What really is the relevancy of the released Fusion GPS transcript...?

[Weatherman2020]

Manafort had been under a counter intelligence and/or criminal investigation by the FBI for years prior to him volunteering for the trump campaign mgr position.... that's a fact. And it had to do with money laundering.

Thus the FBI began wiretapping the Trump campaign after Trump became the Republican nominee.

that is a lie. they were surveiling people who were part of the campaign who were doing things they shouldn't have been doing.

but keep whining about the information and not the acts of the treasounous Russian tools.

Why? What triggered that?

What I’m enjoying is the “they only wiretapped campaign members but not the campaign “ spin.

Manafort was tapped before he joined the campaign.

Nice spin. Trump was running for Prez then.

 

[jillian]

Who was wiretapped in Trump tower?
And what is this person in relation to the Trump campaign?
DOH!

Manafort had been under a counter intelligence and/or criminal investigation by the FBI for years prior to him volunteering for the trump campaign mgr position.... that's a fact. And it had to do with money laundering.

Thus the FBI began wiretapping the Trump campaign after Trump became the Republican nominee.

that is a lie. they were surveiling people who were part of the campaign who were doing things they shouldn't have been doing.

but keep whining about the information and not the acts of the treasounous Russian tools.

Why? What triggered that?

Papdopolous drunkenly telling an Australian diplomat that Russia had dirt on Clinton.

they also appear to have been watching manafort and lewandowski

 

[The Derp]

Sure he was. How else did they know? by the way at Trump towers

There was not a wiretap at Trump Tower. Period.

The FBI did wiretap Trump Tower—but not to spy on Trump

Did you happen to actually read the article you're linking?

Check the dates...2011 to 2013 and it was a wiretap of the Russian mafia that set up shop on the 63rd floor. NOT TRUMP AND NOT THE CAMPAIGN LIKE YOU'RE ALLEGING.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Sure he was. How else did they know? by the way at Trump towers

There was not a wiretap at Trump Tower. Period.

The FBI did wiretap Trump Tower—but not to spy on Trump

Did you happen to actually read the article you're linking?

Check the dates...2011 to 2013 and it was a wiretap of the Russian mafia that set up shop on the 63rd floor. NOT TRUMP AND NOT THE CAMPAIGN LIKE YOU'RE ALLEGING.

If you lefties crawled out of your bubble world and joined reality you’d be conservative.

Donald Trump bows out of 2012 US presidential election race

 

[The Derp]

Thus the FBI began wiretapping the Trump campaign after Trump became the Republican nominee.

that is a lie. they were surveiling people who were part of the campaign who were doing things they shouldn't have been doing.

but keep whining about the information and not the acts of the treasounous Russian tools.

Why? What triggered that?

What I’m enjoying is the “they only wiretapped campaign members but not the campaign “ spin.

Manafort was tapped before he joined the campaign.

Nice spin. Trump was running for Prez then.

Not in 2011 or 2013.

 

[The Derp]

Sure he was. How else did they know? by the way at Trump towers

There was not a wiretap at Trump Tower. Period.

The FBI did wiretap Trump Tower—but not to spy on Trump

Did you happen to actually read the article you're linking?

Check the dates...2011 to 2013 and it was a wiretap of the Russian mafia that set up shop on the 63rd floor. NOT TRUMP AND NOT THE CAMPAIGN LIKE YOU'RE ALLEGING.

If you lefties crawled out of your bubble world and joined reality you’d be conservative.

Donald Trump bows out of 2012 US presidential election race

He never declared his candidacy for the 2012 election.

Pretending like you're gonna run for President isn't the same thing as running for President.

So just like before, you take the sophist track.

Also, the wiretaps in 2011-2013 were on Russians who happened to take up shop in Trump Tower...which begs the question; what were Russian mafioso's even doing in Trump tower in the first place?

 

[hadit]

Let's start with the ones who wanted to control the release of the testimony in the first place. Who demanded closed door testimony and why?

It doesn't matter if they used to want closed door testimony because they came out in an Op-Ed calling for the public release of their transcript.

You're trying to divine motivations for actions made irrelevant.

So, IOW, players in a politic soap opera want to control the release of information so that they can benefit from it? Color me shocked.

I mean seriously, does anyone with at least a room temperature IQ (Celsius) believe the democrats would have released this if they thought it would exonerate Trump?

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

The first question that we should all ask ourselves is the WHY the release of this transcript was vehemently opposed by the Trump cultists in the Senate.

Grassley has always been a whore for right wing causes, and he'll probably retire as a whore fairly soon. Grassley even directly threatened Christopher Steele.

But, Graham's opposition is another story. Here is someone with a troubled personal life who has found the senate to be his only life-mate. He WAS a hawk and a McCain shadow; but, unlike McCain he sold out to Trump after a little golfing outing with the orange golfer....Speculations abound.

However, the real relevancy that has surfaced from the excerpts reported, addresses a few nuggets worth mentioning to those Trump defenders:

1. Steele, apparently, cared enough to inform the FBI that there was a strong possibility that Trump was open to Russian blackmail

2. That the FBI found Steele's warming even more relevant because they had a mole within the Trump entourage who ALSO confirmed Steele's allegations.

3. Reports that someone in Russia had been assassinated for possibly sharing information with Steele is also a disturbing revelation.

