President Trump on Friday said that he wants Attorney General William Barr to specifically investigate the UK, Australia and Ukraine for their roles in the ‘greatest hoax in the history of our country.’
Speaking with reporters at the White House on Friday before his trip to Japan, Trump discussed his decision this week to issue a sweeping declassification order - leaving it in the hands of Barr to determine exactly what happened to Trump and his campaign before and after the 2016 US election.
“For over a year, people have asked me to declassify. What I’ve done is declassified everything,” said Trump, adding “He can look and I hope he looks at the UK and I hope he looks at Australia and I hope he looks at Ukraine.”
“It’s the greatest hoax probably in the history of our country and somebody has to get to the bottom of it. We’ll see. For a long period of time, they wanted me to declassify and I did.”
(UK, Australia, Ukraine comment at 2:30)
“This is about finding out what happened,” said Trump. “What happened and when did it happen, because this was an attempted takedown of the president of the United States, and we have to find out why.”
“We’re exposing everything. We’re being a word that you like, transparent. We’re being, ultimately we’re being transparent. That’s what it’s about. Again, this should never ever happen in our country again.”
After the Mueller report made clear that Trump and his campaign had in no way conspired with Russia during hte 2016 election, Democrats immediately pivoted to whether Trump obstructed the investigation. Trump and his supporters, however, immediately pivoted to the conduct of the US intelligence community, including the involvement of foreign actors and possibly their governments.
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According to a report last week, the discredited “Steele Dossier” - assembled by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele - was referred to as “crown material” in an email exchange suggesting that former FBI Director James Comey insisted that CIA Director John Brennan pushed for the inclusion of the dossier in the intelligence community assessment (ICA) on Russian interference.
Moreover, much of “Operation Crossfire Hurricane” - the FBI’s official investigation into the Trump campaign - occurred on UK soil, which is perhaps why the New York Times reported last September that the UK begged Trump not to declassify ‘Russiagate’ documents ‘without redaction.’
Shortly after he announced his involvement with the Trump campaign, aide George Papadopoulos was lured to London in March, 2016, where Maltese professor and self-described Clinton foundation member Joseph Mifsud fed him the rumor that Russia had damaging information on Hillary Clinton. It was later at a London bar that Papadopoulos would drunkenly pass the rumor to Australian diplomat Alexander Downer (who FBI agent Peter Strzok flew to London to meet with the day after Crossfire Hurricane was launched).
Two weeks later, Papadopoulos would be bilked for information by Australian diplomat (another Clinton ally) Alexander Downer at a London bar, who relayed the Russia rumor to Australian authorities, which alerted the FBI (as the story goes), which ‘officially’ kicked off the US intelligence investigation.
We have now pinned Peter Strzok’s boss, Bill Priestap, in London the week of May 6th, 2016 and on the 9th. The day before Alexander Downer was sent to spy on me and record our meeting. Congress must release the transcripts and embarrass the deep state.
— George Papadopoulos (@GeorgePapa19) April 20, 2019
As for Ukraine, a Ukrainian court ruled in December that the country meddled in the US election when they revealed details of suspected illegal payments to former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
In 2016, while Mr. Manafort was chairman of the Trump campaign, anti-corruption prosecutors in Ukraine disclosed that a pro-Russian political party had earmarked payments for Mr. Manafort from an illegal slush fund. Mr. Manafort resigned from the campaign a week later. -New York Times
Last week, President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani met with a former Ukrainian diplomat, Andril Telizhenko, who has previously suggested that the DNC worked with the Kiev government in 2016 to dig up ‘dirt’ on then-candidate Donald Trump. Giuliani told the Washington Post in a Friday interview that Telizhenko “was in Washington and he came up to New York, and we spent most of the afternoon together,” adding “When I have something to say, I’ll say it.”
This comes on the heels of Giuliani canceling a trip to Ukraine to meet with President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss the Manafort situation.
According to The Hill‘s John Solomon,
A former DNC operative steeped in Trump-Russia research approached the Ukrainian government looking for ‘dirt’ on then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 US election, citing written answers to questions submitted to Ambassador Valeriy Chaly’s office.
Chalupa, who told Politico in 2017 that she had “developed a network of sources in Kiev and Washington, including investigative journalists, government officials and private intelligence operatives,” said she “occasionally shared her findings with officials from the DNC and Clinton’s campaign.
In short, a DNC operative of Ukrainian heritage, who shared information with the Clinton campaign and worked with a convicted terrorist to spread misinformation to undermine the legitimacy of the 2016 election, approached the government of Ukraine in the hopes of obtaining “dirt” that would hurt the Trump campaign.
And Trump wants AG Barr to look at it all. He’ll be visiting the UK next month, meanwhile, where he can ask outgoing PM Theresa May, or the Queen, all about it.
via zerohedge
I believe the Brits still haven’t come to the realization they lost the Revolutionary war of 1776-1812 ! British , People who still believe they have a MONARCHY and QUEEN even though the Prime Minister is the true head of state .
I pray for the TRUTH TO COME OUT! This spying done by an opposition party (DNC) Vshould scare every American! This is worse than Watergate - today’s technology made it easier May the people responsible for this hoax be EXPOSED AND HELD ACCOUNTABLE!
Absolutely !!!!
This CONSPIRACY should end with many traitors being hung—truly the greatest plot foisted on Americans by a few SWAMP CREATURES.
LYING CHEATING SWAMP CREATURES BY DAY SLIMY BOTTOM FEEDING COCKROACHES BY NIGHT
Charles: Not really certain what your comment has to do with the article (above) other than you mentioning the word: Brits.
