Who paid for it, is important, because it creates motivation for those putting the dossier together, to please those flipping the bill.
Conservative Free Beacon originally funded firm that created Trump-Russia dossier
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Who paid for it, is important, because it creates motivation for those putting the dossier together, to please those flipping the bill.
This narrative of Clinton-paid-for fabricated-dossier doesn't make much sense in an era of guilty pleas. They've moved on to "It's just like lying to the FBI about what you had for breakfast. No big deal."
I know that and eventually that changed.
It is human nature for someone hired to please those paying them. I have hired consultants in my day to evaluate specific partsnof business and strategy. I have found, they often blow things out of proportion, to justify the money you are spending on them.
That's a big if, since the Trump-Russia connection had been swirling about in the air for months before the document became public or the Mueller probe was even created.
Hahaha.
The Free Beacon readily admitted they worked with Fusion GPS and did not fund the dossier.
How many months?
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Let's look at the facts:
Clinton and DNC retain legal firm with associated funds. Legal firm contracts Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS contracts Steele and Steele uses his Russian contacts to build a dossier which will be used to influence the 2016 presidential elections.
This is just a minimum, mind you, but Paul Manafort left the campaign in August 2016.
Then a wave of reports about Mr. Manafort’s own business dealings with Russia-aligned leaders in Ukraine, involving allegations of millions of dollars in cash payments and secret lobbying efforts in the United States, threw a spotlight on a glaring vulnerability for Mr. Trump: his admiration for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
Buzzfeed made the dossier public in January 2017.
Mueller was appointed in May 2017.
So Trump-Russia connections (significant enough to get people fired) were swirling in the air at least 5 months or so before the dossier became public and almost a year before Mueller did anything at all.
We can add a couple new points on the timeline from even before these:
May 2016: George Pappadopolous cleverly reveals "that Russia had "political dirt" on Hillary Clinton" to an Australian diplomat.
July? 2016: The Australians alert their counterparts in the US about this conversation, after Wikileaks posted the hacked emails.
This is why the FBI opened an investigation into Russian meddling in US elections.
The first few pages of what later became 'the dossier' were not written until after Pappadopolous had spilled some beans. Indeed, GPS hired Steele only after the Wikileaks emails.
So now that the evidence against it has gotten even stronger, can we please put to rest the uninteresting-even-if-it-were-true-(which-it-isn't) story about the dossier setting off the investigation?
You know what gets me about the dossier, it was put together by Steele, from information he received from his Russian counterparts, he had contacts with.
So, lets think about this for a second. Does anyone think those Russian folks who fed Steele information, didn't contact people at the high levels of Russian government (and probably Putin himself), that Steele was asking them for information about Trump? I would say, that is highly likely. Could it be that Russia was trying to do what they have always done and that is to create as much turmoil as possible in the United States for both parties and not just Clinton and the democrats?
Putin wants the US to be as divided as possible and to cover his bases, why not work both ends of this, to create turmoil on both ends?
It would seem consistent with what he is doing in Europe. I don’t think he necessarily cares who wins out, as long as his rivals are concerned with fighting each other rather than containing him.
Yep, that was my point exactly. The more unstable any foe is, the better and the best way to do it, is to make both sides look bad.
Does anyone think those Russian folks who fed Steele information, didn't contact people at the high levels of Russian government (and probably Putin himself), that Steele was asking them for information about Trump?