{"id":13789,"date":"2025-12-31T23:45:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=13789"},"modified":"2025-12-31T23:45:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:45:51","slug":"just-in-billionaire-anti-american-leftist-george-soros-tied-to-russiagate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=13789","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Billionaire Anti-American Leftist George Soros Tied To \u2018Russiagate\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly-declassified intelligence on the so-called \u201cClinton Plan\u201d included intercepted communications from a George Soros ally suggesting that Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign against Donald Trump was plotting a \u201clong-term affair to demonize\u201d Trump by linking him to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13790\" src=\"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/469580231_122116840868604272_4254552163620985915_n-2-79-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/469580231_122116840868604272_4254552163620985915_n-2-79-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/469580231_122116840868604272_4254552163620985915_n-2-79.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Clinton campaign expected that \u201cthe FBI will put more oil into the fire\u201d in assisting campaign officials with legitimizing the false allegation that the future president was working with the Russians to undermine the election.The revelations\u2014based on intercepted communications allegedly involving Leonard Benardo, a senior official at George Soros\u2019s Open Society Foundations, and Clinton foreign policy adviser Julianne Smith\u2014shed new light on intelligence received by the U.S. intelligence community in July 2016, just before the FBI launched its politically charged Crossfire Hurricane investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The explosive allegations\u2014suggesting a coordinated effort to falsely link Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin as a way to deflect attention from Hillary Clinton\u2019s classified email scandal\u2014are detailed in a previously classified, now largely unredacted appendix to Special Counsel John Durham\u2019s 2023 report on the origins of the Russiagate probe.The intelligence, reportedly shared with the FBI and other agencies, included emails attributed to Benardo describing an alleged scheme by Smith and others, allegedly carried out with Clinton\u2019s approval. The emails are believed to have been initially obtained through Russian cyber operations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe media analysis on the DNC hacking appears solid\u2026 Politicization is on the table\u2026 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,\u201d Benardo allegedly said in an email on July 25, 2016.Durham noted in the annex report that \u201cJulie\u201d appeared to be a reference to Julianne Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly-declassified intelligence on the so-called \u201cClinton Plan\u201d included intercepted communications from a George Soros ally suggesting that Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign against Donald Trump was plotting a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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