And here it is — another bombshell in the Russia hoax saga. On Thursday, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Attorney General Pam Bondi declassified new documents and handed them over to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, delivering on Donald Trump’s directive for maximum transparency.
CIA and DOJ’s declassification of the Durham Report Appendix, along with DNI’s efforts, further advances President Trump’s directive for maximum transparency and fulfills Sen. Grassley’s request for disclosure.https://t.co/NTQpgoW9d4 pic.twitter.com/JmXYr7flpg
— CIA (@CIA) July 31, 2025
The documents? They’re not just a rehash of old news — they go right for the jugular. According to the newly released material, Hillary Clinton herself approved a plan to smear Donald Trump by hyping up the “Russia collusion” narrative in 2016.
Let’s break this down.
The declassified appendix from Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation includes an intelligence report dated July 26, 2016, showing that Clinton greenlit a proposal by her policy advisor, Juliana Smith. The scheme was clear: push the idea that Vladimir Putin was actively backing Trump in order to divert public attention away from Clinton’s own scandal — namely, her illegal use of a private email server to store and share classified government material.
“As envisioned by Smith,” the report reads, “raising the theme of ‘Putin’s support for Trump’ would divert constituents’ attention from the investigation of Clinton’s compromised electronic correspondence.”
In other words, create a bigger boogeyman — Russia — so people stop looking at her.
Even more telling, the documents show the Clinton team wasn’t just looking to deflect scrutiny; they wanted to corner the Obama administration into escalating tensions with Moscow. As the report notes, “By subsequently steering public opinion toward the notion that it needs to equate ‘Putin’s efforts’ to influence political processes in the U.S. via cyberspace to acts against a crucially important infrastructure would force the [Obama] White House to use more confrontational scenarios vis-a-vis Moscow that, as a whole, suits Clinton’s line of conduct.”
NEW I just released the declassified Durham annex I’ll be on Fox News SOON to talk abt my findings
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) July 31, 2025
Think about that: a presidential candidate allegedly leveraged false narratives to manipulate not only public opinion but U.S. foreign policy — all for political survival.
Grassley, who has been pushing for this disclosure for years, now has the goods. And Bondi made it clear: this is about truth and accountability. “This Department of Justice, alongside the CIA, is committed to truth and transparency,” she said, praising Grassley for “leading by example.”
For years, critics of the Trump-Russia narrative have said it was manufactured political theater. These documents add yet another brick to that wall — with Hillary Clinton’s fingerprints all over it.
