9 Years Later, Here’s What We Know About the Origins of the Russia Probe | John Solomon

American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I’m sitting down with award-winning investigative journalist John Solomon, founder and editor-in-chief of Just the News, for a deep dive into what we now know—nine years later—about the origins of the Russia collusion probe.

How did these events change America?

“We'll never know what history was stolen from us, what opportunities diplomatically were stolen from us, what security opportunities were thwarted because this dirty trick was allowed to extend so far,” Solomon says.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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0:00.0	What sets aside the 2016 election and everything else that followed from it is that for the first time in our history,
0:06.5	the intelligence apparatus of America and the law enforcement apparatus of America participated in a political dirty treatment.
0:13.7	In this episode, I'm sitting down with award-winning investigative journalist John Solomon, founder and editor-in-chief of Just the News. He reveals how a late-night visit in 2017 by two anonymous men changed his career trajectory forever.
0:28.6	I pulled the driver when these two GI men get out of the car.
0:31.6	We can't tell you who we are, but you're at the tip of a very large iceberg, and we hope you drill into it.
0:35.6	What do we now know about the origins of the Russia probe?
0:40.3	How did it change America?
0:42.3	How we resolve this, I think will have a profound effect on the American experience
0:46.3	and a profound effect on what sort of country, what sort of trust we're going to have in government
0:51.3	when we resolve it.
0:52.3	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Jan Yalek.
0:57.3	John Solomon, so good to have you back on American Thought Leaders. Yeah, good to join you,
1:01.8	Jan. It's been much too long, frankly. It goes by fast, doesn't it? You've been doing
1:06.5	some incredible reporting related to the newest revelations to Russia Gate or what's called
1:12.8	the Russia hoax or what we called SpyGate back in the day.
1:16.1	Actually, it was a pretty lonely field back in the day.
1:19.6	It was.
1:20.6	I remember you were one of the few.
1:22.6	Lee Smith with his famous plot against the president.
1:26.6	The little corner of Twitter, if you recall,
1:29.3	we pulled some people into our ranks,
1:32.2	Jeff Carlson, Hans Manke, among them.
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