'Russiagate' participant reportedly pleading guilty

Hillary Clinton (Video screenshot)

It couldn't be missed at the time of the 2016 presidential election: Then-candidate Donald Trump's "links" to "Russia."

After all, the U.S. Justice Dpertment was investigating it, the FBI claimed it had enough evidence to need permission to spy on the Trump campaign.

The story went on for years, all the way through Robert Mueller's years-long review that found …nothing!

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Even today, after it's been documented that the stories were made up, pushed by the Hillary Clinton campaign to divert voters' attention from her own email scandal, there STILL are those to chant "Russia collusion" at the drop of a hat.

Now there may be at least a bit of justice. According to the Washington Times, one of those involved in the Russian conspiracy theory is pleading guilty.

According to the report, "to charges of colluding with Russia himself, a federal judge suggested…"

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Will Hillary Clinton ever face criminal punishment for her role in Russiagate?

It is Charles McGonigal, a former special agent in charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York, who was part of the FBI's "Trump-Russian collusion probe into former President Donald Trump’s campaign."

But Jennifer Reardon, a Manhattan-based federal judge, wrote in an order that attorneys for McGonigal wish to change their plea in the case.

He originally pleaded not guilty to corruption charges, including conspiring to evade U.S. sanctions, money laundering, conspiring to commit money laundering and conspiring to violate federal law against doing business with sanctioned individuals, the report documented.

Each count carries a potential prison term of 20 years.

Reardon scheduled a hearing for August 15 after noting, "The court has been informed that defendant Charles McGonigal may wish to enter a change of plea."

McGonigal was an FBI counterintelligence agent in New York, and if the case proceeds as expected, would be the fourth major FBI figure involved in the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory to face criminal charges, or end up under investigation.

The report said he's accused of illegally accepting payments for his work with Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch – reportedly in exchange for investigating a rival Russian. There are cases involving him in both Washington and New York, and there's no word anything has changed in the Washington case.

IMPORTANT NOTE: To their horror, America’s ruling elites failed to knock out Donald Trump during his four years as president via the fabricated Trump-Russia collusion scandal – conceived and funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign, as the Durham report proves – or through two circus-like impeachment trials. Later came “January 6,” a demonstration-turned-riot by Trump supporters who passionately believed, with good reason, that the recent election – and therefore their country – had just been stolen from them. Members of Congress now want to constitutionally bar Trump from again seeking public office for having instigated “an armed insurrection” (no protester was armed) against America.

Then in March, Trump was indicted in New York on 34 counts of falsifying business records, and in June, still more indictments were filed against Trump – 37 federal criminal charges related to his handling of classified documents. Honest legal experts not in league with the Biden administration openly classify these indictments as somewhere between frivolous and idiotic, not to mention grotesquely politically motivated.

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