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Muh Russia, Russia, Russia was ridiculous BS
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The Hunter Laptop from hell was Muh Russia, Russia, Russia disinformation
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Both of the above were election interference
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05-22-2023, 05:01 AM
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T-i-i-i-me is on our side. Yes it is...
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WYID, so who's gonna prosecute them?
whats interesting is that the CIA warned FBI that the steele dossier was "bullshit". FBI ignored the warning.
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Great question, which has many answers. But the simplest answer is actually a question: Who isn't going to prosecute them? We know, sure as shoot'n, the current and corrupt FBI is NOT going to investigate the current and corrupt FBI or DOJ. We can be equally sure the current and corrupt DOJ is NOT going to investigate and prosecute the current and corrupt FBI or DOJ. Leastwise not until some seats and the Presidency flips.
If we are lucky, the most likely to prosecute them should be the Demonicrat and Independent/Unaffiliated voters that are: A) Americans and B) still capable of actual introspection. Think about it. Team Demonicrat blatantly lied to their base and the entire world and then lied again with the cover up(s). They tried to hide Hellery's crimes with a made up delusion of her's and used many levels of government to do it, not to mention spreading propaganda through the Lamb SCREAM media and also censoring the free speech of those that clearly saw the ridiculous BS for what it was. Any rational voter should be pissed at the entirety of lies upon more lies, thus making them look and sound like dumb-asses for the past 7 years for falling for the orchestrated and ridiculous BS that was foisted, aka poured/peed all over them.
However, those same dumb-asses would also have to reconcile a major conundrum: Do they have enough confidence in their ability to continue to taint the next few elections, knowing that if they loose any of them, those very same levers of a weaponized government Thugocracy could be turned on them? That will be their first thought loop, I expect. Regardless, we can now call them the blatant fools and hypocrites that they truly are and they will know we are right.
Of course, should they loose the next election cycle or two: they will be screaming Election Interference at the top of their little hypocritical lungs, just like they did after the vile and corrupt Hellery lost in 2016, thus making them out to be double dumb-asses!.
Other than that, I expect to see some civil liability suits come from it and more hearings. But all parties can no longer ignore or argue the facts that the magnitude of election interference is beyond repulsive, disgusting and must be stopped. This is Tin-Pot Dictator, aka Banana Republic level shit and every single American should be disgusted by it.
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05-23-2023, 04:45 AM
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and we all know why now, yeah? it was to manipulate the election. the FBI knew the dossier was produced by the Clinton campaign and by law were required to disclose that to the FISA court to give that oft times overused word "context".
the FBI tried to get surveillance warrants without the dossier and were rejected. nice strategy actually, keep the ace in your hand until you need it.
their warrants were illegal because they did not disclose the source, the Clinton campaign.
think about this ... the FBI .. the top law enforcement agency in America, broke the law on purpose to rig the election.
that is a fact and a real conspiracy.
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speaking of FISA. I saw a headline (didn't read the article) that FBI committed more improper FISA violations.
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05-24-2023, 12:26 AM
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Napoleon Complex.- Small people with Big numbers
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speaking of FISA. I saw a headline (didn't read the article) that FBI committed more improper FISA violations.
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It is well over 200K FISAs since Trump. Just over 23K for J6 alone - from my understandings. Starting to sound like the FISA Industrial Complex (FIC).
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05-24-2023, 04:20 PM
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Weather forecast for Adam Shitt Storm...
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WYID, so who's gonna prosecute them?....
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Well here's an avenue I didn't really see coming. Apparently the little Adam Shitt Storm is turning into a Bomb Cyclone of a Shitt Storm. Recall, McCarthy dumped him and other compromised colleagues earlier. He was, as you may recall during the 7 year itch of Muh Russia, Russia, Russia, always claiming he had proof positive of Trump and Muh Russia, Russia, Russia, but never delivered the goods. Welp...GOP Rep Anna Paulina is filing a resolution to actually cancel and fine the little Shitt Storm
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GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Files Another Resolution to ‘Censure, Condemn, and Fine’ Serial Liar Adam Schiff $16 Million for His ‘Egregious Abuse of Trust’
by Jim Hoft May. 23, 2023 9:35 pm
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On Tuesday, GOP Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has taken another bold step by filing a privileged resolution to ‘censure, condemn, and fine’ serial liar Rep. Adam Schiff for his ‘egregious abuse of trust.’
The resolution, if successful, could result in a $16 million fine imposed on the controversial Democrat from California, which is half the cost of the Russia hoax investigation.
