DAVID MARCUS: The Russia hoax is simple. Democrats lied and half the country believed them
Fox News host Sean Hannity breaks down the Durham report declassified annex and what it suggests about the Trump-Russia collusion hoax on ‘Hannity.’
The United States of America has now spent almost a decade embroiled in "Russiagate," and its citizens have been bombarded from both sides with theories, names, and anonymous quotes. But it all really comes down to one thing: Democrats lied, and half the country believed them.
In the 24 pages of never-before-seen declassified files released Thursday, we saw in cold, calculated black and white exactly how the Clinton campaign crafted the lie that Donald Trump was colluding with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
One email allegedly shows Leonard Benardo, vice president of the George Soros backed Open Society Foundation, writing in July 2016 that, "Julie [sic] says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump," adding "Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire."
Julie is Julianne Smith, then a foreign policy adviser to the Hillary Clinton campaign. You know who the FBI is.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard talks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on July 23, 2025, in Washington, DC., after releasing newly-declassified documents about the Trump-Russia collusion ‘hoax.’ ((Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images | Fox News Digital))
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