{"id":1940602,"date":"2023-05-30T07:06:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T11:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillarys-swiftboat-project\/"},"modified":"2023-05-30T07:09:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T11:09:45","slug":"hillarys-swiftboat-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillarys-swiftboat-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary&#8217;s smear campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">6<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhillarys-swiftboat-project%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1940602&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Devious Plan to Swiftboat America: Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Russiagate Scam<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0530\/64fe7d24-cc46-475d-8de5-be7cafad8e5f\/audio.mp3?length=10447245&#038;duration=871\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>The Epoch Times presents the second part of an exclusive edited extract from the forthcoming book \u201cSwiftboating America\u201d by Hans Mahncke, co-host of \u201cTruth over News\u201d on EpochTV. Sign up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swiftboatingamerica.com\/\">SwiftboatingAmerica.com<\/a> to get a notification once the book is out<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>The Inception of the Dirtiest Political Trick of All Time<\/h3>\n<p>On May 20, 2022, Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign manager, Robby Mook, finally admitted that it was Hillary Clinton herself who had greenlighted her presidential campaign\u2019s scheme to smear Donald Trump with Russia collusion claims. Mook\u2019s admission, made during his testimony in Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann\u2019s trial for lying to the FBI about Clinton\u2019s scheme, marked the final chapter in a six year saga that ruined a presidency and turned the world order on its head.<\/p>\n<p>It all began in early 2016 when Jennifer Palmieri, Director of Communications for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, received an email from Joel Johnson, a senior advisor to Bill Clinton. Johnson wrote: \u201cwho is in charge of the Trump swift boat project? Needs to be ready, funded and unleashed when we decide\u2014but not a half assed scramble.\u201d Palmieri sarcastically replied: \u201cGee. Thanks, Joel. We thought we could half-ass it. Let\u2019s discuss.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The exchange was buried in a huge trove of emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta that were released by whistleblower group Wikileaks in October 2016. The significance of the two emails was largely overlooked at the time. It was only with hindsight, and the progressive unraveling of Hillary Clinton\u2019s scheme to vilify Donald Trump, that their importance has become apparent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We now know that the two emails marked the inception of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-is-the-big-loser-in-durhams-failed-russia-collusion-prosecutions\/\" title=\"FBI Is The Big Loser In Durham\u2019s Failed Russia-Collusion Prosecutions\">dirtiest political trick<\/a> of all time: Hillary Clinton\u2019s Russiagate scam, a multi-pronged and multi-layered campaign to paint Donald Trump as an asset of the Kremlin. Clinton\u2019s scheme was completely unheard of and beyond the bounds of anything that had previously happened in the dirty world of American politics. In 1972, Republican operatives broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C. The ostensible purpose of the break-in was to eavesdrop on a political opponent but even that act pales in comparison to what Clinton did.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton\u2019s intention was to execute an elaborate scheme that painted her opponent as an agent of a foreign power. It was a devious plan and it came at a heavy price for all Americans. Russiagate not only consumed Trump\u2019s presidency, it also altered the geopolitical balance of powers for generations yet to come. In her failed attempt to become president, Hillary Clinton had swiftboated America herself.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s Ambition to Improve Relations with Russia<\/h3>\n<p>Trump\u2019s slogan throughout the 2016 campaign was \u201cMake America Great Again.\u201d One of the central tenets of Trump\u2019s platform was to get the United States out of its many foreign entanglements, wars, and proxy wars. As part of that wider ambition, Trump was determined to improve relations with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>American Russian relations had been deteriorating since the days of the George W. Bush presidency, perhaps captured best by Bush\u2019s foolhardy 2008 Bucharest Declaration in which it was announced that Ukraine and Georgia would become members of NATO. Admitting these two countries into NATO was a well known red line for Russia. Crossing that red line was not only reckless, it flew in the face of a 1991 promise made by Bush\u2019s father, President George H.W. Bush, not to expand NATO at all.