“There Were a Lot of Republicans Involved” – Steven Schrage – The Man Who Introduced Deep State Spy Stefan Halper to Carter Page Holds First Interview

I have long suspected that Paul Ryan was involved. I might be wrong and if so, I would owe him an apology if I did not already find him to be a worthless RINO traitorous hack of the 1st Order, but it just seems like the kind of thing Ryan would do.

On top of that, Ryan did more to obstruct efforts by Nunes and a few others worth a damn on the hill to find out what happened at the outset even prior to the “2nd coming of of the Media Messiah (Obama was the first)”, aka the Mueller Persecution Team.

We have a republicrat corruption problem in DC. We have a republicrat contingent who are essentially globalist big government hacks and they care far more for what the beltway media thinks of them than republican voters.

Here is what I think..... EVERY republican who defended Mueller in light of what we knew when he was appointed, does not deserve our support now or in the future. Period. We knew it was partisan deep-state BS from the outset.

Why?

The idea that Russia would support a candidate who all but promised to throttle their economy (energy prices anyone?) is preposterous. A candidate who promised to make NATO pay more for defense and who promised to rebuild our military. A candidate who has levied severe sanctions on Russia without mercy - crippling sanctions.

Russia already bought Hillary Clinton via the Uranium 1 deal. They knew this. They also knew Clinton would throttle US energy production, encourage weakness in NATO, and continue the decline of our military.

Yet they STILL tell us to this day, without a SHRED of proof, that Russia favored Trump and interfered in our election. How? Where? There is NO proof of this! Don’t give me the troll farm show indictment by Mueller either.... that was a joke.

LOL! Thanks for that disturbing image.

“”” Don’t give me the troll farm show indictment by Mueller either.... that was a joke.”””””

They did not expect the troll farm to hire a good lawyer and put up a fight. You sure never hear another word about that trial. Weird, right?

rino rats

Here's the video transcript

Welcome back.

Now this Breaking News exclusive:

It was the spark that ignited one of the worst abuses of power in our country's history. In July of 2016 Carter Page attended an overseas conference in Cambridge where he first met informant Stefan Halper.

Three months later, the FBI secured the first of four FISA warrants to unlawfully spy on Carter Page.

My next guest is the man who first introduced Page to Halper while he was working as a PhD candidate at Cambridge.

Steven Schrage is with us. He is joining me for the first ever television interview for him, and good morning, Steven. Thank you so much for being here.

Good morning, glad to be here. You worked for Stefan Halper, and we want to ask you really the background of 2016.

So let's start there.

What is your background in terms of working with Stefan Halper and why did you invite Carter Page to a conference that you were planning?

Right. I had had a long background working on crime and terrorism at the White House and in Congress, and went to Cambridge to finish a PhD I had started years earlier at Harvard and my intent was always to have a conference that looked at presidential campaigns and national security risk.

I had no idea that it would blow up into this. Halper was not that engaged, up until the point where he crossed paths with Page and Christopher Steele's former MI6 boss Richard - Sir Richard Dearlove.

At that point he seemed to really focus on Page and really try to isolate him and kind of ingratiate himself with the Trump campaign in ways that seemed like a real turning point.

But how Page wound up there with Halper was really a comedy of errors, and it was something where we were looking for someone from the Trump campaign to make sure the Trump campaign was represented, and it just kind of happened to fall on his lap that Page landed there.

Well, why did you want someone from the Trump campaign?

I mean here you have - you wrote about these guys, and you call them the Cambridge Four - that they're washed up spies.

Why are washed up spies wanting to get in with the Trump campaign?

Well, for the conference they were not involved in that decision at all. The conference was because I came from a Republican background, and I wanted an unbiased conference. I wanted to make sure if we had Madeleine Albright on one side, we had a Trump representative on the other side.

I don't believe Stephan Halper even knew Carter Page was going to be at the conference until I emailed him - you know - we had talked about people - but what happened was before the conference.

If you look at it a few weeks ago Christopher Steele had been hired by a Clinton campaign contractor and then the spark that I think really set this off was when Stefan Halper Christopher Steele's old boss Richard Dearlove and Page were all together and Trump was portrayed - to my surprise - as this national security threat, and that's when the interest really started to bubble in terms of where this took off.

