You can be excused for having flashbacks to October 2020 and 51 former intelligence officials claiming that the damning material (later revealed as true) on Hunter Biden’s laptop have all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation if you had read the latest works of Rolling Stone.
Why? Because they are rolling out that worn, sad trope again in a pathetic attempt to discredit the recent shocking Russiagate findings based on material in John Durham’s annex. Without seeming to have any sense of shame or embarrassment, Rolling Stone published this story on Friday by Nikki McCann Ramirez, “MAGA’s New Russiagate ‘Evidence’ Was Likely Made Up by the Kremlin.”
Put aside for the moment that ten years ago, it was Rolling Stone that made up some evidence and charged innocent of men of rape on the campus of the University of Virginia. They had to fork over $1.6 millon in damages. Now Trump is making things up?
Donald Trump and his allies are throwing every bucket of chum they can at their base in their ongoing efforts to distract from the administration’s bungling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, and this time they may have caught a fish that’s too big to fry. A
A distraction from a case that seems to be going nowhere as far as implicating Trump? It now appears that the media constantly harping on the Epstein case has become a desperate attempt to divert attention away from the shocking revelations of Russiagate.
Following a request from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the FBI and DOJ agreed to declassify the so-called “Durham Annex,” a 29-page appendix to the Durham Report. The annex was made public on Thursday, with FBI Director Kash Patel claiming it was part of a hidden trove of documents “buried in a back room at the FBI” that contained classified “evidence that the Clinton campaign plotted to frame President Trump and fabricate the Russia collusion hoax.” It contained no such evidence, but that didn’t matter to the Trump allies desperate to cast prominent Democratic figures as anti-American criminals.
So if it “contained no such evidence” why are you even bothering to blame it on Russian disinformation?
In reality, the previously classified documents seem to suggest that some of the supposed “evidence” Patel and others are touting as proof of their conspiracies was actually fabricated by Russian intelligence.
“Seem to suggest?” Is that all you got for proof of Russian disinformation? You couldn’t even get James Clapper nor any of the other 50 former intelligence officials to back up your “seem to suggest” claim?
Durham’s assessment is that the emails were likely Frankenstein fabrications, and thus not authentic.
Can you cite the document that contains that Durham quotation about “Frankenstein fabrications?” No? Well, here is a real quote from page 11 of the Durham Annex: “Analysts and officers whom [Durham’s team] interviewed, and who were well-versed in the Sensitive Intelligence collection, stated that their best assessment was that the Bernardo emails were likely authentic.”
An hilarious but very apt observation about this laughable Rolling Stone claim of Russian disinformation came in the form of this reply to their article posted on X (which almost the whole world still calls “Twitter”):
Made up by the Kremlin, stuffed into American “burn bags,” and smuggled into FBI Headquarters by Russian intelligence agents years ago, waiting for just this moment, when they would be discovered during a second Trump administration.
— The Galaxy’s Shortest Wookie (@Crapplefratz) August 2, 2025
