Trump did tend to exaggerate at times, but
it's mostly about topics that didn't matter. How big was the crowd at his 2016
inauguration? Who cares? But on the big things, on matters of civilizational
importance, Trump told the truth bluntly, often when nobody else would.
The Iraq War was a mistake, Trump said.
Illegal immigration is a disaster. China is taking over the world. Haiti is a
pretty crappy place. Deafening hysteria followed every one of these
demonstrably true statements.
At one point in early 2018, CNN and the
Washington Post got so worked up trying to hide the obvious that they devoted
blanket coverage to the claim that actually, Haiti is an awesome and fully
functional country, a perfect spot for your next family vacation and, by the
way, if you disagree with that, you're racist. That's what they told us.
Three years later, they have dropped the
POWs, at least in Haiti. Our leaders now consider Haiti so awful that just
being from there qualifies you for asylum in the United States. With Trump gone,
they can finally admit that. What was once a dangerous conspiracy theory is now
just a sensible observation, especially when it justifies more immigration.
For four years, no dangerous conspiracy
theory was considered more dangerous or more conspiratorial than the claim that
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign had spied on Donald Trump. The very
idea that Hillary Clinton, of all people, had spied on anyone was preposterous.
The media informed us only a lunatic would claim otherwise.
By making a charge like that, in fact,
Trump was emboldening our enemies and degrading the public's confidence in our
democratic system. So, it wasn't just a stupid opinion that Trump had, it was
really a form of treason and yet, as usual, Trump kept saying it.
He did it again in one of his last
sit-down interviews as president with Lesley Stahl of "60
Minutes."
PRESIDENT
DONALD TRUMP: The biggest scandal was when they spied on my campaign. They
spied on my campaign.
LESLEY
STAHL: There's no real evidence of that.
PRESIDENT
DONALD TRUMP: Of course, there is.
LESLEY
STAHL: No.
PRESIDENT
DONALD TRUMP: It's all over the place. Lesley,
LESLEY
STAHL: Sir...
PRESIDENT
DONALD TRUMP: They spied on my campaign and they got caught.
LESLEY
STAHL: Can I say something? You know, this is "60 Minutes" and we
can't put on things we can't verify.
PRESIDENT
DONALD TRUMP: But you won't put it on because it's bad for Biden. Look, let me
tell you...
LESLEY
STAHL: We can't put on things we can't verify.
PRESIDENT
DONALD TRUMP: Lesley, they spied on my campaign.
LESLEY
STAHL: Well, we can't verify that.
PRESIDENT
DONALD TRUMP: It's been totally verified.
LESLEY
STAHL: No
PRESIDENT
DONALD TRUMP: It's been, just go down and get the papers. They spied on my
campaign. They got caught.
LESLEY
STAHL: No.
PRESIDENT
DONALD TRUMP: And then they went much further than that and they got caught.
And you will see that Lesley and you know that, but you just don't want to put
it on the air.
LESLEY
STAHL: No, as a matter of fact, I don't know that.
"No,
as a matter of fact, we can’t verify that." This is CBS News. We don't air
things we can't verify. Really, Lesley Stahl? Is that true? We still remember a
CBS News piece from 2016 that claimed Donald Trump was secretly working
with Vladimir Putin. So, the question is, how did CBS News verify those facts?
Walk us through your reporting process.
Well, as it turns out, that particular
story, the reporting came from reading a piece on Slate.com, probably while
standing in line at Starbucks. Slate alleged that the Trump campaign was
coordinating with a Russian bank called Alfa Bank, using a hidden server in
Trump Tower.
How did Slate.com know this? By consulting
a "small, tightly-knit community of computer scientists."
These scientists, Slate insisted, we're
totally nonpartisan. One of the sources explained, anonymously, "We wanted
to defend both campaigns because we wanted to preserve the integrity of the
election."
So here you have just another unnamed
computer scientist defending election integrity. Makes sense. Don't ask
questions.
Jake Sullivan did not ask questions. Jake
Sullivan takes Slate.com very seriously. At the time, Jake Sullivan was working
for the Hillary Clinton campaign. He cited the Slate story as evidence that
Trump was indeed colluding with Vladimir Putin.
"The secret hotline may be the key to
unlocking the mystery of Trump's ties to Russia," Sullivan said.
What a tool.
"We can only assume that
federal authorities will now explore this direct connection between Trump and
Russia."
So, there was a bat phone in Trump Tower
that rang directly in the Kremlin. Jake Sullivan stuck to that line for months.
Here he is on CNN in March of 2017.
JAKE SULLIVAN: What we learned during the
campaign was that very serious computer science experts, people who work
closely with the United States government had uncovered this secret hotline
between the Alfa Bank, the Russian bank, and the Trump Organization. Now, of
course, we didn't know for sure if, in fact, that were the case, but we knew
that it should be investigated. And we knew that given how serious these
computer scientists were, they weren't just making up crackpot theories. So, it
wasn't surprising to learn that even as of last week, the FBI is still looking
into this.
ANCHOR: Do you have any idea what they're looking for?
JAKE SULLIVAN: I don't. Of course, I don't
have a line into the FBI on this, but what I know, based on public reporting,
is that there is a very unusual server activity between this Russian bank and
the Trump Organization, which suggests contact that took place over the course
of the campaign.