So let me go back to Stefan Halper for a minute.

This is your PhD supervisor - the Office of Threat Assessments awarded him four contracts between May of 2012 and September of 2016.

In September of 2015 he was awarded a contract valued at 245,000 dollars to study Russia and China characterize that do do are these the kind of money these the kind of paychecks you get for doing a report on on China and Russia and isn't it interesting that just months later after he was awarded another contract of 411,000 dollars, then the wiretapping of Carter Page started.

Yes, I have never heard of that in an academic setting. You know - providing that much compensation for these types of reports.

One thing I will say that was quite unusual - was even after Carter Page had been kind of smeared improperly as a quote-unquote Russian Spy - Stefan Halper would profusely thank me for introducing him to Page.

And I never really understood that - but once I saw these massive payments kind of corresponding to when he was surveilling Page and Padopoulos - which I learned about in 2018 - you know there was obviously could be a connection there.

You know there's a theory about how that played out.

The key part, and I think the real smoking gun in all this is: All these tentacles lead back to this small group, including Stefan Halper at the center of Spygate, Christopher Steele at the center of Russiagate, Stephan Halper's FBI handler - none of the Senate has subpoenaed these or called these people to talk in four years.

I think that's the real smoking gun.

How are these people being protected and how are we at a point so close to the election and with Flynn's hearing coming up that no one has called these people and gotten to the bottom of this and you know the information I provide provides a lot of troubling aspects of this.

So let's talk about that because you actually recorded Stefan Halper.

He was aware that you recorded him because you used to do recordings - but this is on January 10, 2017 - two days before there was a leak in the Washington Post - that General Flynn was going to be investigated about the Logan Act and you recorded Stefan Halper talking about Flynn.

Let's roll that recording right now.

Stefan Halper: "If you go to the NSC, you have to consider very carefully uh if you feel it's, it's appropriate for you to work for Flynn or you want to work with. I don't think Flynn's going to be around long yeah I mean that's just my guess but right the way the thing these things work, you inevitably find yourself at odds with someone. Yeah, I mean you always do, yeah. Probably lots of people, right? And when your opponents - so-called enemies - but when people are invited, right, are looking for ways of uh, exerting pressure, they go to people that they know you're at odds with, right? Right, and that's how it feels, and then eventually you get squeezed, yeah, pretty hard. And that that was my kind of lesson - but Flynn's reaction to that is to blow up, get angry, yeah. Yeah, it's really now we're working cuz yeah yeah yeah but that is his reaction. Why - that's why he's so unsuitable."

So what do you think was going on here, Steven? Do you think Halper was working for the FBI or the CIA and getting paid by the Office of Threat Assessment to "dirty up" Flynn and dirty up Trump campaign officials?

How did he [Stephan Halper] know Flynn was about to blow up two days before it was in the Washington Post?

Right - and some of this is things that I believe based on interacting with him for a long time - but there are beliefs.

It was very odd because I had told him extensively that you know Flynn was incredibly close with President Trump.

At the time as it's been reported the FBI was about ready to pull its investigation on January 4th before the Oval Office meeting was met where using the Logan Act on Flynn was discussed so I don't think he had any independent reason to expect that this would happen to Flynn.

He had also bragged to me and talked to others that David Ignatius [my aside - Ignatius is a steaming pile of Washington Post Democrat shiite] was one of his big press media contacts.

So you know - again, it seems something that really needs to be investigated.

One of his students was also working with Ignatius at the Post - Bob - Robert Costa [aside - another steaming pile of Washington Post Democrat shiite], so the fact that this has not been investigated that no one has called them to testify and looked at this I think is is as shocking as what's happened.

Well what about you I mean you you told me you spoke with John Durham somebody else told me that they thought you were disseminating the dossier are you involved in this?

No, I had no idea at all. I mean, this has really up-ended my life. I was actually about to fly out for my wedding when the stories broke that - you know - my PhD supervisor for a long time was this FBI spy known as The Walrus, and since that time I've tried to uncover that I've worked with uh you know investigators to try to do this.

