Rod D. Martin exposes "RussiaGate" as a fabricated coup by Obama, Biden, Brennan, and Comey, calling the CIA’s 2016 report a shallow dive and the Steele Dossier—a Clinton-funded fraud—deliberately weaponized to justify Trump surveillance; he accuses Brennan of perjury over communist ties and 9/11 visa claims while questioning John Durham’s stalled probe into the DNC leak, possibly linked to Seth Rich’s unsolved murder. Martin also attacks Biden’s "Autopen" pardons as forgeries, demands Fauci be charged for lying about Wuhan lab funding, and demands Secret Service accountability over Trump’s assassination attempt, hinting at suppressed evidence while previewing his book Bushwhacked to challenge Reagan’s 1981 shooting narrative. [Automatically generated summary]
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Joining me now is Rod D. Martin.
He's the founder and CEO of Martin Capital.
But more importantly, he is the editor and publisher of a lively substack, the Rod Martin Report.
You also can find him at rodmartin.org.
His political and economic analysis is always brilliant and provocative.
And pleased to have him back with us today.
Rod, welcome to the Stone Zone.
Wonderful to be here.
So you have a great piece on RussiaGate.
I myself have confirmed from my own sources that the massive deep state probe that we've all been waiting for is actually in the works and could be announced as soon as this week.
The Justice Department and the FBI have been working on a massive case that is going to make the MAGA base, I think, very happy.
Now, my initial take on the CIA report released by CIA Director Radcliffe was that it was a shallow dive into the deep plot that began in the Oval Office when Barack Obama,
Joe Biden, Susan Rice, CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey, and others decided to try to frame Donald Trump and remove him from office based on a false premise that the Russians somehow aided in his election.
You have a great piece on this.
What is your take?
Well, first of all, all of that is correct, and thank you for having me.
You know, the truth is, it was an attempted coup, and it started with overwhelming election interference in the 2016 election.
Anything in the world to deflect from Hillary's very real scandals and everything in the world to smear Donald Trump and all of his close associates, yourself included.
So this is where it began.
It failed massively.
You may recall the book Shattered, in which we have a very useful account of Hillary on election night in 2016, pretty drunk and deciding that this was the course of action to take.
So, you know, what we're seeing in the CIA report, which as you say is pretty shallow, but it's very preliminary, is that they knew.
They knew that it was false.
They knew what they were doing.
Brennan perjured himself on this point.
He's far from the only one.
And the brilliance of what Cache Patel has just done is that by framing it as a grand conspiracy and an ongoing one, we get past the statute limitations that would otherwise shelter some of these people and therefore let them profit from their four years of sort of Biden presidency.
Yeah, I think that's a very, very key point because you see, special counsel John Durham, for some inexplicable reason, took five years to reach the conclusions that many of us had already reached and which many in the independent media had already reported.
But he was running out the clock.
He wanted to make sure that none of the conspirators could be charged, which is why he took four long years.
And he never even addressed the question of whether the Democrat National Committee was in fact the target of an online hack by Russian intelligence.
P.S., they weren't.
There is no evidence to that.
In fact, all of the forensic evidence is to the contrary.
The download times of the material online points to the material being downloaded to some kind of portable drive and taken out the back door as opposed to an online act.
Durham didn't even address those issues.
Very specifically here, Brennan, who is quite the character, an admitted communist, who admitted to being a communist in a polygraph test, said he voted, belonged to the Communist Party and voted for the Communist Party candidate for president.
He is the same man who signed the visas for four of the 9-11 hijackers when he was the CIA station chief in Riyadh.
He's a guy who got caught red-handed spying on a U.S. Senate committee that was investigating his illegal use of torture as the CIA director.
And according to FBI counterterrorism expert John Gwandolo, Brennan converted to Islam, to actually to Wahhabism, in an elaborate ceremony when he was the station chief for the CIA in Saudi Arabia.
That's quite a checkered past.
But in this particular case, he is specifically nailed for insisting that the steel dossier, this fraudulent report that he actually knew was fabricated and paid for by Hillary Clinton and her campaign, be included in President Barack Obama's intelligence assessment report so that they could then use it as the rationale for the entire witch hunt.
