Declassified Documents Link George Soros to Russiagate Conspiracy

Declassified documents suggest a connection between billionaire George Soros and the alleged Russiagate conspiracy. According to a recently released U.S. government report, Soros's Open Society Foundations played a role in supporting the 2016 campaign efforts to falsely link then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to Russia. The 29-page annex to Special Counsel John Durham's 2023 report, unveiled by the Senate Judiciary Committee, alleges Soros's significant involvement in orchestrating the smear campaign. The annex references purportedly authentic emails from Leonard Benardo, a senior vice president at Soros's foundation, dated July 2016. These emails reveal plans to leak information through FBI-affiliated entities like Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect, which would then be disseminated via major U.S. media outlets. One email indicates confidence in the media analysis of the DNC hacking, while another predicts that the FBI would intensify the investigation. Additionally, the document mentions Julianne Smith, a Clinton foreign policy adviser, suggesting that the Russiagate narrative was intended to be a prolonged effort to discredit Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Senate Committee ...