Biden and Obama Tied to Clinton Plan to Fabricate Trump Russia Narrative

By Jerry Dunleavy and John Solomon | Just the News

Then-Vice President Joe Biden was the first major Democrat in summer 2016 to publicly try to link Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin after U.S. intelligence intercepted a purported plan by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to vilify Trump by falsely linking him to a Russian plot.

The timing of Biden’s Russia attacks against Trump in July 2016 was striking to U.S. intelligence because it and other events matched predictions in the intercepted evidence from Russian spy agencies, which had claimed to have gained access to the Clinton campaign strategy, officials told Just the News.

Biden would become the public face of an effort to attack Trump by linking him to Putin starting in late July 2016 — just as the Democratic National Convention formally nominating Clinton was getting underway, and very soon after the reported approval by Clinton to carry out this plan.

“Clinton Plan intelligence” at work
Newly-declassified Clinton Plan intelligence included purported intercepted communications from a George Soros ally suggesting that Clinton’s 2016 campaign against Trump was plotting a “long-term affair to demonize” the Republican nominee by connecting him to Putin, and that the Clinton campaign expected that “the FBI will put more oil into the fire.”

A source familiar with the intelligence, but who declined to be named told Just the News that the U.S. government has the capability to determine whether some of the intercepts were real rather than being Russian disinformation, but that this determination involves highly classified tools.

The bombshell allegations about a plot to falsely link Trump to Putin in an effort to distract from Clinton’s classified emails scandal are found within a formerly classified but now largely-unredacted appendix from Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report.

The source told Just the News — and Just the News’ review of Durham‘s classified annex also confirmed — that some in the CIA believed that the intelligence the Russians had obtained about the Clinton Plan was accurate but perhaps a composite of multiple pieces of evidence the Russian had intercepted.

Part of the reason for that assessment, the source said, was that some of the events the Russians were predicting based on their intercepts were actually occurring, including Biden seemingly taking the lead shortly after the plan’s approval, just as some messages had predicted.

Durham’s 2023 public report revealed that “the Intelligence Community received the Clinton Plan intelligence in late July 2016.”

And the newly declassified annex of the report also shows he found some corroborating evidence for the intercepts but concluded the purported emails from an official at George Soros foundation named Leonard Bernardo were likely mashups or composites of what Russian spies had probably collected.

“The office’s best assessment is that the July 25 and July 27 emails that purport to be from Benardo were ultimately a composite of several emails that were obtained through Russian intelligence hacking of the U.S.-based think tanks, including the Open Society Foundations, the Carnegie Endowment and others,” the report concluded.

Biden was briefed on “vilifying” Trump in 2016
The Special Counsel said then-CIA Director John Brennan’s handwritten notes reflect that Brennan briefed Biden, then-President Barack Obama, since-fired FBI Director James Comey, and others in early August 2016 regarding the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on 26 July of a proposal from one of her [campaign] advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.”

Durham’s classified annex noted text messages between Clinton campaign officials referred to efforts to get Biden’s vice presidential office involved in July 2016 in drumming up concerns about Russian hacking and Trump.

Biden jumped into action and raised concerns about Trump and Russia, according to public transcripts of his interviews and speeches.

Biden spoke with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News at the DNC, where he argued that Putin preferred Trump to Hillary. The interview occurred on July 26, 2016 — the same day as the reported approval of the Clinton Plan.

“I’ve traveled over a million miles around the world just in the last seven and a half years. But I haven’t found a single world leader, ally, friend, who says, ‘Geez, it’s great. Maybe we’ll get a Trump presidency.’ Oh, I think Putin doesn’t want a united NATO,” Biden said. “I think he [Putin] doesn’t want a united EU. I could see where a lot of our adversaries would think it’s better to have someone who doesn’t have any idea what they’re doing than have somebody as tough as Hillary.”

Biden joined Morning Joe of MSNBC in a Philadelphia bar near the DNC the next day, where Biden again argued that Trump was playing into Putin’s hands.

“This whole thing about NATO, now, you know, everybody’s making a big thing and saying, ‘He [Trump] is a friend of Putin’s.’ I don’t buy that, but here’s what he’s doing: He’s playing directly into the hands of a guy who says — your father [Jimmy Carter national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski] would tell you — his overarching goal of Putin is to break up NATO and to fracture Europe,” Biden said.

Biden added: “So here you’ve got someone come along and say, ‘You know, unless Latvia pays their bills’ — first of all, they’re paying their bill, but — ‘unless Latvia pays their bills, I’m not sure we’re gonna honor Article Five of a treaty that is a single most significant treaty in the history of mankind, lasted over 60 years, is absolutely central to our security.’ … I don’t think he knows what Article Five is.”

Notably, the Obama vice president would travel to Latvia the next month to again hammer Trump about his alleged stance on NATO.

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