More than seven years after losing to former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> is attacking fellow women for not supporting her failed campaign.
Clinton shared her latest gripe about the 2016 contest during an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/us/politics/hillary-clinton-abortion.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The New York Times as Trump runs another campaign for the White House this year.
Female voters were turned off because of how former FBI Director James Comey handled the investigation into her private email server, Clinton argued.
In the summer of 2016, Comey <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held a press conference in which he said</a> showed Clinton&#8217;s handling of classified information as secretary of state was &#8220;extremely careless.&#8221;
Comey did not recommend any charges, but Clinton has begrudged him for re-opening the probe right before the election before closing it again.
&#8220;Once he did that to me, the people, the voters who left me, were women,” Clinton said.
&#8220;They left me because they just couldn’t take a risk on me, because as a woman, I’m supposed to be perfect,&#8221; she added.
Survey results <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/08/09/an-examination-of-the-2016-electorate-based-on-validated-voters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> that most women voted for Clinton, though a majority of white female voters backed Trump.
Clinton would have been the first woman to be president if she had won the 2016 election, a benchmark she claimed made it harder to win.
&#8220;They were willing to take a risk on Trump — who had a long list of, let’s call them flaws, to illustrate his imperfection,&#8221; Clinton said.
She said this was &#8220;because he was a man, and they could envision a man as president and commander in chief.&#8221;
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The interview also touched on abortion rights after the conservative-majority Supreme Court, molded under Trump, overturned Roe v. Wade.
Clinton bemoaned how people &#8220;kind of rolled their eyes at me&#8221; when she warned of a high court that could &#8220;demolish pillars of the progressive movement.&#8221;
Trump &#8220;threw his lot in with the right on abortion and was richly rewarded,&#8221; she said.
Clinton has a long history of blaming others for her 2016 defeat. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/13-things-clinton-blames-her-loss-shes-not-one-robert-kraychik" target="_blank" rel="noopener">list also includes</a> Russia, the news media, and white people.
In a podcast released last month, Clinton <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-suggests-trump-wants-to-kill-his-opposition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> Trump wants to &#8220;kill his opposition&#8221; because of his purported affinity for &#8220;strongmen&#8221; leaders.

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‘I’m Supposed To Be Perfect’: Hillary Clinton Whines About Women Abandoning Her

'I’m Supposed To Be Perfect': Hillary Clinton Whines About Women Abandoning Her

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Donald Trump

Elections

James Comey

Politics

Women

Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign strategy in 2024 is really puzzling.
He has not been running to the middle. He has not been trying to unite the country. Biden&#8217;s campaign strategy is apparently now completely banking on people believing that Joe Biden is a sympathetic elderly man who genuinely cares about people.
It&#8217;s a weird strategy, but you have to understand why Joe Biden is employing it.
When it comes to presidential elections since 2008, there have been three types of elections.
One: Unity Elections. Elections where the referendum was about unity. Are we going to come together as a country? Who’s the kind of person who can unify us?
Two: Revolution Elections. Let’s overturn what has existed previously and completely revamp the system.
Three: Cares-About-Me Elections. Elections in which the level of how much compassion the candidate supposedly has for you decides the election.
2008 was a Unity Election. Barack Obama campaigned as, “I am the great unifier. I am not black, not white, no red America, blue America. There is just America.” That was a Unity Election. We would all come together. We would end our racial conflagrations by electing a half-black president who, in his very personage, embodied the American Dream.
Weirdly enough, 2020 was also a Unity Election. The 2020 election took place in the middle of massive riots and a huge controversy about COVID-19. So the question for the American people was, who can bring us together? Who can restore some sense of calm, tranquility, and social fabric? People opted for Joe Biden in that election, mainly because Donald Trump seemed to be incredibly volatile.
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So, 2008 and 2020 were about calmness and unity, although that&#8217;s not what emerged from them.
A Revolution Election occurred in 2016, when the American people were deeply unhappy with the way the country was going, and they wanted a revolution. That revolution was Donald Trump. 
Then, there is the Cares-About-Me Election, situations where the candidate who was perceived as most caring won. There have not been that many of these in American history, but it was the campaign Barack Obama ran in 2012.
The truth was that Obama did not care about people who opposed him. Those people, for him, were bad. But he believed he had a coalition of people who had great personal and emotional connection with him, and he would drive to victory on that basis.
Now, if you&#8217;re Joe Biden, what kind of election do you want 2024 to be? It&#8217;s very difficult for him to run on unity because he has not unified the country as president. Biden has been president for three years. Not only is the country not unified, but things are also far worse than when he took over. By virtually every metric, he can&#8217;t run a unity election.
He also can&#8217;t run a Revolution Election. He&#8217;s not Bernie Sanders. He was elected to be a moderate and, not only that, but how do you run a Revolution Election against yourself? Revolution Elections are typically won by the non-incumbent party because you have to be overturning something.
That leaves Biden with only one kind of election he can run: a Cares-About-Me Election.
This is evident in Joe Biden&#8217;s tactics over the last few weeks. Virtually everything he has done is geared toward this particular line: He cares about people like you.
To understand why this is a failing strategy for Biden, the nature of the past few American elections is critical to understand. The 2012 election is the election that Biden clearly wants to copy. Barack Obama, an incumbent president who won by a large number of votes in 2008, won reelection in 2012, despite losing five million votes in the popular vote from the previous election.
The question is about how Obama won. It wasn&#8217;t on the basis of his policy. His policies were incredibly unpopular at the time. It turns out that by all of the available exit polling, Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney in 2012 on one metric: Who cares more about people like you? <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/11/a-draw-on-the-economy-a-win-on-empathy-and-the-face-of-a-changing-nation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News exit polling</a> in 2012 showed Obama beat Romney by “a whopping 63 points” when it came to which candidate cared more about you.
Exit polling from <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/exit-polls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Washington Post</a> in 2016 showed the one factor where Donald Trump skunked Hillary Clinton in 2016: By 82-14, Trump demolished her on who could bring needed change. A Revolution Election.
In <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/national-results" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020</a>, Biden beat Trump 75-24 in who could unite the country and 68-26 on who had better judgment. Trump beat Biden 72-28 on who was a strong leader and 50-49 on “cares about people like me.”
That was a sea change for the Republican Party. Better than any Republican candidate in living memory, Trump has made a significant slice of the electorate — blue-collar, white Americans — believe that he cares about people like them. A huge percentage of the electorate believes the Democratic Party has abandoned them, and Trump makes them feel connected to him.
That is because he connects with them on an emotional level. When Trump is at events, he connects with people on a one-to-one level. He speaks the language they speak.
But in 2020, that wasn&#8217;t enough because there was so much chaos, and the American people believed the qualities of a uniter and of good judgment were more important than those of a strong leader and one who cared about people like them.
 But now, it’s 2024 and Biden has no choice — because the shift toward Trump has been so marked. 
When it comes to the candidate who “has good judgment,” Biden has failed signally. He has fallen off dramatically in those categories. An <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/643100/biden-bests-trump-likability-trump-seen-better-leader.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 2024 Gallup poll</a> asked who “displays good judgment in a crisis,” and Trump won 45-40. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/national-results" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN exit polling</a> in 2020 had Biden leading Trump 68-26 in the category of good judgment. That means there has been a massive 47-point swing toward Trump.
Biden has to rely on the Cares-About-Me Election because this time, the election can&#8217;t be a Revolution Election and it also can&#8217;t be a Unity Election.
The big problem for him is convincing people that an 80-year-old senile man who stumbles into walls, yells at people on a regular basis, and is crotchety and nasty to people around him, cares about people like them.
Does anyone look at Biden and think, “He cares about people like me”? His hand-holding routine — the sympathy limned as, “This is a man who knows what it&#8217;s like to suffer, and he&#8217;s suffered just like you suffered” — was much better 20 years ago. How many times can you drag out the Beau Biden story in the wrong context before you stop looking sympathetic and you start looking manipulative?
And how do you claim that you are the party of caring when the vast majority of Americans are not happy with the situation and your strategy is to appeal to your radical base?
Joe Biden is not capable of winning a Cares-About-Me Election.
When you read off a teleprompter, “I care about you,” it doesn&#8217;t work.

