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How George Soros Helped Initiate the Russiagate Hoax

1 August 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

On August 1st, Martin Armstrong headlined “Soros Assisted Hillary and Obama in Russian Collusion Hoax” (archived here), and reported:

Newly declassified documents reveal that George Soros assisted Hillary Clinton in creating the Russian collusion hoax in an attempt to discredit Donald Trump and deceive the American public ahead of a presidential election. Special counsel John Durham’s 2023 report has been largely declassified and now reveals the link between Soros’s Open Society Foundations and the Clintons.

Leonard Benardo, the senior vice president at George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, and Clinton foreign policy adviser Julianne Smith openly discussed their plan to discredit Donald Trump by linking him to Russia’s Vladimir Putin and demonize both men.

“During the first stage of the campaign, due to lack of direct evidence, it was decided to disseminate the necessary information through the FBI-affiliated…technical structures… in particular, the Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect companies, from where the information would then be disseminated through leading U.S. publications,” the classified annex said. “The media analysis on the DNC hacking appears solid…. Julie [Campaign Advisor] 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,” Soros’s employee stated.

The report added, “HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton] approved [Campaign adviser Julie’s] idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections. That should distract people from her own missing emails.”

The plan? “The point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue… In absence of direct evidence, Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect will supply the media, and GRU [Russia’s Main Intelligence Directive] will hopefully carry on to give more facts,” the emails from Benardo stated.

Durham noted that Clinton and her campaign began to leak lies to the media around July 2016. Clinton had hoped that the scrutiny would cause the FBI and other intelligence agencies to investigate allegations, further defaming Trump’s character to the American public. Durham wrote that “it is a logical deduction [REDACTED] [Julianne] Smith was, at minimum, playing a role in the Clinton campaign’s efforts to tie Trump to Russia” and stated it is undeniable that there was a clear plan to sway public perception ahead of the election. …

The reports of Clinton’s wrongdoings were hidden for years. “History will show that the Obama and Biden administration’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies were weaponized against President Trump,” [Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck] Grassley stated. “This political weaponization has caused critical damage to our institutions and is one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history.” …

FBI Director James Comey, under the guidance of former President Obama, hid the Clinton e-mail scandal from the public. [That linked-to 21 July 2025 news-report had opened “A newly-declassified appendix to a years-old Justice Department watchdog report [which was based on “a classified appendix to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s 2018 report"] shows that then-FBI Director James Comey was swayed to preemptively announce the end of the bureau’s investigation into Hillary Clinton based on mysterious classified intelligence reports – and that the FBI failed to investigate thumbdrives containing potentially key information about use of an illicit private email server.”] On July 5, 2016, Comey announced that the Clinton email scandal investigation had concluded and Hillary was innocent. His only critique was that Clinton was “extremely careless,” although his initial speech draft used the term “gross negligence.” In the same speech, Comey declared that his agency was keenly focused on investigating GOP nominee Donald Trump for colluding with Russia to sway the election. The FBI also obtained intelligence reports in 2016 showing communications between Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), the chairwoman of the Democratic National Convention, and “two different individuals who worked for the Soros Open Society Foundations.”

Grassley noted that “the intelligence reports alleged that the Obama administration took efforts to scuttle the investigation into Clinton and protect her candidacy.” …

Horowitz wrote that “the FBI determined that these reports were not credible on their face” but “nevertheless” Comey decided to terminate on 5 July 2016 the FBI’s ‘investigation’ into  Hillary’s ‘hacked’ (actually leaked) emails, and instead to ‘investigate’ her campaign’s allegations that Russia was behind the ‘hack’ (leak) and that Trump’s campaign was colluding with Russia on that alleged Russian operation to get Hillary elected. And then, the Armstrong article continues: Horowitz wrote that Comey told the watchdog that “no one believed that the [REDACTED] reports were an attempt at purposeful misinformation by the Russians. … [but, Armstrong continued] The DOJ appendix stated that … the [REDACTED] reports had factored into Comey’s decision to issue his July 5 public statement” that Hillary’s handling of her State Department emails woulld not be further investigated nor prosecuted. And: Comey cleared Clinton of criminal wrongdoing for transmitting classified information on an insecure and private email server in his speech on July 5, 2016. Comey claimed in his speech about the Clinton case at the time that “although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” …

Comey's speech listed Clinton’s numerous improper and potentially illegal actions, including the fact that 110 emails in 52 email chains contained classified information at the time they were sent or received by Clinton — but he would not recommend charging her with any crimes.

In other words: Comey himself, despite his public statements to the exact contrary, did NOT believe that there had been “purposeful misinformation by the Russians” — he did NOT believe in the Russiagate charge, irrespective of whether or not Trump had been colluding in it. But he refused to prosecute Clinton though he did say that she had violated some U.S. laws, including 18 U.S. Code § 793. Armstrong continued:

A specific statute — 18 U.S. Code § 793 — deals in part with “gross negligence” in the handling of national defense information, which Clinton came under scrutiny for possibly violating.

The public version of Horowitz’s 2018 report had concluded Comey’s actions were “extraordinary and insubordinate” when he announced Clinton wouldn’t be charged.

“We concluded that Comey’s unilateral announcement was inconsistent with Department policy and violated long-standing Department practice and protocol by, among other things, criticizing Clinton’s uncharged conduct,” the DOJ inspector general concluded in the public version of his 2018 report. ”We also found that Comey usurped the authority of the Attorney General, and inadequately and incompletely described the legal position of Department prosecutors.”

Soros Fund Management was the 6th-largest known donor to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign, at $10,556,793. Nowadays, the top ten in Trump’s case in 2024, all 10 were above $12,548,084. All of the top 10 for Kamala Harris were above $12,500,500. The top Donor for Trump was $276,275,595. The top donor for Harris was $267,470,351. U.S. political contests are competitions between two competing groups of billionaires, both of which teams compete to deceive the most voters. Both groups (and the ‘news’-media that they control) are trying for their Government to defeat Russia, China, Palestine, Iran, Venezuela, and many other targeted nations that they aim to add to the U.S. empire; and they also invest heavily in their armaments manufacturers, which sell exclusively or almost exclusively to the U.S. Government and to its colonies (‘allies’). So: keeping the public hatred going against those targeted nations is crucial for them. Whichever Party’s nominee will win, will be serving that ultimate objective, of their megadonors. This is just as much true for Trump and his backers, as it was for Biden and his backers. And this is why we are now, and ever since 25 July 1945 have been, heading toward WW3. They’re all working toward that ultimate goal. Democracy, as it has been universally misunderstood till now, is actually (ultimately degenerates into) this type of imperialistic-supremacist aristocracy — no authentic democracy at all. I have proposed a replacement for it — a fundamentally different type of system, to produce an enduring democracy.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.