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New documents reveal Hillary Clinton’s direct approval of a plan to tie Donald Trump to Russian hackers, launched days before the FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane.
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Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Thursday released a newly declassified appendix to Special Counsel John Durham’s report, exposing what he described as a “Clinton campaign plan to falsely tie President Donald Trump to Russia” ahead of the 2016 election.
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The annex, reportedly found by FBI Director Kash Patel in a discarded “burn bag,” contains internal communications suggesting that then-candidate Hillary Clinton authorized a campaign initiative to link Trump with Russian election interference. The move coincided with growing public scrutiny over her use of a private email server.
According to the declassified material, on July 27, 2016, Leonard Benardo—a senior official at George Soros’ Open Society Foundations—emailed Clinton campaign advisor Julie Smith outlining a strategy. “HRC [Hillary Clinton] approved Julie’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering US 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 US domestic issue,” Benardo wrote.
The email further referenced plans to use private security firms Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect to help build the narrative: “In absence of direct evidence, Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect will supply the media, and GRU [Russian intelligence officers] will hopefully carry on to give more facts.”
Two days earlier, on July 25, Benardo had emailed again confirming the FBI’s participation in shaping public perception. “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,” he wrote.
On July 31, 2016, FBI counter-intelligence agent Peter Strzok initiated the Crossfire Hurricane investigation targeting Trump’s campaign. The probe was opened based on a third-hand claim that the Russian government was seeking to engage with Trump associates to prepare for potential post-election diplomacy.
The “electronic communication” (EC) that authorized the launch of the investigation was authored by Strzok and later obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. According to the EC, there was no verified intelligence supporting the claims used to initiate the investigation.
Durham’s final report, released in 2023, concluded that the FBI lacked any verified evidence when Crossfire Hurricane was opened.
Investigative journalist Paul Sperry reported last week that Clinton’s campaign aides were in direct communication with the Obama administration as the plan unfolded. “I’m told there are texts/emails indicating Hillary Clinton campaign aides directly coordinated with the Obama White House, NSC, State Dept and Intelligence Community officials in efforts to dig up dirt tying Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin in July 2016 …developing…,” Sperry wrote on X.
The Clinton campaign allegedly relied on unverified intelligence and foreign operatives to fabricate connections between Trump and the Kremlin. These efforts included the promotion of the now-debunked Steele dossier and collaboration with figures linked to Russian sources.