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Joe Biden Doesn’t Give A S*** About You

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Bette Midler raised eyebrows on Sunday when she asked people to imagine what would have happened if Hillary Clinton had claimed the 2016 election was stolen.
&#8220;Can you imagine what would have happened if Hillary Clinton had claimed the election was stolen?&#8221; Midler posted on X Sunday evening.
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Can you imagine what would have happened if Hillary Clinton had claimed the election was stolen?
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The remark, seemingly out of the blue from the legendary singer and actress whose career in Hollywood and on Broadway has spanned more than five decades, immediately attracted criticism as well as a fact-check.
Critics pointed out that Clinton is on the record questioning the results of the election she lost to former President Donald Trump.
“There was a widespread understanding that this election [in 2016] was not on the level,” Clinton <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hillary-clinton-maintains-2016-election-was-not-on-the-level-we-still-dont-know-what-really-happened/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hillary-clinton-maintains-2016-election-was-not-on-the-level-we-still-dont-know-what-really-happened/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1716310654531000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1TVL8Vaz1kYd5zc1vYUP3N">said</a> in October 2020 during an interview on The Atlantic’s politics podcast, The Ticket. “We still don’t know what really happened.”
“There’s just a lot that I think will be revealed. History will discover,” Clinton continued. “But you don’t win by 3 million votes and have all this other shenanigans and stuff going on and not come away with an idea like, ‘Whoa, something’s not right here.’ That was a deep sense of unease.”
Just two months earlier, in August 2020, Clinton said Joe Biden, then the Democratic presidential nominee, should not concede the upcoming 2020 election “under any circumstances” because she believed “this is going to drag out, and eventually I do believe he will win if we don’t give an inch, and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is.”
During the same interview, the former secretary of state also called Trump a &#8220;puppet of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin&#8221; and said he &#8220;did not have the temperament to be president.&#8221;
Social media users were quick to point out Clinton&#8217;s comments to Midler.
&#8220;She did for like years,&#8221; one X user <a href="https://x.com/Howlingmutant0/status/1792340530539770182" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitchy.com/amy/2024/05/19/bette-midler-asks-us-to-imagine-what-would-happen-if-hilary-clinton-had-claimed-election-was-stolen-n2396412&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1716310654531000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0XBfRrvy9BW85fS4SQvVqB">wrote</a>.
&#8220;She is still saying 2016 was stolen. Who you kidding?&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/RoshelArlena/status/1792324920900231335">posted</a> another.
One user <a href="https://x.com/ingelramdecoucy/status/1792334190991606038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1792334190991606038%7Ctwgr%5E39a0580ae1545f47c231d98b9aa786489e20414c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Famy%2F2024%2F05%2F19%2Fbette-midler-asks-us-to-imagine-what-would-happen-if-hilary-clinton-had-claimed-election-was-stolen-n2396412" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://x.com/ingelramdecoucy/status/1792334190991606038?ref_src%3Dtwsrc%255Etfw%257Ctwcamp%255Etweetembed%257Ctwterm%255E1792334190991606038%257Ctwgr%255E39a0580ae1545f47c231d98b9aa786489e20414c%257Ctwcon%255Es1_%26ref_url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftwitchy.com%252Famy%252F2024%252F05%252F19%252Fbette-midler-asks-us-to-imagine-what-would-happen-if-hilary-clinton-had-claimed-election-was-stolen-n2396412&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1716310654531000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1RaDhHBl_Rbu3s7zv1hViX">reminded</a> Midler that the actress herself had <a href="https://x.com/BetteMidler/status/1003663715240218625" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://x.com/BetteMidler/status/1003663715240218625&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1716310654531000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3XBOi4XAbTz9t7IlOoLQlo">questioned</a> the results of 2016.
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&#8220;Trump&#8217;s getting us all used to the idea that he can pardon himself for his part in Russian interference in the election. The colossal balls on this guy! How can he even walk without clanking?&#8221; Midler posted in 2018.
Trump has repeatedly claimed the 2020 election was &#8220;stolen&#8221; due to ballot fraud exacerbated by an increase in mail-in voting during the pandemic.
In recent months, however, Trump and Republicans have encouraged voters to take advantage of mail-in voting when necessary.
Last month, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112300168902589359" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112300168902589359&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1716310654531000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0ftF6pZibdV0EZCFFbAZ-7">told</a> supporters that “ABSENTEE VOTING, EARLY VOTING, AND ELECTION DAY VOTING ARE ALL GOOD OPTIONS.”
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Bette Midler Gets Fact-Checked After Asking, What If Hillary Clinton ‘Claimed The Election Was Stolen?’

