Russiagate: The Real Scandal, Part 1

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🗓️ 26 January 2026

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It’s the biggest political scandal in US history. Millions were led to believe that a presidential candidate was a secret Russian agent. The media ran with it. Intelligence officials fueled it. But behind the headlines was something even more alarming. Lee Smith, author of The Plot Against the President, tells the story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.7	It's the biggest political scandal in U.S. history.
0:35.3	There's no close second.
0:37.2	Looking back, it all seems almost unbelievable,
0:40.0	absurd. But at the time, millions were convinced that the 2016 Republican candidate for president
0:46.2	Donald Trump was secretly working for Russia. This was the Trump-Russia collusion hoax,
0:52.5	or Russiagate, a label borrowed from the 1970s
0:55.9	Watergate scandal. The instigators of this deception were not foreign adversaries. They were
1:01.6	domestic actors, a presidential campaign, senior intelligence officials, and perhaps most
1:07.7	importantly, powerful media outlets. They all shared the same goal, defeat Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party candidate.
1:17.0	Ironically, what became Russiagate began as an insurance policy to protect Clinton.
1:22.9	While serving as Secretary of State, Clinton used a private, unsecured email server for official business,
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