And the corrupt FBI, DOJ and complicit media breathed life into this zombie case for nearly four years, clearly impacting the 2018 elections.Their flawed case fell apart before Trump was even inaugurated.Actually, that's not quite right.Fox News’ Chris Wallace Sets Record Straight: Russia Investigation Did Not Start With Trump Dossier
The Dossier was NOT the basis of either the Carter Page FISA warrant OR the "oranges" of the Mueller investigation (regardless of what Rush Limpdick is claiming)
So we can drop that nonsense...mmmmkay.
WE NOW KNOW: PERPS & THEIR ACCOMPLICES
Thanks to the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report, we now know for certain what has been, for those paying attention, fairly obvious.
The Steele dossier played a central role in the genesis of the Russia hoax and was used to justify extensive spying on former naval officer and Annapolis graduate Carter Page.
The top two leaders of the FBI were closely involved in this fiasco. Other powerful people knew what was happening and lied to cover it up. That all was confirmed by the IG report. The report was a disaster for the credibility of top leaders in Barack Obama’s FBI, and it’s also a big problem for the American Fake news media.
For example, in early 2018, Washington Post intelligence and national security correspondent Shane Harris lectured Kim Strassel of The Wall Street Journal about how little she knows about the story.
“Yes,” he wrote, “I am telling you the dossier was not used as the basis for a FISA warrant on Carter Page.”That’s false. And yet, Harris hasn’t apologized or even acknowledged his incompetence.
Or take NBC News’s so-called intelligence correspondent Ken Dilanian. In the summer of 2018, he smugly tweeted,
“Trump is wrong about Carter Page, the dossier and the FISA warrant.”But it looks like Trump was right, and he was wrong.
CNN Newsroom anchor and chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto did admit the Steele dossier might have been used for the warrant. But don’t be impressed. He lectured readers that
“the FBI would corroborate information in the dossier on its own before using such intel to justify the FISA warrant.”
Of course, that didn’t happen. In fact, the corrupt FBI hid information showing the dossier was false. Did Sciutto issue a correction? Of course not. But it does seem a little unfair to focus on Jim Sciutto. He was merely following the lead of almost everyone else at CNN, all of whom were frantically trying to convince us that the dossier was irrelevant…
Has CNN retracted the comments or apologized? Apologies require introspection and integrity. At CNN, they're doubling down. CNN's Don Lemon explained that, by definition, everything CNN reported was true.
The FBI and DOJ were not corrupt despite Trump's attempts to do so. It did not impact the 2018 elections. Trump's far right wing philosophy has tured suburban voters against the GOP.