At the age of 94, Soros has been a longstanding target of conservative conspiracy theories, and these recent allegations suggest a purported scheme by officials from the Obama administration to destabilize President Trump through manipulated or false intelligence associating him with Russian interference in the 2016 election.
This week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Kash Patel disclosed that a classified appendix from Special Counsel John Durham’s report on Russiagate was included among the materials stored in those burn bags within a SCIF—rooms designated for lawmakers to examine sensitive, compartmented information.
The previously undisclosed room was located deep within FBI headquarters by members of Patel’s team. Inside, they discovered bags marked for destruction—some reportedly containing evidence linking Soros’s Open Society Foundation to an FBI initiative to disseminate unfounded Trump-Russia claims even prior to the initiation of the agency’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into the issue.
The annex of Durham’s report includes what U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) referred to as “one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history.” A source informed Fox News that while the appendix does not explicitly detail the type of intelligence gathering conducted on Trump and Russia, it outlines—“with alarming specificity”—the actions the FBI would subsequently undertake in the investigation.
The appendix also allegedly contains information linking George Soros’ Open Society Foundation to foreign entities from which some of the Trump-Russia allegations originated. The document states that Russian hackers infiltrated the foundation’s email servers in 2016.
“According to the appendix, two of the emails that seem to have been hacked are believed to have come from the Open Society Foundations. It is noted that Leonard Bernardo, who served as the regional director for Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations, was the author of these emails.”
“In the initial phase of the campaign, due to insufficient direct evidence, it was determined that the necessary information would be shared through technical structures affiliated with the FBI, specifically the Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect companies. This information would subsequently be distributed through prominent U.S. publications,” Bernardo is reported to have written in an email, as stated in the appendix.
“The media analysis regarding the DNC hacking appears to be robust. Julie (a Clinton Campaign Advisor) indicated that it would be a prolonged effort to vilify both Putin and Trump. Currently, it is advantageous for a post-convention surge,” Bernardo allegedly wrote, according to the appendix. “In the future, the FBI will intensify the situation.” Another email attributed to Bernardo mentions: “HRC (Hillary Rodham Clinton) endorsed Julie’s proposal concerning Trump and Russian hackers interfering with U.S. elections.”
“This should divert attention from her own missing emails, particularly if the situation escalates to an Olympic level,” Bernardo continued, as per the annex. “The objective is to frame the Russian involvement as a domestic issue in the U.S. Suggest something akin to a critical infrastructure threat for the election to create a sense of urgency, especially since both the President and Vice President have acknowledged that the Intelligence Community would expedite the search for evidence that is unfortunately still lacking.”
“Just a few days later, the FBI’s ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ investigation was initiated on July 31, 2016, as reported by Fox News.”
