When It Comes to the Russia Hoax, It's Always the Ones You Most Expect | AOTMA | 8/1/25

The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire

Politics, News, Daily News

4.9 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On this Friday edition of The A.M. Update, Aaron McIntire dives into newly declassified documents exposing Hillary Clinton’s role in a 2016 campaign plot to smear Donald Trump with Russia ties. The show also covers Trump’s frustration with Senate confirmation delays, a new presidential fitness council featuring Harrison Butker, tragic violence against Christians in the DRC, and Nicole Shanahan’s take on the Democratic Party’s shift toward centralized control. Plus, an engaging "Ask or Tell Me Anything" segment with listener questions on food, culture, and more.

Russiagate, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Senate confirmations, presidential fitness council, Harrison Butker, DRC violence, Nicole Shanahan, Democratic Party, communism, Ask Me Anything, food supply, cultural commentary

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0:00.0	It's Friday, August 1st, 2025 when it comes to Russia Gate. It's always the people you most expect.
0:06.2	Also, another round of ask or tell me anything. That's next on the AM update.
0:13.9	Well, we've made it to the end of another week in the beginning of a month. Happy August to you, July.
0:19.5	And now my estimation just absolutely dragged by.
0:24.5	Just one of those months, April, May, June, really shot by. But July was just one of those months.
0:30.1	Very hot, everywhere around the country. Very busy, busier, a lot busier than usual. But
0:35.9	nevertheless, here we are.
0:38.3	It's the dog days of summer in August.
0:41.3	Thank you again for listening to the AM update this week.
0:43.5	I would covet your five-star reviews on iTunes, Spotify, wherever you listen.
0:48.4	Even if you've already reviewed the show, please do so again if you would.
0:53.2	First story on our Friday five-pack, it's always the people
0:56.5	you most expect. Hillary Clinton signed off in a plan hatched by a top campaign advisor to
1:02.2	smear, then candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, according to explosive
1:08.3	intelligence files declassified on Thursday.
1:11.4	It was an effort to distract from her own mounting email scandal during that campaign.
1:16.1	The 24-page intelligence annex was compiled from memos and emails obtained by the Obama administration
1:21.8	in the lead up to the election day that laid out confidential conversations between leaders of the Democratic National Committee,
1:28.5	including then-shared Debbie Wasserman Schultz and liberal billionaire George Soros' Open Society Foundations.
1:35.2	The plot, the brainchild of the Clinton campaign's then foreign policy advisor Julianne Smith,
1:40.6	included raising the theme of Putin's support for Trump and subsequently steering public
1:45.8	opinion toward the notion that it needs to equate the Russian leader's political influence
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