Posted on 01/11/2017 7:44:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — Seven months ago, a respected former British spy named Christopher Steele won a contract to build a file on Donald J. Trump’s ties to Russia. Last week, his lurid account — unsubstantiated accounts of frolics with prostitutes, real estate deals that were intended as bribes and coordination with Russian intelligence of the hacking of Democrats — was summarized for Mr. Trump in an appendix to a top-secret intelligence report.
The consequences have been incalculable and will play out long past Inauguration Day. Word of the summary, which was also given to President Obama and to congressional leaders, leaked to CNN on Tuesday, and the rest of the media followed with sensational reports.
Mr. Trump denounced the unproven claims Wednesday as a fabrication, a Nazi-style slander concocted by “sick people.” It has further undermined, at least temporarily, his relationship with the intelligence agencies and cast a shadow over the new administration.
Parts of the story remain out of reach — most critically the basic question of how much, if anything, in the dossier is true. But it is possible to piece together a rough narrative of what led to the current crisis, including lingering questions about the ties binding Mr. Trump and his team to Russia. The episode also offers a glimpse of the hidden side of presidential campaigns, involving private sleuths-for-hire looking for the worst they can find about the next American leader.
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So they are massaging each other’s shoulders and wiping away CNNs tears while the whole country is laughing at them
They still don’t get it
The more authors that a Times article has...the more it is full of crap.
NYT
Alt-Left Fake News.
LMAO. The “crisis” is in the media. Trump beat them like a drum today.
This sentence near the end of this fake news story indicates exactly why this newspaper can never be trusted.
Translation: its likely all lies, but it sounds very salacious, so we're printing it anyway.
Any word on WHO awarded this "contract"???
Continuing the fake news.
Trump is the only man who will be in D.C. with serious cajones between his legs.
And even one of the top spies who met with Trump (after which one of them leaked about their meeting) issued a statement confirming Trump's claims and saying he was upset about the leak.
Hey, has anyone asked the top spy who supported Communist Gus Hall for President where he was and what he know and when did he know it?
leaked to CNN on Tuesday, and the rest of the media
Leaked by whom? Yet we are to just believe the MediaWhores without any questions. The person may become public, and I hope Trump has a field day making his life miserable.
most critically the basic question of how much, if anything, in the dossier is true
But since we are in the back pocket of the, insert proper group here, we are going to go with the story anyway. Again, I hope Trump, or his lawyers, have a good time with this one.
former British spy named Christopher Steele won a contract to build a file
Heaven forbid the bastards should even think to find out who the contractor is. I would guess that Mr. C. Steele is looking for a deep hole to call home.
Fake news...
If you’re reading the NY Times in the morning, you’re hprobably aving spam fakes and eggs
Parts of the story remain out of reach — most critically the basic question of how much, if anything, in the dossier is true.
You need to seek psychiatric care STAT.
They got the wrong Michael Cohen.
Trump never hired a battalion of hookers and had them pee on some bed, because he hates Obama so much.
There are plenty of others errors in this contrived pap but, at this point, it seems apparent this Christopher Steele created a complete work of fiction.
By the Effin Way: “Why has no one interviewed Christopher Steele and tested him on the veracity of contrived document, with it’s synthetic claims???????????
Spot on ... who paid Steele and were the funds from legal sources?
And we call them the driveby media!
Control-LEFT Media
Isn’t the slimes owned by the mexicano slim? He is probably po’d because the peso is taking a dive. Haaaaaaahaha.
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