A member of the Department of Justice
(DOJ) has just been assigned to help with the investigation into the Trump
collusion investigation. Inspector
General Harrowitz, Jeff Durham and Attorney General Bill Barr all believe they
need help because the more they dig, the more questions they have. This causes them to have more and more things
to look into. A fresh set of eyes is
often good in complex cases. For
simplicity purposes, we will call the fresh set of eyes, John Smith. He is looking at a transcript of an FBI
interview with Bruce Ohr, who at the time of the Russian collusion
investigation was the fourth highest ranking official in the DOJ. These interviews are known as ‘302’s.’ As John looks at his inbox, he sees an e-mail
creep up from an address he doesn’t know.
There is no attachment, it simply says, ‘Look up Wall Street Journal
April 17, 2007 piece, “How Lobbyists help Ex-Soviets Woo Washington.’ Like any sane person, John is very suspicious
of the e-mail since he doesn’t know the source.
He deletes the e-mail then logs into the Wall Street Journal account
that the DOJ has. He searches for the
article and reads it. What he finds is
striking.
Bill Barr has given one of his
new employees, John Smith, a couple days to go through the Ohr 302’s and he
calls him up to see what he finds. John
says, “Well, it appears that Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr’s wife wrote a dossier about
Paul Manafort.”
“You think it aided in the
indictment of Manafort by Mueller?’
“I do, but the issue is, I don’t
think it’s true.”
“You think Steele used Nellie
Ohr as a source for his information.”
“Actually, I think it’s the
opposite”
“What do you mean?”
“I think Glenn Simpson of Fusion
GPS wrote the Dossier and asked Steele to put his name on it to give it
credibility since he was respected by the FBI due to his work with the FIFA
case.”
“How can you say that based on
information you found about Nellie Ohr?”
“Nellie Ohr works for Fusion
GPS. Glenn Simpson, who owns Fusion GPS,
wrote an article in 2007 when he was with the Wall Street Journal. In it, he paints the same picture that the
dossier does. The dossier and the
article seemed to be written in the same voice.”
“That’s tough to prove”
“I agree, I’m just letting you
know my thoughts.”
“It is actually something we
thought too. We just wanted to see if
people came to it independently.”John was a little annoyed by this but he knew
it was the nature of the beast.
“Anything that’s prosecutorial in the 302’s?” Barr added.
“Yes, Ohr told the FBI that he
thought Steele’s motivations weren’t counter-intelligence related by
politically motivated. That means when
the FBI swore to a FISA court that they had no derogatory information, they
lied. This is derogatory information.”
“Good work, keep going. We do believe that’s going to be the easiest
thing to indict the signers of the FISA on.
The more evidence, the better. We
already have the Kavalec memos and this.
It seems the FBI is going to have trouble denying that they had a lot of
derogatory information about Steele.”
“Yea, I’ll keep going through
it.”
John reads through the 302
again. He made a point to go back to something
he saw earlier. He focuses on an excerpt
where Ohr speaks about laundering money through the NRA to Trump. It mentions that a Russian oligarch tied to
organized crime named Turshin was the benefactor. Sitting back, John reviews all the
indictments and accusations made by Mueller, Weissman, Brennan, McCabe and
others and can’t find anything having to do with the NRA. He goes back to the 302 trying to find
another clue on how he may back into this.
John notices that they talk about a lawyer for the NRA that was very
upset when she found out about this after the election. He decides to look her up. Using his access to the classified
information he has, he knows that the publicly redacted name of the lawyer is
Clea Mitchell. He searches her and tries
to find her commenting on her frustration with the money laundering. What he finds is that Ohr was wrong. Mitchell consistently and repeatedly denies
that it ever happened. Her only frustration
is with the accusation that is completely baseless. This narrative explains why there were no
indictments. He makes a mental note to
take everything he reads in the Ohr 302 with a grain of salt.
The next day Jeff Durham calls
John. John tells him all the problems he
has with the 302’s. Durham seems unfazed
by the information. He says he’ll look
into it. Durham pivots and states, “Good
job with the 302’s, there’s a new angle I’d like you to look into.”
“Alright”
“I want you to look at the
connection between George Soros and the State department”
“The billionaire Hungarian
liberal?”
“Yes”
“Anything specific?”
“It seems that former Soviet
block countries keep coming up. Soros
has been hanging around Georgia, Ukraine and that area a lot. I’m not sure it’s all on the up and up. It could be nothing but with Hillary Clinton,
Joe Biden, and Paul Manafort hanging out in that area, something seems fishy.”
John saves all his work on the
Ohr 302’s and starts looking at George Soros.
