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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It isn’t a Crisis, it’s an Opportunity for PE Trump to take out the garbage.
They will lose. NY Times Ship is taking on water in the engine room. Going down.
#doublefakenews
Translation: Don't let a trivial thing like the truth get in the way of a good smear campaign.
Or at least we here at the nation's most worthless newspaper hope so.
Trump is not letting a good crisis go to waste. He is using this as an opportunity to expose the Fake News Media for the frauds, poseurs and smear merchants they are.
I think Trump turned it around to his advantage. Nothing else that they throw at him is going to stick.
DNI Clapper Statement on Conversation with President-elect Trump
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3513110/posts
Someone put the NY Times on suicide watch.
Your comment reminded me of a movie I recently saw - The Finest Hours.
True story about a coast guard rescue in 1952 off Cape Cod.
Good movie.
The crisis lies with the group who paid Mr. Steele, ex MI6 agent
for this Fake report.
Mr. Steele did not do this on his own.
So who paid him?
The Brits?
The CIA?
Certain groups within the GOP?
Follow the money.
Leftist News bump for later....
This is the slimes payback for the bogus accusation against sites like Breitbart, ‘alt-right’ sites, blah,blah that they were spreading fake news during the election.Now they think it’s time to engage in same even though they were all about fake news against Trump. Petulant children with computers.
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you know its fakenews when there are three dickweeds on the byline.
Wow, three Slimes hacks to double down on the fakenews today. How can the Slimes afford to pay them all?
“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.”
And THAT is the whole point of this smear. Meanwhile, DNI Clapper approached Trump tonight and condemned the baseless allegations, while assuring Trump none of it originated from US intel sources.
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