Liberal Media ignores Biden Scandal

[Mike M (the other one)]

(09-03-2023, 02:20 PM)hollodero Wrote: It was a piece of raw, unconfirmed intelligence, collected on behalf of several Trump opponents, Hillary amongst them. It did not meet any standards of proof or of journalism, and it never intended to. It was meant to give political campaigns certain weaknesses or avenues to pursue or maybe investigate further. It is dirty, that's for sure, but probably also commonplace.

Some things in the dossier were corraborated, some were refuted, many remain unproven. That's what the Steele dossier was, and it is not taken more seriously than that. The Russia investigation did not stem from this dossier. Which is what makes it so frustrating when people claim the dossier's nature is the one and only undisputable proof that the whole investigation was a hoax.

Well someone brought it, Obama Justice Dept used the FBI's Sworn testimony on the Steele Dossiers to get FISA to allow them to tap Trumps' and his Aides phones 2x (90 day periods)
I guess someone was willing to believe anything with out verifying it ahead of time. Small wonder Comey lost his job. Had the phones not be tapped, it's possible that the FBI would have not caught Manafort's conversations.

Once it was used and seemingly verified, Steele likely released it to the public (to get the glory for taking Trump down) and from that point forward was nothing more than a political hit piece that did cause Trump to lose some votes but not enough to lose. Once it leaked that Hillary/DNC had spent money getting the intel (fake as it was) and marking it as legal services rather than research, wouldn't that have put them on the hook for being partially responsible for slander? Hence the fine to avoid further legal issues in regards to it. Just using hindsight here, much easier since there is more knowledge now than at that time (at least to us common peons).

The Papadopoulos investigation wasn't about Trump-Russia collusion early on, it was about Russian interference in the election (Hillary Emails).


PS By the way, hasn't Hunter has been a registered Lobbyist since 2001.