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Transcript:
Russiagate: The Real Scandal, Part 2
Presented by Lee Smith

After Donald Trump won the 2016 election, “Russiagate,” or the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax, should have disappeared into the dustbin of history, just another “dirty” campaign trick that failed.

That’s what should have happened, but it didn’t.

Far from being dead, the baseless conspiracy theory that Trump was a Russian agent, was revving up. If it failed to derail Donald Trump’s candidacy, it could still derail his presidency.

So believed outgoing President Barack Obama, CIA director John Brennan, and FBI director James Comey, among others.

There was no time to waste. This was November and Trump would take office at the end of January.

The plotters' first move was to make a flashy display of expelling Russian diplomats and shutting down Russian “intelligence gathering facilities” in Maryland and New York. This conveyed the impression that the Obama Administration had proof, as The New York Times put it, that the Russians had “enabled the publication of the emails it harvested [from the Clinton campaign] to benefit…Trump’s campaign.”

The Administration had no such proof. It was all for show.

Around the same time, Obama ordered CIA chief John Brennan to produce an intelligence community assessment, or ICA, about Russia’s role in the election. It had to be done before the