[ May 4, 2024 ]
The idea that anti-American leftwing foreign agents would aid and abet the most pro-America, pro-capitalist, pro-freedom rightwing president in recent history is not merely irrational and anti-real, but patently absurd.
Here is the first really plausible explanation of Russian interference. Can we expect a highly compromised and corrupt FBI/DoJ to get to the bottom of it? In a word? No.
In a terrific piece of analysis this week, FrontPage Magazine’s Daniel Greenfield put together some of the pieces of the Russian interference puzzle in a new way that actually fits much better than the Trump/Putin conspiracy theories we’ve been hearing for the last year and a half. In a theory of the Russian case that you’re not likely to ever hear from the mainstream media, Greenfield posits that Russia’s government hackers were less interested in helping Trump than they were in pushing forward the ideology and candidacy of socialist Bernie Sanders. (Patriot News Daily)
Story continues below advertisement
Did the Russians Hack the DNC to Help the Left Take Over the Democrats?
The Russia conspiracy theory hinges on the single creaky claim that the Democratic National Committee hacks were a Russian plot to elect Trump. The theory and all its illegitimate stepchildren, including Robert Mueller and his infinitely expanding corps of prosecutors, lives or dies by the DNC hacks.Trying to elect Trump by releasing damaging insider information from the DNC never made any sense. The DNC was already a dysfunctional organization that was being run by the Clinton campaign. Undermining its leadership had little impact on the election, but a great deal on control of the DNC.
There has never been any evidence that the DNC hacks swung the election. The vast majority of people never even heard of them. Only a handful of political insiders and watchers, already deeply and unpersuadably committed to one side or another, could name the contents of a single email.
When you want to understand the motive of a crime, follow the money. See who benefited from it, not casually, but deeply and significantly enough to justify the effort and risk of undertaking it.
The hacks targeted Clinton allies and sought to undermine their influence within the Democrat Party.
Russiagate’s fervent conspiracy theorists spin an unlikely scenario in which Moscow had picked Trump early on, and then abandoned him in a crowded field against 16 candidates, while assuming that he would naturally triumph. Instead of leaking Jeb Bush’s campaign emails or Marco Rubio’s, they bided their time and waited to release Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s and John Podesta’s emails.
That’s not a plan to help Trump win. It is a plan to take over the DNC.
Let’s look at what the Russians were actually doing during the election. They had set up fake Facebook sites aimed at the left on issues ranging from Black Lives Matter to the pipeline protests. That is not the behavior of a foreign intelligence operation that wanted Trump to win and the left to lose. Instead the Russians appeared to have allied with the left to push the Democrats even further to the left.
Targeting the DNC’s infrastructure also pushed the Democrats further to the left. The email hacks and leaks didn’t elect Trump, but did shake up the DNC. Bernie Sanders reemerged as the figurehead of a leftist movement to take over the DNC. Bernie’s boy, Keith Ellison, claimed the No. 2 spot at the DNC. And Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez, the left’s current crush, is the latest triumph for that machine.
The socialist left were the biggest beneficiaries of the DNC hacks. The stolen emails confirmed claims by the Bernie campaign that the process had been rigged against them. It justified their campaign to clean up the mess by taking over the DNC while wiping out key Democrats who had been opposed to them.
The left was also the political movement with the richest and deepest connections to Russian intelligence. The media claims that Putin and his old KGB comrades are the natural allies of the right, but the alliance between the far left and Russian intelligence agencies dates back almost a century.
Bernie Sanders honeymooned in the USSR. It’s hard to find a Marxist dictatorship backed by Russia that the elderly socialist hasn’t praised and supported at the expense of our national interests. Bernie praised Castro, he supported the Sandinistas, and his foreign policy was little more than a KGB wish list.
Certainly Russian intelligence services would have been aware of Bernie Sanders as a political sympathizer and maintained a file on him. On a visit to the Soviet Union, he would have interacted with KGB personnel or those reporting to them: as was true of any important foreign visitor at the time.
Is it really farfetched to believe that a lefty politician, who had a history of visiting and supporting Communist and Marxist countries, and their agendas, didn’t receive some support from Moscow?
The political movement that Bernie Sanders emerged from was notorious for its Russian ties.
As Discover the Networks notes, Sanders had worked as an organizer for the United Packinghouse Workers Union (UPWU) which was under investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities for its Communist ties. An article in Class Struggle magazine described UPWU as one of the “communist led or influenced unions”. Sanders had also spent time at a pro-Soviet Kibbutz.
While the media pursued Trump over his ties to Russian businessmen, Bernie had direct ties to organizations controlled directly or indirectly by Russian intelligence agencies.
Bernie flew a Soviet flag outside his office. As Paul Sperry noted, “Sanders addressed the national conference of the US Peace Council — a known front for the Communist Party USA, whose members swore an oath not only to the Soviet Union but to ‘the triumph of Soviet power in the US.’”
Given all this, is it really implausible that the Russians were trying to help Bernie Sanders?
The media made a great deal out of a memo by the Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll factory, allegedly claiming, “use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump–we support them.)” This memo likely had more to do with the Agency’s objective of blending in on the left and the right to embed pro-Russian content than with Moscow’s larger political objectives, but the media quickly skips over the Sanders part of that memo while treating the Trump part as damning.
But if the Russians were trying to back a politician, would Trump or Bernie have been their choice?
Trump favors a strong foreign policy based on our national interests. Bernie boasts of opposing our national interests. Trump wants a strong America; Bernie wants an international socialist alliance.
But the Russians didn’t believe they could rig an election. They wouldn’t have believed that they could make Bernie president or even a presidential nominee. However they may have rightly thought that they could push the Democrats further to the left and boost their political allies within the DNC.
