It would sound like a joke, if it weren’t for the fact that this is no laughing matter. The infamous Russian source of the infamous Steele dossier was on the FBI payroll until 2020.
Almost a year ago, we reported that the main Steele dossier source had been arrested by the Department of Justice:
"The Department of Justice arrested Igor Danchenko who is responsible for lying to the FBI over the claims that he made that contributed to Christopher Steele’s dossier. The dossier basically claimed that Donald Trump was working for the Russians, when really it appears that it was the Clinton campaign colluding with a Russian national the entire time."
At the time we asked how the FBI could miss this? Well, now we know that it was no mistake. The FBI was paying the Russian asset.
You read that right, as absurd as it sounds. Newly unsealed documents in the filing by Special Counsel John Durham have now revealed that a suspected Russian asset Igor Danchenko was paid by the Deep State FBI to verify the Steele dossier, the main source presented to a FISA judge to obtain a warrant to spy on members of the Trump campaign.
As reported:
"Igor Danchenko, a primary contributor to the Steele dossier, was hired by the FBI as a confidential informant in 2017, Special Counsel John Durham revealed in a new court filing . . . The new filing reveals the FBI hired Danchenko as a confidential informant in March 2017 after having interviewed him about his work on the dossier months earlier. Danchenko is accused of having made false statements regarding the sources of some information that he provided to a U.K. investigative firm in 2017 that was later passed to the FBI."
So let me get this straight, the FBI was already investigating this guy for essentially being a Russian spy, and then said Igor, you’re our kind of guy, a BAD guy and hired him to act as their own asset. Danchenko remained on the FBI’s payroll, which don’t forget is funded by your tax dollars, through 2020 – in other words essentially through the next election cycle. Oh yeah, and then he was charged in 2021 for lying to the FBI. You cannot make this up.
None of this information was disclosed during the Mueller investigation of President Trump regarding alleged Russian collusion? And some wonder why people talk about bias and corruption running rampant on the Left. As my dad points out:
"Nobody was made aware of this during the course of the Mueller probe. Are you going to tell me Bob Mueller and his team didn’t know about this? That this was false? They never should’ve opened Crossfire Hurricane, but it should have been closed immediately. And this just shows you how it reeks."
ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell called out the Deep State FBI for its incompetence and corruption:
"Let’s be very clear, Dachenko was hired and paid by the FBI while the FBI absolutely knew that he was a liar. They knew that he had lied so many times that they couldn’t trust him, but yet they paid him. Now you ask why would the FBI retain someone that they don’t trust, and I can’t answer that. What I can tell you is that FBI agents rank and file, DOJ officials rank and file, all knew that the Steele dossier was filled with fake news. That Steele himself was compromised and paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign. And that Danchenko was the source of the Steele dossier and he was not a credible source. Everybody knew that he was a liar. The FBI continued to pay him. Someone in the Senate has got to go crazy with oversight. This is an outrage. American taxpayers, we’re paying a liar."
This is just further evidence that Crossfire Hurricane was a circus sideshow meant to ruin an Administration based on personal bias and vendettas, and everyone involved needs to be exposed and held accountable. Deep State operatives entrenched in the FBI and DOJ must be ferreted out for the sake of our constitutional republic.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes further in depth analysis of this bombshell revelation about the FBI, as well as discussion with Ric Grenell regarding pressing issues that you won’t hear about in the mainstream media.
After her shocking testimony before Congress yesterday, U.S. Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle has resigned. Will we get answers about the massive security failure that almost resulted in President Donald Trump losing his life? The Sekulow team discusses the USSS director’s resignation, Vice President Kamala Harris securing enough delegates to be the 2024 presidential nominee, the ACLJ’s legal work – and much more.
Apparently, the Secret Service had already increased its efforts to protect President Donald Trump after recent intelligence surfaced of an Iranian plot to assassinate the former President. So why was security so lax in Butler, Pennsylvania? The Sekulow team discusses the massive Secret Service failure, the Republican National Convention, Trump’s pick of Senator J.D. Vance as Vice President, other RNC news, a new ACLJ FOIA against the Biden Administration, the 2024 presidential election – and much more.