“This will be a privileged motion to censure & a $16 million dollar fine (half the cost of the Russia hoax investigation) meaning I WILL bring this vote to the house floor,” Luna wrote.
Adding, “I will not back down from this and I, along with my Republican colleagues, look forward to holding Schiff ACCOUNTABLE for his actions.”...
...In her resolution, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna accused Schiff of repeatedly misleading the American people with false statements and fabrications, especially the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, “which was revealed as false by numerous in-depth investigations, including the recent report by Special Counsel John Durham.”
Luna argues that his behavior represents a betrayal of public trust and undermines the integrity of the legislative process.
“I just filed a privileged resolution, H. Res. 437, to censure, condemn, & fine Rep. Adam Schiff $16 million (1/2 the cost of Russia investigation) for his egregious abuse of trust,” Luna wrote. “I, with my GOP colleagues, look forward to an imminent vote to hold this feckless man accountable.”...
...Last week, Rep. Paulina introduced a House Resolution to expel Schiff from Congress, saying, “Schiff lied to the American people. He used his position on House Intel to push a lie that cost American taxpayers millions of dollars.”
“He is a dishonor to the House of Representatives,” Rep. Luna added.
“Knowingly using your position on House Intel to push a lie that ripped apart our country, cost taxpayers millions of dollars, and authorized spying on a US President and then proceeding to double down on the lie within days of the Durham report coming out makes you unfit for office. Ethics should investigate,” Luna tweeted...
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Got a Shiff Storm clogging up your Congressional toilets? Call Anna Rooter and watch your troubles go right down the drain...
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05-29-2023, 02:47 PM
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WYID, so who's gonna prosecute them?
whats interesting is that the CIA warned FBI that the steele dossier was "bullshit". FBI ignored the warning.
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and we all know why now, yeah? it was to manipulate the election. the FBI knew the dossier was produced by the Clinton campaign and by law were required to disclose that to the FISA court to give that oft times overused word "context".
the FBI tried to get surveillance warrants without the dossier and were rejected. nice strategy actually, keep the ace in your hand until you need it.
their warrants were illegal because they did not disclose the source, the Clinton campaign.
think about this ... the FBI .. the top law enforcement agency in America, broke the law on purpose to rig the election.
that is a fact and a real conspiracy.
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Oh! Somebody say "Steele Dossier"? Don't forget y'alls buddies are responsible for Dollar One that started the ball rolling for than nice bit of fluff (seeing that you naysayers still haven't produced the proof that hilly&co was first.)
Has any of the repubs thanked Comey and the FBI for swaying the 2016 election into donnys favour?
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05-29-2023, 03:20 PM
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Oh! Somebody say "Steele Dossier"? Don't forget y'alls buddies are responsible for Dollar One that started the ball rolling for than nice bit of fluff (seeing that you naysayers still haven't produced the proof that hilly&co was first.)
Has any of the repubs thanked Comey and the FBI for swaying the 2016 election into donnys favour?
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well took you long enough to take the bait with "dossier" but i knew you'd get around to it eventually.
the fact that Clinton paid for the dossier has been proven over and over. Comey was told not to charge Clinton over her email scandal by his boss Lynch by her boss, Obama. that's what's known as interfering with an election.
do you know the real reason Comey had to reopen the investigation? well let me tell ya ...
Carlos Danger.
BAHHAHHAAAAA
yep Weiner brought down his then wifey's boss Hilldebeast! the NYPD found copies of emails from Clinton on a laptop confiscated for his sexting case and notified the FBI. Comey can't control the NYPD directly so he couldn't risk ignoring the emails and have the NYPD rat him out for withholding evidence.
BAAHHAAAA
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Tain't no bait.
Still waiting for someone to prove hilly paid Dollar One for the start of the hit piece.
But a week away from the Poly forum and still see people chasing their tails. Blind to the fact that both sides are bad. Only question not being plowed is which side is greedier. This is the angle the right should concentrate on since centered, non-biased media has done a good job shining the light on y'alls favourites.
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05-29-2023, 04:02 PM
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Tain't no bait.
Still waiting for someone to prove hilly paid Dollar One for the start of the hit piece.
But a week away from the Poly forum and still see people chasing their tails. Blind to the fact that both sides are bad. Only question not being plowed is which side is greedier. This is the angle the right should concentrate on since centered, non-biased media has done a good job shining the light on y'alls favourites.
