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Kash Patel Releasing Documents Linked To FBI's Trump "Russia Collusion" Probe

FBI Director Kash Patel has delivered hundreds of pages of declassified documents to Congress from the bureau's "Crossfire 
Hurricane" investigation, which centered on false allegations of Trump-Russia collusion following an executive order from 
President Donald Trump directing their declassification.

Nearly 700 pages of these records-labeled the "Crossfire Hurricane Redacted Binder" and dated April 9,2025-have also been 
obtained exclusively by Just the News.

The move by Trump and Patel relates to a March executive order aimed at completing the declassification of records tied to the 
FBI's Trump-Russia investigation-an effort that had been blocked by Trump's own Justice Department in January 2021 during the 
final days of his first term.

It also comes after four years of resistance from the Biden-era DOJ and FBI, led by former Attorney General Merrick Garland and 
ex-FBI Director Christopher Wray, who refused to release the documents.

The FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation, which targeted both then-candidate and later President Trump in 2016 and beyond, was 
launched based on unsubstantiated allegations of collusion with the Russian government, with the involvement of 2016 Democratic 
nominee Hillary Clinton.

It was later widely criticized as a politically driven effort by elements within the intelligence and law enforcement community 
to undermine Trump's presidency.

Trump's March order is titled "Immediate Declassification of Materials Related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Crossfire 
Hurricane Investigation." In the order, he references his earlier, unsuccessful attempt to declassify the same materials on his 
final full day in office during his first term.

"I have determined that all of the materials referenced in the Presidential Memorandum of January 19,2021 ... are no longer 
classified," he said in announcing the order.

Trump's January 2021 order referenced a binder of materials related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, which he said was 
delivered to the White House by the Justice Department at his request on December 30,2020.

"I hereby declassify the remaining materials in the binder," Trump said Jan. 19,2021. "This is my final determination under the 
declassification review and I have directed the Attorney General to implement the redactions proposed in the FBI's January 17 
submission and return to the White House an appropriately redacted copy."

The 2021 memo from Trump said he had 'determined that the materials should be declassified to the maximum extent possible." 
However, the FBI under Wray said in mid-January 2021 that the agency had "identified the passages that it believed it was most 
crucial to keep from public disclosure."

Trump said at the time he would "accept the redactions proposed for continued classification by the FBI" and ordered the rest of 
the documents to be declassified and made available by the Justice Department.

Trump's final declassification request was blocked by the Justice Department after he left the White House, preventing that from 
happening.

A memo from then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, delivered on the morning of January 20,2021, asserted that the Justice 
Department 'must" release the binder of declassified documents related to the flawed Trump-Russia investigation, pending a 
Privacy Act review.

However, the DOJ under Garland and the FBI under Wray never released the records, despite Trump's declassification order and 
Meadows" final-hour directive.

A two-year investigation by Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller 'did not establish" any criminal collusion between 
Trump and Russia. Additionally, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz identified major flaws in the FBI's investigation, 
including its reliance on a dossier he described as playing a "central and essential" role in the FBI's politically charged 
surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

The dossier was compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who was hired by the opposition research firm 
Fusion GPS.

In turn, Fusion had been retained by Clinton's 2016 campaign through then-Perkins Coie attorney Marc Elias.

A subsequent report by a new Justice Department special counsel, John Durham, concluded that "neither U.S. law enforcement nor 
the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of 
the Crossfire Hurricane investigation."

Durham also said the "FBI ignored the fact that at no time before, during, or after Crossfire Hurricane were investigators able 
to corroborate a single substantive allegation in the Steele dossier reporting."

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was 
a punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people 
in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."