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Court files reveal role of McCain, associate in spreading anti-Trump dossier
Newly unsealed court filings show how the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and an associate shared with the FBI and a host of media outlets the unverified dossier that alleged the Russians had compromising information on now-President Trump.
McCain had denied being the source for BuzzFeed after it published the dossier, which was funded by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, but had acknowledged giving it to the FBI.
In a newly unsealed declaration from September, former senior counterintelligence FBI agent Bill Priestap confirmed that the FBI received a copy of the first 33 pages of the dossier in December 2016 from McCain.
Christopher Steele acknowledged in a July 2018 court deposition that he relied on a βrandomβ article posted to a CNN website as part of his research for his infamous dossier.
originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: Mach2
McCain may have also been under blackmail from Democrat operatives that uncovered something about him and his "past" π
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: Guyfriday
What on earth are you talking about?
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: xuenchen
The now debunked dossier?
Who do you think you're kidding?
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: xuenchen
The DNC was so desperate to get that thing assembled and "re-written", it makes reasonable people think twice why they wanted it so badly π
yeah so badly they never even used it. Such desperation...LOL
originally posted by: xuenchen
Court files reveal role of McCain, associate in spreading anti-Trump dossier
The FBI extensively relied on the dossier in its warrant applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court in seeking to surveil Trump aide Carter Page -- even though some of the dossierβs claims have been called into question, including a claim that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen traveled to Prague to pay off Russian hackers and other more salacious claims about Trump himself.