[spokeshave]

the FBI has wrongly relied on the anti-Trump dossier and its author, Christopher Steele — the old spy who was hired by Fusion GPS to build a Russia file on Trump

And McCain...

last year, Sen. John McCain gave a copy of the dossier to FBI Director James Comey, McCain has said — and asked him whether any of it was true.

The FBI reached a deal in October to pay a former British spy who had compiled a dossier on Donald Trump's alleged ties with Russia, an indication of how seriously the bureau was taking the allegations, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The deal for the former operative, Christopher Steele, to continue his work on behalf of the FBI fell apart when Steele pulled out, said the source, who has direct knowledge of the situation.

[Travis McGee]

The first private one-on-one meeting between Trump and Comey was at Comey's request. No wonder Trump later thought one-on-one meetings with Comey were normal and routine: the first was requested by Comey to show him the "dirty dossier," as a pretext for leaking it to the NYTs and WaPo as a news worthy story.

Comey is real scum.

[Travis McGee]

I just added the McCabe/Dirty Dossier connection to my "Deep State Coup Trap" meme.

It's critical to understand that Comey requested a private meeting with Trump to discuss the DD. Then the fact of the meeting was leaked to the NYT. By Comey? Who else? "The fact of the meeting" was used to give the DD credibility, and then it was printed in full on a sleazy website. This did not happen by accident or in a vacuum. This was all part of the Deep State Coup Trap.