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if you say so
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/u...-expained.html
The Trump Dossier: What We Know and Who Paid for It
After Donald J. Trump secured the Republican presidential nomination, Fusion GPS was hired on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee by their law firm, Perkins Coie, to try to unearth damaging information about him.Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times
By Kenneth P. Vogel
Oct. 25, 2017
WASHINGTON — This article was updated on Dec. 21 with more details about Fusion GPS, the company that compiled the dossier, and who paid for it.
The dossier of research into President Trump’s connections to Russia is the product of a research firm founded by a former journalist, Glenn R. Simpson.
What is the dossier?
It is a 35-page collection of research memos written by Christopher Steele, a respected former British intelligence agent, primarily during the 2016 presidential campaign. The memos, compiled by a research firm called Fusion GPS, allege a multifaceted conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to help Mr. Trump defeat Mrs. Clinton. The memos also detail unsubstantiated accounts of encounters between Mr. Trump and Russian prostitutes, and real estate deals that were intended as bribes, among other claims about Mr. Trump’s businesses.
Mr. Simpson founded Fusion GPS in 2010. The firm is paid to do research by a variety of clients, including political donors, corporations, hedge funds and law firms. During election years, the firm is mostly focused on political opposition research — digging up dirt on a client’s opponent. The firm’s website lists very few details — there is a two-paragraph description of what the firm does and a single email address.
Who paid for it?
During the Republican primaries, a research firm called Fusion GPS was hired by The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website, to unearth potentially damaging information about Mr. Trump. The Free Beacon — which was funded by a major donor supporting Mr. Trump’s rival for the party’s nomination, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida — told Fusion GPS to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.
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.
In October, Mr. Trump said in a Twitter post that his party was outraged at Mrs. Clinton’s involvement.
Does it matter who paid for it?
That depends on your politics.
Republicans have criticized the dossier since it was first publicly disseminated when BuzzFeed published it in January. Mr. Trump has blasted it as “fake news” and “phony stuff,” and alleged that it is part of a broader witch hunt intended to cast doubt on his victory. His allies now contend that the allegations in the dossier are discredited by the fact that it was funded at least partially by the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C. Mr. Trump asserted in October in an interview with Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” that the Democrats’ payments for the research were “the real collusion.”
Democrats argue that who paid for the research is irrelevant to the veracity of its claims, which they say should be thoroughly investigated. Yet some of the Democrats who funded the dossier have been wary of being associated with it. The lead Perkins Coie lawyer representing both the campaign and the D.N.C., Marc Elias, pushed back earlier this year when asked whether his firm was the client for the dossier, whether he possessed it before the election and whether he was involved in efforts to encourage media outlets to write about its contents.
In October, the veteran Democratic consultant Anita Dunn, who is working with Perkins Coie, explained Mr. Elias’s earlier response. “Obviously, he was not at liberty to confirm Perkins Coie as the client at that point, and should perhaps have ‘no commented’ more artfully,” Ms. Dunn wrote in an email.
Is this sort of research common or legal?
Campaigns and party committees frequently pay companies to assemble what’s known in politics as opposition research — essentially damaging information about their opponents — and nothing is illegal about the practice.
However, Republicans and campaign watchdogs have accused the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C. of violating campaign finance laws by disguising the payments to Fusion GPS on mandatory disclosures to the Federal Election Commission. Their disclosure reports do not list any payments from the Clinton campaign or the D.N.C. to Fusion GPS. They do list a total of $12.4 million in payments to Perkins Coie, but that’s almost entirely for legal consulting, with only one payment — of $66,500 — for “research consulting” from the D.N.C.
In a complaint filed with the election commission in October, the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit group that urges stricter enforcement of election laws, alleged that “at least some of those payments were earmarked for Fusion GPS, with the purpose of conducting opposition research on Donald Trump.” The complaint asserts that the failure to list the ultimate purpose of that money “undermined the vital public information role that reporting is intended to serve.”
Graham M. Wilson, a partner at Perkins Coie, called the complaint “patently baseless,” in part because, he said, the research was done “to support the provision of legal services, and payments made by vendors to sub-vendors are not required to be disclosed in circumstances like this.”
Who else knew about the Fusion GPS research during the campaign?
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.
But word of the memos and their contents had circulated in Washington political and media circles before the election. In British court filings, Mr. Steele’s lawyers said that he and Fusion GPS briefed journalists from a range of media outlets, including The New York Times, on his research starting in September 2016.