Since it seems that everything with this case happens between 2014 and
2016, that’s the time period John focuses on.
His big break comes in a simple attendance log at the state
department. He asks himself the
questions, ‘what is a billionaire businessman during meeting with Victoria
Nuland of the State Department repeatedly in such a short time frame?’ John steps back and decides that it could be
that he’s donating to the campaign or funding some sort of event or fund
raiser. He takes a deep breath when he
finds the name of the foundation. Soros
is heading a foundation called the ‘Civil Society.’ John feels he’s wasting his time but he
searches what the Civil Society Foundation does and discovers that it is to
fight corruption in Ukraine after they decided to break from Russia. Suddenly, John is no longer relaxed. He looks at the dates and focuses on when the
meetings stopped. He types in Ukraine,
State Department and the date that the meetings stop. The thing that pops up on his screen that
garners the most attention is that the DOJ targeted a Ukrainian named Dimitrio
Firtash. Firtash has sanctions on him
and is indicted by the United States Department of Justice. John stops reading and asks himself why the
name ‘Dimitrio Firtash’ seems familiar.
After pondering it for a while, he decides to open his 302 file. He reads through it and can’t find anything
about Firtash.
He goes to the cafeteria and makes himself a coffee. He
comes back to his desk and takes a deep breath. The slight break was good for
him. As he looks up, he sees on the wall
the Wall Street Journal article and lines stemming from it since the
information is all over the Trump collusion investigation, mainly the Steele
dossier. He picks up the article and
reads it. Sure enough, he finds that
Dimitrio Firtash was a Ukrainian working with lobbyist to try to influence
America. This information unnerves
him. On one hand, he wonders if Firtash
is a Russian meddler in the elections and the DOJ was right in indicting him to
stop him from meddling in our elections but on the other hand, he wonders if
Soros is the one influencing government policy.
He decides that both scenarios are just as likely. He sees if there’s any connection between
Soros and Firtash. Sure enough, they
were on opposing sides in Ukraine.
Firtash was on the side of Russian influence over Ukraine and Soros was
on the independent Ukraine side. He
scolds himself because this is pretty loose.
It’s very circumstantial evidence that Soros did economic battle with a
man in Ukraine to try to make the vacuum caused by Ukraine’s new independence
from Russia an entrepreneurial activity.
When there’s an opportunity for money, people flock and compete. That’s the capitalist way. That doesn’t mean something is nefarious
about it. He dismisses it.
As John looks back at the meetings between Soros and the
State Department, he notices that Soros gave Ukraine $ 1 Billion right after
Firtash was indicted. John smiled and
exclaimed, “Well, capitalistic competition is good but bribing a state
department official to take out your rivals definitely would be considered ‘nefarious’”
John looks up at his board and stares at the
article. He shakes his head and blurts
out, “Who would have thought a simple Wall Street Journal article written 12
years ago would describe everything that happens for three years.”
Seeing that the visitors to the state department had proven
fruitful in revealing some sketchy activity, John went back to it. There was another common visitor to the State
department. Christopher Steele met with
Victoria Nuland, Anthony Weiner and others on several occasions. John is puzzled by this because he knows
Steele is an FBI informant. What is he
doing hanging out with the state department so much? He investigates further and finds that things
Steele told the State department refute what’s in the dossier. Not only that, things he says he doesn’t know
are in the dossier that he supposedly wrote.
This makes John think more and more than Steele didn’t write the
dossier. John remembers reading about
former FBI lawyer Lisa Page who seemed to surprise to learn that Steele was
also a CIA asset. At this point Jeff
Durham calls and John answers. “How’s it
coming?”
John tells Durham what he found out and says that he’s
hit a wall about why Steele is meeting with the State department so much. John replies, “Check the fourth FISA”
“Okay, for what?”
“Just cross reference dates see if it matches up with
anything.”
The conversation ends. While reading the fourth FISA, he sees a
sentence that says ‘we no longer considered the source (Steele) suitable for
use and terminated his employment.’ John
reads it several times to make sure he read it right. He starts furiously combing through FBI
records and finds when Steele was fired.
He then looks at the meetings with Nuland and Weiner at the State
Department. What he finds is that Steele
started meeting with them right after he got fired from the FBI. John tells himself that the obvious answer is
he was looking for a back door into the FBI but he thinks of alternate
explanations. He thinks that it could
simply be what normally happens to terminated people; they bounce back and get
picked up by someone else. John
scratches this idea because Steele is put on the same case that he was fired
for due to shady tactics. John can’t
think of any other explanation. He grins
excitedly. This case is getting juicier
by the second.
