HRC did nothing with it. BBL
Breaking! Trump would still accept foreign dirt on his political opponent
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Twenty-three House republicans request declassification of documents directly from President Trump as soon as possible. Despite the executive office directive to AG Bill Barr, the republican group seemingly do not trust the DOJ and FBI institutional interests.BrooksBearLives said:Doc Holliday said:
Can ya'll keep up, or are you having a hard time understanding what happened with Hillary's dirt?
HRC hired Fusion GPS.
FusionGPS hired Christopher Steele.
Steele crafted the dossier without sources. Nothing in the dossier is confirmed. In fact Steele claims there is a Russian consulate in Miami in the dossier (it doesn't exist!).
The FBI only confirmed Steele as a source...not the contents of the dossier.
Legal warrants need confirmation, not just the source.
It became an illegal warrant.
FISA warrant judges didn't royally screwed up. They were lied to.
The FISA courts received falsified intel on the dossier (parallel construction through media leaks). The FBI used an article from Yahoo News as independent corroboration for the Steele dossier when, in fact, Steele had talked to the news outlet. If the FBI knew Steele had that media contact before it submitted the article, it likely would be guilty of circular intelligence reporting, a forbidden tactic in which two pieces of evidence are portrayed as independent corroboration when, in fact, they originated from the same source.
The Special counsel was created on behalf of this illegal sham.
On top of that there were spies sent to create the appearance of collusion. (Planting money on Trump campaign members, setting up discussions with Russians and much more). There was also texts uncovered about setting up an insurance policy in case Trump was elected. Mueller's entire staff was anti Trump lawyers. and Hillary's personal infamous lawyer with a shady and corrupt background - Andrew Weissman).
The SC report relied on more bull**** media 130 times in the report. That's 130 cases of public opinion!
You have to be a complete moron to not even question this operation.
Wake up guys!
Answer me this. If this is a nothing-burger, then why are Republicans running from Trump on this? They absolutely are. His biggest supporters are not backing him on this.
It's a smart move to keep the pressure on.
She didn't have to do anything with it. Steele was shopping it to the DOJ and the media while Blumenthal and Shearer were feeding the same information to the State Department.BrooksBearLives said:JXL said:BrooksBearLives said:While we're clarifying, Steele's dossier was originally commissioned by Republicans.Doc Holliday said:Just for clarity:BrooksBearLives said:Not sure how you're struggling with the bolded section. SHE paid THEM. It wasn't foreign interference. She paid them. It was paid for with legal funding.Doc Holliday said:
Can ya'll keep up, or are you having a hard time understanding what happened with Hillary's dirt?
HRC hired Fusion GPS.
FusionGPS hired Christopher Steele.
Steele crafted the dossier without sources. Nothing in the dossier is confirmed. In fact Steele claims there is a Russian consulate in Miami in the dossier (it doesn't exist!).
The FBI only confirmed Steele as a source...not the contents of the dossier.
Legal warrants need confirmation, not just the source.
It became an illegal warrant.
FISA warrant judges didn't royally screwed up. They were lied to.
The FISA courts received falsified intel on the dossier (parallel construction through media leaks). The FBI used an article from Yahoo News as independent corroboration for the Steele dossier when, in fact, Steele had talked to the news outlet. If the FBI knew Steele had that media contact before it submitted the article, it likely would be guilty of circular intelligence reporting, a forbidden tactic in which two pieces of evidence are portrayed as independent corroboration when, in fact, they originated from the same source.
The Special counsel was created on behalf of this illegal sham.
On top of that there were spies sent to create the appearance of collusion. (Planting money on Trump campaign members, setting up discussions with Russians and much more). There was also texts uncovered about setting up an insurance policy in case Trump was elected. Mueller's entire staff was anti Trump lawyers. and Hillary's personal infamous lawyer with a shady and corrupt background - Andrew Weissman).
The SC report relied on more bull**** media 130 times in the report. That's 130 cases of public opinion!
You have to be a complete moron to not even question this operation.
Wake up guys!
The difference between that and foreign governments is that foreign governments can't give anything of worth (which is oppo research is ABSOLUTELY worth money, Hillary paid for it as you've pointed out exhaustively).
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE. And it's a pretty big difference.
Answer me this. If this is a nothing-burger, then why are Republicans running from Trump on this? They absolutely are. His biggest supporters are not backing him on this.
Why? They will back him on putting kids in cages. They will back him on stupid tariff threats that blew up in his face. But they won't back him on this.
