Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the Friday edition of the Dark to Light

podcast with Beans and I have a special guest today. Frank is watching the show.

He was like I'm not going to be able to do much in this interview so I'm going to watch but I'm joined by the absolutely amazing Lee Smith

author of Plot Against the President and the Permanent Coo and Lee thanks for being here today.

Tracy, thank you for inviting me today.

It's always a pleasure to speak to you.

And of course, we were communicating during the course of the week

as all sorts of bizarre stuff unfolded in real time in front of our eyes.

So it's great to get a chance to speak if not exactly face to face, then certainly eye to eye how is that agreed yes so let's start

therely I'm gonna let you take the ball and run with this because I don't know how

kind I have been over the past week so so I'll like well I don't know I mean we should probably

There's probably some of your viewers who weren't following stuff that was going on Twitter and the news so maybe I'll just

maybe I'll just run it down a little bit and that yeah I'll just run it down for a minute or so

please stop me or correct me if I'm making mistakes.

It's actually pretty short.

What was happening this week is that a sub-stack quasi publication printed a series of three different

articles. The sub-stack is called Public. It's run by a guy named Michael Schlenberger and they published a series of three different

articles on Russiagate. Every one of those stories was promising new breaking information regarding details of Rushigate.

And as it turns out, all of these stories had been had all of these stories had come out before

some of the some of the new details were incorrect or wrong my understanding is that some of those details have since been corrected,

though I'm not sure I was following some people on Twitter who's saying that yeah they

changed some of the facts they got wrong. I'm not sure about that.

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