The FBI coup attempt against Trump
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As President Donald Trump navigates the heart of his second term, newly declassified memos from disgraced FBI official Andrew McCabe have exposed a sinister campaign by establishment insiders to derail his first administration. These documents, spanning January to May 2017, unveil a calculated effort to perpetuate the baseless Trump-Russia collusion narrative, targeting Trump and his allies with unrelenting hostility. Declassified through the persistent efforts of Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel, the memos lay bare a deep-state plot to undermine a president chosen by the American people.
The eight memos, largely concealed until this month, detail McCabe’s actions during a critical period—from just before the FBI’s ambush of Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn to the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel. McCabe, a close ally of fired FBI Director James Comey, collaborated with disgraced agent Peter Strzok and leaned on FBI lawyer Lisa Page as his confidante. Together, they drove the flawed Crossfire Hurricane investigation, built on the discredited Steele dossier, which McCabe and Comey championed despite its lack of verifiable evidence.
In December 2016, McCabe and Comey fought to include Christopher Steele’s dossier—a collection of unverified allegations against Trump—in the Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference. Blocked by the NSA and CIA, they relegated it to an annex. By early 2017, the FBI knew the dossier was baseless. A December 2016 FBI spreadsheet found no substantiated claims, and a January 2017 interview with Steele’s source, Igor Danchenko, dismantled the collusion narrative. Yet, McCabe’s memos show he pressed on, determined to keep the investigation alive.
McCabe’s first major move was targeting Flynn, Trump’s national security adviser. On January 24, 2017, McCabe called Flynn, setting up an FBI interview that day. “I told LTG Flynn that I had a sensitive matter to discuss,” McCabe wrote, noting that he and Comey wanted Flynn to detail his talks with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn, unaware he was under scrutiny, remarked, “you listen to everything they say,” acknowledging surveillance. McCabe urged Flynn to speak without a lawyer, framing it as a “quick and discrete” conversation.
Comey later boasted about exploiting the Trump administration’s early chaos. “I sent them,” he told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace in 2018, referring to agents Strzok and Joseph Pientka, who interviewed Flynn. “Something I probably wouldn’t have done or maybe gotten away with in … a more organized administration.” This brazen admission, met with audience laughter, reveals the audacity of the FBI’s tactics, orchestrated by McCabe and Comey to capitalize on Trump’s vulnerabilities.
The Flynn interview was a setup. Despite no evidence of wrongdoing, the FBI kept Flynn’s case open. Strzok, learning in January 2017 that it wasn’t closed, texted Page, calling it “serendipitously good” news, adding, “our utter incompetence actually helps us.” McCabe’s memos reveal he hid from Flynn that the interview was part of a broader probe targeting Trump’s campaign, a deception that paved the way for Flynn’s prosecution for allegedly lying about his Kislyak calls.
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I never believed the Russian collusion hoax, and I have my doubts about whether those pushing it ever did. It is not clear to me why so many officials in the FBI and DOJ were so opposed to Trump that they would take seriously the allegations against him. I thought they should have been smarter than that.
The media was also about 90 percent opposed to Trump. Despite that, Trump was a much more effective president than Joe Biden, whom they had helped get elected in 2020.
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