigated by then-Acting Director Andrew McCabe with approval from FBI General Counsel Jim Baker and McCabe’s deputy, Bill Priestap.

Then came special counsel Robert Mueller, leading to two years of relentless media coverage and outcry from national Democrats and their supporters, marked by frenzied public reactions across the nation.

Mueller ultimately found… absolutely no evidence to support that Trump was ever a Russian asset in any capacity.

End of story.

You don’t need to be an expert to see the patterns in what the FBI is still obscuring and why.

While we won’t know the exact details until the Bureau comes clean, it’s extremely likely that the redacted “articulable factual basis” of the investigation from 2017 is devoid of actual facts or actionable items.

In other words, it likely comprises nothing more than a toxic mix of Steele Dossier nonsense and an FBI grudge regarding Comey.

Remember, the probe’s instigator, McCabe, publicly suggested this very notion during a 2019 CBS interview.

Additionally, probe co-signer Baker was instrumental in propagating the Dossier’s allegations (notably serving as deputy General Counsel at Twitter when the site suppressed accurate reporting on Hunter Biden, a blatant election interference incident).

The FBI’s failed coup—let’s call it what it truly was—against a sitting U.S. president represents one of the darkest chapters in the already tarnished history of the Bureau.

It is owed a complete and transparent reckoning to the American public.

That the leadership still feels entitled to mislead, obscure, and obstruct—proving beyond a doubt that President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to shake the Bureau to its core is more than warranted.