They could use it as the rationale for spying on Donald Trump's campaign.
They said that the steel dossier was not the basis for which the FISA warrants were granted, but, well, that was a lie.
They also used it as the rationale for the appointment of Robert Mueller and the kickoff of the witch hunt, with which I am, of course, extraordinarily familiar, having been a victim thereof.
Do you think, Rod, that any of these characters will ever actually face trial in the United States?
Well, Kash Patel has made it possible.
They weren't going to.
Whether they will, I mean, my goodness, I really thought William Barr was going to do the right thing, and that turned out to be a huge mistake.
And, of course, I feel like I'm in good company since Donald Trump clearly did too.
But can we trust these people?
I think we can.
I think Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are straight shooters.
I think Pam Bondi is clearly earning the confidence of the president, which he restated over the weekend.
I don't know all the ins and outs of some of that.
You've spoken really well to it, but this seems to be a team we should trust.
The one that you didn't mention that I really hope we get back to, you alluded to it, is Seth Rich.
Because the truth of the matter is there's no way that the download could have happened other than with some kind of portable drive, as you correctly state.
And suddenly we have in broad daylight a DNC staffer just gunned down.
Well, gee, I wonder what went on there.
And as you know, there was no meaningful investigation.
It just gets shunted off the front page.
And that needs addressing.
Maybe nothing happened, but something probably did.
Well, we don't have the FBI lost his computer.
They can't find it.
And as did the security camera video from the bar that he left shortly before he was murdered.
And frankly, if you talk about his murder, there's a reasonable chance that you'll be sued.
His father went from saying this could not possibly have been a robbery because his jewelry, his wallet, his cash was all intact.
But once a crisis management consultant paid for by the Democrat National Committee swooped in, now suddenly Seth Rich's parents are threatening to sue anyone who questions the circumstances of his death.
I think it is very, very suspicious, to say the least.
I agree with you, although in all honesty, having been through the process, any Democrat, any Trump hater who is charged in the District of Columbia will probably walk.
First of all, you're going to get a rabid, left-wing, Trump-hating judge, like I had in my case.
She specifically withheld totally exculpatory evidence from my defense attorneys.
My lawyers, citing the fact that a person is entitled to have all evidence against them prior to trial, asked for Robert Mueller's final completely unredacted report.
And the judge denied it to us.
She said that she would read the report in her chambers and she would give us the sections of the report that were germane to Roger Stone.
What she gave us was unusable and incomprehensible.
She, however, neglected to include the section on page 178 of his report in which even Mueller couldn't sugarcoat the fact that he'd found no evidence of Russian collusion, Wikileaks collaboration, or any other crime on my part.
Somehow the judge neglected to give that section to my attorneys.
I have to put up with these endless attacks on social media regarding being called a Russian agent and this nonsense of Gusseffer 2.0, who is a persona that I had a brief exchange with on Twitter direct messages, which took place three months after WikiLeaks had already published all of the material from Hillary Clinton's campaign and from the DNC.
So without a time machine, it would have been impossible for me to have been a conspirator in the hack of that material.
But of course, try breaking through the fake news media din to make that point is virtually impossible.
Indeed.
It's just Soviet justice.
I mean, it is straight out of Venezuela.
You could probably get a fairer trial in China than we get in the District of Columbia.
And that's one of the most encouraging things about what Cash did.
The way he is framing the case, there is the possibility of bringing cases outside of D.C., possibly even in Florida.
And I think that we've got a real shot at a fair trial in some of those venues.
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So I want to ask you, Rob, what do you think of the Autopen scandal?
The New York Times reported now that President Joe Biden did not review every single case, that the decision on who to use the auto pen to sign pardons was made by a staff member.
Actually, I raised this question in my speech this weekend.
Let's listen to that soundbite, if we may.
We also need a special prosecutor to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 vaccination.
I call on the Attorney General to charge Anthony Fauci for lying to Congress.
And when, in his legal defense, he argues that he cannot be charged because he has a preemptive pardon, the government can finally test the legality of the auto pen in which all of those documents should not be honored.
The point, of course, I made was that we should charge Dr. Anthony Fauci.
