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It was me: Sworn Trump enemy John McCain admits HE handed smear dossier to FBI
Daily Mail ^ | January 11,2017 | By DARREN BOYLE

Posted on 01/11/2017 8:40:04 AM PST by Hojczyk

Arizona Senator who disowned Trump before election admits he handed document outlining claims of Kremlin blackmail to FBI

Brief statement claims that he received it and gave it directly to FBI Director James Comey because he was 'unable to make judgment about accuracy'

But Washington reporter Carl Bernstein says former British ambassador to Moscow handed it to McCain

Ambassador has not been named - and author of report also gave to FBI agent he knew at its station in Rome months ago

Report was apparently paid for first BY Republican enemies of Trump then by Democrats

Sworn Donald Trump enemy John McCain admitted Wednesday that he passed the dossier of claims of a Russian blackmail plot against the president-elect.

The Arizona senator issued a public statement amid mounting questions of his exact role in the affair - and how a document riddled with errors and unverifiable claims came to be published.

'Late last year, I received sensitive information that has since been made public,' he said.

'Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgment about their accuracy, I delivered the information to the Director of the FBI.

'That has been the extent of my contact with the FBI or any other government agency regarding this issue.'

But the 2008 Republican loser, who disowned his party's candidate weeks before the election, may have been far more intimately involved than that.

The chain of how the document reached the FBI is not officially known.

However Carl Bernstein, the Watergate reporter who contributed to the first story about its existence, published by CNN on Tuesday afternoon, suggested that McCain was handed it by a former British ambassador to Moscow.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Russia; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 115th; blackmail; blackmailplot; britishambassador; carlbernstein; comey; dossier; fakenews; fbi; jamescomey; johnmccain; mccain; moscow; russia; russians; trump
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To: Hojczyk

The MSM called Pizzagate fake even though it had tons of circumstantial evidence and yet they embrace this as true with no investigation whatsoever.


81 posted on 01/11/2017 10:29:03 AM PST by Vic S
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To: Hojczyk

The MSM called Pizzagate fake even though it had tons of circumstantial evidence and yet they embrace this as true with no investigation whatsoever.


82 posted on 01/11/2017 10:29:08 AM PST by Vic S
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To: Hojczyk

The MSM called Pizzagate fake even though it had tons of circumstantial evidence and yet they embrace this as true with no investigation whatsoever.


83 posted on 01/11/2017 10:29:12 AM PST by Vic S
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To: Lurkinanloomin

So I’m not alone in thinking that he was handed by the NVA over to the DNC, and has been their mole - one of them - since.


84 posted on 01/11/2017 10:35:23 AM PST by DPMD
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To: doug from upland

“Is” being the operative word here. “Was,” however...

And, in the opinion of many, the “was” is what keeps him in the anti-GOP camp.


85 posted on 01/11/2017 10:37:59 AM PST by DPMD
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To: Meet the New Boss

“McCain needs to step down and a date set for a special election to for a replacement senator.”

Yea, that’s really going to happen. I don’t think so.


86 posted on 01/11/2017 10:39:09 AM PST by Shane (When Injustice Becomes Law, RESISTANCE Becomes DUTY.----T.Jefferson)
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To: Hojczyk

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4108960/How-Trump-s-nemesis-John-McCain-kicked-Kremlin-memo-scandal-handing-dossier-FBI-sending-emissary-abroad-collect-it.html

McCain’s pond scum - from link:

“One claim, that special counsel to Trump Michael Cohen met with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016 has been branded as ‘fake news’.”

“Cohen denied that he was central ‘to the ongoing secret liaison relationship between the New York tycoon’s campaign and the Russian leadership’.”

“Cohen tweeted a photograph of his passport and said he had never visited Prague.”

“According to reports, the former MI6 man had been hired to conduct ‘opposition research’ on the Trump campaign by first Republican enemies of Trump, then Democratic ones.:


87 posted on 01/11/2017 10:39:15 AM PST by GOPJ (ObamaCare Motto: "If You Like Your Doctor, Maybe You'll Like Your New Doctor" - Dave Barry)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Make it a “True Daily Double”...


88 posted on 01/11/2017 10:39:42 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yes - and turned his back on POW’s.


