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Newly declassified documents reveal that the Trump-Russia collusion narrative—widely circulated by Democrats and major media outlets—was not the result of intelligence failures or speculation, but a calculated and deliberate hoax orchestrated by the Hillary Clinton campaign. As David Marcus writes in a blistering op-ed for Fox News, “Democrats lied, and half the country believed them.” The files include explosive emails between Clinton advisers and operatives tied to George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, detailing how the campaign seeded the collusion lie to damage then-candidate Donald Trump. The evidence is damning, and it confirms that the conspiracy went far beyond opposition research—it involved coordinated misinformation spread through federal intelligence channels and complicit media outlets.

Key Details:

• Emails show Clinton adviser Julianne Smith pushed a long-term plan to “demonize Putin and Trump” with fabricated claims.
• Documents tie the Open Society Foundation to strategy discussions about using the media and FBI to sustain the hoax.
• Former Trump adviser Michael Caputo calls for accountability, stating the damage done to innocent Americans cannot be undone.

Diving Deeper:

In a searing exposé titled “The Russia hoax is simple. Democrats lied and half the country believed them,” Fox News columnist David Marcus lays bare the extent to which the Clinton campaign deceived the American public. The newly declassified files—released Thursday—confirm what many conservatives have long suspected: the Trump-Russia collusion story was a fraud, built on calculated misinformation, not credible intelligence.

“At the heart of this deception,” Marcus writes, “was the cold, calculated black-and-white evidence of how the Clinton campaign crafted the lie.” One of the most telling revelations includes a July 2016 email from Leonard Benardo, vice president of the Soros-funded Open Society Foundation. He wrote, “Julie [sic] says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump,” and chillingly added, “Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire.” Julie, in this case, is Julianne Smith, a top foreign policy adviser to Hillary Clinton.

Just days later, Benardo allegedly followed up with another email confirming, “HRC approved Julia’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections,” noting it would serve as a distraction from Clinton’s own missing emails. Most damning of all, Marcus highlights a line from the email: “The point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue… In absence of direct evidence, Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect will supply the media.”

These revelations point directly to a larger plan—one that ultimately relied on compliant media outlets and partisan actors inside federal intelligence agencies. As Marcus writes, “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.”

The files even cite John Durham’s annex to the Russia hoax probe, which concluded that the Clinton team used “FBI-affiliated ‘attic-based’ technical structures” to feed false information to media giants under the guise of cybersecurity intelligence.

Former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey stand at the center of this firestorm. According to Marcus, “field officers in the CIA objected to the lies and were run over because, according to their then-Director John Brennan, ‘it rings true.’” This vague standard was enough to get FISA warrants to spy on Trump’s associates renewed, creating the illusion of guilt and fueling years of baseless investigations.

Even after Trump won, the Obama administration continued to massage intelligence reports in late 2016 to sustain the lie. These manipulations led directly to Robert Mueller’s investigation, which cost taxpayers over $30 million and ultimately exonerated Trump.

But the cost was far greater than dollars. As Marcus noted, innocent lives were shattered. One such victim, Michael Caputo, told Marcus, “It is precious little comfort knowing we were right, we need accountability, but even accountability doesn’t feed the bulldog.” Caputo’s message was clear: lives were ruined, reputations crushed, and justice has yet to be served.

In 2018, a Suffolk poll showed the extent of the deception’s success: “Forty-six percent are convinced that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.” Despite no evidence and a final report clearing Trump, nearly half the country had bought into the narrative—hook, line, and sinker.

Marcus ends with a searing moral indictment: “To everyone involved in this hoax, the message must be clear: This is your legacy, your attempt to deceive the American people and destroy the man they elected to lead them. That is who you are.”

With the truth finally exposed, the legacy of the Russia collusion hoax becomes one of deception, manipulation, and the ruthless pursuit of power at the expense of the American public.