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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid Deplorables at 4Chan create the Peepeegate documents ?
It is the Trump trolls at 4Chan that are saying that one of them created the Peepeegate documents. Cui bono? They are, of course, saying that to discredit the story as apocryphal. If the documents were forgeries they were damn good forgeries because they fooled various intelligence agencies, United States senators, and the president.
There is an interesting news story from the Guardian about the authenticity of the documents:
The Guardian: source for 35 page "dossier" is "consistently reliable, meticulous,
and well informed."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/10/fbi-chief-given-dossier-by-john-mccain-alleging-secret-trump-russia-contacts?CMP=share_btn_tw
Senator John McCain passed documents to the FBI director, James Comey, last month alleging secret contacts between the Trump campaign and Moscow and that Russian intelligence had personally compromising material on the president-elect himself.
The material, which has been seen by the Guardian, is a series of reports on Trumps relationship with Moscow. They were drawn up by a former western counter-intelligence official, now working as a private consultant.
The Guardian has not been able to confirm the veracity of the documents contents, and the Trump team has consistently denied any hidden contacts with the Russian government.
SNIP
An official in the US administration who spoke to the Guardian described the source who wrote the intelligence report as consistently reliable, meticulous and well-informed, with a reputation for having extensive Russian contacts.
Some of the reports which are dated from 20 June to 20 October last year also proved to be prescient, predicting events that happened after they were sent.
We will learn soon enough if these documents are what they seem to be. It is in the Deplorables interest that they aren't
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)an ex-British Intelligence officer is on 4chan, they are full of crap.
I don't care about the "Golden Showers" nonsense. I care about the FACT that multiple Intelligence agencies and professionals throughout the world are now saying Russia/Putin have some kind of kompromat on Trump.
If it isn't "Golden Showers", according to intelligence in various countries, there's something.
DemocratSinceBirth
(100,418 posts)uponit7771
(92,134 posts).... resources that program the smaller machines
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Titillation about the golden shower crap is funny, but it is mostly irrelevant. The only good it does is continue to show a pattern that this guy is kind of a Freakazoid. If it causes the Republicans to not be able to take him seriously, he could become a joke, though I'd prefer to find evidence to remove this fool from office before innocent people die.
ecstatic
(34,575 posts)enough to pull that off.
cilla4progress
(26,011 posts)MFM008
(20,016 posts)If it makes gas bag mad I'm all for it.
DemocratSinceBirth
(100,418 posts)All I know is that the report was more likely to have been written by a former British intelligence officer than some four hundred pound guy sitting on a bed somewhere.
MissB
(16,146 posts)He's really angry. His tweets are all caps. If all this does is send him over the edge, I'm fine with that.
For iDJiT, it's important that he is respected and looked up to- and this isn't the way it's going to go.
cilla4progress
(26,011 posts)With this report? Investigation? Hearings?
DemocratSinceBirth
(100,418 posts)And therefore it makes sense they would throw up as much smoke as possible.
Orrex
(64,447 posts)The American people still have grave concerns about her email server, you know!