Why?
Steele was not dossier's sources.
In Steele's words, sources were:
A: senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure;
B: former top level Russian intelligence officer still active inside the Kremlin;
C: senior Russian financial official;
D: senior Kremlin official.
Nunes, Jim Jordan, Cruz, Meadows and several other big names are not running from Trump on this. They are fighting back. Don't make up bs.
HRC paying is irrelevant for now. We're talking about how the intel community used it. Keep up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/politics/steele-dossier-trump-expained.html
While we're clarifying further, the story you posted doesn't say that at all.
Republicans hired Fusion GPS, but let them go in May 2016. The Clinton campaign then hired them, and it was after this time that Fusion commissioned the Steele dossier. So no, the Republicans did not commission the Steele dossier, the Clinton campaign (indirectly) did.
From your article:
After Mr. Trump secured the nomination, Fusion GPS was hired on behalf of Mrs. Clinton's campaign and the D.N.C. by their law firm, Perkins Coie, to compile research about Mr. Trump, his businesses and associates including possible connections with Russia. It was at that point that Fusion GPS hired Mr. Steele, who has deep sourcing in Russia, to gather information.
The work was started before Steele was engaged, in October of 2015. He wasn't the only author.
In October 2015, Fusion GPS was contracted by conservative political website The Washington Free Beacon to provide general opposition research on Trump and other Republican presidential candidates.
In June 2016, Fusion GPS subcontracted Steele's firm to compile the dossier. Clinton campaign officials were reportedly unaware that Fusion GPS had subcontracted Steele, and he was not told that Clinton's campaign was the recipient.
Following Trump's election as president, funding from Clinton and the DNC ceased, but Steele continued his research and was reportedly paid directly by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn R. Simpson.
Here's what makes no sense: if Hillary was trying to sink Trump with this oppo research, she showed NO signs of it. She did NOTHING with it during the election.
That is correct.Sam Lowry said:She didn't have to do anything with it. Steele was shopping it to the DOJ and the media while Blumenthal and Shearer were feeding the same information to the State Department.BrooksBearLives said:JXL said:BrooksBearLives said:While we're clarifying, Steele's dossier was originally commissioned by Republicans.Doc Holliday said:Just for clarity:BrooksBearLives said:Not sure how you're struggling with the bolded section. SHE paid THEM. It wasn't foreign interference. She paid them. It was paid for with legal funding.Doc Holliday said:
Can ya'll keep up, or are you having a hard time understanding what happened with Hillary's dirt?
HRC hired Fusion GPS.
FusionGPS hired Christopher Steele.
Steele crafted the dossier without sources. Nothing in the dossier is confirmed. In fact Steele claims there is a Russian consulate in Miami in the dossier (it doesn't exist!).
The FBI only confirmed Steele as a source...not the contents of the dossier.
Legal warrants need confirmation, not just the source.
It became an illegal warrant.
FISA warrant judges didn't royally screwed up. They were lied to.
The FISA courts received falsified intel on the dossier (parallel construction through media leaks). The FBI used an article from Yahoo News as independent corroboration for the Steele dossier when, in fact, Steele had talked to the news outlet. If the FBI knew Steele had that media contact before it submitted the article, it likely would be guilty of circular intelligence reporting, a forbidden tactic in which two pieces of evidence are portrayed as independent corroboration when, in fact, they originated from the same source.
The Special counsel was created on behalf of this illegal sham.
On top of that there were spies sent to create the appearance of collusion. (Planting money on Trump campaign members, setting up discussions with Russians and much more). There was also texts uncovered about setting up an insurance policy in case Trump was elected. Mueller's entire staff was anti Trump lawyers. and Hillary's personal infamous lawyer with a shady and corrupt background - Andrew Weissman).
The SC report relied on more bull**** media 130 times in the report. That's 130 cases of public opinion!
You have to be a complete moron to not even question this operation.
Wake up guys!
The difference between that and foreign governments is that foreign governments can't give anything of worth (which is oppo research is ABSOLUTELY worth money, Hillary paid for it as you've pointed out exhaustively).
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE. And it's a pretty big difference.
Answer me this. If this is a nothing-burger, then why are Republicans running from Trump on this? They absolutely are. His biggest supporters are not backing him on this.
Why? They will back him on putting kids in cages. They will back him on stupid tariff threats that blew up in his face. But they won't back him on this.
Why?
