ATruepatriot
04-22-2019, 12:58 PM
The Steele dossier, that collection of incendiary allegations against Donald Trump compiled for the Hillary Clinton campaign by the former British spy Christopher Steele, was already widely discredited before the release of the Mueller report. Now, the report has hammered a few additional nails in the dossier's coffin.
Mueller's work "underscored what had grown clearer for months," the New York Times reported recently, "that while many Trump aides had welcomed contacts with the Russians, some of the most sensational claims in the dossier appeared to be false, and others were impossible to prove." Mueller, the Times noted, included a number of references to the dossier's allegations, "but no overall assessment of why so much did not check out."
The dossier alleged a massive, long-running conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, complete with money, politics, and sex. Among its most sensational charges:
** The allegation that in 2013, in a Moscow hotel room, Trump watched as prostitutes performed a "golden showers" show on a bed in which former President Barack Obama had once slept, while Russian spy cameras recorded the whole thing.
** The allegation that the head of Rosneft, the giant Russian state-owned oil and gas company, offered low-level Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page billions of dollars in return for ending U.S. sanctions against Russia.
** The allegation that in August 2016 Trump fixer Michael Cohen met Russian officials in Prague to arrange secret payments to Russian hackers who attacked the Clinton campaign.
** The allegation that short-term Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort managed a "well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between [the campaign] and the Russian leadership," including "an intelligence exchange [that] had been running between them for at least eight years," and that Manafort was succeeded in that job by Cohen after Manafort left the campaign.
None of Steele's charges were confirmed in the Mueller report. Some were specifically debunked. Others were ignored. In short, the report's release was not good news for Christopher Steele.
In the wake of Mueller's findings, there are videos going around the internet of liberal media figures saying embarrassingly credulous things about the dossier. They even invented a new standard of evidence — "not proven untrue" — to justify believing it long after its main claims had been either discredited or were dying for lack of proof.
But that's just TV talk. What was remarkable about the dossier was that some Democrats in key positions in government — lawmakers who had access to the nation's deepest secrets — embraced the dossier and used its allegations against the president even though they knew, or should have known, there was no evidence to support them.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-for-some-dems-breaking-up-with-dossier-is-hard-to-do
Mueller's work "underscored what had grown clearer for months," the New York Times reported recently, "that while many Trump aides had welcomed contacts with the Russians, some of the most sensational claims in the dossier appeared to be false, and others were impossible to prove." Mueller, the Times noted, included a number of references to the dossier's allegations, "but no overall assessment of why so much did not check out."
The dossier alleged a massive, long-running conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, complete with money, politics, and sex. Among its most sensational charges:
** The allegation that in 2013, in a Moscow hotel room, Trump watched as prostitutes performed a "golden showers" show on a bed in which former President Barack Obama had once slept, while Russian spy cameras recorded the whole thing.
** The allegation that the head of Rosneft, the giant Russian state-owned oil and gas company, offered low-level Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page billions of dollars in return for ending U.S. sanctions against Russia.
** The allegation that in August 2016 Trump fixer Michael Cohen met Russian officials in Prague to arrange secret payments to Russian hackers who attacked the Clinton campaign.
** The allegation that short-term Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort managed a "well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between [the campaign] and the Russian leadership," including "an intelligence exchange [that] had been running between them for at least eight years," and that Manafort was succeeded in that job by Cohen after Manafort left the campaign.
None of Steele's charges were confirmed in the Mueller report. Some were specifically debunked. Others were ignored. In short, the report's release was not good news for Christopher Steele.
In the wake of Mueller's findings, there are videos going around the internet of liberal media figures saying embarrassingly credulous things about the dossier. They even invented a new standard of evidence — "not proven untrue" — to justify believing it long after its main claims had been either discredited or were dying for lack of proof.
But that's just TV talk. What was remarkable about the dossier was that some Democrats in key positions in government — lawmakers who had access to the nation's deepest secrets — embraced the dossier and used its allegations against the president even though they knew, or should have known, there was no evidence to support them.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-for-some-dems-breaking-up-with-dossier-is-hard-to-do