President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued an order that all of the government’s files on the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation nine years ago be made public.
That was the FBI’s attempt to undermine Trump’s first, successful, campaign for president.
Commentator Charlie Kirk explained its significance:
BREAKING: President Trump has just signed a Presidential Memorandum ordering the immediate declassification of all FBI files relating to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation which kicked off the Russia hoax 9 years ago. This is a big deal. Our own FBI tried to sabotage a presidential candidate based on an absurd conspiracy theory, then sabotaged that same candidate after he was elected, then coordinated a Deep State-directed censorship campaign to throw him out of office. The only way we can hope to fix this is with total transparency. All the FBI’s dirty laundry MUST be made public.”
Another commenter was to the same point, only more succinct: “President Trump orders the immediate declassification of all FBI files on Crossfire Hurricane, the infamous ‘Russian Collusion’ investigation. These documents could finally expose Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for committing treason against a sitting president.”
In fact, conspiracy rumors created by Democrats and their hired lawyers included a wild list of unrealistic claims in documents like the now-discredited Steele Dossier, which leftists quoted as if it were the truth.
President Trump signs a Presidential Memorandum requiring the immediate declassification of all FBI files relating to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation pic.twitter.com/5BdF6PBNna
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 25, 2025
Does everyone understand how historic this is? pic.twitter.com/JWNtAvjbrY
— Gunther Eagleman
(@GuntherEagleman) March 25, 2025
Trump just declassified the Crossfire Hurricane documents and listen to what he says here
“Frankly the FBI should be ashamed of themselves, and so should the DOJ, and so should Biden”
He fired Comey and Wray, he stripped Biden & Hillary’s security clearances, and now he’s… pic.twitter.com/O3h9yKY3IZ
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) March 25, 2025
BREAKING: President Trump has just signed a Presidential Memorandum ordering the immediate declassification of all FBI files relating to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation which kicked off the Russia hoax 9 years ago.
This is a big deal. Our own FBI tried to sabotage a… pic.twitter.com/CX4FHgQCsZ
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 25, 2025
Fox News reported that Trump cast doubt on willingness of the media, which joined the Democrats wholeheartedly in the conspiracy against Trump, to be reviewing the facts.
“You probably won’t bother because you’re not going to like what you see. But this was total weaponization. It’s a disgrace. It should have never happened in this country. But now you’ll be able to see for yourselves. All declassified,” he said.
The report noted the FBI opened the unsubstantiated investigation July 31, 2016, a counterintelligence scheme that claimed to seek if Trump or his campaign members were colluding with Russia.
The report noted, “The opening of the investigation came just days after a July 28 meeting during which then-CIA Director John Brennan briefed then-President Barack Obama on a purported proposal from one of Hillary Clinton’s campaign foreign policy advisors ‘to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service.’”
Clinton was the Democrat nominee for president that year, and failed in her second attempt at the office. She later claimed, wildly, that the election was stolen from her.
Then-FBI Director James Comey subsequently pushed the Steele Dossier, a compilation of salacious lies about Trump. It was fabricated by Christopher Steele and was commissioned by Fusion GPS, in the pay of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Special counsel Robert Mueller spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars to come up empty of any evidence the conspiracy theory was accurate.
But what was found was that the weaponized government agency has pursued improper surveillance of Trump staff members.
A subsequent review confirmed that the FBI, under Obama, had zero evidence to even begin an investigation. It also found the FBI was the “target” of a Clinton conspiracy to “manipulate” law enforcement for political purposes.