The American public was right not to trust Hillary Clinton. The more we uncover about Russiagate and her involvement, the clearer this becomes.
Put yourself in Hillary Clinton’s position. Imagine initiating one of the most notorious political dirty tricks ever and then watching Russiagate unravel over the last decade. Think of the frustration as the nation descended into the deepest rabbit hole in 2017—a hole she helped dig—searching for evidence of collusion between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin that she knew never existed.
What went through her mind as a special prosecutor was hired and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars were spent chasing leads her campaign fabricated? Was there ever a moment of remorse or a desire to come clean and apologize for the deception? The answer is no. Instead, Hillary Clinton wrote a book called What Happened?, blaming Vladimir Putin, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and former CIA Director James Comey for her stunning loss to Trump—a political outsider she openly mocked. She still clings to this narrative that without Russian interference, she would have become America’s first female president.
The truth is that Hillary Clinton was an unpopular candidate, distrusted by a majority of Americans. CNN polling from around the 2016 Democratic Convention revealed that 68 percent viewed Clinton as dishonest and untrustworthy—her worst approval rating ever. In fact, only 30 percent saw her as honest, compared to 43 percent for Trump.
The public’s distrust of Clinton was justified; the more that emerges about Russiagate and her role, the more obvious it becomes.
Clinton’s approval rating stood at a low 31 percent in July 2016. Barack Obama’s two terms had shifted the political landscape, with fewer Americans identifying as Democrats in 2016 compared to 2008.
Maybe Hillary knew she needed to pull out all the stops to defeat Donald Trump. That could explain her sign-off on two underhanded schemes that severely damaged Trump’s presidency.
First, her former campaign manager, Robby Mook, testified that she personally approved the plan to leak a false story about a secret server linking the Trump Organization to Alfa Bank in Moscow. This fabricated connection was meant to stoke suspicion that Trump was in cahoots with Putin. The story was widely spread by Hillary’s supporters and the mainstream media, despite no evidence supporting it.
Following the Slate magazine article, Hillary tweeted claims of “Computer scientists” uncovering this covert server, followed by a press release declaring it the key to unlocking Trump’s ties to Russia. The FBI later confirmed no such “hotline” existed.
Jake Sullivan, who pushed this false narrative and was later appointed National Security Adviser by President Joe Biden, was also involved.
The most damaging Russia collusion allegation came from the Steele dossier—funded by the Clinton campaign—that triggered the prolonged investigation into Russian interference and led to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment. The Federal Election Commission under Biden even fined the campaign and the DNC for falsely denying they paid for this opposition research.
New evidence continues to surface, suggesting that Hillary Clinton, along with Barack Obama, James Comey, John Brennan, and others, manipulated intelligence to feed the public more lies about Trump’s alleged Russian ties.
The New York Times recently sought to protect Clinton, downplaying damning emails in an annex to Special Counsel John H. Durham’s report and dismissing GOP claims that Clinton approved a campaign proposal to tie Trump to Russia as baseless.
Will the full truth about the effort to undermine Trump ever come out? Probably not. And key players like Hillary Clinton likely won’t face accountability.
But as revelations from the Trump White House keep coming, it’s easy to imagine Hillary getting a measure of her due. Her deceit, knowing how deeply she betrayed public trust, has likely left her bitter and defeated.
People now see her as a corrupt schemer—someone who couldn’t win on her own merits and resorted to lies that hurt the nation.
Moreover, she didn’t just attack President Trump but also the 61 million Americans who voted for him in 2016.