But with this Flynn information I discovered a few weeks ago, and the fact that these investigations have not moved so far, I felt I needed to come forward before the Flynn hearing.

And frankly the fact that some people have been spreading rumors about about other people leaking it - I think there were quite a few Republicans involved in leaking this - that I've found out through these different processes that have not been revealed.

So I think there's a lot of people trying to cover the tracks of what happened to start this thing and I think that's why it's so critical that we get to the bottom of it.

And you did talk to John Durham, correct?

This shouldn't be political - about Democrats and Republicans - this is about officials undermining our democracy and it needs to be known long before the election.

Steven Schrage - we want you to come back, hopefully you'll come back next week or the next couple of weeks to continue drilling down on this very important story.

Thank you, sir - very much.

Steven Schrage joining us - we'll be right back.

“There Were a Lot of Republicans Involved”

I have absolutely no doubt.

Some are dead, and some are well-known butt-hurt sideliners who thought their power would never go away.

I posted the transcript in post #25

I despise Paul Ryan..... however I don’t know if I’m ready to accuse him of treason, because that is what this is....

I think the Deep State used the RINO's who hated Trump to spread the dossier, so that they would not get blamed. We already know that they got McCain to give a copy to the FBI even though the FBI and many in DC already had seen the dossier.

And we already know that the dossier had its early origins as a Jeb request.

And we've all known for a while that Graham has pursued very little with his committee.

Not much new here.

Hey Linda, ya wanna schee my Schrage?

Ah, see it Johnboy. Ah hope it don't come back and bite us!

McShamey comes to mind

And Mitch and Mittens and Lindsay and all other RINOS

<><>I distinctly remember Rhino John McCain bringing the Steele dossier (paid for by Hillary/DNC) to some meeting or another, big grin on his face.

<><> I know McCain was part of this, probably begged for the glory of what he hoped would be the beginning of the removal of the duly elected Trump.

dailymail.com
12 January 2017
By NIKKI SCHWAB, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

John McCain dispatched a trusted aide across the Atlantic to get dirty dossier from ex-spy after former British diplomat told him about blackmail tapes. The Guardian charted the path the dirty dossier made from a British intelligence professional to Sen. John McCain and then the FBI.

McCain, 80, put out a statement Wednesday saying that he was the bureau's source of the controversial dossier The Arizona Republican found out about the dossier's existence while at a meeting in Canada and dispatched an emissary to hunt it down He met an ex-British diplomat in Canada - now identified as Sir Andrew Wood -who in one version of events told him about the file Wood is a former associate of Tony Blair the ex-British prime minister, and admitted talking to McCain He issued a nuanced statement saying he did not give McCain the dossier and had 'done nothing wrong' - but he did not deny telling McCain the file existed PUBLISHED: 16:33 EDT, | UPDATED: 23:59 EDT, 12 January 2017 e-mail 5.5k shares 1.2k View comments Sen. John McCain said he did 'what any citizen would do' in turning over the dirty dossier, which contained unconfirmed secrets about the president-elect, over to the FBI. The Guardian charted the path of how the dossier came to be and how it was that McCain got his hands on the controversial documents. The story of the dossier began with an investigative firm in Washington, D.C., being tapped by one of Trump's primary allies to dig up some opposition research on the Republican hopeful. Scroll down for video Statement: Ex-ambassador Sir Andrew Wood issued a nuanced explanation of his dealings with McCain: 'I would like to stress that I did not pass on any dossier to Senator McCain or anyone else and I did not see a dossier at the time.' He did not deny alerting McCain to its existence +7 Shortly after the election, Sen. John McCain was attending a conference in Canada and spoke with a 'former senior western diplomat' who knew of the dossier's existence +7 Shortly after the election,John McCain (right) was attending a conference in Canada and spoke with a 'former senior western diplomat' who knew of the dossier's existence. That man was Sir Andrew Wood. He issued a nuanced explanation of his dealings with McCain: 'I would like to stress that I did not pass on any dossier to Senator McCain or anyone else and I did not see a dossier at the time.' He did not deny alerting McCain to its existence.

