If the Steele Dossier started the FBI investigation into tRump and the Russians...

[PeeJ52]

then John McCain on the advice of Lindsey Graham are the ones responsible for tipping off the FBI.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/25/politics/lindsey-graham-john-mccain-dossier-fbi/index.html

[UniteFightBack]

1. Papadopolous. nt

[mr_lebowski]

3. Yep also Carter Page being hired, with his history ...

Manafort a bit later being hired made investigators get super-sketched.

There was also intelligence coming in from various allied intel agencies about strange Russian money transfers and propaganda activity.

[PeeJ52]

5. According to Faux News below it was the Steele Dossier...

Did the FBI follow all applicable "legal requirements" when FBI lawyer Lisa Page and then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil Trump aide Carter Page -- weeks before the 2016 presidential election -- by relying heavily on a dossier created by a firm working for the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC)?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Don't listen to a single damn thing Fox "News" says.

They're lying, as usual.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Papadpoulous started it, not McCain.

[PeeJ52]

4. Well isn't the White House claiming some FISA warrants were based off some flimsy dossier?

Which was given to them by McCain?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. They're lying, and probably got the talking point from Fox.