The Hillary Clinton hoax machine

 Mark Wauck:

People are starting to come to grips with the importance of Hillary campaign manager Robbie Mook’s fingering of Hillary—that she was the one who authorized the Alfa Bank Hoax. There’s a lot to be said, and some people are already saying it. One is Jonathan Turley, and another is Devin Nunes. Nunes gave a very lucid interview to Fox News that happens to work very well with Turley’s equally lucid article at The Hill. If you read Turley first, then listen to Nunes’ explanation of the significance of it all, you’ll get a very good overview of why this revelation will end up being very important—whether or not Sussmann is convicted. Unfortunately, the Fox interview is on Rumble, which I can’t embed here. When the time comes I’ll link to CTH.

To start with Turley, here’s his Twitter thread which promotes the article. Turley begins by noting what has also struck others—the fact that Mook gave Hillary up, almost in passing. As he says in the article, “It was Washington’s worst-kept but least-acknowledged secret,” and it came out in spite of a series of somewhat questionable rulings by Judge Cooper that seemed to be tying Durham’s hands :

Clinton has long held a Voldemort-like status as “She who must not be named” in scandals. Yet, her former aide Robby Mook told a jury that Clinton personally approved a plan to spread the Alfa bank claims.

How the Sussmann trial revealed Hillary Clinton’s role in the Alfa Bank scandalClinton has long held a Voldemort-like status as “She who must not be named” in scandals.https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3496659-how-the-sussmann-trial-revealed-hillary-clintons-role-in-the-alfa-bank-scandal/

...Mook violated the unspoken Democratic rule for scandals in Washington: thou shalt not mention the Clintons. Ironically, it was Sussmann (and his lawyers) who ended up outing Clinton.

...Months after approving the Alpha Bank strategy, Clinton called in December 2016 to censor opponents whom she accused of spreading falsehoods to try to influence elections. She declared that “it’s now clear that so-called ‘fake news’ can have real-world consequences.”

...Of course, Sussmann could still face the real consequence of conviction given the strength of the evidence against him. Yet, there will likely not be consequences — let alone a “reckoning” — for Hillary Clinton.

In the article Turley provides additional detail and analysis, but perhaps his most important contribution has to do with the way that these revelations reveal a Clinton tactic that was repeated in other contexts—leaking hoax stories to the press, then amplifying the press reporting as confirmation of the hoaxes. Devin Nunes notes the irony in the fact that the same press is sitting in at the trial—this modus operandi is certainly not news to them! But, here’s Turley on that aspect:

There is a strikingly familiar pattern in both the Steele dossier — which became the basis for the Russia collusion investigation — and the Alfa Bank tale. Campaign associates developed both claims while actively seeking to conceal their connections from the public and the government, including reportedly denying the funding of the Steele dossier and concealing that funding as legal costs.

The campaign then pushed these unfounded claims to the media and the FBI. Indeed, prosecutors this week contended that Sussmann continued to push the Alfa Bank claims [this time to the CIA] after Trump was elected, in an apparent effort to fuel the Russia collusion claims being breathlessly reported in the media at the time.

When Clinton allegedly approved this effort, at least some people connected to her campaign were aware that the Alfa Bank theory was never viewed as credible by researchers tasked with supporting it. ...

Despite a record of Clinton associates pushing unfounded allegations to the FBI on both the Steele dossier and Alfa Bank, Mook and another witness, Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias, insisted they preferred to use the media for such efforts. The campaign found a conduit in one liberal magazine, for example, whose story was then cited as a “bombshell” report, as if the campaign had had nothing to do with it.

For her part, Clinton not only approved using the Alpha Bank claim but helped to portray it as an established fact, tweeting: “Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.”

That claim was then further amplified by one of her campaign advisers, Jake Sullivan, who now serves as President Biden’s national security adviser. Sullivan declared at the time: “This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow. Computer scientists have uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.” Sullivan added that he could “only assume federal authorities will now explore this direct connection between Trump and Russia as part of their existing probe into Russia’s meddling in our elections.” 

Gotta luv that “could be”. But he knew it wasn’t.

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There is more including links.  This was a massive fraud with many players knowingly pushing Hillary Clinton's lies.  More people than Sussmann should be held to account.