Yet the research and even the existence of the dossier were not reported by the media, with the exception of Mother Jones magazine, which published a story in the days before the election that described the dossier, its origin and significance, while omitting the salacious claims.
How much of the dossier has been substantiated?
There has been no public corroboration of the salacious allegations against Mr. Trump, nor of the specific claims about coordination between his associates and the Russians. In fact, some of those claims have been challenged with supporting evidence. For instance, Mr. Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, produced his passport to rebut the dossier’s claim that he had secret meetings in Prague with a Russian official last year.
Where does the dossier fit in with the government’s Russia investigations?
James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director whose firing by Mr. Trump prompted the appointment of a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department’s Russia investigation, received a copy of the memos after Election Day from Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona. Mr. McCain had dispatched David J. Kramer, a former top State Department official, to obtain the dossier directly from Mr. Steele. And before Election Day, the F.B.I. reached an agreement to pay Mr. Steele to continue his research, though that plan was scrapped after the dossier was published. During the presidential transition, senior American intelligence officials briefed Mr. Trump and President Barack Obama on the dossier.
Investigators from the House and Senate intelligence committees and Mr. Mueller’s team have been exploring claims made in the dossier. Mr. Mueller’s team reportedly interviewed Mr. Steele over the summer.
Mr. Simpson has provided at least 20 hours of testimony to three different congressional committees investigating the possible Russia ties. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, has described Mr. Simpson as “uncooperative.”
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you do admit that your chart shows that Steele was never involved while Republicans were funding the research, yes??
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if you say so
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/u...-expained.html
The Trump Dossier: What We Know and Who Paid for It
After Donald J. Trump secured the Republican presidential nomination, Fusion GPS was hired on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee by their law firm, Perkins Coie, to try to unearth damaging information about him.Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times
By Kenneth P. Vogel
Oct. 25, 2017
WASHINGTON — This article was updated on Dec. 21 with more details about Fusion GPS, the company that compiled the dossier, and who paid for it.
The dossier of research into President Trump’s connections to Russia is the product of a research firm founded by a former journalist, Glenn R. Simpson.
What is the dossier?
It is a 35-page collection of research memos written by Christopher Steele, a respected former British intelligence agent, primarily during the 2016 presidential campaign. The memos, compiled by a research firm called Fusion GPS, allege a multifaceted conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to help Mr. Trump defeat Mrs. Clinton. The memos also detail unsubstantiated accounts of encounters between Mr. Trump and Russian prostitutes, and real estate deals that were intended as bribes, among other claims about Mr. Trump’s businesses.
Mr. Simpson founded Fusion GPS in 2010. The firm is paid to do research by a variety of clients, including political donors, corporations, hedge funds and law firms. During election years, the firm is mostly focused on political opposition research — digging up dirt on a client’s opponent. The firm’s website lists very few details — there is a two-paragraph description of what the firm does and a single email address.
Who paid for it?
During the Republican primaries, a research firm called Fusion GPS was hired by The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website, to unearth potentially damaging information about Mr. Trump. The Free Beacon — which was funded by a major donor supporting Mr. Trump’s rival for the party’s nomination, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida — told Fusion GPS to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.
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.
In October, Mr. Trump said in a Twitter post that his party was outraged at Mrs. Clinton’s involvement.
Does it matter who paid for it?
That depends on your politics.
Republicans have criticized the dossier since it was first publicly disseminated when BuzzFeed published it in January. Mr. Trump has blasted it as “fake news” and “phony stuff,” and alleged that it is part of a broader witch hunt intended to cast doubt on his victory. His allies now contend that the allegations in the dossier are discredited by the fact that it was funded at least partially by the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C. Mr. Trump asserted in October in an interview with Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” that the Democrats’ payments for the research were “the real collusion.”
Democrats argue that who paid for the research is irrelevant to the veracity of its claims, which they say should be thoroughly investigated. Yet some of the Democrats who funded the dossier have been wary of being associated with it. The lead Perkins Coie lawyer representing both the campaign and the D.N.C., Marc Elias, pushed back earlier this year when asked whether his firm was the client for the dossier, whether he possessed it before the election and whether he was involved in efforts to encourage media outlets to write about its contents.
In October, the veteran Democratic consultant Anita Dunn, who is working with Perkins Coie, explained Mr. Elias’s earlier response. “Obviously, he was not at liberty to confirm Perkins Coie as the client at that point, and should perhaps have ‘no commented’ more artfully,” Ms. Dunn wrote in an email.
Is this sort of research common or legal?