Steele was not dossier's sources.
In Steele's words, sources were:
A: senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure;
B: former top level Russian intelligence officer still active inside the Kremlin;
C: senior Russian financial official;
D: senior Kremlin official.
Nunes, Jim Jordan, Cruz, Meadows and several other big names are not running from Trump on this. They are fighting back. Don't make up bs.
HRC paying is irrelevant for now. We're talking about how the intel community used it. Keep up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/politics/steele-dossier-trump-expained.html
While we're clarifying further, the story you posted doesn't say that at all.
Republicans hired Fusion GPS, but let them go in May 2016. The Clinton campaign then hired them, and it was after this time that Fusion commissioned the Steele dossier. So no, the Republicans did not commission the Steele dossier, the Clinton campaign (indirectly) did.
From your article:
After Mr. Trump secured the nomination, Fusion GPS was hired on behalf of Mrs. Clinton's campaign and the D.N.C. by their law firm, Perkins Coie, to compile research about Mr. Trump, his businesses and associates including possible connections with Russia. It was at that point that Fusion GPS hired Mr. Steele, who has deep sourcing in Russia, to gather information.
The work was started before Steele was engaged, in October of 2015. He wasn't the only author.
In October 2015, Fusion GPS was contracted by conservative political website The Washington Free Beacon to provide general opposition research on Trump and other Republican presidential candidates.
In June 2016, Fusion GPS subcontracted Steele's firm to compile the dossier. Clinton campaign officials were reportedly unaware that Fusion GPS had subcontracted Steele, and he was not told that Clinton's campaign was the recipient.
Following Trump's election as president, funding from Clinton and the DNC ceased, but Steele continued his research and was reportedly paid directly by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn R. Simpson.
Here's what makes no sense: if Hillary was trying to sink Trump with this oppo research, she showed NO signs of it. She did NOTHING with it during the election.
He started shopping it after she declined to do anything with it.Doc Holliday said:That is correct.Sam Lowry said:She didn't have to do anything with it. Steele was shopping it to the DOJ and the media while Blumenthal and Shearer were feeding the same information to the State Department.BrooksBearLives said:JXL said:BrooksBearLives said:While we're clarifying, Steele's dossier was originally commissioned by Republicans.Doc Holliday said:Just for clarity:BrooksBearLives said:Not sure how you're struggling with the bolded section. SHE paid THEM. It wasn't foreign interference. She paid them. It was paid for with legal funding.Doc Holliday said:
Can ya'll keep up, or are you having a hard time understanding what happened with Hillary's dirt?
HRC hired Fusion GPS.
FusionGPS hired Christopher Steele.
Steele crafted the dossier without sources. Nothing in the dossier is confirmed. In fact Steele claims there is a Russian consulate in Miami in the dossier (it doesn't exist!).
The FBI only confirmed Steele as a source...not the contents of the dossier.
Legal warrants need confirmation, not just the source.
It became an illegal warrant.
FISA warrant judges didn't royally screwed up. They were lied to.
The FISA courts received falsified intel on the dossier (parallel construction through media leaks). The FBI used an article from Yahoo News as independent corroboration for the Steele dossier when, in fact, Steele had talked to the news outlet. If the FBI knew Steele had that media contact before it submitted the article, it likely would be guilty of circular intelligence reporting, a forbidden tactic in which two pieces of evidence are portrayed as independent corroboration when, in fact, they originated from the same source.
The Special counsel was created on behalf of this illegal sham.
On top of that there were spies sent to create the appearance of collusion. (Planting money on Trump campaign members, setting up discussions with Russians and much more). There was also texts uncovered about setting up an insurance policy in case Trump was elected. Mueller's entire staff was anti Trump lawyers. and Hillary's personal infamous lawyer with a shady and corrupt background - Andrew Weissman).
The SC report relied on more bull**** media 130 times in the report. That's 130 cases of public opinion!
You have to be a complete moron to not even question this operation.
Wake up guys!
The difference between that and foreign governments is that foreign governments can't give anything of worth (which is oppo research is ABSOLUTELY worth money, Hillary paid for it as you've pointed out exhaustively).
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE. And it's a pretty big difference.
Answer me this. If this is a nothing-burger, then why are Republicans running from Trump on this? They absolutely are. His biggest supporters are not backing him on this.
Why? They will back him on putting kids in cages. They will back him on stupid tariff threats that blew up in his face. But they won't back him on this.
Why?