Elsewhere in government, Bob
Mueller is in court. He is the
prosecutor and the defendants are Russia social media trolls. Mueller presents his case to the judge that
the defendants are linked to the Russian government. When he is done, the judge reprimands him for
wasting the court’s time. The judge
declares that he has done nothing to show any evidence that the defendants have
any ties to the Russian government. The
verdict is that Mueller is not allowed to ever prejudice a jury in public or as
part of another court case by making that claim.
Mueller is shell shocked by the
ruling. He knows that new Attorney
General Bill Barr is investigating the origin of his probe. In addition to this, Jeff Durham has been hired
for the same reason. He thinks about all
the times he made the claim that the pro-Trump social media campaigns by the
Russians were linked to the Russian government.
Not being able to say that now will make him look like a liar when he
had stated it previously. He meets with
his advisors and they all tell him to get ahead of the story and give a press
conference saying that they have no connections. Mueller asks, “What if someone asks me about
the previous times I said it? It was
kind of a major focus of my investigation.”
“We can’t control the questions
so just declare that you’re not taking any”
The day after the court hearing,
Mueller gives a press conference saying that there was no evidence the Russian
trolls were linked to the Russian government.
He ends by resigning from the DOJ and asks to be left alone and leaves
without answering any questions.
Unfortunately for Mueller, it wasn’t going to be that easy. He is quickly interviewed by GOP judiciary
members. They ask him straight up if he
gave that press conference in reaction to the judge’s ruling and Mueller denies
it. Later, Barr and Durham’s team will
add this to evidence that Mueller perjured himself. It’s interesting that a man
who was so adept at not answering questions and referring to reports and
dodging still managed to perjure himself on the select few questions he did
answer.
About two months later, Mueller
isn’t going to get his wish to just fade into oblivion and not be bothered
again. He is dragged onto Capitol Hill
by the Democrats to testify about his report.
He spends six hours looking confused and non-credible and it was an
absolute disaster that millions in America saw.
Nobody learned anything but the American public no longer could believe
that Mueller was a credible source. He
seemed to not have known his own report as various congressmen had to correct
him several times by citing the report.
Mueller basically said if the report says it, he agrees. He is back in his home now hoping that given
how badly his performance went, nobody, Republican or Democrat will want to
interview him again. He’s done with this
whole investigation and just wants to be left alone. He did his job by putting a lot of heat on
Trump to distract him and tarnish his presidency. He knew from the onset that there was no
collusion. He watches MSNBC and people
are talking about how Trump uses subliminal messages to rally the White
Supremacists to action. The commentator
is insinuating that Trump is leading an uprising of white people to violently
attack minorities. Mueller rolls his
eyes and shouts at the TV sarcastically, “How can you accuse Trump of being
subtle? There isn’t a subtle or
subliminal bone in his body. Everything
is confrontational and in your face.”
“He turns off the TV as it has
annoyed him how everyone is so obsessed with hating Trump. Although Mueller hates him as well, he’s
getting a little sick of hating him.
Deep down, he admires that with all the shots that he’s taken, the man
is not only still standing but thriving.
The economy is doing well and there is a whole movement of blacks and
Hispanics leaving the Democratic Party.
The black move, nicknamed ‘blexit’ is spearheaded by a woman that didn’t
even vote for Trump, Candace Owens.
Mueller goes through all the battles Trump has had and is looking for a
loss. The biggest fight he had is the
one he’s doing the worst in. The border
wall is not being built expeditiously or even in a manner that his base
wants. Mueller takes solace that Trump
is winning all the time but this one is still a toss up. The recent Supreme Court decision that he can
use military treasury money for it is definitely a big battle he won but the
war is still up for grabs. He starts
looking into China to see if the trade war is winning. The trade war with Mexico, Canada and Europe
all were victorious but China is a much more worthy adversary than they
are. What he finds is that many US
companies are scheduled to leave China in a couple months and go to other
countries. Most of them are going to
Mexico or Vietnam. This is exactly what
Trump wants. As American companies leave
China, China can no longer steal their intellectual property and they will
suffer a lot more than the United States will.
Mueller concedes that so far, Trump is winning this one. Looks like the border wall is the only one he
can take solace in because it’s the closest thing President Trump has come to a
loss. The spending bill also is looking
good as a loss for Trump but that battle has barely begun. Time will tell. All Mueller hopes for is that
he can watch from the sidelines. He’s
done being in the fight. Unfortunately,
there are a lot of hungry people like Barr, Durham and John Smith that are
retaliating against him and his cohorts.
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