Campaigns and party committees frequently pay companies to assemble what’s known in politics as opposition research — essentially damaging information about their opponents — and nothing is illegal about the practice.
However, Republicans and campaign watchdogs have accused the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C. of violating campaign finance laws by disguising the payments to Fusion GPS on mandatory disclosures to the Federal Election Commission. Their disclosure reports do not list any payments from the Clinton campaign or the D.N.C. to Fusion GPS. They do list a total of $12.4 million in payments to Perkins Coie, but that’s almost entirely for legal consulting, with only one payment — of $66,500 — for “research consulting” from the D.N.C.
In a complaint filed with the election commission in October, the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit group that urges stricter enforcement of election laws, alleged that “at least some of those payments were earmarked for Fusion GPS, with the purpose of conducting opposition research on Donald Trump.” The complaint asserts that the failure to list the ultimate purpose of that money “undermined the vital public information role that reporting is intended to serve.”
Graham M. Wilson, a partner at Perkins Coie, called the complaint “patently baseless,” in part because, he said, the research was done “to support the provision of legal services, and payments made by vendors to sub-vendors are not required to be disclosed in circumstances like this.”
Who else knew about the Fusion GPS research during the campaign?
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.
But word of the memos and their contents had circulated in Washington political and media circles before the election. In British court filings, Mr. Steele’s lawyers said that he and Fusion GPS briefed journalists from a range of media outlets, including The New York Times, on his research starting in September 2016.
Yet the research and even the existence of the dossier were not reported by the media, with the exception of Mother Jones magazine, which published a story in the days before the election that described the dossier, its origin and significance, while omitting the salacious claims.
How much of the dossier has been substantiated?
There has been no public corroboration of the salacious allegations against Mr. Trump, nor of the specific claims about coordination between his associates and the Russians. In fact, some of those claims have been challenged with supporting evidence. For instance, Mr. Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, produced his passport to rebut the dossier’s claim that he had secret meetings in Prague with a Russian official last year.
Where does the dossier fit in with the government’s Russia investigations?
James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director whose firing by Mr. Trump prompted the appointment of a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department’s Russia investigation, received a copy of the memos after Election Day from Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona. Mr. McCain had dispatched David J. Kramer, a former top State Department official, to obtain the dossier directly from Mr. Steele. And before Election Day, the F.B.I. reached an agreement to pay Mr. Steele to continue his research, though that plan was scrapped after the dossier was published. During the presidential transition, senior American intelligence officials briefed Mr. Trump and President Barack Obama on the dossier.
Investigators from the House and Senate intelligence committees and Mr. Mueller’s team have been exploring claims made in the dossier. Mr. Mueller’s team reportedly interviewed Mr. Steele over the summer.
Mr. Simpson has provided at least 20 hours of testimony to three different congressional committees investigating the possible Russia ties. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, has described Mr. Simpson as “uncooperative.”
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you do admit that your chart shows that Steele was never involved while Republicans were funding the research, yes??
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Trying to realign the focus off the statement I have so long put out there that puts a craw in your throat.
Keep trying to change it. I have told you in the past I will apologize and do other things when you show the proof that hillary paid the first $$$ before the date I posted. And that date is when your buddies got the ball rolling.
If I have ever stated anything different about it, now is the time to say it and you don't have to keep foisting this conspiracy on people.
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Originally Posted by Precious_b
Trying to realign the focus off the statement I have so long put out there that puts a craw in your throat.
Keep trying to change it. I have told you in the past I will apologize and do other things when you show the proof that hillary paid the first $$$ before the date I posted. And that date is when your buddies got the ball rolling.
If I have ever stated anything different about it, now is the time to say it and you don't have to keep foisting this conspiracy on people.
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she did. now you can apologize.
FEC fines Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic Party, clears "Steele dossier" author of wrongdoing
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary...of-wrongdoing/
thank you precious boi poster
bahahahahahaaaa
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05-29-2023, 11:35 PM
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Just show me the date in the document that precedes what I quoted.
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05-30-2023, 05:27 AM
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Sometimes the news is just slow to settle in for some
Learn to let go so you can begin the healing process. Don't be a three time loser. Mueller didn't find collusion, Durham didn't find collusion - because there was none. Everything that sprung from the Russian Collusion Delusion was fruit from the poisoned tree. Quit eating the bad apples. Reevaluate the past 7+ years of the Russian Collusion Delusion with the fresh eyes that it was all a lie, from the git go. It was all election interference, from the get go. Now, go on git! Go!
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