Aide: Sir ANdrew Wood was Tony Blair's ambassador to Moscow until 2000 +7 Aide: Sir ANdrew Wood was Tony Blair's ambassador to Moscow until 2000

In turn, that firm outsourced the research to a 'retired western European former counter-intelligence official, with a long history of dealing with the shadow world of Moscow's spooks and siloviki (securocrats),' explained the Guardian.

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal identified the ex-spy as Christopher Steele. By the time the contractor had started digging, Trump's primary opponent had dropped out. But the firm found a Democrat who wanted dirt on the now Republican nominee instead.

The Guardian pointed out that just because a Democrat was willing to pay for the information that didn't mean that said Democrat was Hillary Clinton's campaign or the Democratic National Committee. Sometimes donors seek out this information in order to ensure they've made a sound investment.

The contractor, who the Guardian didn't name, but the Wall Street Journal identified as Steele, reportedly found the information that he dug up to be concerning. He and another ex-British diplomat, Christopher Burrows, run their own company, Orbis Business Intelligence.

'If the allegations were real, their implications were overwhelming,' the Guardian wrote. RELATED ARTICLES Previous

So over the summer he delivered the intelligence he had gathered from his Russian sources, living within the country and also in the west, to former colleagues in the FBI. The Guardian suggested he also delivered the documents to his country's own intelligence service.

As fall approached, and he heard nothing about any FBI investigation into the documents, he was persuaded to tell journalist David Corn, of Mother Jones, of their existence. The veteran reporter wrote about the dossier on October 31. The intelligence agent, the Guardian reported, was worried about an FBI cover-up, as the bureau seemed to be spending most of its time and energy on an investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server. It wasn't until mid-November, and after the presidential election, that the chips fell in place for the dossier to make its more public way to Washington. Christopher Steele +7 Christopher Steele runs the company along with Christopher Burrows (pictured) +7 Report: Christopher Steele (left) and Christopher Burrows (right) jointly run Orbis Business Intelligence which produced the report London headquarters: This is the prestigious London headquarters of the intelligence firm run by an ex-spy who authored the discredited dirty dossier on Trump +7 London headquarters: This is the prestigious London headquarters of the intelligence firm run by an ex-spy who authored the discredited dirty dossier on Trump

On November 18, at the Halifax International Security Forum, McCain was introduced to a 'former senior western diplomat' who had set eyes on the documents and knew who put them together, telling the Arizona Republican that the individual was 'highly reliable.' That man can now be named as Sir Andrew Wood, British ambassador to Moscow from 1995 to 2000. Wood told the Independent that he had met McCain, spoken to him about Trump, and about the potential for him to be compromised. In a carefully nuanced statement he said: 'Yes I did meet Senator McCain and his aides at the conference. 'We spoke about the kind of activities the Russians can be engaged in. 'We also spoke about how Mr Trump may find himself in a position where there could be an attempt to blackmail him with Kompromat [a Russian term for compromising material] and claims that there were audio and video tapes in existence.' He added: 'I would like to stress that I did not pass on any dossier to Senator McCain or anyone else and I did not see a dossier at the time. I do know Christopher Steele and in my view he is very professional and thorough in what he does.' He did not however address whether he told McCain there was a dossier - and how to get it. Clearly, somebody did. Ultimate recipient: The FBI Director James Comey was handed the document by McCain after its extraordinary transatlantic journey +7 Ultimate recipient: The FBI Director James Comey was handed the document by McCain after its extraordinary transatlantic journey

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Thanks.

Leni

That’s exactly why after almost an entire 4-year term later, not a single solitary person has been prosecuted for wrongdoing in what was obviously an attempted coup.

The big question remains, will we EVER know the scope of the coup? Even if Trump is reelected, the Deep State will drag its feet, obstruct, cover-up and wait him out, what’s another 4-years?

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“There were a lot of Republicans involved.”

Start with Lindsey Graham who worked with McCain to get pee dossier to Comey.

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I don't doubt that RINOs were involved in this - McCain was certainly one that was involved - but this sounds like someone trying to cover for the numerous Democrats that were involved.

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No, we won’t. You are correct.

Lindsey Graham urged McCain to send his most trusted advisor to London to get Dossier and then get it to Comey.

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I would love to dig that POS up and kick his @$$.

Thank you.