Bette Midler Gets Fact-Checked After Asking, What If Hillary Clinton 'Claimed The Election Was Stolen'?

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A onetime lawyer for former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> testified on Monday that he secretly recorded Trump before the 2016 election while he was working for him.
Michael Cohen, who previously worked for Trump, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michael-cohen-testifies-he-secretly-recorded-trump-lead-up-2016-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during his testimony at the former president’s criminal trial in New York that he used his iPhone to record a conversation between himself and Trump in September of 2016. Cohen claimed that the conversation was in regards to a supposed payment to former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker over an alleged affair between Trump and model Karen McDougal. 
Cohen, whose credibility has been challenged by Trump and other Republicans, claimed he recorded the conversation to show that Trump was going to pay Pecker. 
&#8220;It was so I could show it to David Pecker and that way he would hear the conversation, that he would know that we’re going to be paid, Mr. Trump is going to be paying him back,&#8221; Cohen <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/michael-cohen-called-stand-trump-hush-money-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;I also wanted him to remain loyal to Mr. Trump.&#8221;
When asked if Trump was aware that he was being recorded, Cohen said he was not. In the <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/video/listen-michael-cohen-recording-of-trump-talking-karen-mcdougal-payment-210816069576" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recording</a>, Cohen says he will be setting up a company to transfer “all of that info regarding our friend David.” 
The recording came out as part of his testimony on Cohen’s claims about Trump’s alleged relationships with McDougal and Stormy Daniels. The supposed relationships with the women are the focal point of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg&#8217;s case against Trump. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the 34 counts of falsifying business records he faces and denied the relationships. 
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), who attended the trial on Monday, ripped into Cohen over the recording revelation. Also in attendance were Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), and Iowa AG Brenna Bird. 
&#8220;Michael Cohen is the prosecution&#8217;s star witness. This guy is a convicted felon who admitted in his testimony that he secretly recorded his former employer, that he only did it once, allegedly, and that this was supposed to help Donald Trump. Does any reasonable, sensible person believe anything that Michael Cohen says?&#8221; Vance said.
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Cohen previously pleaded guilty in 2018 to multiple crimes, including lying to Congress, and ended up serving time in prison. 
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Senator J.D. Vance: &quot;Michael Cohen is the prosecution&#39;s star witness. This guy is a convicted felon&#8230;every single person involved in this prosecution is practically a Democratic political operative&#8230;What&#39;s going on inside that courtroom is a threat to American democracy&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/h3R1xzb5JM">pic.twitter.com/h3R1xzb5JM</a>
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&#8220;The thing that the president is prevented from saying, which is a disgrace, is that every single person involved in this prosecution is practically a Democratic political operative,&#8221; Vance added. &#8220;What&#8217;s going on inside that courtroom is a threat to American democracy.&#8221;
House Republicans<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-turn-up-pressure-on-doj-to-address-criminal-referral-against-michael-cohen" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> have pushe</a>d the Justice Department to investigate Cohen after they sent a criminal referral saying that he likely committed perjury during his testimony before Congress in 2019.