89 posted on 01/11/2017 10:43:26 AM PST by MacArthur
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To: miss marmelstein

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4108960/How-Trump-s-nemesis-John-McCain-kicked-Kremlin-memo-scandal-handing-dossier-FBI-sending-emissary-abroad-collect-it.html


90 posted on 01/11/2017 10:45:49 AM PST by GOPJ (ObamaCare Motto: "If You Like Your Doctor, Maybe You'll Like Your New Doctor" - Dave Barry)
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To: Hojczyk

2016 ended too soon


91 posted on 01/11/2017 10:46:58 AM PST by micmac
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To: miss marmelstein

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4108960/How-Trump-s-nemesis-John-McCain-kicked-Kremlin-memo-scandal-handing-dossier-FBI-sending-emissary-abroad-collect-it.html

“According to reports, the former MI6 man had been hired to conduct ‘opposition research’ on the Trump campaign by first Republican enemies of Trump, then Democratic ones.”


Kinda looks like McCain wasn’t passive - but that he paid for the report...


92 posted on 01/11/2017 10:49:14 AM PST by GOPJ (ObamaCare Motto: "If You Like Your Doctor, Maybe You'll Like Your New Doctor" - Dave Barry)
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To: All

I suspect Putin has played a lot of people with this story, it contains some imagery that while apparently untrue would still convey an attitude held towards Obama in Moscow, while at the same time trapping some other hawkish opponents in an epic bungle that will forever reduce their credibility.

Game set and match to Putin. Now he faces a more adult adversary, my guess is that Trump will move fairly early to establish new rules of engagement with Russia and they won’t be a sweetheart deal by any means, but will contain a mixture of advances and realistic appraisals.

Putin’s days of playing brilliant head games with western intel and media are about to come to an end; it has been a wild ride, and this last chapter must be good for a three day cackle in the Kremlin. At this time of year, not much else to do anyway.


93 posted on 01/11/2017 10:50:07 AM PST by Peter ODonnell (Listen for my radio call-in program on channel A in your brain, yes caller ... I'm listening)
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To: GOPJ

But will he be finished? Thanks for the link, I’m going to it now.


94 posted on 01/11/2017 10:51:15 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Hojczyk

Praying McCain will man up and apologize directly to Trump and afterwards resign.


95 posted on 01/11/2017 10:51:46 AM PST by LouisianaJoanof Arc (Proud horrible deplorable)
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To: Thumper1960

Can I, with good conscience then, call McCain a friggin’ asshole?


As long as you pronounce frigging with the silent r and the K sound in the middle.


96 posted on 01/11/2017 10:51:59 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Hojczyk

They knew just who to give it to


97 posted on 01/11/2017 10:52:07 AM PST by uncbob
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To: doug from upland

If John McCain were a politician from New York, he would be a liberal Democrat. As one goes West the nation becomes more liberal, and McCain is nowhere near being a conservative, the bulk of the Eastern US Republican party... add in a Bush from Liberal Blue Mass. and you end up with Compassionate Conservatism... Only if Republicans accept that liberals can be republicans can one accept McCain as a true republican. Hence we dislike him for not being a democrat proper so we know where his vote always counts.


98 posted on 01/11/2017 10:53:00 AM PST by Jumper
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To: lee martell

I don’t know what, if anything Donald Trump can do to effect John McCain, but you can bet Trump will never forget about this
proverbial knife in the back so close to Inauguration Day.


Yeah, he hinted that Buzzfeed is going to be pretty sorry. I would not want to be John McCain. Even his ISIS friends can’t protect him now.


99 posted on 01/11/2017 10:54:22 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: HamiltonJay

It was ‘never trumper Republicans’ who paid to have the ‘report’ created. McCain wasn’t mentioned as one of the Republicans who paid for this garbage to be created but he also wasn’t left out. McCain was the person who pushed this... pond scum.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4108960/How-Trump-s-nemesis-John-McCain-kicked-Kremlin-memo-scandal-handing-dossier-FBI-sending-emissary-abroad-collect-it.html

“According to reports, the former MI6 man had been hired to conduct ‘opposition research’ on the Trump campaign by first Republican enemies of Trump, then Democratic ones. “


100 posted on 01/11/2017 10:59:26 AM PST by GOPJ (ObamaCare Motto: "If You Like Your Doctor, Maybe You'll Like Your New Doctor" - Dave Barry)
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