by Bill Martinez
Allen’s account argues the Russia hoax was not a mistake but a calculated abuse of intelligence power—one that reshaped American politics and still demands accountability.
Drew Thomas Allen’s Clinton Hoax, Obama Coup: The Declassified Story of the Trump–Russia Delusion is the book that previous authors on the scandal could only dream of writing. Published in 2026, it arrives with the full weight of Tulsi Gabbard’s declassifications as Director of National Intelligence, the Durham report, the Horowitz IG findings, and—most crucially—the long-buried Russian intelligence memos that the FBI received as early as January 2016 but chose to sideline.
While earlier works like Gregg Jarrett’s The Russia Hoax, Andrew McCarthy’s Ball of Collusion, and Lee Smith’s The Plot Against the President laid important groundwork, they were constrained by classified material. Allen’s book removes those constraints and delivers the complete, unvarnished picture.
At its core, this is not just another recap of Crossfire Hurricane or the Steele dossier. It is the definitive account that centers the Russian memos—the intercepted intelligence reports that explicitly described Hillary Clinton’s plan to smear Donald Trump by tying him to Russia as a distraction from her email scandal and Clinton Foundation controversies. These memos, which FBI leadership, including Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, reviewed, were not fabrications or disinformation. They were raw, internal Russian intelligence communications never meant for American eyes. And they were devastatingly accurate.
Allen meticulously walks readers through the timeline. By March 2016—months before WikiLeaks released the DNC emails and well before the FBI officially opened Crossfire Hurricane on July 31—the Bureau had already received reports stating that “the Clinton staff, with help from special services, is preparing scandalous revelations of business relations between Trump and the ‘Russian mafia.’”
Another memo noted that Clinton had approved a proposal from her foreign policy advisor, Julianne Smith, to “smear Donald Trump by magnifying the scandal tied to the intrusion by the Russian special services.” The memos even referenced backchannel communications, suggesting Attorney General Loretta Lynch was keeping Clinton’s team informed about the email investigation. Rather than pursue these leads as evidence of corruption at the highest levels, the FBI buried them and pivoted to investigating Trump.
The contrast is staggering. When the memos implicated the Clinton campaign, senior officials dismissed them as “raw” and “likely not credible.” Yet the same FBI elevated Christopher Steele’s opposition-research dossier—funded by the Clinton campaign through Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS—into the foundation for FISA warrants on Carter Page.
Steele’s claims (the “pee tape,” Cohen in Prague, Page’s alleged Rosneft deal) were never corroborated and later collapsed, but they were treated as gospel while genuine intelligence about Clinton’s scheme was ignored. This selective blindness wasn’t incompetence. It was deliberate.
Allen demonstrates how the operation evolved from a defensive Clinton campaign tactic into a full Obama administration effort. After Trump’s victory, the hoax did not die—it escalated. On December 9, 2016, President Obama personally ordered the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA).
Under CIA Director John Brennan’s direction, a hand-picked group produced a document claiming with “high confidence” that Putin interfered specifically to help Trump. This assessment became the bridge that kept the investigation alive.
When Trump fired James Comey in May 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein cited the ICA when appointing Robert Mueller as special counsel. The Mueller probe, which consumed nearly two years of the Trump presidency, produced process-crime convictions but no evidence of campaign collusion with Russia.
The Russian memos make the ICA’s conclusions even more damning. While the assessment elevated one ambiguous fragment of human intelligence to assert that Putin “aspired” to help Trump, other Russian reporting circulating at the time painted a far more complex picture.
Some intercepts suggested Putin expected a Clinton victory and was preparing for it. Others noted Clinton’s health issues and internal Democratic concerns. Still others indicated Russia believed it could outmaneuver either candidate. The ICA selectively ignored this contradictory material, shaping the narrative to fit the predetermined story that Trump was compromised. Allen shows how this was not intelligence analysis—it was political engineering, ordered from the top.
The book’s strength lies in its clarity and moral force. Allen writes for the general reader, cutting through the acronyms and bureaucratic fog that made the scandal so difficult to follow in real time. He connects the Benghazi cover-up—where Obama’s White House ordered the CIA to revise talking points twelve times—to the Russia operation, showing a consistent pattern of narrative control. When reality threatened the preferred political story, the machinery of government was used to rewrite it.
What emerges is a portrait of an “Administrative Mafia”—the permanent bureaucracy that moves seamlessly between Democratic administrations, media outlets, and private influence operations. Figures like Victoria Nuland, Mike Morell, and Marc Elias (Clinton’s campaign lawyer who orchestrated the Fusion GPS contract) exemplify this network.
Elias, in particular, serves as the keystone. He was present for the critical decisions, invoked attorney-client privilege to shield answers in depositions, and remains one of the few central players who has faced no meaningful accountability.
Allen also traces the long-term damage. The hoax didn’t just target Trump—it eroded public trust in institutions. It taught a generation that elections could be undermined not by foreign powers, but by America’s own intelligence and law enforcement apparatus. The same tactics reappeared in 2020 with the “51 intelligence officials” letter dismissing Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation, and in the lawfare campaign of 2021–2024. The precedent set in 2016 remains a live threat.
Clinton Hoax, Obama Coup is the book that future historians will cite when they want to understand how a republic’s institutions were corrupted from within. Previous works laid the foundation. This one completes the restoration, stripping away the final layers of varnish to reveal the raw underpainting. What it shows is ugly, but necessary.
If you care about truth, accountability, and the survival of self-government, this book is required reading. The Russian memos have been declassified. The cover-up has been exposed. Now it is time for the American people to see the full picture—and demand that those responsible finally face justice.
Bill Martinez is an award-winning marketing and broadcast
journalist and host of the nationally syndicated radio show, Bill
Martinez Live. Find out more at billmartinezlive.com.
Source: https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/10/clinton-hoax-obama-coup-by-drew-thomas-allen-the-declassified-blueprint-that-finally-exposes-the-russian-memos-and-the-real-coup/
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