<\/p>\n<p>Trump recognized the problem of antagonizing Russia long before he became president. One of Trump\u2019s campaign themes starting in 2015 was to improve relations with Russia. He would often ask at his rallies \u201cIf we could get along with Russia, wouldn\u2019t that be a good thing, instead of a bad thing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s views were well-known. In his first foray into public policy writing in 2000, Trump noted in The America We Deserve: \u201cThe Soviet Union is no longer a threat to our Western European allies. America has no vital interest in choosing between warring factions whose animosities go back centuries in Eastern Europe. Their conflicts are not worth American lives,\u201d continuing by lamenting that the \u201ccost of stationing NATO troops in Europe is enormous, and these are clearly funds that can be put to better use.\u201d Trump repeated these sentiments on the campaign trail. In August 2015, he said he \u201cwould not care that much\u201d about Ukraine\u2019s NATO entry. This was anathema to the foreign policy establishment. The media ran breathless headlines proclaiming that Trump had abandoned Ukraine and ditched Europe.<\/p>\n<h3>The Catalyst: Painting Trump as a Russian Stooge<\/h3>\n<p>This was happening long before Hillary Clinton had kicked off her smear campaign against Trump and long before the apprehension among Washington, D.C.\u2019s ruling class that Trump might upend their preferred world order, created the framework for Clinton\u2019s decision to make Trump-Russia collusion the centerpiece of her Swiftboat project.<\/p>\n<p>Like all political campaigns, the Clinton campaign was looking for an issue to hang around her opponent\u2019s neck. There was a lot to choose from, including Trump\u2019s checkered past in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-co-founder-patrisse-cullors-rails-against-white-supremacist-housing-market-weeks-after-splashing-out-millions-on-real-estate\/\" title=\"BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors Rails Against \u2018White Supremacist\u2019 Housing Market Weeks After Splashing Out Millions On Real Estate\">real estate industry<\/a> and his philandering. But those issues had strings attached. Reminding voters of Trump\u2019s business past might have strengthened his image as an outsider who could get things done. Highlighting his extramarital flings would not have had the same effect as it would have in the 1980s. Ironically, it was Hillary Clinton\u2019s husband Bill who broke that particular glass ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>What was needed was something that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillarys-swiftboat-project\/\" title=\"Hillary's smear campaign\">catalyze traditional political smears involving suspect business matters<\/a> and extramarital affairs into something more explosive. Russia was that catalyst. Best of all, it was an issue that the entire Washington, D.C. establishment could coalesce around.<\/p>\n<p>By painting Trump as a Russian stooge, the Clinton campaign would garner a wide coalition of support ranging from globalists to war mongering neocons. The Russian stooge story could be interspersed with more familiar stories about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gravy-train-keeps-rolling-for-second-stepdaughter-ella-emhoff\/\" title=\"Gravy Train Keeps Rolling for Second Stepdaughter Ella Emhoff\">shady business dealings<\/a> and illicit affairs. Putting Trump and the Kremlin in the same corner also provided Hillary Clinton with an insurance policy in case any of her 30,000 deleted emails from the clandestine server she used during her time as secretary of state were leaked. Any disclosure could be blamed on the Russian government and, by extension, on Trump, thereby deflecting attention from whatever was in those emails. In the end, the 30,000 emails never surfaced. But that did not affect the implementation of Hillary Clinton\u2019s devious plan. When unrelated emails from the Democratic National Committee were released in July 2016, Hillary pulled the trigger on her carefully crafted Swiftboat project.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It was Clinton\u2019s communications director Jennifer Palmieri who initially got the swift boat plan rolling. As we would later find out from Wikileaks\u2019 release of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta\u2019s emails, a <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Epoch Times shares an exclusive excerpt from &#8220;Swiftboating America&#8221; by Hans Mahncke, co-host of &#8220;Truth over News&#8221; on EpochTV. Sign up at SwiftboatingAmerica.com for a notification when the book is released. On May 20, 2022, Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign manager, confessed to something significant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1441,"featured_media":1940603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4087,25018,14989],"class_list":["post-1940602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-campaign","tag-hillarys","tag-smear"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}