Durham Annex Exposes Clinton-Soros Plot to Orchestrate Trump-Russia Hoax

The Durham annex is out, and it is explosive. The declassified intelligence is said to include intercepted communications from a George Soros ally that show Hillary Clinton approved of a plot pushing a “long-term affair to demonize” Trump by linking him to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and her campaign fully expected that “the FBI will put more oil into the fire.”

Unsurprisingly, all of this has a Soros connection

Leonard Benardo, a top official at George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, was evidently in deep with Clinton Foreign Policy adviser Julianne Smith. Intercepted communication between the two exposed intelligence received in July 2016, right before the Crossfire Hurricane investigation was launched.

The 306-page 2023 report from Special Counsel John Durham was formerly classified and is now pretty much unredacted. It is damning, according to Just the News.

According to the annex, Russian government actors in 2016 hacked emails from the Open Society Foundations, formerly known as the Soros Foundation.

“Two of the apparently hacked emails appear to have originated from the Open Society Foundations,” the appendix shows, noting that the author of these emails was Leonard Benardo, who was the regional director for Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations.

Evidence shows that Democrats carried out a plan

Blaze Media reported:

According to the Durham annex, the Obama administration received intelligence from a source via two separate memos — one in January 2016 and the other in March 2016 — describing confidential conversations between then-Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and two individuals at George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, Leonard Benardo and Jeffrey Goldstein.

Both memos referred to former President Barack Obama’s intention and alleged efforts to torpedo the FBI’s probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server and mishandling of highly classified information while Secretary of State.

The March memo revealed, however, that Democrats weren’t just circling the wagons but going on offense, noting that the Democratic Party’s “opposition is focused on discrediting Trump through debates and propaganda activities” and that “the Clinton staff, with support from special services, is preparing scandalous revelations of business relations between Trump and the ‘Russian Mafia.’”

The annex indicated that FBI analysts suspected that “special services” was a reference “to the FBI and the CIA or more broadly to the intelligence and law enforcement communities” and/or to “Trump dossier author Christopher Steele.”

The annex notes, “During the first stage of the campaign, due to lack of direct evidence, it was decided to disseminate the necessary information through the FBI-affiliated…technical structures… in particular, the Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect companies, from where the information would then be disseminated through leading U.S. publications. The media analysis on the DNC hacking appears solid…. Julie says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump. Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later, the FBI will put more oil into the fire.”

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Hillary Clinton was behind all of it with her Democratic cronies

It also alludes to approval by Hillary Clinton herself, “HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton] approved Julia’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections. That should distract people from her own missing emails, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level.”

“The point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue. Say something like a critical infrastructure threat for the election to feel menace since both POTUS [Obama] and VPOTUS [Biden] have acknowledged the fact IC [intelligence community] would speed up searching for evidence that is regrettably still unavailable,” an email from Benardo proposed. “In absence of direct evidence, Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect will supply the media, and GRU [Russia’s Main Intelligence Directive] will hopefully carry on to give more facts.”

Durham believed there was more than enough evidence to show that all of this was legit and that Clinton’s campaign was pushing the plot. For some reason, in the end, he backed off and fizzled out.

“The office’s review of certain communications involving Smith provided possible additional support … to the notion that the Clinton campaign was engaged in an effort or plan in late July 2016 to encourage scrutiny of Trump’s purported ties to Russia, and that the [Clinton] campaign might have wanted or expected the FBI or other agencies to aid that effort (‘put more oil into the fire’) by commencing a formal investigation of the DNC hack,” Durham’s classified annex added.

The annex went on to assert that “it is a logical deduction [REDACTED] [Julianne] Smith was, at minimum, playing a role in the Clinton campaign’s efforts to tie Trump to Russia” and that the communications reviewed by the special counsel “certainly lends at least some credence that such a plan existed.”

“The Office’s best assessment is that the … emails that purport to be from Benardo were ultimately a composite of several emails that were obtained through Russian intelligence hacking of the U.S.-based Think Tanks, including the Open Society Foundations, the Carnegie Endowment, and others,” the Durham annex notes.

A match made in political hell

From Just the News:

Benardo is the senior vice president of Soros’s Open Society Foundations, founded by leftwing billionaire George Soros and now currently chaired by his son Alex Soros. Benardo did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent to him by Just the News through the Open Society Foundations media relations email address.

Smith was the head of the Clinton campaign’s Europe team and worked as a foreign policy advisor for the failed 2016 bid. Smith had been acting national security advisor and deputy national security advisor to then-Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama administration. She served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO during the Biden administration, and also served as a senior adviser to then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken. She is also a close ally of Biden Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and is currently serving as the president of the newly-formed Clarion Strategies, which she recently co-founded with Austin. 

One of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history

According to Fox News, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and a lead Russiagate investigator, Chuck Grassley, claims the plot is “one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history.” The intelligence predicted the FBI’s next moves “with alarming specificity.”

Grassley stated, “Based on the Durham annex, the Obama FBI failed to adequately review and investigate intelligence reports showing the Clinton campaign may have been ginning up the fake Trump-Russia narrative for Clinton’s political gain, which was ultimately done through the Steele Dossier and other means. These intelligence reports and related records, whether true or false, were buried for years. History will show that the Obama and Biden administrations’ law enforcement and intelligence agencies were weaponized against President Trump.”

“This political weaponization has caused critical damage to our institutions and is one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history,” he added. “The new Trump administration has a tremendous responsibility to the American people to fix the damage done and do so with maximum speed and transparency.”

Democrats, thick as thieves

From the Daily Wire:

In 2020, when he served as director of national intelligence, now-CIA Director John Ratcliffe unveiled documents that showed federal officials referred Clinton to the FBI for investigation after obtaining “insight” into a Russian intelligence analysis that alleged she approved a campaign plan to link Trump to Russia’s hacking operations to distract from the controversy over her unauthorized use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state.

The annex in Durham’s report says FBI personnel, including then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, shared the intelligence regarding the potential Clinton campaign plan with high-ranking career officials at Department of Justice on March 31, 2016, and affirms that “multiple high-ranking” U.S. officials were apprised of the situation, including an August 3, 2016, briefing in the White House by CIA Director John Brennan to President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director Comey, among others. It says notes from Brennan show the CIA sent an investigative referral to the FBI in September of 2016 that included the “purported Clinton campaign plan.”

Working together, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Attorney General Pam Bondi declassified the information.

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