Plus, I am not certain how DEEPLY the “levels” of British Involvement goes - beyond the worthless, unreliable “source” that everyone “hung their hats on.”
What I A*M happy about, it that President Trump has decided to unleash Barr on ALL documents - pertaining to GB, Australua, and the Ukraine.
GO TRUMP ! ! !
So much for our few remaining allies.
They have greedy scummers and hacks just like we do. They’re all globalist swampers.
He’s ! GO TRUMP !!!
I’ve been saying for years…this stuff will make “watergate” look like an unpaid overtime parking ticket. Is it also a coincidence that the highest ranking FBI officials also acted illegally in both incidents? Here we have Comey, mc cabe, strzok, and others, along with top DOJ people criminally acting to depose a US President before he was even elected. With watergate, the ASSISTANT DIRECTOR of the FBI, mark felt, assumed the aptly named (for him) alias of “deep throat” , and commenced to illegally divulge confidential, or even classified information to media hacks who then started their 2 year crusade to dispose of Nixon. Scummer felt’s role wasn’t learned until after he died, having been shielded by the same scrotes that all of the sudden were given top ranked credentials as “reporters”. Their future “reporting was also rife with questionable “facts” and sources.
Is is sooo interesting that the Dems wanted the full Mueller report with no redactions, however, when it comes to declassifying “everything” they’re screaming bloody hell. A) Mr. Barr couldn’t release the report w/o some redactions because he would be breaking the law re: Grand Jury testimony. B) I believe releasing text messages, emails, and court subpoenaed documents will not contain Grand Jury testimony only communications between the treasonous dirt bags who perpetrated an attempted coup against a duly elected President. Every thing we can say about the Democratic party, the one thing that stand out above all is their hypocritical double standard!
This has nothing to do with the Brits losing the revolutionary war, or any other hidden angst against Americans or America itself, but everything to do with global politics, liberalist government and a one-world order. The USA shares an intelligence pact with 4 other countries, nicknamed the “5 Eyes”. We share intelligence collected from our agencies with each other as allies, as Israel did with us on terrorist methods involving laptops on airlines. It is illegal for US intel agencies, NSA, CIA, etc., to target, surveil or spy on US citizens, except for the FBI, which requires a warrant from a FISA judge. There is evidence that suggests that the Obama administration did an end-run around these laws by motivating intel services from our allies, members of the 5 Eyes, to spy on the Trump campaign and then share that information with the Obama NSA, CIA and ultimately the Obama administration and the DNC. The evidence suggests that a sitting President, a presidential candidate and a political party, not only weaponized US Government assets (intel agencies) against an opposing political candidate, but also “colluded” with foreign powers (5 Eyes) to influence an election. There is more evidence to support this than any evidence used to initiate the investigation into Trump/Russia collusion. The question is…what motivated our allied foreign intel agencies to get involved with this collusion. Was it politically motivated in support of liberal and Democrat agendas? Or did Obama and our intel agencies sell them on the Trump/Russia hoax and the importance of knowing the extent of Russia’s involvement. Were they voluntary participants in illegal activity, or were they duped like half of America was? This is the root of the investigation that Trump is suggesting to Barr.
The democrats love transparency as long as they get to define what it means.
Too bad we have an ignorant, self serving president. Hope that changes next year.
you want to hope that it doesn’t change next year or everything will be free for the non workers/illegals. Don’t think for one minute that you will be free from paying You will pay right along with the rest of us. Nothing is free. Someone has to pay for it Get you head out of you ass. You dimwit
Sounds like the British govt. has it’s own swamp. Interesting, the global network of swamp rats. This is bigger than just the U.S.
Amazing. Scary as hell, and totally amazing.
Terence, well said however I must point out that there were also many RINOs and maybe more so deep state actors involved. John McCain initiated the Steel dossier and the IRS targeting of Tea party groups and other patriots and Christians. The RINOs may be worse than the Demonrats if that is possible.
This is NOT the greatest hoax in history. The greatest Hoax is How in the world did Obama get away with being President for 8 years when his birth certificate is phony and his Social security ID is phony and he went to College on a foreign exchange student scholarship and he took his oath of office on the Quran BEFORE taking it on the Bible and the list goes on and on and that Hoax was played out on an entire nation.
Patriotic American hope and pray all the crooked politicians go to prison.
Go deeper…into the Queen’s Privy Council and Arvinder Saheim, find out the real reason the Royal family wants to stop Donald Trump that so motivated Christopher Steele. Remember Prince Andrew has flown to Orgy island with Epstein and Bill Clinton, Jimmy Savile has been outed as a close friend of the royals and was found to have raped and murdered more than 300 kids, prime minister Edwin Heath post-humously discovered to be a serial child rapist, and much more
I am proud to have such an individual Donald Trump to be our Commander-in-chief/our President. A man with the backbone to counteract the enemies of our union and those in the judiciary branches standing in the way of our safety and future. I feel that those opposers/obstructionist are actually insurrectionists and should be dealt with in the strongest manner.
Donald Trump is not to be made a mockery of; he is serious man that loves this country’s history. Is ready to sacrifice all he possess to reestablish the USA as a positive leader
in the affairs of the world. To restore our strength and prior position that the last four decades under horrible leadership, had given away.
I am proud to stand with such an individual, because as he I despise corruption and lies. Yes I also hold the feet of the corrupter to the fire.
And I believe that he has been a chosen vessel for our country in this age.
From the scriptures Proverbs 21:1-2
The heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water he turns their direction.
Every way of man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord ponders/examines/has acknowledge the heart of such an individual.
President Trump is an American patriot, a red-hearted American who believes that America could once again become a world leader, no longer a nation available for exploitation.