The declassified annex of the 2023 Durham report related to the 2016 election was released on Thursday, revealing how Hillary Clinton approved a plan from a campaign advisor to “smear” then-presidential candidate Donald Trump through “raising the theme of ‘Putin’s support for Trump,’” and “subsequently steering public opinion toward the notion that it needs to equate” the influence campaign from Putin with interference in the election. This came as Clinton was facing her email scandal.

“Clinton approved a plan proposed by one of her foreign policy advisors, Julianne Smith, to ‘smear Donald Trump by magnifying the scandal tied to the intrusion by the Russian special services in the pre-election process to benefit the Republican candidate,'” the declassified report stated.

A translated draft memorandum stated, “as envisioned by Smith, raising the theme of ‘Putin’s support for Trump’ to the level of the Olympics scandal would divert the constituents’ attention from the investigation of Clinton’s compromised electronic correspondence.”

“In relation to the consensus reached among the Democratic Party (DP) leadership regarding the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama sanctioned the use of all administrative levers to remove possibly negative effects from the FBI investigation of cases related to the Clinton Foundation and the email correspondence in the State Department.”

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