Staff Reports
The FBI’s disdain for President Trump stretches back to his campaign in 2016 and newly released documents shine a glaring spotlight on the antics of top intelligence elite desperately trying to thwart his presidency from day one. With a trove of emails, memos, and other communications recently unveiled, Americans are getting a clearer look at the backroom scheming that preceded the infamous “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t about justice; it was about overthrowing an election they didn’t like.
In a memo from May 2017, something straight out of a political thriller unfolded. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe were openly contemplating how they might remove Trump from office using the dubious 25th Amendment. At that moment, Trump had simply fired FBI Director James Comey, a move that sent the bureaucratic swamp into panic mode. Rosenstein boasted to McCabe about having potential supporters within the cabinet. Apparently, it didn’t take long before McCabe and Rosenstein realized they were barking up the wrong tree; they had more fiction in mind than a plot twist in a Nicholas Sparks novel.
The “investigation” into Trump’s supposedly nefarious ties to Russia was fueled in large part by the discredited Steele Dossier—a piece of political smut created by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Despite its dubious origins, this piece of work became the FBI’s bread and butter for proving Trump was a manchurian candidate. It’s ironic that while the nation was being subjected to a two-year witch hunt, those in the FBI, fueled by their own biases, were attempting to secure a paranoid narrative rather than investigate actual voter fraud or election integrity.
While a meeting held on August 3, 2016, saw CIA Director John Brennan and President Obama discussing alleged Russian interference, the real interference came from their own party’s attempts to undermine the Trump campaign with baseless claims. Their mission? Create a narrative so compelling that the American public would swallow it whole. Brennan was so smug that he casually dropped that Clinton had given the okay to implement a strategy to vilify Trump. Yes, they believed they could control the narrative on their terms—if only they knew that Trump thrived on chaos.
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— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) April 16, 2025
Further poking holes in the rickety narrative, figures like Peter Strzok—the poster boy for politicized justice—displayed clear bias through messages revealing his and others’ fire to create a “Trump unit” just days before he took the presidency. Strzok wasn’t just a bureaucratic foot soldier; he was engaged in a scandalous affair with fellow FBI lawyer Lisa Page, and together they hatched plans to block Trump’s presidency while crafting absurd theories about the man’s supposed cozy relationship with Vladimir Putin. Who knew the FBI’s finest were also master plotters, like a poor man’s version of a James Bond film gone awry?
Despite an 18-month investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that ultimately found no evidence of collusion, the damage was done. The narrative was set, and Trump was labeled a Russian puppet despite the investigation proving otherwise. This entire saga illustrates how political biases became a tool wielded by the intelligence community—not to hunt down threats to democracy, but to preserve their own playground. Their continued attempts to demean, discredit, and remove Trump highlight the lengths some in the swamp will go to protect their interests.
In what appears to be an ongoing struggle between true democratic values and the bureaucratic swamp’s survival, these revelations prove that the only interference in the 2016 election came from those supposed to be upholding the integrity of the process. The real question now is whether the American public will continue to let these politician-turned-agents run roughshod over their democratic choices.
