Posted on 05/18/2019 12:40:03 PM PDT by Starman417
This is collusion. The real thing.
Dossier author Christopher Steele identified a former Russian spy chief and a top adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin as being involved in handling potentially compromising information about President Donald Trump, State Department notes show.What this demonstrates for the first time is that the dirt in the dossier came from high ranking Russian officials. Interestingly, Trubnikov is linked to Stefan Halper. Steele poured it on to Kavalec:In her notes, State Department official Kathleen Kavalec also referred to the two Russians — former Russian foreign intelligence chief Vyacheslav Trubnikov and Putin aide Vladislav Surkov — as “sources.”
The references to Trubnikov and Surkov, which have not previously been reported, are not definitive proof that either were sources for Steele’s dossier or that they were involved in an effort to collect blackmail material on Trump.
But the notes are significant because they are the first government documents that show Steele discussing potential sources for the information in his dossier, which the former MI6 officer provided to the FBI.
Kavalec’s notes said Steele claimed Trump was “filmed engaged in compromising activities” with Russian prostitutes in 2013, but that “the Russians have not needed to use the ‘kompromat’ on [Trump] as he was already in cooperation.”Steele swallowed whole the load of nonsense fed to him by the Russians because he hated Trump and uninterested in facts:Steele, who operates a private intelligence firm in London, told Kavalec that Putin and some of his top advisers were running the Trump operation.
“Presidential Advisor Vladislov Surkov and Vyasheslov Trubnikov (former head of Russian External Intelligence Service — SVR) are also involved,” wrote Kavalec, who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian issues.
Former CIA Station Chief Dan Hoffman has argured that the Russians recognized that Steele was an easy mark because of his hatred of Donald Trump
“They never stop,” Hoffman said of Russian intelligence operatives. “There’s no such thing as a former intelligence officer. The guy is going to be reporting back to the SVR or Putin.”There is a very good article from Hoffman here, in which he states that the ultimate goal of the Kremlin was to undermine faith in the US electoral system. In that, Putin succeeded beyond his wildest dreams with democrats acting as his useful idiots. This is an FA post from a year ago February:Hoffman has been a leading proponent of one theory about the dossier that has gained traction in the wake of the special counsel’s report. The former CIA officer has argued Steele likely fell victim to a Russian disinformation campaign.
A growing number of experts in Russian intelligence operations have embraced the theory, and Attorney General William Barr testified to Congress on May 1 that he is concerned about the prospect and is looking into it.
The Russian government had a strategic goal to “sow discord in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 presidential election” the indictment reads. The indictment also revealed activity pursued by the Russians to organize political rallies, building partisan social media audiences across the political spectrum, and funding political stunts.Like I said, they succeeded beyond anything they were hoping for, thanks to democrats who still bitterly cling to the false Russian narrative. We now know that all of the salacious dirt thrown at Trump was propaganda and there was no collusion.According to Mueller, the Russian government created a sub agency known as the “translator project” which was “focused on the U.S. population and conducted operations on social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube” adding that the strategic goal of interfering in the 2016 US election was developed all the way back in May 2014.
The stated goal within the department was to spread “distrust towards candidates at the political system in general.”
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Gave money to the Russians? Took info from the Russians?
COLLABORATION!!!
Why?
Did you lose the ability to paste stuff here?
Or are you just looking for blog traffic?
What a horrible embarassment for Flopping Aces blog.
They actually put PROOF as the first word in the title, when the only source for the PROOF is a claim by Christopher Steele. From the same document totally full of made up facts and misinformation.
Cringe.
I contend it was ‘republicans’ who flung slime that made up the majority of that yellow dossier. It would be ‘heavenly’ if lord McCain’s role got exposed.
Meanwhile at DOH-j HQ——————crickets.............
You can't embarrass a blog.
It's like asking a trash truck to be ashamed of their cargo.
That sounds suspiciously like a MSM talking point in the making. Steele was a victim! Brennan, Comey, Clinton....victims all!
It’s treason Hillary. Just as we suspected.
You and Obama better find a rock to hide under.
Yep... it does have that stink about it.
How much kick back did she get selling them our uranium?
And what exactly will be done to punish the Queen of Teflon?
Yep, The Russians Made Me Do It, all them poor innocent trusting Democrats and Federal Bureaucrats, those Evil Russians used 'em.
I'm sure the MSM will agree.
It’s Hillary, so we run by the, “Alice in Wonderland”, rules. Adam Schiff is the March Hare, and Jerrold Nadler is the Mad Hatter.
Yep.
Completely fake.
Disinformation.
Desperate attempt to rehab Steele. Dossier was invented by Glenn Simpson and Mary Jacoby. Russian origin is a cover to justify FISA surveillance.
No pictures of coup leaders hauled away in handcuffs? These stories are getting embarrassing for our side.
The entire Steele dossier is a nested set of lies, fabricated by fanatics.
The entire lot need to dance the Tyburn jig.
The dems and their media puppet masters have been busily accusing Trump of what they themselves were doing, COLLUDING WITH THE RUSSIANS. That’s why they are now all in an uproar about Barr’s investigation into the origins of the hoax, they are afraid of being exposed. I would like to get the emails that are flying between Brennan, Comey, Crapper, Baker, Lynch, Holder and a host of others.
Unknown at this time. But Russia did "donate" approximately
$140 million to the Clinton Foundation.
It was for the children you know.
Nope. Hillary, Steele and Fusion were not duped with Russian disinformation. Hillary, Steele, and Fusion created it right on their own typewriter.
The only Russian likely to be involved is the one who was “nerve gassed” (actually fentanyl). He was a long time associate of Steele and had lived in the Uk for years.
Hillary and Steele and Fusion are criminals and lied about the report. There is no “source”. It is fiction, just like Harry Potter.
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