Steele was not dossier's sources.
In Steele's words, sources were:
A: senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure;
B: former top level Russian intelligence officer still active inside the Kremlin;
C: senior Russian financial official;
D: senior Kremlin official.
Nunes, Jim Jordan, Cruz, Meadows and several other big names are not running from Trump on this. They are fighting back. Don't make up bs.
HRC paying is irrelevant for now. We're talking about how the intel community used it. Keep up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/politics/steele-dossier-trump-expained.html
While we're clarifying further, the story you posted doesn't say that at all.
Republicans hired Fusion GPS, but let them go in May 2016. The Clinton campaign then hired them, and it was after this time that Fusion commissioned the Steele dossier. So no, the Republicans did not commission the Steele dossier, the Clinton campaign (indirectly) did.
From your article:
After Mr. Trump secured the nomination, Fusion GPS was hired on behalf of Mrs. Clinton's campaign and the D.N.C. by their law firm, Perkins Coie, to compile research about Mr. Trump, his businesses and associates including possible connections with Russia. It was at that point that Fusion GPS hired Mr. Steele, who has deep sourcing in Russia, to gather information.
The work was started before Steele was engaged, in October of 2015. He wasn't the only author.
In October 2015, Fusion GPS was contracted by conservative political website The Washington Free Beacon to provide general opposition research on Trump and other Republican presidential candidates.
In June 2016, Fusion GPS subcontracted Steele's firm to compile the dossier. Clinton campaign officials were reportedly unaware that Fusion GPS had subcontracted Steele, and he was not told that Clinton's campaign was the recipient.
Following Trump's election as president, funding from Clinton and the DNC ceased, but Steele continued his research and was reportedly paid directly by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn R. Simpson.
Here's what makes no sense: if Hillary was trying to sink Trump with this oppo research, she showed NO signs of it. She did NOTHING with it during the election.
No one knew anything about it until AFTER the election! She sat on it, thus killing it for her purposes. HOW DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?
In either case, the Steel Dossier had almost NOTHING to do with the investigation into Trump. The investigation started thanks to Popodopulous (sp?) who got drunk and bragged to an Australian Official about the help from Russians. That is 1000% crystal clear in the Mueller Report.
Officials from the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C. have said they were unaware that Perkins Coie facilitated the research on their behalf, even though the law firm was using their money to pay for it. Even Mrs. Clinton found about Mr. Steele's research only after BuzzFeed published the dossier, according to two associates who discussed the matter with her. They said that she was disappointed that the research as well as the fact that the F.B.I. was looking into connections between Mr. Trump's associates and Russia was not made public before Election Day.BrooksBearLives said:He started shopping it after she declined to do anything with it.Doc Holliday said:That is correct.Sam Lowry said:She didn't have to do anything with it. Steele was shopping it to the DOJ and the media while Blumenthal and Shearer were feeding the same information to the State Department.BrooksBearLives said:JXL said:BrooksBearLives said:While we're clarifying, Steele's dossier was originally commissioned by Republicans.Doc Holliday said:Just for clarity:BrooksBearLives said:Not sure how you're struggling with the bolded section. SHE paid THEM. It wasn't foreign interference. She paid them. It was paid for with legal funding.Doc Holliday said:
Can ya'll keep up, or are you having a hard time understanding what happened with Hillary's dirt?
HRC hired Fusion GPS.
FusionGPS hired Christopher Steele.
Steele crafted the dossier without sources. Nothing in the dossier is confirmed. In fact Steele claims there is a Russian consulate in Miami in the dossier (it doesn't exist!).
The FBI only confirmed Steele as a source...not the contents of the dossier.
Legal warrants need confirmation, not just the source.
It became an illegal warrant.
FISA warrant judges didn't royally screwed up. They were lied to.
The FISA courts received falsified intel on the dossier (parallel construction through media leaks). The FBI used an article from Yahoo News as independent corroboration for the Steele dossier when, in fact, Steele had talked to the news outlet. If the FBI knew Steele had that media contact before it submitted the article, it likely would be guilty of circular intelligence reporting, a forbidden tactic in which two pieces of evidence are portrayed as independent corroboration when, in fact, they originated from the same source.
The Special counsel was created on behalf of this illegal sham.
On top of that there were spies sent to create the appearance of collusion. (Planting money on Trump campaign members, setting up discussions with Russians and much more). There was also texts uncovered about setting up an insurance policy in case Trump was elected. Mueller's entire staff was anti Trump lawyers. and Hillary's personal infamous lawyer with a shady and corrupt background - Andrew Weissman).
