Trump’s Declassification Order Yields Explosive New Insight Into FBI’s Trump-Russia Probe
In a dramatic turn of events, newly declassified documents from the FBI’s controversial “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation—originally launched to probe now-debunked claims of Trump-Russia collusion—have finally landed in the hands of Congress. The release follows a directive from former President Donald Trump and a coordinated effort by former senior adviser Kash Patel, who submitted the documents earlier this year.
Exclusively obtained by Just the News, approximately 700 pages of material—known as the Crossfire Hurricane Redacted Binder, dated April 9, 2025—shed new light on what many now consider one of the most politically charged investigations in modern U.S. history.
The release stems from a March 2025 executive order by Trump titled “Immediate Declassification of Materials Pertaining to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation.” The order revives Trump’s earlier but ultimately blocked efforts in January 2021 to fully declassify these records during his final day in office.
“This is my final determination,” Trump wrote in a declassification memo dated January 19, 2021. He approved limited redactions recommended by the FBI but directed the rest to be publicly released. Yet, in a last-minute move, his own Justice Department failed to follow through—effectively burying the documents until now.
The stalled declassification effort faced continued resistance for years under the Biden administration’s Justice Department, led by Attorney General Merrick Garland, and the FBI under Director Christopher Wray. Despite mounting public pressure and internal directives—including a memo from then–White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows instructing the DOJ to release the binder pending a Privacy Act review—the documents remained under wraps.
Now brought to light, the documents appear to confirm years of conservative criticism: that the FBI launched and sustained Crossfire Hurricane based on politically motivated and unverified information. The probe originally targeted then-candidate Donald Trump and later President Trump based on allegations that originated with the Steele dossier—a collection of salacious, unproven claims compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.
Steele was hired by opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which was itself retained by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign via law firm Perkins Coie and attorney Marc Elias.
Multiple investigations have since undermined the credibility of Crossfire Hurricane. In 2019, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz identified serious flaws, including the FBI’s reliance on the Steele dossier to justify surveillance of Trump campaign aide Carter Page. A two-year inquiry by Special Counsel Robert Mueller failed to establish any criminal collusion between Trump and Russia. More recently, Special Counsel John Durham concluded the FBI had “no actual evidence of collusion” when it launched the probe and said the Bureau failed to verify “a single substantive allegation” in Steele’s reporting.
With the binder now public, the question shifts: will this long-buried chapter in American political history finally face the accountability many have demanded for years?