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Ex-Lawyer For Former President Donald Trump Testifies That He Secretly Recorded Him Before 2016 Election

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Michael Cohen

New York

According to a new report from the Media Research Center, Google has allegedly been engaging in election interference for at least 16 years. The media watchdog group has been studying how Google’s search algorithms are used for censorship. Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham spoke with Morning Wire’s Georgia Howe about the allegations. Catch the full interview on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/texas-law-scotus-ruling-google-s-alleged-election-interference-3-20-24" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Morning Wire</a>.
Georgia: So Megan, if these claims are true, we’re talking about four presidential cycles and another four midterms, right?
Megan: Yes, that’s a lot of elections, Georgia. The report just released by <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/gabriela-pariseau/2024/03/18/41-times-google-has-interfered-us-elections-2008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MRC’s Free Speech America</a> arm says Google interfered in US elections 41 times since 2008. And when you take a look at Google’s donations to political parties in just the 2018 midterm elections, for example, you can see just how aligned the company is with one side of the political aisle. 96% of its employee’s political donations went to Democrats. So according to the MRC, the company, “utilized its power to help push to electoral victory the most liberal candidates … while targeting their opponents for censorship.”
In 2012, for instance, it allowed users to engage in a practice called a “Google Bomb” to target Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum. It’s kind of complicated, but it’s basically a way to smear a candidate. Google users manipulate the algorithms by associating his name with undesirable search terms on various web pages. So when you would search Santorum’s name, disparaging and even obscene results would come up.
When the practice impacted the White House’s webpage for Obama, Google fixed it. But, the platform refused to resolve the issue when Santorum’s team complained. In some instances, Google’s interference backed one Democrat over another, leaning towards the more progressive candidate, though interestingly, not in the case of Bernie Sanders vs Clinton. In 2008, Google suspended the accounts of some pro-Hillary Clinton blogs who were critical of Barack Obama. Several of those blogs were listed at justsaynodeal.com.
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Georgia: I’m guessing when it came time for the Clinton — Trump election, they leaned in favor of Clinton.
Megan: Definitely. Turns out the Alphabet company is also pretty good with numbers. According to data scientist and research psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein, who testified before Congress by the way, the impact of Google’s search algorithm was to “shift at least 2.6 million votes” to Clinton in 2016, though of course she still lost to Trump. But according to this it would have been by a wider margin without the Google effect.
What they are essentially alleging is Google manipulated search results to convince voters to pull the lever for Clinton. For example, everyone has used Google’s search bar before, and when you start to type in some text, Google begins to autofill suggestions. During the 2016 election, it would exclude potentially harmful autofill results for Hillary Clinton and would instead suggest things like “Hillary Clinton crime reform” or “Hillary Clinton India”. On the flip side, it would not filter results for Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders.
Google has repeatedly claimed these allegations are false. But when you to listen closely to this Project Veritas undercover recording from 2019 of Jen Gennai, the then Head of Responsible Innovation for Google, you hear a different story:
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#11 In 2019, Project Veritas released footage of Google executive, Jen Gennai, discussing “preventing the next Donald Trump situation.”
She remarked, “We’re also training our algorithms, like, if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different?” <a href="https://t.co/4SnvqnyIx3">pic.twitter.com/4SnvqnyIx3</a>
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Irish accent aside, she said, “We’re also training our algorithms if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different?” So suggesting they had already begun refining their results to alter election outcomes.
She went on to say: “Elizabeth Warren is saying that we should break up Google. And like, I love her, but she’s very misguided, like that will not make it better. It will make it worse, because now all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation. It’s like a small company cannot do that.”
So again, a top Google executive saying Congress should not interfere with Google’s almost total dominance of the search engine industry because only Google can prevent someone like Donald Trump from being elected.
Georgia: So what is Google saying about this?
Megan: They haven’t responded at all yet. But some well known names in the tech world are backing MRC’s findings though. Elon Musk, for instance, posted on his platform, X: ““Google interferes to help Democrats thousands of times every election season!” Musk wrote on X. “This is to be expected when their censorship (aka ‘Trust &amp; Safety’) teams have far Left political views.”
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This article understates the magnitude of the problem – Google interferes to help Democrats thousands of times every election season!
This is to be expected when their censorship (aka “Trust &amp; Safety”) teams are have far left political views. <a href="https://t.co/y36yzdzIUQ">https://t.co/y36yzdzIUQ</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1769771195035984073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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And of course Google’s new AI tool came under fire recently for producing extremely biased results.
It&#8217;s also worth noting that a few weeks ago, another media analysis company, AllSides, studied Google’s news aggregator and found that <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/business/google-news-bias-skewed-even-further-left-in-2023-63-from-liberal-media-sources-only-6-from-the-right-analysis/">63 percent</a> of the news it recommended came from Left-leaning outlets and only 6 percent from right leaning outlets. And only 16 percent from outlets rated “center.”
Georgia: One of my first “wakeup moments” that caused me to be interested in politics was in 2015 or 2016 when I noticed how positive the suggested searches were for Clinton compared to Trump. Thanks, Megan.
Megan: Any time.

