Hillary’s 2016 ‘tar Trump’ plan

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday released a bombshell allegation that Hillary Clinton ordered “a campaign plan to stir up a scandal” by linking President Trump to Russia in 2016.

Ratcliffe disclosed the information in a letter published by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) just hours before Trump debated Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who was vice president at the time.

Clinton’s alleged July 2016 plot would tar Trump by “tying him to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee,” Ratcliffe wrote Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Handwritten notes by then-CIA Director John Brennan say he briefed then-President Barack Obama on “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016, of a proposal from one of her foreign-policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.”

The FBI opened its investigation of possible TrumpRussia collusion on July 31, 2016 — five days after Clinton allegedly hatched the plan.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of possible Trump-Russia collusion concluded last year without evidence of a criminal conspiracy involving the Trump campaign and Russia. Trump often bitterly remarks that it was a major distraction during his first term and calls it a “hoax.”

Ratcliffe said the intelligence community was unable to confirm the validity of the claim that Clinton cooked up the scandal.