Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel recently provided Congress with documents showing that the Bill and Hillary Clinton Foundation received donations from both domestic and foreign groups seeking influence. Officials told Just the News that the documents, sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, indicate that foreign donors and even a U.S. defense contractor attempted to sway the Clintons through charitable contributions while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. Whistleblowers alleged that some of this evidence was hidden from a 2015 corruption probe by the Little Rock U.S. attorney’s office before the Obama-era Justice Department shut it down. One official said the records reveal efforts “to obstruct legitimate inquiries into the Foundation by blocking real investigation by line-level FBI agents and DOJ field prosecutors and keeping them from following the money.”
The disclosures come amid renewed scrutiny of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Trump-Russia collusion investigation. A newly declassified 2016 memo, released by Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, reportedly shows that U.S. intelligence concluded Russian actors did not significantly affect Donald Trump’s election victory. Paul Sperry of Real Clear Investigations reported texts and emails suggesting that Clinton campaign aides coordinated with the Obama White House, NSC, State Department, and intelligence officials to collect information on Trump and Russia. The memo directly told President Obama that efforts to target election infrastructure in Illinois and other states “failed to reach the scale and sophistication necessary to change election outcomes.”
The documents are being cited as vindication for Trump, who long maintained the Russia collusion narrative was a politically motivated hoax. FBI officials are reportedly exploring a potential criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, and others involved in Crossfire Hurricane. A 200-page congressional audit has been compiled, with lawmakers considering declassifying additional materials, including notes and transcripts from the Durham special counsel investigation, which concluded in 2023 that Trump had no illicit ties to Russia. Gabbard’s release appears to mark the first step in a broader push for transparency regarding the origins of the 2016 election probe.