Google

New Report Alleges Election Interference By Google Over A 16 Year Period

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The Central Intelligence Agency manipulated intelligence information to make it look like Russia wanted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> to win the 2016 presidential election despite having more credible information showing that Russia wanted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> to win, according to a new report. 
The effort to manipulate the information was headed up by John Brennan, Obama’s CIA director, who disregarded evidence that the Russians preferred Clinton because she was more predictable and highlighted questionable evidence claiming Russia favored Trump, <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/wmd-part-ii-cia-cooked-the-intelligence">sources</a> told independent journalists Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and Alex Gutentag. 
“They cooked the intelligence,” a source close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) investigation into the Trump-Russia scandal told the journalists. “They made it look like Putin supported Trump.” 
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The U.S. government said in January 2017 that Russia favored Trump as president. But now, sources reveal for the first time that the CIA &quot;cooked the intelligence&quot; to hide that Vladamir Putin wanted Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump, as president. <a href="https://t.co/WFJsW1erqb">pic.twitter.com/WFJsW1erqb</a>
&mdash; Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) <a href="https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1758216143867929022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The source said that the evidence pointed the other way, showing Russia wanted Clinton to win because “it was a relationship they were comfortable with.” According to the source, the CIA had evidence showing Russia viewed Trump as “unreliable,” “mercurial,” and “not steady,” while viewing Clinton as “manageable and reflecting continuity.”
HPSCI looked further into the sourcing of the claims from Brennan and the <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2017/3035-odni-statement-on-declassified-intelligence-community-assessment-of-russian-activities-and-intentions-in-recent-u-s-elections" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Intelligence Community Assessment</a> (ICA) that Russia wanted Trump and found contradictory information.
“We looked at the report and the sourcing they used to evaluate the sourcing,” a source said. “When we dug further to look at the data available to them that they didn’t use, and it overwhelmingly contradicted their conclusions that Russia supported Trump.”
According to a source, Brennan and other intelligence agents “embellished” their Trump-Russia report by changing the categorization of sources that said Russia wanted Trump from unreliable to reliable. 
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Shellenberger <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/02/15/shellenberger_brennan_oversaw_the_manipulation_of_allies_to_entrap_trump_aides_to_create_pretext_for_fbi_probe.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News host Jesse Watters on Thursday that there was a 50-page report exposing the operation that the CIA “is currently hiding at its headquarters.” According to Shellenberger, the controversy highlights two major intelligence scandals. 
“The first one happened earlier in 2016, where our sources, multiple sources, tell us that Brennan oversaw the manipulation of our foreign allies to basically entrap Trump associates to create the pretext for the FBI investigation of Trump&#8217;s alleged collusion with Russia which is now debunked,” he said.
“The second thing is almost a year later Brennan orchestrates a phony intelligence assessment that comes to the opposite conclusion of what their own raw intelligence, their best intelligence was showing,” he added. 
Trump was reportedly preparing to declassify information on the efforts to tie his campaign to Russia before leaving office but was unable to do so before President Joe Biden took office.

House Intelligence Cmte Holds Hearing On Russian Interference In U.S. Election

CIA Manipulated Evidence To Hide Evidence Russia Wanted Clinton To Win In 2016, Not Trump: Report

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Clinton</a> had a harsh — and definitely Not Suitable For Work (NSFW) — assessment of his wife&#8217;s failed 2016 presidential campaign, saying, according to a new book from author Ryan Grim, that her campaign &#8220;could not sell p***y on a troop train.&#8221;
According to Grim&#8217;s book, &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Squad-AOC-Hope-Political-Revolution/dp/1250869072?tag=nypost-20&amp;asc_refurl=https://nypost.com/2023/12/12/news/bill-clinton-hillarys-2016-campaign-could-not-sell-p-y-on-a-troop-train-book/&amp;asc_source=web" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" data-ga-event="{&quot;category&quot;:&quot;affiliate ecommerce click&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:&quot;amazon&quot;,&quot;label&quot;:&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Squad-AOC-Hope-Political-Revolution/dp/1250869072?tag=nypost-20&amp;asc_refurl=https://nypost.com/2023/12/12/news/bill-clinton-hillarys-2016-campaign-could-not-sell-p-y-on-a-troop-train-book/&amp;asc_source=web&quot;}" data-ga4-event="{&quot;event_name&quot;:&quot;ux_engagement&quot;,&quot;source_unit&quot;:&quot;amazon&quot;,&quot;source_position&quot;:77}">The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution</a>,&#8221; former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s mistake was in leaning too hard on identity politics — which he argued was an attempt to damage her main primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) by claiming that he was &#8220;sexist,&#8221; among other things.
&#8220;To the extent that the campaign tactic moved the needle at all, it likely pushed moderate voters paying only marginal attention to the campaign towards Sanders, who spoke like a normal person while Clinton began ascending into what her ally James Carville would later call, &#8216;faculty lounge speak,'&#8221; Grim wrote.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democratic-strategist-james-carville-wokeness-is-a-problem-for-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carville</a>, a longtime Democratic strategist, later raised his concern on that point several times, arguing that the average American voter was likely to be turned off by people using language that they didn&#8217;t understand.
&#8220;They come up with a word like &#8216;Latinx&#8217; that no one else uses. Or they use a phrase like &#8216;communities of color.&#8217; I don’t know anyone who speaks like that. I don’t know anyone who lives in a ‘community of color.’ I know lots of white and black and brown people and they all live in … neighborhoods,&#8221; Carville explained in 2021. &#8220;This is not how people talk. This is not how voters talk. And doing it anyway is a signal that you’re talking one language and the people you want to vote for you are speaking another language.&#8221;
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But Bill Clinton put his beef in much starker terms, according to Grim&#8217;s book.
&#8220;Former President Bill Clinton, surveying the landscape and the ham-handed efforts at identity politics was bereft, lamenting to a longtime friend in the fall of 2016 that Hillary’s campaign &#8216;could not sell p***y on a troop train,'&#8221; he wrote.