And when we do, we could charge him with lying to Congress.
Rein Paul, I saw today, is going to once again send another letter of referral to the Justice Department because Fauci lied under oath to the Senate when he said that U.S. taxpayers did not pay for gain of function, basically the weaponization of the COVID-19 vaccination in the Wuhan lab.
That was a lie.
Fauci's lawyers will then argue that he cannot be prosecuted because he has his preemptive pardon, which will allow the Trump administration to argue, no, the pardon you have is not valid because it was signed by an auto pen without the authorization of the President of the United States.
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President Trump has said this is a bigger scandal, perhaps, even than Russian Gate or Watergate.
What's your take on it, Rod?
That is correct.
We have a legal term for what they did.
It's forgery.
And a forged document has no legal validity.
So, you know, you now have the New York Times saying plainly that the president, the supposed president, Joe Biden, is sitting there, you know, just giving these kind of broad general approvals, didn't actually approve the individual cases, or at least some of them.
I think this is completely assailable in court.
And I think we have justices.
I wouldn't have been so sure a year ago, but after the string of cases we've had in the last month or two, I think it's very, very clear that this Supreme Court is going to be open to an attack on these pardons and not only these, but potentially other documents that were falsely signed by staff and not by the president.
Article 2, Section 1 is very clear.
The executive authority shall be vested in a president of the United States, not in a chief of staff, not in an independent agency, which is an abomination.
We have a constitution.
We have to follow it.
We've got six justices who seem pretty committed to that.
So I think we've got a shot.
All right, folks, if you're just tuning in, I'm talking to Rod Martin of the Rod Martin Report, which I highly recommend to you, and we'll be right back.
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I guess the anniversary, one-year anniversary of the attempt on Donald Trump's life was this past weekend.
To me, it's amazing that we still don't have any answers regarding what happened that day.
I'm not sure that Thomas Matthew Crooks is the shooter.
I'm not certain that he didn't have Confederates.
You've written about this, Rod.
What is your take?
Well, it's just shameful that we're a year out and there have been six suspensions, but no firings.
I mean, that day was just a train wreck, not least in their complete failure to clear off the exact site from which the shooter fired on the president and the crowd.
I mean, it was just painfully obvious that this is where a shooter would want to go, and they didn't do it.
And of course, the Biden administration went out of its way to limit the president's security detail and apparently to limit the number of quality people on the details.
So I think it's just a travesty.
We need to get to the bottom of it.
I'm sure the president is very sure and very certain of where he's going with that.
But we need some fundamental reform at the Secret Service.
Yeah, it's interesting to me that they hosed down the top of the building from the exact place where the shooter shot.
Remind me when they, within hours, they hosed out the back of John F. Kennedy's limousine in Dallas and November 22nd, 1963.
But they didn't have DNA testing then.
They do have it now, which is why I suspect that Crooks was cremated almost immediately after the assassination, and they hosed down the area from which he allegedly shot, perhaps to conceal the fact that there was no DNA match.
We're told that the FBI can't get into his encrypted messages on his cell phone, which I'm sorry, I just don't believe.
Of course, they can.
And Apple refuses to hand over from the cloud his material, saying it would be an invasion of his privacy.
Yet, Apple was more than happy to hand over the material from the iCloud in my case without even receiving a subpoena or a request to do so.
No, something is rotten in Denmark.
I think we need a special prosecutor to investigate both of the assassination attempts of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and also in West Palm Beach, Florida.
And as I've said before, while we're at it, we should investigate the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan because the government has never issued a report.
All we have is a statement from Vice President George Bush telling us that it was thoroughly investigated and that the shooter, the accused shooter, acted alone.
For me, that is not good enough.
I'd like to know a lot more.
I have been working on a book on the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan.
I'll give you a hint where it's going.
The title of my book is Bushwhacked.
The real story: the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan should be out by Christmas.
All right, I want to thank our guest, Rod Martin, for joining us today.
Again, find him at rodmartin.org or go to substack.com and find the Rod Martin report and subscribe.
You'll be very glad you did.
Until tomorrow, thank you for joining us in the Stone Zone.
Until tomorrow, once again, God bless you and Godspeed.
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