Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered a grand jury to look into allegations of a criminal conspiracy surrounding the ‘Russiagate’ investigation into then-2016 GOP nominee and then President Donald Trump’s campaign and administration.
The order comes after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe made criminal referrals to the Justice Department following the declassification of documents that appear to implicate intelligence community officials in then-President Barack Obama’s administration conspiring to push a fabricated ‘Trump-Russia collusion’ narrative hatched by 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Fox News was the first to report on Bondi’s move.
“Fox News can confirm that Attorney General Pam Bondi today signed an order directing an unnamed U.S. federal prosecutor to take evidence to a grand jury relating to an alleged conspiracy to tie then 2016 candidate Donald Trump to the country of Russia,” network correspondent David Spunt told host Will Cain on Monday.
“Now, Fox News reviewed the one-page order just hours ago, signed by the Attorney General. A source familiar with the probe confirms this as well. While a DoJ spokesperson declined to comment on this report of an investigation, Fox is told Attorney General Bondi is taking the referrals from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard ‘very seriously,’” Spunt said.
“The spokesperson says that Bondi believes there is ‘clear cause for deep concern’ and a need for the next steps. Now, this move, Will, comes just a couple of weeks after the Director of National Intelligence — you see her right there — Tulsi Gabbard sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department regarding what she says proves there was a conspiracy to undermine Trump’s candidacy and later his first term in office,” the correspondent continued.
“Now, to be clear, today, there are no charges that have been filed, no indictments. This is incredibly early in the process. What we have here is taking evidence the Justice Department believes it has to a grand jury to secure an eventual indictment or indictments,” he said. “We don’t know exactly where the grand jury will meet. We don’t know who will go before the grand jury. And that’s by design because grand juries determine if there’s enough evidence to indict, and grand juries are secretive in the American legal system, so it’s normal not to know all of the answers.
“Again, the DoJ declining on any comment regarding this investigation. But, Will, big news. This was signed by the Attorney General Pam Bondi today to take this evidence of an alleged conspiracy to a grand jury with the hope to get an indictment or multiple indictments,” Spunt added.
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“Former Obama intelligence officials, including John Brennan, James Clapper and James Comey, have drawn scrutiny from Trump officials for their alleged involvement in developing intelligence that undermined Trump’s 2016 victory,” Fox reported.
Others believe that Clinton herself is also implicated in the alleged conspiracy, including top-rated broadcaster Megyn Kelly.
Previous reports had implicated Clinton’s 2016 campaign as having been responsible for the creation of the so-called “Steele Dossier,” a collection of wild and unfounded accusations involving Trump that included the claim he was working with Moscow to sway the election in his favor.
“This woman should be in jail. Literally, Hillary Clinton should be behind bars. And so should the people who worked for her who did this. This is so blatantly corrupt. She wanted to distract from her email scandal. She cooked up a plan to accuse Trump of being a Russian agent in order to distract from her own legitimate scandal,” Kelly said during a show segment last week.
“She made up a scandal about Trump being a Russian asset, and they banked on the intel agencies working with her to perpetuate this lie. And it appears they were only too happy to assist. That’s what this scandal’s about. Pieces of it we knew. New pieces are coming in by the day thanks to these declassifications. And it’s downright shocking,” she added.