Clinton Global Initiative September 2023 Meeting – Day 1

Bill Clinton Delivers NSFW Assessment Of Hillary’s Failed Presidential Bid, Says New Book

Bill Clinton Delivers NSFW Assessment Of Hillary's Failed Presidential Bid, Says New Book

Bill Clinton

Identity Politics

A federal court on Monday halted the prison sentence for Douglas Mackey, who was convicted earlier this year of election interference for posting memes that <a href="https://www.memedefensefund.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mocked</a> Hillary Clinton voters to cast their ballot via text during the 2016 presidential election.
Mackey was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-supporter-douglass-mackey-sentenced-to-7-months-in-prison-over-voting-memes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> of a &#8220;scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote&#8221; after a Twitter account he ran under the handle &#8220;Ricky Vaughn&#8221; posted memes in the lead-up to the election. In October, Judge Ann M. Donnelly of Federal District Court in Brooklyn sentenced Mackey to 7 months in prison, a $15,000 fine, and two years probation.
However, Judge Omar Williams of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reportedly overruled the appellate court in granting a motion for bond pending appeal, according to Mackey.
&#8220;This ruling is huge because it means that the appeals court decided that my appeal presents &#8216;substantial&#8217; and &#8216;debatable&#8217; issues of law that, if resolved in my favor, will result in my conviction being vacated,&#8221; Mackey <a href="https://twitter.com/DougMackeyCase/status/1731775057184100848" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X. &#8220;The prosecution, on the other hand, argued that my appeal was frivolous and that this was a typical election crime case like any other in U.S. history. This is a very encouraging step towards vindication.&#8221;
Mackey was charged one week after President Joe Biden assumed office and roughly four years after the 2016 election. The Justice Department claimed that Mackey had conspired to &#8220;injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate&#8221; people from exercising their right to vote. Prosecutors said that he and others had &#8220;intended variously to provoke, mislead, and, in some cases, deceive voters in the 2016 presidential election&#8221; with their posts.
The Justice Department said that Mackey had worked with other influential Twitter users between September 2016 and November 2016 to &#8220;disseminate fraudulent messages&#8221; which persuaded voters for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to cast their ballots via phone or social media.
One image showed a black woman standing in front of an &#8220;African Americans for Hillary&#8221; sign and said, &#8220;Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,&#8221; and &#8220;Text &#8216;Hillary&#8217; to 59925.&#8221;
According to the government, some 4,900 people texted the number, but it&#8217;s unclear how many people, if anyone, fell for the meme and did not cast the vote they intended to cast; or were merely participating in the joke.
Hillary Clinton <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-prison-sentence-of-douglass-mackey-stayed-by-federal-court-pending-appeal?utm_campaign=64506" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> celebrated the arrest, saying Mackey&#8217;s meme went &#8220;from what you would consider free speech &#8230; to running a very deliberate effort to mislead people about where and how to vote. So it went from speech to action meant to subvert the election because thousands of people who they targeted through their algorithms, &#8216;oh I could text my vote for Hillary Clinton.'&#8221;
Mackey said if he loses the appeal in the Second Circuit, he intends to take his case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.

Douglass Mackey

Douglas Mackey’s Meme-Related Prison Sentence Halted By Federal Court

Douglas Mackey's Meme-Related Prison Sentence Halted By Federal Court

Memes

Former Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-students-pack-up-walk-out-in-the-middle-of-hillary-clintons-lecture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> said on Wednesday that a second term for former President Donald Trump — who bested her in 2016 to win his first — &#8220;would be the end of our country as we know it.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-says-maga-republicans-are-the-reason-summer-is-hot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clinton</a> made an appearance on ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View,&#8221; where she warned that it was possible for Trump to win again and then attempt to stay in power by suspending future elections, adding, &#8220;Hitler was duly elected.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheView?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheView</a> a win for former Pres. Trump in 2024 &quot;would be the end of our country as we know it.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA">https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA</a> <a href="https://t.co/bC9fhjl8js">pic.twitter.com/bC9fhjl8js</a>
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The conversation began with co-host Sunny Hostin, who asked Clinton to weigh in on what she thought would happen if Trump were to win the Republican nomination and then the presidency in 2024.
&#8220;I think that your loss of Trump in 2016 will go down in history as one of the most pivotal times in our country. One of the most pivotal moments in our country. And it’s still reeling from, you know, Trump’s policies, I think, and the deep divisions that he sowed in this country. So what in your view, would happen if he were to be reelected?&#8221; Hostin asked.
&#8220;Oh, I can’t even, I can’t even think that because I think it would be the end of our country as we know it. And I don’t say that lightly,&#8221; Clinton replied.
&#8220;You know, I hated losing, and I especially hated losing to him because I had seen so many warning signals during the campaign,&#8221; she continued, going on to claim that she had &#8220;immediately&#8221; called on people to give Trump &#8220;a chance&#8221; once the election came out in his favor.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/critics-drag-top-democrat-election-denier-for-giddy-reaction-to-trump-indictment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clinton</a>, who spent much of Trump&#8217;s first term claiming that he had &#8220;stolen&#8221; the election from her, went on to suggest that the former president would open a second term by suspending future elections.
&#8220;The wreckage is almost unimaginable. You know, when I was secretary of state, I used to talk about one and done. And what I meant by that is that people would get legitimately elected, and then they would try to do away with elections and do away with opposition and do away with a free press,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;And you could see it in countries where, well, Hitler was duly elected! (That’s right. Right.) And so all of a sudden, somebody with those tendencies, so dictatorial authoritarian tendencies would be like, &#8216;Oh, okay, we’re going to shut this down. We’re going to throw these people in jail.'&#8221;
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&#8220;They didn’t usually telegraph that. Trump is telling us what he intends to do!&#8221; she concluded. &#8220;Take him at his word. The man means to throw people in jail who disagree with him, shut down legitimate press outlets, do what he can to literally undermine the rule of law and our country&#8217;s values.&#8221;

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‘Hitler Was Duly Elected’: Hillary Clinton Frets The End Is Near If Trump Wins Again

