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The Illustrated Spygate Scandal - Part XIX

The first political coup in American history

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Doug Ross
Sep 29, 2025
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See Part I to start at the beginning.

February 13, 2017

Flynn’s firing marked the successful completion of the intelligence community’s first political assassination of a constitutional official. The man who could have exposed their surveillance operations had been excised.

“Flynn has resigned,” Trump announced, unaware that his National Security Advisor had been eliminated by a cadre of Executive Branch saboteurs.

In FBI headquarters, the inner circle quietly celebrated their successful targeting of Flynn while planning expanded operations against other administration officials that might discover the plot.

The Obama administration’s insurance policy had claimed its first major victim.


February 14, 2017

The text exchange between Page and Strzok about the F-302 form was smoking-gun evidence of evidence falsification. They were retroactively altering interview notes to criminalize truthful answers.

“Is Andy good with F-302?” Page texted, referring to the official interview report that would determine Flynn’s fate.

“Launch on f 302,” Strzok replied, his response revealing that McCabe had approved the falsification.

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