The SC report relied on more bull**** media 130 times in the report. That's 130 cases of public opinion!
You have to be a complete moron to not even question this operation.
Wake up guys!
The difference between that and foreign governments is that foreign governments can't give anything of worth (which is oppo research is ABSOLUTELY worth money, Hillary paid for it as you've pointed out exhaustively).
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE. And it's a pretty big difference.
Answer me this. If this is a nothing-burger, then why are Republicans running from Trump on this? They absolutely are. His biggest supporters are not backing him on this.
Why? They will back him on putting kids in cages. They will back him on stupid tariff threats that blew up in his face. But they won't back him on this.
Why?
Steele was not dossier's sources.
In Steele's words, sources were:
A: senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure;
B: former top level Russian intelligence officer still active inside the Kremlin;
C: senior Russian financial official;
D: senior Kremlin official.
Nunes, Jim Jordan, Cruz, Meadows and several other big names are not running from Trump on this. They are fighting back. Don't make up bs.
HRC paying is irrelevant for now. We're talking about how the intel community used it. Keep up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/politics/steele-dossier-trump-expained.html
While we're clarifying further, the story you posted doesn't say that at all.
Republicans hired Fusion GPS, but let them go in May 2016. The Clinton campaign then hired them, and it was after this time that Fusion commissioned the Steele dossier. So no, the Republicans did not commission the Steele dossier, the Clinton campaign (indirectly) did.
From your article:
After Mr. Trump secured the nomination, Fusion GPS was hired on behalf of Mrs. Clinton's campaign and the D.N.C. by their law firm, Perkins Coie, to compile research about Mr. Trump, his businesses and associates including possible connections with Russia. It was at that point that Fusion GPS hired Mr. Steele, who has deep sourcing in Russia, to gather information.
The work was started before Steele was engaged, in October of 2015. He wasn't the only author.
In October 2015, Fusion GPS was contracted by conservative political website The Washington Free Beacon to provide general opposition research on Trump and other Republican presidential candidates.
In June 2016, Fusion GPS subcontracted Steele's firm to compile the dossier. Clinton campaign officials were reportedly unaware that Fusion GPS had subcontracted Steele, and he was not told that Clinton's campaign was the recipient.
Following Trump's election as president, funding from Clinton and the DNC ceased, but Steele continued his research and was reportedly paid directly by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn R. Simpson.
Here's what makes no sense: if Hillary was trying to sink Trump with this oppo research, she showed NO signs of it. She did NOTHING with it during the election.
No one knew anything about it until AFTER the election! She sat on it, thus killing it for her purposes. HOW DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?
In either case, the Steel Dossier had almost NOTHING to do with the investigation into Trump. The investigation started thanks to Popodopulous (sp?) who got drunk and bragged to an Australian Official about the help from Russians. That is 1000% crystal clear in the Mueller Report.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/politics/steele-dossier-trump-expained.amp.html
Absolutely correct.BrooksBearLives said:He started shopping it after she declined to do anything with it.Doc Holliday said:That is correct.Sam Lowry said:She didn't have to do anything with it. Steele was shopping it to the DOJ and the media while Blumenthal and Shearer were feeding the same information to the State Department.BrooksBearLives said:JXL said:BrooksBearLives said:While we're clarifying, Steele's dossier was originally commissioned by Republicans.Doc Holliday said:Just for clarity:BrooksBearLives said:Not sure how you're struggling with the bolded section. SHE paid THEM. It wasn't foreign interference. She paid them. It was paid for with legal funding.Doc Holliday said:
DCan ya'll keep up, or are you having a hard time understanding what happened with Hillary's dirt?
HRC hired Fusion GPS.
FusionGPS hired Christopher Steele.
Steele crafted the dossier without sources. Nothing in the dossier is confirmed. In fact Steele claims there is a Russian consulate in Miami in the dossier (it doesn't exist!).
The FBI only confirmed Steele as a source...not the contents of the dossier.
Legal warrants need confirmation, not just the source.
It became an illegal warrant.
FISA warrant judges didn't royally screwed up. They were lied to.
The FISA courts received falsified intel on the dossier (parallel construction through media leaks). The FBI used an article from Yahoo News as independent corroboration for the Steele dossier when, in fact, Steele had talked to the news outlet. If the FBI knew Steele had that media contact before it submitted the article, it likely would be guilty of circular intelligence reporting, a forbidden tactic in which two pieces of evidence are portrayed as independent corroboration when, in fact, they originated from the same source.
