Patel finds key Russiagate documents in burn bags meant for destruction

By Jerry McConway,
 updated on July 31, 2025

The Trump-Russia collusion investigation may be about to be blown out of the water.

Over the last few weeks. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has created a buzz about how the Obama administration was responsible for crafting this entire narrative.

Now, FBI Director Kash Patel has stated that he found evidence in burn bags that had not yet been destroyed that could blow the lid off this entire investigation.

It’s treason

Gabbard dropped a bombshell several days ago about how the Russian collusion investigation got started.

Democrats have come out to say that this is all fake news, but what Gabbard is discussing is different from what was previously probed. All the prior investigations centered on claims of actual collusion, not on how the narrative got started in the first place. She is claiming that the entire premise of collusion was manufactured from the outset.

On Gabbard’s findings and what will be done about it, President Donald Trump stated, "What they've done is so bad for this country. And it really started right at the 2016 election."

Trump continued, "And there's a difference when you know it -- and when you know it, and it's all written down for you. I mean, it's all there. It's right there. The orders, the memos, the whole thing. It's right there."

Hillary approved

If I am reading all the documents from Gabbard properly, the Obama administration was working in conjunction with the Hillary Clinton campaign to smear Trump with this collusion hoax.

As an example, one of the declassified documents released by Gabbard stated, “Clinton approved a plan proposed by one of her foreign policy advisors, Julianne Smith, to ‘smear Donald Trump by magnifying the scandal tied to the intrusion by the Russian special services in the pre-election process to benefit the Republican candidate.'”

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) commented on the finding, stating, “Based on the Durham annex, the Obama FBI failed to adequately review and investigate intelligence reports showing the Clinton campaign may have been ginning up the fake Trump-Russia narrative for Clinton’s political gain, which was ultimately done through the Steele Dossier and other means."

He continued, “These intelligence reports and related records, whether true or false, were buried for years. History will show that the Obama and Biden administration’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies were weaponized against President Trump.”

Burn bags

In addition to these findings, Patel recently announced that he found burn bags in a secret room at FBI HQ that could well blow the lid off this investigation.

Patel had previously mentioned these bags during an interview with Joe Rogan, stating, “Just think about this. Me, as director of the FBI, the former ‘Russiagate guy,’ when I first got to the Bureau, found a room that Comey and others hid from the world in the Hoover Building, full of documents and computer hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of. Locked the key and hid access and just said, ‘No one’s ever gonna find this place.'”

We reported earlier in the week that Patel had also uncovered intelligence from foreign governments showing that the FBI was going to help support the narrative that Trump had colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.

It is mind-boggling to think that Democrats thought they could do this and get away with it. I am also stunned at the sloppiness in terms of the Obama administration and how casually it handled all of this information. If everything Gabbard and Patel are saying right now is true, Trump is right -- this was treason at the highest levels of our government. It also shows the hubris of the Democratic Party in thinking that Hillary Clinton would win, and they could cover all this up without anyone ever finding out about it.

About Jerry McConway

Jerry McConway is a conservative journalist who has been covering politics for more than a decade. His no-nonsense writing style makes him enemy number one in DC. His mission is to tell the truth to readers, good or bad, something the mainstream media has failed to do for decades. He and Shaun Connell have co-founded numerous conservative-oriented publications to form one of the most formidable publishing teams in conservative alt-media.  

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