President Joe Biden isn’t planning on going anywhere, as more and more within the Democrat Party call for him not to run for reelection. He wrote a letter to Democrats in the House of Representatives calling for unity in the fight to defeat President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. The Sekulow team discusses Biden’s letter and the turmoil surrounding his White House campaign, the reaction to Biden’s interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, Judge Aileen Cannon’s latest move in Trump’s classified documents case, the ACLJ’s legal work – and much more.
Due to the U.S. Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling, Judge Juan Merchan delayed the sentencing in President Donald Trump’s New York trial until September 18. Will DA Alvin Bragg be forced to reopen the trial after much of his evidence included “official acts” from when Trump was President?
The delayed sentencing date is huge for two reasons. First, much of the far Left hoped that the attention would shift from President Biden’s poor debate performance to Trump’s original sentencing date of July 11. And as we said last week, it will not be good news for President Biden if the media is still talking about replacing him after the long Independence Day weekend.
Right now, the narrative isn’t shifting for Biden. Yesterday, the primary topic at White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s press conference was President Biden’s fitness for office. Also, an internal Democrat election poll was leaked that sounded the alarm for Biden’s reelection in swing states, and Trump is way ahead in fundraising now following the debate.
The second reason that the delayed sentencing is significant comes from Judge Juan Merchan’s letter regarding the delayed sentencing: “The Court’s decision will be rendered off-calendar on September 6, 2024, and the matter is adjourned to September 18, 2024, at 10:00 AM for the imposition of sentence, if such is still necessary, or other proceedings.”
Did you catch the important nugget: “if such is still necessary, or other proceedings”? In other words, the Supreme Court’s decision could derail Bragg’s case altogether. Within hours of the Justices’ decision, Trump’s lawyers contested this issue, setting off the chain of events leading to the delayed sentencing – a lot of movement happened quickly.
Bragg had presented a broad case that ignored expired statutes of limitations and elevated what would have been a misdemeanor into 34 felony counts. Yet by going so broad, Bragg might have tanked his case completely by presenting evidence that would now be considered inadmissible.
Trump’s lawyers filed a brief to have the jury’s verdict vacated, and the other side will be filing a brief in response. Judge Merchan will review the briefs (which the caveat “if such is still necessary” refers to) before the sentencing date. The judge might not have a reason to sentence President Trump at all.
The Biden Administration has come out swinging against the recent videos of President Biden freezing up that are circulating online. The latest video to spark controversy was at the Hollywood fundraiser over the weekend. President Obama took Biden by the wrist and led the President offstage after he froze up and looked lost. Other recent footage includes Biden appearing confused at a D-Day ceremony, an early Juneteenth ceremony, and the G-7 summit.
At a press conference on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed the videos are “cheap fakes.” But are they?
Each of these hiccups occurred at a well-publicized Biden event. They weren’t secret, behind-closed-doors meetings. Everyone witnessed what happened to Biden on the public stage.
Yet instead of simply addressing the freeze-ups as the result of President Biden being an elderly man and that such occurrences are bound to happen, the Administration insists on gaslighting Americans. It wants to spin the narrative as a conspiracy by political opponents to make Biden look weak.
Playing off the term “deep fake,” which refers to AI-generated content, Biden’s handlers are saying the videos in question are manipulated and/or edited, calling them “cheap fakes.” And now the mainstream media is following the White House’s talking points about these videos being fake.
For example, on Sekulow, we played a clip of former White House Communications Director Nicolle Wallace commenting on the controversy, yet MSNBC didn’t show the full footage of Biden’s freezing up at the Hollywood event. Ironically, the real “cheap fakes” are coming from the mainstream media.
ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell commented on the mainstream media’s attempt to cover up the truth about Biden’s mental state:
The propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, the media in America, is really in a dangerous situation. They are helping a regime – hook, line, and sinker. They always take the side of the Democrats. They push the Democratic messaging; they’ve lost their credibility. I can promise you that dictators around the world are looking at the control that the Democratic Party has over the media in America, and they’re jealous. Because with every single thing we see, we can watch a video, and the media says you’re not watching this the right way or it’s a fake. And so many in the media repeat that.
