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Background

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My personal summary of the situation...

Trump claims he is the innocent victim of a witch hunt. The theory is old, but, now that he has the power to bend reality to his warped mind, is gaining renewed energy with actual subpoenas and threats. Innocent people can go to jail over this. Evidence and historical records are already disappearing. Victims are now targeted as wrongdoers (Epstein situation).

Trump is so thin-skinned that any form of criticism or disagreement, including political opposition, normal political disagreements and differences of opinion, fact-checking, opposition research, and fully legitimate government national security investigations by the FBI or Special Counsels are things he sees as actionable wrongdoing and thus legitimate targets for his retribution and lawsuits. This is not normal. This is the mentality of an authoritarian who will not allow any form of opposition, including the use of free speech, which is also his enemy. He labels it all as "fake news", no matter how true. This is just part of his Big Lie and misuse of the term fake news.

Trumpists, the GOP, MAGA, and right-wing are now pushing a Trump "grand conspiracy" theory, based purely on politically biased attempts to relitigate their false claims of a "Russiagate hoax". It amounts to a cover-up.

An attempt to keep the facts and history of investigations from being completely deleted from history is mentioned here:

Every Trump "investigation of the investigators", including the Durham report, has failed to produce proof of bad faith actions by Obama, Clinton, Biden, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Strzok, the FBI or CIA. They had justifiable grounds for being suspicious. All the investigations have been because of Trump's own actions. His lies, secrecy, and crimes just rebound on himself.

Sources

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  • Trump Loyalists Push 'Grand Conspiracy' as New Subpoenas Land[1]
  • Molly Reberts describes the Grand Conspiracy:[2]

The Grand Conspiracy, to be clear—or as clear as one can possibly be when explaining a theory that is essentially incoherent—fails on both the narrative and legal coherence fronts. Its proponents allege a plot against Trump that somehow manages to connect Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and James Comey to Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and Jack Smith. The supposed scheme with which these people are all allegedly involved manages to span three separate presidential elections and tie together matters as obviously distinct as Russian interference in the 2016 election and the classified documents search at Mar-a-Lago.

[T]he short version of the grand conspiracy goes something like this: Hillary Clinton (who, in this telling, was on a daily regimen of 'heavy tranquilizers' to tamp 'uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness') wanted to frame Trump to distract from the revelations about her private email server.

  • Molly Roberts noted a possible reason for this delay:[2]

The Grand Conspiracy believers generally neglect to mention that Durham left this material out of his report because it was based on documents evaluated as likely forgeries. That truth, of course, would have risked interrupting the gripping tale of the Grand Conspiracy.

After years of investigation, John Durham confirmed what we already knew: There was no grand conspiracy to frame Donald Trump. ... What we do know, from the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report and multiple independent investigations, is that Russia interfered in our elections in order to help Trump win.

  • Another Stupid Lie From Kash Patel About the Trump-Russia Scandal[4]
  • From Russian Interference to Revisionist Innuendo: What the Gabbard Files Actually Say[5]
  • US attorney general orders grand jury hearings on Trump-Russia probe[6]
  • David S. Rohde, Mueller Revealed the Conspiracy-Theory-Driven State of American Politics[7]
Republicans insisted that Trump was the victim of a vast conspiracy involving a cabal of F.B.I. agents. A final, unexpected narrative was ..
  • Trump's favorite conspiracy theory deteriorates[8]
Trump has played up two probes into the origins of the Russia investigation — one by Inspector General Michael Horowitz and one by U.S. Attorney John Durham — and in both cases he has built up the men themselves. But Washington Post reports on both investigations now suggest the duo are not endorsing Trump's chief conspiracy theory: that the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was an unfounded witch hunt.
  • John Durham's secret criminal investigation reportedly involved Trump, not Clinton or the FBI[9]


  • "global anti-Trump conspiracy"[10]

Rather than endorse the theory of a global anti-Trump conspiracy, Durham settles into a long bill of grievances against the FBI. The agency’s methods, he argues, were too aggressive; its agents were too ready to believe the worst about Trump. The FBI had only enough information to justify a preliminary investigation, not a full one—a distinction the report carefully parses for some pages. This, in the end, is the gravamen of the Durham report: The FBI overreacted to the available information about Trump’s Russia contacts and should have moved more cautiously before advancing to the next phase of an investigation.
Specialists in the law and practice of counter-intelligence can argue whether Durham has correctly interpreted the appropriate modalities of FBI procedure. Very possibly, Durham is correct. Yet even if he is, isn’t this all kind of underwhelming? Durham’s sponsors hoped to reveal a globe-spanning conspiracy to vilify an innocent Donald Trump. What he delivered for them instead was a list of arguable procedural infractions by the FBI.

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References

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  1. Thrush, Glenn; Feuer, Alan; Savage, Charlie (November 9, 2025). "Trump Loyalists Push 'Grand Conspiracy' as New Subpoenas Land". The New York Times. Retrieved November 12, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Roberts, Molly (January 19, 2026). "Trump's Grand Conspiracy Delusion". Lawfare. Retrieved February 9, 2026.
  3. Herb, Jeremy; Lybrand, Holmes (August 11, 2025). "Pam Bondi has a new probe into the handling of 2016 Russian meddling. John Durham already spent four years investigating it". CNN. Archived from the original on August 11, 2025. Retrieved December 25, 2025.
  4. Corn, David (August 5, 2025). "Another Stupid Lie From Kash Patel About the Trump-Russia Scandal". Mother Jones. Retrieved December 25, 2025.
  5. DiResta, Renée (August 6, 2025). "From Russian Interference to Revisionist Innuendo: What the Gabbard Files Actually Say". Lawfare. Retrieved December 25, 2025.
  6. Sheerin, Jude (August 5, 2025). "US Attorney General orders grand jury hearings on Trump-Russia probe". BBC. Retrieved January 2, 2026.
  7. Rohde, David (July 24, 2019). "Mueller Revealed the Conspiracy-Theory-Driven State of American Politics". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 9, 2026.
  8. Blake, Aaron (December 5, 2019). "Trump's favorite conspiracy theory deteriorates". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 9, 2026.
  9. Weber, Peter (January 27, 2023). "John Durham's secret criminal investigation reportedly involved Trump, not Clinton or the FBI". The Week. Retrieved February 9, 2026.
  10. Frum, David (May 17, 2023). "A Sinister Flop". The Atlantic. Retrieved February 1, 2026.
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