Posted originally on Aug 1, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

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.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, declassified the Durham report and accused the Obama Administration of fairly investigate the situation when there were intelligence reports “showing the Clinton campaign may have been ginning up the fake Trump-Russia narrative for Clinton’s political gain, which was ultimately done through the Steele Dossier and other means.” 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,” 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. The new Trump administration has a tremendous responsibility to the American people to fix the damage done and do so with maximum speed and transparency.”

FBI Director James Comey, under the guidance of former President Obama, hid the Clinton e-mail scandal from the public. 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.”

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch met former President Bill Clinton on the Phoenix tarmac in a clearly suspicious meeting a few weeks before Comey’s announcement.

“Under Comey’s leadership, the FBI failed to perform fundamental investigative work and left key pieces of evidence on the cutting room floor. The Comey FBI’s negligent approach and perhaps intentional lack of effort in the Clinton investigation is a stark contrast to its full-throated investigation of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, which was based on the uncorroborated and now discredited Steele dossier. Comey’s decision-making process smacks of political infection,” Grassley stated.

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz launched an investigation that determined foul play. “The initial [REDACTED] report suggested that then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and then-FBI Director James Comey were interfering in the Midyear investigation to help the Democratic and Republican candidates, respectively.”

“By way of forming a consensus relative to the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, leading the Democratic Party (DP), sanctioned use of all administrative levers to remove possibly negative effects of the FBI investigation of the business of the Clinton Foundation and the email correspondence of the State Department. Based upon information from Wassermann Schultz [sic], the FBI does not anticipate any kind of direct evidence against Clinton, as there was timely deletions from the email servers,” the report said. “The political director of the Hillary Clinton staff, Amanda Renteria [PH], regularly receives information from Loretta Lynch of the Department of Justice, on the plans and intentions of the FBI. Active work is being done on clarification mostly with potential witnesses: the primary witnesses are a number of computer specialists in the Clinton private circle. They represent the only tools which may be used in this matter. Therefore, the threat is minimal…”

This is groundbreaking corruption and a direct attack on American democracy by Obama, the Clintons, Comey, Soros, and everyone who aided them or turned a blind eye to the corruption that they knew had occurred. This is far larger than simply defamation—the Democrats backed by foreign influence (Soros) attempted to manipulate the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential Election. Their plot failed and the people prevailed. If this blatant disregard for democracy is overlooked there is a grand chance it could reoccur. The people on both sides of the aisle should be absolutely outraged that politicians and intelligence agency believe they have the right to decide on our leadership.