DAVID MARCUS: The Russia hoax is simple. Democrats lied and half the country believed them

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DAVID MARCUS: The Russia hoax is simple. Democrats lied and half the country believed them
Documents show emails between campaign advisers and Open Society Foundation officials discussing strategy
 By David Marcus Fox News
Published August 1, 2025 12:35pm EDT

The United States of America has now spent almost a decade embroiled in "Russiagate," and its citizens have been bombarded from both sides with theories, names, and anonymous quotes. But it all really comes down to one thing: Democrats lied, and half the country believed them.

In the 24 pages of never-before-seen declassified files released Thursday, we saw in cold, calculated black and white exactly how the Clinton campaign crafted the lie that Donald Trump was colluding with Russia to influence the 2016 election.

One email allegedly shows Leonard Benardo, vice president of the George Soros backed Open Society Foundation, writing in July 2016 that, "Julie [sic] says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump," adding "Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire."

Julie is Julianne Smith, then a foreign policy adviser to the Hillary Clinton campaign. You know who the FBI is.

Just two days later, Bernado would allegedly send another email. "HRC approved Julia’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections," it read. "That should distract people from her own missing email, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level."

Benardo would also allegedly write, and this is key, "The point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue," adding, "In absence of direct evidence, Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect will supply the media…"

This all leads to a gem in the annex to John Durham's Russia hoax probe, released Thursday, which concluded, "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 ‘attic-based’ technical structures that are involved in cybersecurity…from where the information would then be disseminated through leading US publications."

The Clinton campaign knew all too well that their lackeys in the media would eat up this half-baked nonsense with a spoon, and probably win awards for it, which is exactly what happened.

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[The_Reader_David]

... But it all really comes down to one thing: Democrats lied, and half the country believed them....

No.  There really is more to it than that.  The leadership of the intelligence services participated in the lie.  The Democrats lying and half the country believing them would just be normal politics.  The intelligence services (FBI, CIA) getting in on the act on one side of the partisan divide and promulgating and amplifying a lie is actually a threat to democracy (used in its English denotation, rather than the way Democrats use it to mean "rule by Democrats"), and the constitutional order.

[DCPatriot]

No.  There really is more to it than that.  The leadership of the intelligence services participated in the lie.  The Democrats lying and half the country believing them would just be normal politics.  The intelligence services (FBI, CIA) getting in on the act on one side of the partisan divide and promulgating and amplifying a lie is actually a threat to democracy (used in its English denotation, rather than the way Democrats use it to mean "rule by Democrats"), and the constitutional order.

Still couldn't have happened without a complicit legacy media.

[Hoodat]

So why hasn't anyone been indicted yet?