Hillary Clinton Frets The End Is Near If Trump Wins Again

Joy Behar

Top Democrat election denier <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-says-maga-republicans-are-the-reason-summer-is-hot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> took some backlash after she appeared to be giddy over the most recent indictment thrown at her 2016 nemesis — former President Donald Trump.
The former Secretary of State — who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/finally-its-done-trump-wins-304-electoral-votes-hank-berrien" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost to Trump</a> in 2016 and has since told everyone who would listen that he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-suggests-she-ran-best-campaign-had-joseph-curl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stole that election</a> from her — was speaking with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow about the indictment out of Fulton County, Georgia, that alleged Trump and more than a dozen of his closest allies were &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-grand-jury-returns-10-indictments-in-georgia-election-case-against-trump-allies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-conspirators</a>&#8221; in a coordinated attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
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Maddow had intended to interview Clinton about an article she wrote for The Atlantic titled, &#8220;The Weaponization of Loneliness,&#8221; but instead they started off with a conversation — and laughter — about the slate of indictments in Georgia.
&#8220;It&#8217;s always good to talk to you,&#8221; Clinton said to Maddow, &#8220;But honestly I didn&#8217;t think it would be under these circumstances. Yet another set of indictments &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;If bad actors tell us falsely that every election is stolen and that the only way an election is trustworthy is that if they come out on top of it, it tells you something not just about that person but it wounds us as a democracy in a way that’s hard to repair,&#8221; Maddow went on to complain later in the segment — with no mention of how <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-hillary-clintons-new-excuse-why-she-lost-ryan-saavedra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clinton</a> herself had done exactly that.
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Rachel Maddow says to Hillary Clinton &quot;if bad actors tell us falsely that every election is stolen and that the only way an election is trustworthy is that if they come out on top of it, it tells you something not just about that person but it wounds us as a democracy in a way… <a href="https://t.co/QEt1yl9FhG">pic.twitter.com/QEt1yl9FhG</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1691267611395330048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Grabien founder Tom Elliott shared a super cut of Clinton essentially making the same claims that Trump is under fire for making:
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SUPERCUT! 
Indict <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a>! <a href="https://t.co/6K6nrYmJ0V">pic.twitter.com/6K6nrYmJ0V</a>
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&#8220;Indeed. Hillary claimed the 2000 and 2016 elections were stolen — and questioned the legitimacy of the 2004 elections,&#8221; David Harsanyi <a href="https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1691281745134391298" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
&#8220;Kind of awkward to tell Hillary to her face that she’s a bad actor who wounded our democracy,&#8221; Seth Dillon <a href="https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1691284021362245632" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
Sirius XM podcast host Megyn Kelly <a href="https://twitter.com/MegynKellyShow/status/1691808915640754254" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the entire exchange &#8220;a disgusting display by both women on the set.&#8221;
Fox Business anchor David Asman <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidAsmanfox/status/1691420622755123200" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a>, &#8220;Do we even need an explainer of why this is such a perfect combination of irony, hypocrisy, and projection?&#8221;
&#8220;The irony of watching Rachel Maddow and Hillary Clinton scold people for spreading conspiracy theories about stolen elections when they were the biggest Trump-Russian collusion hoaxers after the 2016 election,&#8221; Kevin Tober said.
https://twitter.com/KevinTober94/status/1691264994996895744
The @OccupyDemocrats account on X ignored the giggles and suggested Clinton&#8217;s reaction had been &#8220;classy&#8221; — and focused solely on the fact that she later called the indictment a &#8220;sad&#8221; reflection of where America was as a society. &#8220;Trump would never have such a classy reaction,&#8221; they <a href="https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1691603834559185233" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>.

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Critics Drag Top Democrat Election Denier For Giddy Reaction To Trump Indictment

Critics Drag Top Democrat Election Denier Hillary Clinton For Giddy Reaction To Trump Indictment

Media

MSNBC

Rachel Maddow

Members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a>&#8216;s Crossfire Hurricane team were not made aware of intelligence about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a>&#8216;s 2016 presidential campaign allegedly cooking up a plan to tie her rival <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> to Russia, according to Special Counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-durham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Durham</a>.
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) got Durham to establish how the intelligence was important enough to be discussed by CIA Director John Brennan during a White House briefing with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden (who is now president of the United States), Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and FBI Director James Comey in the summer of 2016.
That information came from a Russian intelligence report and was soon placed into a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CIA</a> referral memo addressed to Comey and Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, who was involved in opening the Crossfire Hurricane inquiry. Yet, as told by Durham, Crossfire Hurricane agents who had recently started investigating alleged links between Trump&#8217;s campaign and Russia never got the memo.
Durham said &#8220;no&#8221; when asked whether Comey shared the information with FBI agents on the case. He was then prompted to recount how a supervisory special agent who had been involved in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation became distraught when Durham&#8217;s team shared the intelligence with him during an interview.
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WATCH: Full exchange between Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jim_Jordan</a> and Special Counsel John Durham.
The hearing continues LIVE on C-SPAN3 and online here: <a href="https://t.co/To3Po9IsyS">https://t.co/To3Po9IsyS</a> <a href="https://t.co/plHwPbxONk">pic.twitter.com/plHwPbxONk</a>
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&#8220;We interviewed the first supervisor on the Crossfire investigation, the operational person,&#8221; Durham said. &#8220;We showed him the intelligence information. He indicated he had never seen it before. He immediately became emotional, and got up and left the room with his lawyer, spent some time in the hallway, and came back.&#8221;
He added later: &#8220;The information was kept from him.&#8221;
Durham&#8217;s <a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/durhamreport.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>, which the Department of Justice (DOJ) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/durham-report-makes-sobering-findings-about-fbis-handling-of-trump-russia-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> last month, indicated the &#8220;Clinton Plan intelligence&#8221; could have been helpful to agents involved in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. &#8220;Most&#8221; of the individuals shown parts of the information by Durham&#8217;s team advised they had never seen it before, the special counsel&#8217;s report said.
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The report specifically points to British ex-spy Christopher Steele&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/us/trump-russia-investigation-dossier.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now-discredited</a> anti-Trump dossier, stemming from research funded by Clinton&#8217;s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, that the FBI was <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-inspector-general-finds-17-significant-errors-or-omissions-in-carter-page-fisa-applications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> to have improperly used to secure FISA surveillance warrants against onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. It also references the unfounded secret <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/durham-finds-researcher-felt-threatened-by-schiff-staffer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backchannel</a> between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank that was <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/793250312119263233" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promoted</a> by Clinton and her team in the run-up to the 2016 election.
&#8220;Whether or not the Clinton Plan intelligence was based on reliable or unreliable information, or was ultimately true or false, it should have prompted FBI personnel to immediately undertake an analysis of the information and to act with far greater care and caution when receiving, analyzing, and relying upon materials of partisan origins, such as the Steele Reports and the Alfa Bank allegations,&#8221; Durham&#8217;s report said.
&#8220;The FBI also should have disseminated the Clinton Plan intelligence more widely among those responsible for the Crossfire Hurricane investigation so that they could effectively incorporate it into their analysis and decision-making, and their representations to the OI attorneys and, ultimately, the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court],&#8221; Durham&#8217;s report said.

