David Corn: "Please stop lying. The Russian probe was not entirely based on the Steele memos."

[Miles Archer]

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Please stop lying. The Russian probe was not entirely based on the Steele memos. And please explain why you lied to voters about your business interactions with Russia—and why you falsely claimed Russia was not attacking the election. Thank you.

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Remember it was Buzzfeed that released the totally discredited “Dossier,” paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democrats (as opposition research), on which the entire Russian probe is based! A very sad day for journalism, but a great day for our Country!

8:02 PM - 18 Jan 2019

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[Kajun Gal]

1. The Republicans STARTED the Steele document thing. Do people forget?

[YessirAtsaFact]

3. This needs to be included in any answer to the asshat's attacks on the Steele Dossier

That it was initially funded by Trump's Republican opponents.

Regarding the contents of the document, everything that has been verified/disproven has turned out to be true.

We don't know who, if anyone from the Trump campaign went to Prague, but there is no proof that they didn't. Cohen's cryptic answer, "Mueller knows everything" would lead me to believe that there was a meeting. Maybe it was Don Jr, not Cohen. Maybe it was a resort 20 miles outside of Prague, not Prague proper.

We don't know if there is a pee-pee tape, but it's not been refuted either. Given what we do know about Trump's sex life (entirely too much) I can believe it.

[fierywoman]

4. Wasn't it Jeb Bush's campaign that started it?

[FakeNoose]

2. "Please stop lying" - might as well say "please stop breathing"

This will all be over soon!

[W_HAMILTON]

5. The Russian probe wasn't based on the Steele memos ***at all***

Memo: Papadopoulos info triggered FBI's Russia investigation

The FBI's counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump campaign officials had improper contacts with Russia was triggered by information the bureau obtained about George Papadopoulos, a former adviser to the campaign, according to the memo released Friday by House Intelligence Committee Republicans.

Allies of President Trump have claimed the Russia probe began with the so-called Steele dossier that was paid for in part by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). That would mean the Russia investigation itself — and by extension, special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe — was launched from political opposition research.

But the memo states that FBI agent Pete Strzok opened the investigation in July 2016 based on "information" about Papadapoulos, rather than the dossier.

The New York Times has previously reported that Papadapoulos bragged to an Australian diplomat that the Russians had damaging information on Clinton before the hack of the DNC became publicly known. The Australian government tipped off the FBI to what Papadapoulos had said, according to the Times.

Taken from: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/372043-memo-papadopoulos-info-triggered-fbis-russia-investigation

[Jeffersons Ghost]

7. Why are FBI agents backing down from investigating Trump?

It WAS their job to investigate, instead of backing down to the extremely limited Mueller probe. Now, Teflon Don has cut most FBI paychecks, along with suspending pay for the US Coast Guard, DEA, FDA, IRS, TSA and DHS employees, to allow drugs to be imported into the USA, without ANY oversight.

[SunSeeker]

6. The Steele Dossier has not been disproven AT ALL.

In fact, with each passing day, more and more of it has been CORROBORATED.