Oh, the secret hotline. These people are
literally willing to say anything if it gives them power but listen carefully
to what Jake Sullivan said. "I don't have a line into the FBI on
this." Everything I know is from "public reporting."
So you'll notice that Sullivan went out of
his way to say that, what should have been a very clear sign that it was a lie
and indeed it was a lie. In fact, the Hillary Clinton for President campaign
was coordinating directly with the FBI.
A Clinton lawyer called Michael Sussmann
had been feeding false claims about Trump and Russia, once again from that
crack team of nonpartisan computer scientists to the General Counsel at the
FBI, a man called James Baker.
But Sussmann didn't stop there. In
February of 2017, after the election, Sussmann also met with the General
Counsel at CIA. So at this point, you may be wondering about the identity of
those nonpartisan computer scientists who dug up all this new information about
Donald Trump's direct connection to Vladimir Putin.
Who are these people? We may not be
shocked to learn they weren't nonpartisan. Once again, Jake Sullivan was lying
to us. In fact, a pro-Hillary Clinton activist from South Africa called Rodney
Joffe had put together a team of digital researchers. Oppo guys, we used to
call them. Most of them came from Georgia Tech.
In emails, Rodney Joffe explained why he
was doing this. He wanted Hillary to win the presidency because Hillary Clinton
had promised him a job as a top cybersecurity officer in the U.S. Government.
So Joffe wanted to help Hillary win, he said that.
In order to do that, he gave his
nonpartisan computer scientists a mission. Their job was to gather data they
had access to, thanks to a Pentagon contract, in order to connect Donald Trump
to Putin.
Now we know all these thanks to a new court
filing from Special Counsel John Durham, who spent the last few years
investigating the origins of the Russia hoax and is finally producing some
material.
In the words of Durham's filing
"Joffe tasked those researchers to mine internet data to establish 'an
inference' and a 'narrative' tying then-candidate Trump to Russia."
So, this wasn't reporting, of course, they
had a goal. They were trying to get Hillary elected president. The amazing
thing is how they did it, where their data came from.
The filing says that Joffe and his
computer scientists intercepted internet traffic, that is emails and presumably
text messages, from "Trump Tower, Donald Trump's Central Park West
apartment building and the Executive Office of the President of the United
States."
In other words, Trump was right. This
isn't a conspiracy theory. His claims were true. Democrats were spying on
Donald Trump, not just as a candidate, but as president of the United States in
the White House, as well as in his own home.
So, has anything like this ever happened
in American history? Not that we know of, but Jeff Bezos doesn't think you
should worry about it or even know that it happened.
Today's Washington Post informed its a brain-dead readership that while "Trump is once again claiming that he
was spied upon." That claim has been "debunked."
Oh, really? How has it been debunked?
Shut up. It just has.
But in fact, that claim has not been
debunked. It has been verified. That claim is true. It actually happened and
the way it happened tells you everything about why it has been so
extraordinarily difficult to bring democracy back to the United States. A
government contractor spied on a populist presidential candidate, then passed
the information to his opponent's campaign, which gave it to the FBI and the
news media, which distorted it to create the illusion of treason, which was
then cited by the politician who paid for the whole thing as a reason not to
vote for the guy she spied on.
Got it? It's a closed-loop. Everyone's got
a role. Here's Hillary Clinton during the presidential debates:
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Putin, from
everything I see, has no respect for this person.
HILLARY CLINTON: Well, that's because he'd
rather have a puppet as president of the United States.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, puppet. No
puppet.
HILLARY CLINTON: It's pretty
clear...
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: You're the
puppet.
HILLARY CLINTON: It's pretty clear
you won't admit.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, you're the
puppet.
HILLARY CLINTON: that the Russians have
engaged in cyberattacks against the United States of America that you
encouraged espionage against our people, that you are willing to spout the
Putin line, sign up for his wish list, break up NATO, do whatever he wants to
do and that you continue to get help from him because he has a very clear
favorite in this race.
So, if you're not all in with NATO, if you
think it's a pointless boondoggle that endangers the United States, you, my
friend, work for Vladimir Putin.
"You encouraged espionage,"
shrieked Hillary. At the very moment, she's doing precisely that. They always
denounce you for their own sins, but she said Russia has engaged in cyberattacks
on the United States and that's probably true in point of fact. But she was
speaking about a specific "cyberattack."
She was talking about the Russians hacking
the servers at the DNC. Democrats wasted three years of our lives telling us
that, at an ever-increasing volume. Here's the interesting thing. It was not
true. It has never been true. Vladimir Putin did not hack the DNC. There was
never any evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC.
Instead, the DNC emails were very clearly
stolen from within the building, most likely by a Bernie Sanders supporter who
wanted to show the world how Bernie Sanders was being shafted by the very same
corrupt forces in Washington that later shifted Donald Trump. That was very
obvious to anyone who was paying attention at the time.
What's interesting is that no one's been
punished for it. Likely, no one ever will be. In fact, Jake Sullivan, the guy
you just saw lying about those nonpartisan computer scientists, has not been
indicted for what he did. Jake Sullivan has been promoted.
Jake Sullivan is now Joe Biden's national
security adviser. He's still screaming about Russia. Only this time it's not to
bring down a Republican opponent in the presidential race. He's screaming about
Russia bringing the entire country to war with a nuclear-armed power.
This article is adapted from Tucker
Carlson's opening commentary on February 14, 2022, edition of "Tucker
Carlson Tonight."
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