An attempt to “neutralize” one of Hillary Clinton’s biggest weaknesses during her 2016 presidential campaign ultimately triggered the Russia collusion probe into President Trump, veteran journalist John Solomon explained in the latest episode of “Pod Force One.”
Solomon, the founder of Just the News and the head of a Trump administration task force on government transparency, argued that polling data presented to the former secretary of state amid her White House run, and her response to it, marked the start of a 10-year-long, Democrat-led, “wash, rinse, repeat cycle” of federal investigations against Trump.
“The origins of that wash, rinse, repeat cycle are in the November/December 2015 timeframe,” Solomon told “Pod Force One” host Miranda Devine. “It’s around that time … that Hillary Clinton does a poll and it takes all the scandals that have been in the Clinton world.”
The former first lady and her husband, ex-President Bill Clinton, are no strangers to political scandals, and the poll was intended to shed light on which one voters were “most concerned about,” according to Solomon.
But it wasn’t Whitewater, Bill’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and his subsequent impeachment, the 1996 China campaign fundraising controversy or even Hillary’s private email server scandal that Americans found most alarming, which left Hillary’s team “stunned.”
“The one they’re most concerned about is Uranium One and the Clinton family’s relationship with Russia,” Solomon said.
The scandal revolved around “a $500,000 fee that Bill Clinton gets from Moscow to give a speech at a time when Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State is giving a lot of favors back to Russia, including the ability to purchase American uranium, including a company called Uranium One, as well as utility contracts,” the Just the News founder explained.
“But the Clintons find in this poll … that that scandal was going to be the largest impediment to her election.”
“It’s at that point,” Solomon continued, ”they decide to hang a Russian shingle on Donald Trump’s campaign house.”
Perkins Coie, which represented Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign, retained the services of intelligence firm Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research against Trump in April 2016.
Former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele was subsequently hired by Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump’s overseas business relationships – leading to the publication of the now-debunked Steele dossier.
In September 2016, former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann went to the FBI with since-debunked computer data that purportedly tied Trump and the Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank.
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“They need to project their sins on Donald Trump, or whoever the Republican nominee is going to be,” Solomon said, arguing that the “goal” of the Kremlin collusion narrative was to “hang a fake Russian scandal on the Republicans to neutralize Hillary Clinton’s campaign.”
The Obama administration, including former President Barack Obama, were fully aware of Clinton’s “plan to foment a fake scandal against Donald Trump,” according to Solomon.
“They know about it. Even briefed the President of the United States, Barack Obama, at the time, and nobody stops it,” he fumed.
“And then the FBI begins its investigation into the insanity of what we now know as Russia collusion, which a lot of people would say is Russia delusion, basically consumes two and a half years of America’s political conscience.”