The Special counsel was created on behalf of this illegal sham.
On top of that there were spies sent to create the appearance of collusion. (Planting money on Trump campaign members, setting up discussions with Russians and much more). There was also texts uncovered about setting up an insurance policy in case Trump was elected. Mueller's entire staff was anti Trump lawyers. and Hillary's personal infamous lawyer with a shady and corrupt background - Andrew Weissman).
The SC report relied on more bull**** media 130 times in the report. That's 130 cases of public opinion!
You have to be a complete moron to not even question this operation.
Wake up guys!
The difference between that and foreign governments is that foreign governments can't give anything of worth (which is oppo research is ABSOLUTELY worth money, Hillary paid for it as you've pointed out exhaustively).
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE. And it's a pretty big difference.
Answer me this. If this is a nothing-burger, then why are Republicans running from Trump on this? They absolutely are. His biggest supporters are not backing him on this.
Why? They will back him on putting kids in cages. They will back him on stupid tariff threats that blew up in his face. But they won't back him on this.
Why?
Steele was not dossier's sources.
In Steele's words, sources were:
A: senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure;
B: former top level Russian intelligence officer still active inside the Kremlin;
C: senior Russian financial official;
D: senior Kremlin official.
Nunes, Jim Jordan, Cruz, Meadows and several other big names are not running from Trump on this. They are fighting back. Don't make up bs.
HRC paying is irrelevant for now. We're talking about how the intel community used it. Keep up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/politics/steele-dossier-trump-expained.html
While we're clarifying further, the story you posted doesn't say that at all.
Republicans hired Fusion GPS, but let them go in May 2016. The Clinton campaign then hired them, and it was after this time that Fusion commissioned the Steele dossier. So no, the Republicans did not commission the Steele dossier, the Clinton campaign (indirectly) did.
From your article:
After Mr. Trump secured the nomination, Fusion GPS was hired on behalf of Mrs. Clinton's campaign and the D.N.C. by their law firm, Perkins Coie, to compile research about Mr. Trump, his businesses and associates including possible connections with Russia. It was at that point that Fusion GPS hired Mr. Steele, who has deep sourcing in Russia, to gather information.
The work was started before Steele was engaged, in October of 2015. He wasn't the only author.
In October 2015, Fusion GPS was contracted by conservative political website The Washington Free Beacon to provide general opposition research on Trump and other Republican presidential candidates.
In June 2016, Fusion GPS subcontracted Steele's firm to compile the dossier. Clinton campaign officials were reportedly unaware that Fusion GPS had subcontracted Steele, and he was not told that Clinton's campaign was the recipient.
Following Trump's election as president, funding from Clinton and the DNC ceased, but Steele continued his research and was reportedly paid directly by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn R. Simpson.
Here's what makes no sense: if Hillary was trying to sink Trump with this oppo research, she showed NO signs of it. She did NOTHING with it during the election.
No one knew anything about it until AFTER the election! She sat on it, thus killing it for her purposes. HOW DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?
In either case, the Steel Dossier had almost NOTHING to do with the investigation into Trump. The investigation started thanks to Popodopulous (sp?) who got drunk and bragged to an Australian Official about the help from Russians. That is 1000% crystal clear in the Mueller Report.
So you're saying Hillary is responsible for a report she knew very little about, didn't/couldn't share, and are insisting she was a mastermind behind it all? That makes even LESS sense.Sam Lowry said:Officials from the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C. have said they were unaware that Perkins Coie facilitated the research on their behalf, even though the law firm was using their money to pay for it. Even Mrs. Clinton found about Mr. Steele's research only after BuzzFeed published the dossier, according to two associates who discussed the matter with her. They said that she was disappointed that the research as well as the fact that the F.B.I. was looking into connections between Mr. Trump's associates and Russia was not made public before Election Day.BrooksBearLives said:He started shopping it after she declined to do anything with it.Doc Holliday said:That is correct.Sam Lowry said:She didn't have to do anything with it. Steele was shopping it to the DOJ and the media while Blumenthal and Shearer were feeding the same information to the State Department.BrooksBearLives said:JXL said:BrooksBearLives said:While we're clarifying, Steele's dossier was originally commissioned by Republicans.Doc Holliday said:Just for clarity:BrooksBearLives said:Not sure how you're struggling with the bolded section. SHE paid THEM. It wasn't foreign interference. She paid them. It was paid for with legal funding.Doc Holliday said:
Can ya'll keep up, or are you having a hard time understanding what happened with Hillary's dirt?