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Seasoned prosecutor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-durham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Durham</a>&#8216;s restrained approach to investigating how top FBI brass may have cozied up to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a>&#8216;s 2016 campaign vexed members of his special counsel team, journalist Seymour Hersh reported on Thursday.
Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize winner who recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-cant-be-that-stupid-journalist-slams-nyt-for-claiming-u-s-officials-suggested-pro-ukraine-group-attacked-nord-steam-pipelines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faced controvers</a>y by alleging that the United States blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, <a href="https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/russiagates-missing-pieces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in his latest Substack article</a> how the &#8220;real story&#8221; of Russiagate involves FBI officials who &#8220;chose to look the other way&#8221; when the Clinton team cooked up ways to link then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia that culminated in British ex-spy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-offered-to-pay-steele-1m-for-anti-trump-evidence-paid-possible-russian-spy-despite-knowing-his-info-was-bad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Steele&#8217;s now-discredited dossier</a> and unfounded allegations of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/durham-finds-researcher-felt-threatened-by-schiff-staffer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an Alfa Bank backchannel</a>.
&#8220;It became evident to some members of Durham’s staff that the real story was not about whether or not Trump had pee parties in a Moscow hotel room — one of the headline-producing allegations in the Steele Dossier that consumed the Washington press corps in the aftermath of Trump’s victory in the 2016 election,&#8221; Hersh wrote. &#8220;The issue was whether the Clinton campaign, in its constant leaking of false accusations and false data, had crossed a line.&#8221;
&#8220;I was told that there was tension and frustration over Durham’s initial lack of interest, or reluctance, to go beyond his investigative mandate and look closely at the possibility that some senior FBI officials had openly joined ranks with the Clinton campaign, with its drumbeat of spurious allegations, because, in some cases, of a shared belief in the importance of a Clinton victory in the fall election,&#8221; Hersh said. &#8220;Another factor, I was told, was the possibility of promotions — even to high-level Justice Department offices — in a potential Clinton administration.&#8221;
There has already been some reporting on consternation within the Durham team&#8217;s ranks. Durham&#8217;s No. 2 prosecutor, Nora Dannehy, resigned in 2020 in what <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/politics/durham-trump-russia-barr.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times described</a> as a &#8220;culmination of a series of disputes between them over prosecutorial ethics.&#8221; The newspaper also reported that two other prosecutors objected to indicting former Clinton campaign Michael Sussmann, who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jury-clears-former-clinton-attorney-michael-sussmann-of-lying-to-fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acquitted last year</a> by a D.C. jury on a charge of lying to the FBI.
The full extent of what Durham ultimately discovered about &#8220;Clinton Plan intelligence&#8221; during his years-long inquiry remains shrouded, but the Department of Justice last month <a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/durhamreport.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released his 306-page report</a>. It made headlines for how it heavily criticized the FBI&#8217;s investigation into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
&#8220;Durham, to his credit, did follow the leads that came to his office, but he left them in secrecy—perhaps in the Classified Appendix or perhaps completely off the record,&#8221; Hersh wrote. &#8220;He was seen by some as being mandated only to investigate FBI management shortcomings and believed the public needed a full accounting of the FBI bungling.&#8221;
&#8220;It was not clear whether Durham, had he decided to expand the parameters of his inquiry to include the implications of the intelligence about the Clinton campaign, would have been allowed to do so,&#8221; Hersh said. &#8220;As Durham himself writes, &#8216;any attempted prosecution premised on the Clinton Plan intelligence would face what in all likelihood would be insurmountable classification issues given the highly sensitive nature of the information itself.'&#8221;
Durham is scheduled to testify about his investigation before two committees next month. The special counsel is set to speak with the House Intelligence Committee in a closed session on June 20 and appear before the House Judiciary Committee in a public setting on June 21, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/john-durham-testify-house-judiciary-committee-june" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The Washington Examiner</a>.

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