There we have it folks…
The “Smoking Gun” we’ve all been waiting for, courtesy of the freshly declassified Durham annex!
Why Durham didn’t utilize this, I don’t fully understand except the only explanation I can come to is that once again in some form or fashion this has all been carefully orchestrated (“you are watching a movie”) and the evidence was safely and securely set aside for when the time is right.
And now the time is right.
Can you feel it all suddenly hitting all at once?
My theory all along has been that Trump and the White Hats “have it all” and have had it all probably since 2016, but they’ve known we first had to go through “The Pause” and then we had to slowly roll this out to wake up as many people as possible.
And now it looks like go time.
Take a look:
🔥And there you have it!🔥
The email evidence from the Durham annex proving that the Clinton campaign, and George Soros, helped Obama and his intelligence cronies, with setting up the Russia hoax, BEFORE the FBI opened an investigation.
They were all in on it.
TREASON!!! https://t.co/xMDhDUYN7O
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) July 31, 2025
Closer look here:
Here is a full text transcript since that’s a little hard to read:
From: Leonard Benardo
Sent: July 27, 2016Hi,
ADVERTISEMENTHRC approved Julia’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections. That should distract people from her own missing email, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level. The point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue. Say something like a critical infrastructure threat for the election to feel menace since both POTUS and VPOTUS have acknowledged the fact IC would speed up searching for evidence that is regrettably still unavailable. However there seems to be signs GRU penetration (cyrllic, 2.0 VPN elite VPN, Felix Edmundovich). They appear hardly skilled, “incompetent bumbling idiots” as smb [somebody] called them. In absence of direct evidence, Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect will supply the media, and GRU will hopefully carry on to give more facts.41
Ok, now let’s go deeper on this and make it a little easier to understand…because some of these people are not household names and there is a lot of code in here.
I think this will help a lot:
1. Leonard Benardo (or “Benardo”)
Role: The memo’s sender. As of 2025, Leonard Benardo is Senior Vice President at the Open Society Foundations, the philanthropic network founded and largely funded by George Soros.
Ties:
George Soros: Direct employment; leads programs under Soros’s Open Society network. Strong connection.
Hillary Clinton / Barack Obama: No documented personal or political affiliation. His position in Soros’s network may imply shared funding alignment with liberal causes connected to the Democratic Party, but there is no public record of direct work with Clinton or Obama.
2. HRC
Refers to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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One of the parties in the memo: memo alleges “HRC approved Julia’s idea…” implying Clinton signed off on the strategy described.
Previously connected politically to Soros: Soros donated over $1 million to Clinton‑supporting super‑PACs such as Priorities USA and Ready for Hillary.
Worked in Obama administration (as Secretary of State) and Democratic establishment.
3. Julia
Identified as campaign adviser (“Julia’s idea”).
Likely refers to Julianne (“Julie”) Smith, a Clinton foreign policy adviser who later served in Biden administration as U.S. ambassador to NATO.
Ties:
Hillary Clinton: Adviser during 2016 campaign, so a direct tie.
Barack Obama: Smith began her national political career in Obama-era assignments, but no close personal tie publicly reported.
George Soros: No direct known tie; but memo indicating coordination with Open Society implies some connected planning.
4. POTUS / VPOTUS
References the President** (then Obama) and Vice President (Joe Biden in 2016).
Ties:
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Barack Obama obviously referenced by POTUS.
They are alleged in memo to have “acknowledged the fact IC would speed up searching for evidence,” meaning part of the broader federal intelligence apparatus under their administration was aware of Russian hacking concerns.
5. GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate, Russian military intelligence)
Named in memo as the alleged perpetrators.
Ties:
No ties to Obama, Clinton, or Soros—represented in memo as adversarial foreign actors. The memo characterizes GRU agents as “incompetent bumbling idiots.”
6. Felix Edmundovich
Possibly a presumed cover name or code name for a GRU operative or “Felix Edmundovich” as stereotypical Russian name.
Ties: None documented. Likely fictitious or anonymized.
7. CrowdStrike
A U.S.-based cybersecurity firm that investigated the DNC hack and attributed it to GRU “Fancy Bear.”
Ties:
Hired by DNC/Hillary campaign to do breach analysis; coverage on their work was widely cited in press.
No corporate or leadership ties to Soros, but the memo claims they were used as conduits for narrative.
Not publicly connected to Obama administration, though federal agencies also relied on their findings.
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8. ThreatConnect
A cyber threat intelligence platform founded in Arlington, VA, in 2011.
Ties:
Contracted or cited by Democratic‑leaning entities during Russia hacking attribution.
No known direct ties to Soros, although it was referenced in memo as a partner in disseminating intelligence.
No noted formal link to Obama or Clinton beyond typical vendor/service roles.
More here:
🧭 Analysis: Who Are They & Their Connections
Leonard Benardo is firmly embedded in George Soros’s network as a senior leader at Open Society Foundations. His memo suggests coordination between OSF and the Clinton campaign on narrative strategies—a claim also supported by new declassified sources linking his communications to campaign planning and media coordination.
Hillary Clinton (HRC) clearly features as the campaign principal approving Julia’s proposed strategy. Her relationship with Soros is documented through major financial and institutional support for her campaign and allied super‑PACs.
Julianne Smith (“Julia”) was a trusted foreign policy aide to Clinton in 2016 and later rose in the Biden administration—placing her as a key organizational link between Clinton’s campaign and Obama-era personnel networks, but no public links to Soros beyond her inclusion in strategizing.
CrowdStrike and ThreatConnect are cybersecurity vendors that played forensic roles during the DNC breach investigation. The memo portrays them as media conduits for attributing blame to GRU. They have no public ideological or funding tie to Soros or direct institutional alignment with Obama or Clinton, beyond contract-level interactions.
POTUS/VPOTUS (Obama/Biden) come up as administration figures presumed briefed on or acknowledging Russian infrastructure threats—that contextualizes the broader federal security response.
The GRU and the pseudonym “Felix Edmundovich” are included as foreign intelligence adversaries. The memo uses them to convey plausibility and plan for narrative deployment, but they have no relationship to Soros or U.S. political actors—they’re presented as the external threat being framed.
More here:
These Durham annex files are disturbing.
The Clinton campaign, in coordination with the Obama administration, the media, and the intelligence community, WITTINGLY coordinated to “demonize Putin and Trump”, and blame them for the DNC hack (Seth Rich).
They were all in on it. pic.twitter.com/jpRlaxJU7C
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) July 31, 2025
Folks, no other way to put this other than this appears to be quite clearly TREASON against a duly-elected US President.
And if not technically treason by the book definition, something very close or even worse.
This cannot stand.
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