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| Here's Everything We Know So Far About The Trump Dossier |
| 2017-09-19 |
| [Daily Caller] The uncorroborated dossier of opposition research about Donald Trump has become a key document in the investigation over whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government during the presidential campaign last year. Democrats have insisted that many claims made in the dossier, written by former British spy Christopher Steele, have been proven accurate. Republican lawmakers say otherwise, leading to a standoff between the two sides over the 35-page document, published by BuzzFeed News on Jan. 10. Here is what we know about the salacious document. Jan. 2010: Steele’s London-based intelligence firm, Orbis Business Intelligence, first hires opposition research firm Fusion GPS to work on an undisclosed project. Steele made this revelation in May 2017 in a court filing in London, where he is being sued by a Russian tech executive named in the dossier. Sept. 2015: An anti-Trump Republican donor reportedly hires Fusion GPS to begin investigating Trump’s past. The donor has yet to be identified. June 2016: As Trump ascends to the GOP nomination, the Republican donor leaves the Trump research project. Fusion GPS soon finds an unidentified Democratic ally of Hillary Clinton’s to take over the investigation. Fusion then hires Steele, a former MI6 agent with extensive experience in Moscow. June 9: Members of the Trump campaign team meet at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer and Russian-American lobbyist who have some connection to Fusion GPS. Donald Trump Jr. accepted the meeting after a friend offered to provide negative information about Hillary Clinton. Trump Jr. and the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitkaya, claim that the information regarded the Magnitsky Act, a sanctions law opposed by the Russian government. Veselnitskaya was working alongside Fusion GPS last year to undercut the Magnitsky Act. There has been some speculation that the Trump Tower meeting is vaguely described in the dossier. June 17: Sergei Millian, an alleged source in the dossier, meets in St. Petersburg, Russia with Oleg Deripaska, an ally of Vladimir Putin’s and a former client of then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Millian, the head of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce, has been identified as "Source D" and "Source E" in different memos in the dossier. On and on it goes. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 You might have to split the pot. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-19 17:19 |
| #5 My money says that McCain was the republican donor that started it all..... You bet on McCain. I'll bet on ¡Jeb! One of us will win. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-09-19 17:10 |
| #4 My money says that McCain was the republican donor that started it all..... |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2017-09-19 14:54 |
| #3 Factor in the DNC data-pull with the attendant modifications to its contents... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-09-19 13:23 |
| #2 The Steele dossier was so salacious and unverifiable that high-level circulation became something of a challenge until of course, it was placed into the hands of Senator John McCain. An absolute stroke of genius that. Even McCain was reluctant to be closely associated with the dossier, choosing rather to send trusted emissaries(s) to retrieve it, in yes London, for dissemination to the Soetoro regime. The UK's intelligence services, home to some of the best sleuths in the world and certainly not pro-Russian, were also reluctant to discuss the dossier let alone comment on it's potential sources or validity. The dossier served it's purpose of providing half-truths, lies, and linking Trump to the Russians. It likely also provided a foundation or justification for FISA snooping, bugging, etc. All in all I'd judge, a good effort by the Deep State. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-19 07:52 |
| #1 We know that Russians didn't actually interfere with voting machines - and therefore everything in this dossier is irrelevant. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-09-19 06:39 |