HRC hired Fusion GPS.
FusionGPS hired Christopher Steele.
Steele crafted the dossier without sources. Nothing in the dossier is confirmed. In fact Steele claims there is a Russian consulate in Miami in the dossier (it doesn't exist!).
The FBI only confirmed Steele as a source...not the contents of the dossier.
Legal warrants need confirmation, not just the source.
It became an illegal warrant.
FISA warrant judges didn't royally screwed up. They were lied to.
The FISA courts received falsified intel on the dossier (parallel construction through media leaks). The FBI used an article from Yahoo News as independent corroboration for the Steele dossier when, in fact, Steele had talked to the news outlet. If the FBI knew Steele had that media contact before it submitted the article, it likely would be guilty of circular intelligence reporting, a forbidden tactic in which two pieces of evidence are portrayed as independent corroboration when, in fact, they originated from the same source.
The Special counsel was created on behalf of this illegal sham.
On top of that there were spies sent to create the appearance of collusion. (Planting money on Trump campaign members, setting up discussions with Russians and much more). There was also texts uncovered about setting up an insurance policy in case Trump was elected. Mueller's entire staff was anti Trump lawyers. and Hillary's personal infamous lawyer with a shady and corrupt background - Andrew Weissman).
The SC report relied on more bull**** media 130 times in the report. That's 130 cases of public opinion!
You have to be a complete moron to not even question this operation.
Wake up guys!
The difference between that and foreign governments is that foreign governments can't give anything of worth (which is oppo research is ABSOLUTELY worth money, Hillary paid for it as you've pointed out exhaustively).
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE. And it's a pretty big difference.
Answer me this. If this is a nothing-burger, then why are Republicans running from Trump on this? They absolutely are. His biggest supporters are not backing him on this.
Why? They will back him on putting kids in cages. They will back him on stupid tariff threats that blew up in his face. But they won't back him on this.
Why?
Steele was not dossier's sources.
In Steele's words, sources were:
A: senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure;
B: former top level Russian intelligence officer still active inside the Kremlin;
C: senior Russian financial official;
D: senior Kremlin official.
Nunes, Jim Jordan, Cruz, Meadows and several other big names are not running from Trump on this. They are fighting back. Don't make up bs.
HRC paying is irrelevant for now. We're talking about how the intel community used it. Keep up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/politics/steele-dossier-trump-expained.html
While we're clarifying further, the story you posted doesn't say that at all.
Republicans hired Fusion GPS, but let them go in May 2016. The Clinton campaign then hired them, and it was after this time that Fusion commissioned the Steele dossier. So no, the Republicans did not commission the Steele dossier, the Clinton campaign (indirectly) did.
From your article:
After Mr. Trump secured the nomination, Fusion GPS was hired on behalf of Mrs. Clinton's campaign and the D.N.C. by their law firm, Perkins Coie, to compile research about Mr. Trump, his businesses and associates including possible connections with Russia. It was at that point that Fusion GPS hired Mr. Steele, who has deep sourcing in Russia, to gather information.
The work was started before Steele was engaged, in October of 2015. He wasn't the only author.
In October 2015, Fusion GPS was contracted by conservative political website The Washington Free Beacon to provide general opposition research on Trump and other Republican presidential candidates.
In June 2016, Fusion GPS subcontracted Steele's firm to compile the dossier. Clinton campaign officials were reportedly unaware that Fusion GPS had subcontracted Steele, and he was not told that Clinton's campaign was the recipient.
Following Trump's election as president, funding from Clinton and the DNC ceased, but Steele continued his research and was reportedly paid directly by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn R. Simpson.
Here's what makes no sense: if Hillary was trying to sink Trump with this oppo research, she showed NO signs of it. She did NOTHING with it during the election.
No one knew anything about it until AFTER the election! She sat on it, thus killing it for her purposes. HOW DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?
In either case, the Steel Dossier had almost NOTHING to do with the investigation into Trump. The investigation started thanks to Popodopulous (sp?) who got drunk and bragged to an Australian Official about the help from Russians. That is 1000% crystal clear in the Mueller Report.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/politics/steele-dossier-trump-expained.amp.html