4. It is also interesting to conclude that although the FBI was "investigating" what was happening in the Trump AND in the Clinton camps during the lead up to the election, the FBI ONLY chose to reveal the existence of such investigations about the Clinton candidacy (in Comey's case, 11 days before the election.)

So, regardless of partisanship leanings, any decent American should question the WHY republicans in the senate felt so compelled to NOT release this testimony transcript and to basically allow the public to judge its validity...........We should all remember that, as in the past, the "cover up" is what ultimately gets elected folks in trouble with those who elected them.

Well, Trump sure seems to have his panties in a bunch:

"President Donald Trump slammed Senate Judiciary ranking member Dianne Feinstein for releasing the transcript of a Fusion GPS co-founder’s testimony to the panel, calling her “sneaky” and suggesting — without evidence — she might have broken the law.

The California Democrat said she made the transcript public because she felt the American people had the right to know what the firm’s leaders said about a dossier of Russia-related information about Trump. But she did so over the objections of panel Chairman Charles Grassley of Iowa, angering Republicans and the White House."

Trump Slams Feinstein Over Russia Info Release

 

[Rambunctious]

Feinstein is trying to slow down the inevitable end to the collusion nonsensical story and the beginning of legal doom for the democrat party and Obama and his deep state at the FBI CIA EPA IRS

 

[Rambunctious]

Big trouble coming for the dems....FBI agents will go to jail before this is over and so will the person or persons that put them up to it...

 

[The Derp]

So, IOW, players in a politic soap opera want to control the release of information so that they can benefit from it? Color me shocked.

How precisely do Steele and Simpson benefit from Feinstein releasing the transcript? The release of the Steele Dossier is what prompted the death of one of the Simpson contacts in Russia in December 2016.

I mean seriously, does anyone with at least a room temperature IQ (Celsius) believe the democrats would have released this if they thought it would exonerate Trump?

So what you've failed to do in your Russian Active Measures, is make the connection between Steele and Simpson wanting the transcript released, and how doing so benefits them, as you allege.

 

[The Derp]

Feinstein is trying to slow down the inevitable end to the collusion nonsensical story and the beginning of legal doom for the democrat party and Obama and his deep state at the FBI CIA EPA IRS

How is releasing the transcript slowing down the inevitable conclusion. Do you...do you not know what the transcript says? Maybe you should read it.

 

[The Derp]

Big trouble coming for the dems....FBI agents will go to jail before this is over and so will the person or persons that put them up to it...

Why would FBI agents go to jail? Do you mean the FBI agents who helped obstruct the investigation for Trump? Yeah, they probably will end up going to jail for obstruction of justice. It's looking like Comey had absolutely no idea that the FBI had investigated Trump and found most of what is in the dossier to be true. Someone didn't give Comey that information. Hence, someone's going to jail for obstruction of justice.

 

[nat4900]

President Donald Trump slammed Senate Judiciary ranking member Dianne Feinstein for releasing the transcript of a Fusion GPS co-founder’s testimony to the panel, calling her “sneaky” and suggesting — without evidence — she might have broken the law.

Well, Trump actually DEMANDS to be called a fucking moron.....

If one actually READS the transcript, one would see that from the very INTRODUCTION that was given before the testimony, there is a statement that declares that this testimony is ONLY ABOUT NON-CLASSIFIED materials,and that if the witness wanted to label a response as "classified" then the committee would break and reconvene in a different venue.......and THAT did not happen.

 

[Rambunctious]

How is releasing the transcript slowing down the inevitable conclusion. Do you...do you not know what the transcript says? Maybe you should read it

Because it will keep others from testifying if they think everything they say will be leaked...kind of easy if you think about it Derp...

 

[Rambunctious]

Why would FBI agents go to jail? Do you mean the FBI agents who helped obstruct the investigation for Trump? Yeah, they probably will end up going to jail for obstruction of justice. It's looking like Comey had absolutely no idea that the FBI had investigated Trump and found most of what is in the dossier to be true. Someone didn't give Comey that information. Hence, someone's going to jail for obstruction of justice.

Yes FBI agents will be indicted for trying to frame an elected president with a phony dossier...another easy question there Derpy....

 

[nat4900]

I mean seriously, does anyone with at least a room temperature IQ (Celsius) believe the democrats would have released this if they thought it would exonerate Trump?

Following your fucked up logic, then,,,,,,you're finally admitting that the transcript IMPLICATES Trump?

 

[The Derp]

Because it will keep others from testifying if they think everything they say will be leaked...kind of easy if you think about it Derp...

Why would anyone be afraid of information leaking unless they had something to hide? What information would be leaked?

 

[The Derp]

Why would FBI agents go to jail? Do you mean the FBI agents who helped obstruct the investigation for Trump? Yeah, they probably will end up going to jail for obstruction of justice. It's looking like Comey had absolutely no idea that the FBI had investigated Trump and found most of what is in the dossier to be true. Someone didn't give Comey that information. Hence, someone's going to jail for obstruction of justice.

Yes FBI agents will be indicted for trying to frame an elected president with a phony dossier...another easy question there Derpy....

FBI agents will go to jail, but not for the reason you think.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Feinstein is trying to slow down the inevitable end to the collusion nonsensical story and the beginning of legal doom for the democrat party and Obama and his deep state at the FBI CIA EPA IRS

She’s running from it. She wants it to die a quite death. Releasing this Nothing burger is part of it.