The Democrat hacks did little for Trump, but they gave Bernie a shot at taking over the DNC.
If we assume that Russia’s project was well-planned, proportional and successful, which considering the track record of their operations in this country is a sensible assumption, then that is what happened.
The post-election Dems are obsessed with Russia, but they’ve also moved further to the left. And, regardless of the rhetoric, the Russians spent generations building up ties with the American left.
Whether it’s Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein or any of the other socialists, the DNC hacks weakened the Democrat establishment and strengthened a movement that Russia once used as its hand puppet.
The Democrats have made plenty of cracks about Trump as a “Manchurian Candidate”. But the movie’s Manchurian candidate was publicly opposed to Russia while secretly benefiting from Russian election interference. That doesn’t describe Trump. It could describe Bernie Sanders. Or many others on the left.
Jill Stein, who initially cashed in by raising money for an election recount, fell afoul of Russiagate and is using recount cash to pay for the legal expenses of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Russian election interference. The money is going to the Partnership for Civil Justice, part of the International Action Center, and allegedly a front for the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party.
The left has been crying, “Russia” and “Treason” on every network and in every newspaper. It might want to consider what a real investigation of its ties to Russian intelligence agencies will turn up.
Did the Russians Hack the DNC to Help the Left Take Over the Democrats?The Truth Must be Told
Your contribution supports independent journalism
Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.
Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.
Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.
Please contribute here.
or
Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.
Quick note: We cannot do this without your support. Fact. Our work is made possible by you and only you. We receive no grants, government handouts, or major funding.Subscribe to Geller Report newsletter here— it’s free and it’s essential NOW when informed decision making and opinion is essential to America's survival. Share our posts on your social channels and with your email contacts. Fight the great fight.
Follow Pamela Geller on Gettr. I am there. click here.
Follow Pamela Geller on Trump's social media platform, Truth Social. It's open and free.
Remember, YOU make the work possible. If you can, please contribute to Geller Report.
Join The Conversation. Leave a Comment.
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spammy or unhelpful, click the - symbol under the comment to let us know. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
If you would like to join the conversation, but don't have an account, you can sign up for one right here.
If you are having problems leaving a comment, it's likely because you are using an ad blocker, something that break ads, of course, but also breaks the comments section of our site. If you are using an ad blocker, and would like to share your thoughts, please disable your ad blocker. We look forward to seeing your comments below.
10 Comments
5 years ago
There was no hacking , no russian involved. It was done by Rich seth to expose dem mafia , who was killed by dem mafia.
Clinton mafia still active after Trump takeover as they kill another witness to email investigation http://tinyurl.com/y8p9cv5l
They know their hold overs in FBI / DOJ /NSC will help them out !
Unless they are totally purged including Left/Liberal judges to keep out their bias …its uphill task to prosecute them.
5 years ago
HILLARY and BERNIE benefited the most.
Trump was NOT supposed to win.
5 years ago
Experts have pointed out that the Russians, if they were ordered to do this, had the skill to cover their tracks so that they wouldn’t be identified as the culprits.
(Remember, the FBI never examined the DNC servers itself – it relied on estimates made by the lame and deeply connected IT firm recommended by the Democrats’ Perkins Coie law firm[!] which is the law firm they called for help when they realized their computer had been broken into.)
(Golly gee, I would call my IT firm first, if I had an IT problem, and before even that I would call the police if I were the victim of a crime. I would only call my lawyers first if I thought the leaking of my emails might put me into hot water with the law. But I guess this logic eluded both the DNC and the Hillary campaign. Hmm. Or maybe not.)
So the Russian crackers were ordered by their government to crack into the DNC and to leave clues behind that it was them, leaving open the possibility for themselves of hitting multiple birds with the same stone, to those who think enough moves ahead in the chess game.
5 years ago
Reply to
Covadonga
They obviously had a lot to hide, so didn’t want their IT guys, or the police / FBI, etc, involved????
5 years ago
Possibly related theory regarding the key press conferences Shady James Comey gave during the heat of the campaign regarding his on again/off again pseudo-investigation of Hillary Rodham’s (mishandled and spoiliated) classified emails.
Implicates the Oval Office’s own Barry Soebarkah in a plot to get Rodham elected, but with enough baggage to force her to step down so that his favorite could take her spot.
From Law of Markets, h/t Diana West:
Tim Kaine for president!
5 years ago
The power elite (or elites), most likely. They long to sow confusion and discord between societies and nations, fanning the flames of tension, so to speak.
5 years ago
If you ever heard Burnme speak? It’s awesome…. ly stupid. Under him everything will be FREE. You just have to turn all your wealth over to him and work for the man, and ONLY the man.
Only he knows how to spend it. He will be Kim Chee II, and likely in a few years the only FAT guy in town.
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Agreed. During the ’16 campaign he made a campaign appearance and there were NO US flags adorning the stage.Then, some thugs from BLM hijacked his campaign speech, taking over the stage and microphone because he had employed no security.
He and his fugly wife are under a fraud investigation because she drained all the financial resources from the liberal arts college that was stupid enough to hire her as president of the place.
5 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
” Liberal Arts “, lol. almost like karma if they even do get charged for anything??
5 years ago
If the hacks on the DNC were the stuff spy novels are made of, why did they rebuff the efforts of the FBI to examine their computers after the attempted hack of the RNC? In their book, “Shattered”, which was a post mortem of the Clinton election loss debacle, authors Allan and Parmes state that the flimsy excuse of Russian meddling wasn’t even mentioned until the first 24 hours after the election was decided.
The only other person of note besides Bernie Sanders who honeymooned in Russia was Lee Harvey Oswald.
