{"id":971286,"date":"2021-11-05T08:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=971286"},"modified":"2021-11-05T08:43:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:43:49","slug":"blue-state-blues-john-durham-found-the-first-evidence-of-russia-collusion-and-hillarys-team-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blue-state-blues-john-durham-found-the-first-evidence-of-russia-collusion-and-hillarys-team-did-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue State Blues: John Durham Found the First Evidence of &#039;Russia Collusion&#039; &#8212; and Hillary&#039;s Team Did It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/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%2Fblue-state-blues-john-durham-found-the-first-evidence-of-russia-collusion-and-hillarys-team-did-it%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=971286&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Lavrov-Hillary-Reset-button-FABRICE-COFFRINIAFPGetty-.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Special Counsel John Durham\u2019s indictment Thursday of \u201cdossier\u201d source Igor Danchenko revealed the first real evidence of \u201cRussia collusion\u201d \u2014 and it was linked to Hillary Clinton\u2019s associates, not to Donald Trump or his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Danchenko, a Russian-born, U.S.-based researcher, had worked from 2005-2010 at the Brookings Institution with Strobe Talbott, a former official from Bill Clinton\u2019s State Department.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He later became the main \u201cRussian\u201d source for former British spy Christopher Steele, who compiled the fraudulent \u201cRussia dossier\u201d on Donald Trump on behalf of opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which was secretly being paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cdossier\u201d was fed to the FBI and the press, and was used in FISA surveillance warrants on (innocent) Trump aide Carter Page. Through Page\u2019s communications, the Clinton-friendly Obama administration had visibility into Trump\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>That much was known before Thursday. But the indictment revealed even more.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>A figure identified as \u201cPR Executive-1,\u201d and later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/04\/confirmed-pr-executive-1-in-durham-indictment-docs-is-charles-dolan-jr\/\">confirmed<\/a> to be communications consultant (and Clinton apparatchik) Charles Dolan Jr., was working with Danchenko.<\/p>\n<p>Dolan had the kind of Russian contacts that Trump\u2019s enemies searched for, in vain, when they persecuted the 45th president. Had Special Counsel Robert Mueller found&nbsp;<em>anything<\/em> like these contacts near Trump, the hoax would have been vindicated.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment notes that Dolan \u201cspent much of his&nbsp;career interacting with Eurasian clients with a particular focus on Russia.\u201d He had even handled \u201cglobal public relations for the Russian government and a state-owned energy&nbsp;company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It gets worse.<\/p>\n<p>Dolan had relationships with \u201csenior Russian Federation leadership,\u201d including Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s press secretary and his staff. He also was friendly with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. and his deputies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Dolan attended meetings at the Russian embassy in Washington, DC. He arranged meetings in Moscow at which Danchenko met with Russian officials and \u201csub-sources\u201d who gave him information that later ended up in Steele\u2019s sensational dossier.<\/p>\n<p>Durham\u2019s indictment filing tells the story of the infamous \u201cpee tape\u201d allegation, in which Trump was alleged to have hired prostitutes to urinate on a bed where President Barack Obama was to have slept during a visit to a Moscow hotel. In June 2016, the indictment alleges, Dolan and another associate, identified as \u201cOrganizer-1,\u201d stayed at the same hotel, and were given a guided tour by the management.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Durham told the court: \u201cAccording to Organizer-1, during the aforementioned tour of the Presidential&nbsp;Suite, a Moscow Hotel staff member told the participants, including PR Executive-1, that Trump&nbsp;had stayed in the Presidential Suite. According to both Organizer-1 and PR Executive-1, the staff&nbsp;member did not mention any sexual or salacious activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The entire story of the prostitutes was therefore a fabrication \u2014 and Danchenko is now being charged for lying to the FBI about whether Dolan was a source for \u201cTrump\u2019s stay and alleged activity in the Moscow hotel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October 2016, Dolan and Danchenko attended a conference in Moscow with \u201cseveral&nbsp;Russian government officials.\u201d The conference included meetings in the Kremlin itself.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Though the Clinton campaign supposedly did not know about Dolan\u2019s activities (according to Dolan), one important \u201csub-source\u201d believed that Dolan was an \u201cadvisor\u201d to Hillary Clinton, whom he hoped would win. He expected to be taken to the State Department in the event that Hillary Clinton defeated Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Dolan was acting on the campaign\u2019s instructions or not, Danchenko was providing information to Steele, whose research was being funded by the campaign. And Dolan was making sure Danchenko had information Steele could use.<\/p>\n<p>Dolan\u2019s contacts with Russia went much further than a random meeting at Trump Tower \u2014 an arm\u2019s-length contact that once fueled establishment media conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>Dolan was in direct contact with officials close to Vladimir Putin himself.<\/p>\n<p>And at least some of his sources made clear that they wanted Hillary Clinton to win. One even asked for her autograph.<\/p>\n<p>This was \u201cRussia collusion\u201d of the highest order, reinforcing the possibility that the Steele dossier was itself Russian disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>The irony of it all is that Danchenko and Dolan were manufacturing evidence of Trump\u2019s supposed \u201ccollusion\u201d with Russia, while colluding with Russia themselves.<\/p>\n<p>And it looks like Durham\u2019s indictment is just the tip of the Arctic iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>Trump-haters greeted every \u201cRussia collusion\u201d leak by declaring \u201cthe walls are closing in\u201d or that it was \u201cworse than Watergate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, now the walls really <em>are<\/em> closing in \u2014 on the Clintons\u2019 world. And this really was worse than Watergate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Counsel John Durham\u2019s indictment Thursday of \u201cdossier\u201d source Igor Danchenko revealed the first real evidence of \u201cRussia collusion\u201d \u2014 and it was linked to Hillary Clinton\u2019s associates, not to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1898682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"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\/971286","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}