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Stephen Miller Deems Russiagate A Coup Against Trump: ‘One Egregious Felony After Another’

Russiagate was “literally” a coup against President Donald Trump that meets the “criminal elements” of a conspiracy, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller declared on Sunday.

Documents that were declassified by the Trump administration indicate Hillary Clinton may have approved a Russia collusion hoax against Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. In addition, former special Counsel John Durham found the Obama-era FBI appeared to ignore intelligence that indicated Clinton’s campaign, its supporters, or Russian disinformation fueled allegations of ties between Trump’s camp and Moscow in order to distract from her email controversy.

“The Russia collusion hoax against President Trump remains the single greatest hoax and the greatest assault on our democracy in the history of this country,” Miller said during a Fox News interview with “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo. “There’s no comparison, there’s no parallel to anything else. It was a coup. And I’m using that term literally. … It meets the criminal elements of a conspiracy against the government and the criminal elements of a conspiracy to deprive citizens of their civil rights under color of law, one egregious felony after another.”

Former President Barack Obama and top national security veterans from his administration have pushed back on claims of there being a “treasonous conspiracy” associated with the Russia collusion fiasco.

“The special counsel John Durham, who was appointed during Mr. Trump’s first term to investigate how the Russia probe was conducted, similarly found no evidence of an Obama administration conspiracy against Mr. Trump,” Former CIA Director John Brennan and ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote in a New York Times op-ed. “But he affirmed the findings of the special counsel Robert Mueller, who conducted a separate investigation into the allegations, which found ample evidence of Russian interference in the election.”

But Miller argued the new information “eliminates any scintilla of doubt about the intention, the premeditation, the planning and orchestration of this conspiracy.” Miller also agreed with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, a former prosecutor and congressman who told Bartiromo last week that he did not believe the statute of limitations would be a hinderance because the alleged conspiracy is ongoing.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has initiated a “strike force” tasked with evaluating the evidence relating the Obama administration’s efforts to drive the Russia collusion allegations in response to various documents that are being disclosed to the public, such as findings that purportedly show officials manufactured and manipulated intelligence regarding Russia to undermine Trump.

Miller, who contended that the country was placed at risk with the “entire security apparatus of this country focusing on the hoax,” said he has “every hope and expectation that the Department of Justice, under the leadership of our courageous attorney general, will follow these facts and follow the evidence and deliver justice.”

He added: “Because, if we have a country where we can continue to have FBI careerists and CIA careerists, deep staters, who will fabricate and doctor evidence, who will create and produce fake material, fabricated material, phony information to try to go after their political enemies, up to and including the president, if we continue to create the impression and the reality that there is not a criminal, a severe criminal penalty for such conduct, it will never stop. It will never desist. It will keep on going forever. And we will continue to have a country that is sabotaged endlessly by the production of fake documents, fake material, fake plots against democratically elected officials. We can’t have that. There must be consequences.”

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