FBI’s ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ files show the fervor to frame Trump
The top brass in the FBI and intelligence community were determined to stop President Trump from winning the White House in 2016, and they talked about removing him from office months after he was sworn in, according to newly released documents.
www.washingtontimes.com
15 Apr 2025 ~~ By Susan Ferrechio
The top brass in the
FBI and intelligence community were determined to stop President Trump from winning the White House in 2016, and they talked about removing him from office months after he was sworn in, according to newly released documents.
The zeal to pin Russian collusion allegations on Mr. Trump spilled out of the 700 pages of emails, memos, interviews and other material connected to the 2016 “Crossfire Hurricane” probe that were newly made public by the Trump administration.
Some of the material is familiar, released in 2021 by Mr. Trump on the final day of his first term. Other pages provide greater detail about the unprecedented secret probe and spy operation on Mr. Trump’s campaign that followed him into the White House.
In one newly released memo, dated May 2017, four months into Mr. Trump’s first term, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe discussed “the President’s capacity and the possibility that he could be removed from office under the 25th Amendment.”
At the time, the Justice Department was reeling over Mr. Trump’s firing of FBI Director James B. Comey on May 9, 2017, and was weighing the appointment of a special counsel to oversee the FBI’s probe into allegations, later proven phony, that Mr. Trump colluded with Russia to win the election.
Mr. Rosenstein said he believed he “might already have two supporters” among the eight cabinet members he would need to remove Mr. Trump under the 25th Amendment: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.
The plan never moved forward and Mr. Kelly was elevated to serve as Mr. Trump’s White House Chief of Staff a mere two months later, in July of 2017. He left the White House in January 2019.
Mr.Trump fired Mr. Sessions in November 2018.
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The newly released documents show desperation to stop Mr.
Trump among top brass from the
FBI. The deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, Peter Strzok, an avowed
Trump hater, discussed in inter-bureau electronic messages the
FBI’s proposal to form a “
Trump unit” to investigate the new president days before he was sworn into office in 2017.
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The
FBI never vetted the Steele dossier, but documents show that Igor Danchenko, who was Mr. Steele’s primary source for the unproven allegations about Mr. Trump and
Russia, was introduced to him by Trump foe Fiona Hill.
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Mr. Trump called the entire investigation a “witch hunt” and a “hoax” that hobbled his first term in office.
He signed an executive order on March 25 declassifying the remaining Crossfire Hurricane documents that were not released in 2021, but the latest batch contained many redactions.
Mr. Trump called the investigation into his campaign “total weaponization” and “a disgrace” without precedent.
“Frankly, the
FBI should be ashamed of themselves, and so should the
Department of Justice and so should Biden,” he said.
Commentary:
How the current Bondi led DOJ responds to this will speak volumes.
When and where are the arrests, indictments and trials for sedition begin. a
I'd love to see that smug and conceited Peter Strzok perp walked with his mistress following close behind, along with Comey, McCabe, Uhr and his wife Nellie.