So after years of cable news hysteria, breathless headlines, and enough “anonymous sources” to fill a football stadium, it turns out the great Trump-Russia collusion scandal was exactly what many of us said from day one: a politically driven hoax built on zero hard evidence. Newly revealed transcripts from 2017 and 2018 show that top Obama-era intelligence officials—including James Clapper, Loretta Lynch, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power—testified under oath that they never saw any actual evidence of a conspiracy between President Trump and Russia during the 2016 election. Zero. Nada. Zip.
Let’s break this down. In 2017, during House Intelligence Committee depositions, Clapper admitted, “I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians.” But that didn’t stop him from going on CNN to push the opposite narrative night after night. Why let facts ruin a perfectly good smear campaign?
Loretta Lynch, the Obama Attorney General at the time, claimed she didn’t recall being briefed on any collusion evidence either. And Susan Rice? She had “nothing smoking” and couldn’t recall any intelligence showing coordination or conspiracy. Samantha Power was even more blunt: “I am not in possession of anything.” Translation: They knew the collusion theory was baseless, but they ran with it anyway.
And here’s where it gets worse. On July 28, 2016, Clapper, Lynch, and Rice were all in the room with Barack Obama and Joe Biden when then-CIA Director John Brennan briefed them on a Hillary Clinton campaign proposal to vilify Donald Trump by fabricating a scandal linking him to Russian interference. Brennan’s own handwritten notes confirm it. This wasn’t some wild MAGA theory—these are the Obama administration’s own documents.
Soon after, Brennan passed that Clinton-backed intel to FBI Director James Comey and anti-Trump operative Peter Strzok. The result? “Crossfire Hurricane,” the official FBI investigation into Trump-Russia collusion, launched just three days later. The entire premise of the investigation was fueled by unverified political opposition research and a smear campaign cooked up by Clinton’s team—and every top Obama official involved knew there was no evidence to back it up.
Now we’re learning that Comey and Brennan are under criminal investigation by President Trump’s Justice Department. About time. For years, these same officials pushed a lie to delegitimize the 2016 election, cripple a sitting president, and justify a massive abuse of power. They weaponized intelligence agencies to serve a political agenda, and the American people deserve accountability.
No evidence. No collusion. Just a massive, coordinated lie—and they knew it.
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