Stunning: Oliver Stone On Trump
Plus, The Latest From Durham
OK, here’s what’s stunning, to me, about this June, 2017, interview. It’s supposed to be about Putin, but in fact Stone’s most telling responses are about the new President Trump. And in my view those comments were—and still are—incisive. We need to be focused on who the real enemies are—as Stone maintains. The total video is just 8 minutes long, and I’ve done a transcript of the parts that interested me most:
Oliver Stone on how the US misunderstands Putin:
3:20 re "hacking"
Let's say it's possible that they ["the Russians"] got into the computers of the DNC. But we don't know that for sure. When the American intelligence--three of them, not seventeen--said what they said, it was classified as an 'assessment'. It was not an 'estimate'. This is a thin assessment. And veteran journalists and veteran people who worked in the surveillance community pointed that out to me on day one. They said that this is not a normal procedure. That the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI--with a week and a half to go in the Obama administration--suddenly put out this 'assessment' that's basically a slap in the face of the new incoming president, saying that you're a Manchurian candidate and that you’re in office because of Russian interference. This is stunning. That's as hostile as any administration can be to another one.
6:35
In this matter of Trump, I think there's a significant battle going on between the concept of the presidency and who really runs America--which is at the heart of democracy. Where is the real conflict? Who is the enemy? Are we the enemy to ourselves? Are we in the grip of a dictator--the dictator is Money? The dictator is the state that exists? Can we control it? These are questions that we have to ask. We have to examine our own country.
On to Durham.
Legal analysts are buzzing about the latest revelations from John Durham’s office. I think the real importance of the latest filings is that we now know that Durham has documentary evidence of Sussmann’s lie to the FBI, in the form of a text from Sussmann to the FBI’s Baker in which Sussmann states that he wishes to meet and falsely represents that he will not be representing any party. That, in essence, makes Baker’s testimony irrefutable. It also strengthens the entire case and all the supporting witnesses, such as the FBI’s Bill Priestap and Trisha Anderson. That is all.
And now some practical advice for surviving the New World Order:
The circumstantial evidence is that Seth Rich, a Bernie Sanders supporter and DNC employee, provided a copy of DNC emails to Wikileaks. Rich was murdered for this.
This afternoon (April 6), PJ Media published an article titled "Durham Filings Reveal Timeline of Conspiracy to Frame Trump", written by Matt Margolis.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/04/06/durham-filings-reveal-timeline-of-conspiracy-to-frame-trump-n1587463
The key passage:
.... it started the very same day that James Comey’s FBI cleared Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing for storing classified information on her private email server. On that day, July 5, 2016, Christopher Steele delivered the first version of his infamous dossier on Trump. The FBI field office didn’t act on it right away, but Clinton operatives and lawyers were already snooping around for more “evidence” of collusion, namely internet domain name service logs tying Trump to the Kremlin via secret back channels with Alfa Bank.
By the end of the month [July 2016], CIA Director John Brennan had briefed Barack Obama about Hillary Clinton’s “personally approved” plan “from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services” in the election. Simultaneously, the plan would distract the public from her email scandal.
However, the scheme to undermine Trump wasn’t going as fast as Clinton’s operatives would have hoped, so Steele traveled to Washington to relay his research to Bruce Ohr, a senior official at the Department of Justice. This information was taken directly to top brass at FBI headquarters, and Steele was later made a confidential informant. The FBI formally opened its investigation into Trump/Russia collusion on July 31, 2016.
The CIA knew that Hillary Clinton had personally approved the plan to vilify Trump, and informed FBI Director James Comey and others about it. Days later, Sussmann brought the Alfa Bank allegations to the FBI. ....