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applegrove

(118,718 posts)
Tue Jul 9, 2019, 06:23 PM Jul 2019

Trump's Dossier Conspiracy Collapses As DOJ Finds Steele Credible

BY JASON EASLEY

Trump’s Dossier Conspiracy Collapses As DOJ Finds Steele Credible

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/07/09/doj-steele-ctedible.html

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Politico reported:

The extensive, two-day interview took place in London while Trump was in Britain for a state visit, the sources said, and delved into Steele’s extensive work on Russian interference efforts globally, his intelligence-collection methods and his findings about Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, who the FBI ultimately surveilled. The FBI’s decision to seek a surveillance warrant against Page — a warrant they applied for and obtained after Page had already left the campaign — is the chief focus of the probe by Horowitz.

The interview was contentious at first, the sources added, but investigators ultimately found Steele’s testimony credible and even surprising. The takeaway has irked some U.S. officials interviewed as part of the probe — they argue that it shouldn’t have taken a foreign national to convince the inspector general that the FBI acted properly in 2016. Steele’s American lawyer was present for the conversation.


Trump’s Steele Dossier Conspiracy Has Collapsed

Attorney General William Barr launched an internal investigation into the FBI’s conduct during the Russia investigation to help Trump prove his “witch hunt” theory that the FBI was out to get him. The finding by the internal investigation that Steele is credible is a crippling blow to the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump has been trying to use to muddy the waters on the Russia investigation.

Trump’s investigate the investigators abuse of power is falling apart. There is nothing to the conspiracy that the FBI was out to get Trump during the 2016 campaign. Christopher Steele’s dossier was not the reason why the FBI launched an investigation into the Trump campaign. The FBI never spied on Donald Trump. It is a disgrace that William Barr would conduct this internal investigation. There is no evidence that the FBI did anything wrong in investigating the Trump campaign.


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Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
2. Dear America,
Tue Jul 9, 2019, 06:26 PM
Jul 2019

Please leave Christopher Steele alone. He's gone above and beyond his call of duty.
Wish our FBI did.
Sincerely,
A Tax Paying American Citizen.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
5. I wonder how much this little diversion from Trump's lousy administration cost the taxpayers?
Tue Jul 9, 2019, 06:48 PM
Jul 2019

We'll probably never know, but I'd think you could add this confirmation that Steele was mainly correct to the failures Trump has suffered from various courts.

When Trump tries to draw attention from his screw-ups (no pun intended), he seems to sue somebody or demand ridiculous investigations as easily as pointing a scepter at his barrister. He sure keeps Barr running.

donkeypoofed

(2,187 posts)
3. Wonder if disBarr truly thought it was a conspiracy
Tue Jul 9, 2019, 06:28 PM
Jul 2019

While I know he's goddamn corrupt, I do not think he is stupid.

Did some small part of him think it WAS a conspiracy?

I knew this would happen - their investigation would prove everything they doubted.

onetexan

(13,048 posts)
12. heck no. Barr knows darn well it was a ploy to turn the tables to set the narrative Dems were out to
Tue Jul 9, 2019, 08:29 PM
Jul 2019

get the Idiot.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
6. that would contradict everything limbaugh has said about it since it came out and the base
Tue Jul 9, 2019, 07:16 PM
Jul 2019

believes him, not a bunch of 'deep staters' working for obama/clinton/soros. that's what enables GOP polss and hacks like barr

JohnnyRingo

(18,637 posts)
7. Barr is doing what he's told.
Tue Jul 9, 2019, 07:22 PM
Jul 2019

And for that, he's the worst case of kiss ass attorney general.

Does anyone believe that Bill Barr, a jurist with above average intelligence, actually thought there was merit to Trump's accusation that the FBI was "out to get him"? Of course he knew better, but he went through the motions on Trump's behest. I'd bet there's a secret Hillary investigation afoot as well.

Mr.Bill

(24,306 posts)
8. They will investigate Bill and Hillary Clinton decades after they die of natural causes.
Tue Jul 9, 2019, 07:28 PM
Jul 2019

At this point it's an industry and many people have made it their career.

mtngirl47

(990 posts)
9. But here's the thing...the suggestion of wrong doing by the FBI
Tue Jul 9, 2019, 07:47 PM
Jul 2019

will still be in the right wing nut talking points and all the brainwashed masses will continue to believe it.

Botany

(70,536 posts)
14. So far the total # of parts of the Steele Dossier that have been proven false is .....
Tue Jul 9, 2019, 09:16 PM
Jul 2019

ZERO


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