If you’ve read George Orwell’s 1984, you will be familiar with the famous line: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” In Orwell’s dystopian novel, the government controls all truth regardless of what the people have seen and heard for themselves. The Biden Administration is using the mainstream media to enact the same Orwellian tactics on the public. It is even using Orwellian Newspeak terms like “cheap fake.”
The White House will do its best to spin the truth about President Biden, but the American people can watch the videos and decide for themselves.
It would sound like a joke, if it weren’t for the fact that this is no laughing matter. The infamous Russian source of the infamous Steele dossier was on the FBI payroll until 2020.
Almost a year ago, we reported that the main Steele dossier source had been arrested by the Department of Justice:
"The Department of Justice arrested Igor Danchenko who is responsible for lying to the FBI over the claims that he made that contributed to Christopher Steele’s dossier. The dossier basically claimed that Donald Trump was working for the Russians, when really it appears that it was the Clinton campaign colluding with a Russian national the entire time."
At the time we asked how the FBI could miss this? Well, now we know that it was no mistake. The FBI was paying the Russian asset.
You read that right, as absurd as it sounds. Newly unsealed documents in the filing by Special Counsel John Durham have now revealed that a suspected Russian asset Igor Danchenko was paid by the Deep State FBI to verify the Steele dossier, the main source presented to a FISA judge to obtain a warrant to spy on members of the Trump campaign.
As reported:
"Igor Danchenko, a primary contributor to the Steele dossier, was hired by the FBI as a confidential informant in 2017, Special Counsel John Durham revealed in a new court filing . . . The new filing reveals the FBI hired Danchenko as a confidential informant in March 2017 after having interviewed him about his work on the dossier months earlier. Danchenko is accused of having made false statements regarding the sources of some information that he provided to a U.K. investigative firm in 2017 that was later passed to the FBI."
So let me get this straight, the FBI was already investigating this guy for essentially being a Russian spy, and then said Igor, you’re our kind of guy, a BAD guy and hired him to act as their own asset. Danchenko remained on the FBI’s payroll, which don’t forget is funded by your tax dollars, through 2020 – in other words essentially through the next election cycle. Oh yeah, and then he was charged in 2021 for lying to the FBI. You cannot make this up.
None of this information was disclosed during the Mueller investigation of President Trump regarding alleged Russian collusion? And some wonder why people talk about bias and corruption running rampant on the Left. As my dad points out:
"Nobody was made aware of this during the course of the Mueller probe. Are you going to tell me Bob Mueller and his team didn’t know about this? That this was false? They never should’ve opened Crossfire Hurricane, but it should have been closed immediately. And this just shows you how it reeks."
ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell called out the Deep State FBI for its incompetence and corruption:
"Let’s be very clear, Dachenko was hired and paid by the FBI while the FBI absolutely knew that he was a liar. They knew that he had lied so many times that they couldn’t trust him, but yet they paid him. Now you ask why would the FBI retain someone that they don’t trust, and I can’t answer that. What I can tell you is that FBI agents rank and file, DOJ officials rank and file, all knew that the Steele dossier was filled with fake news. That Steele himself was compromised and paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign. And that Danchenko was the source of the Steele dossier and he was not a credible source. Everybody knew that he was a liar. The FBI continued to pay him. Someone in the Senate has got to go crazy with oversight. This is an outrage. American taxpayers, we’re paying a liar."
This is just further evidence that Crossfire Hurricane was a circus sideshow meant to ruin an Administration based on personal bias and vendettas, and everyone involved needs to be exposed and held accountable. Deep State operatives entrenched in the FBI and DOJ must be ferreted out for the sake of our constitutional republic.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes further in depth analysis of this bombshell revelation about the FBI, as well as discussion with Ric Grenell regarding pressing issues that you won’t hear about in the mainstream media.