Posted on 10/10/2018 5:09:34 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Christopher Steele, the former MI6 officer behind the Russia dossier on Donald Trump, has broken 18 months of silence with a veiled swipe at the US president.
He has written about the importance of speaking "truths to power", a possible reference to the allegations he made about collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin in the run-up to the US presidential election two years ago.
Sky News has seen the text of an email written by Mr Steele to the editor of Vanity Fair after he was chosen to feature on its list of the 100 most influential people in the media, politics, entertainment and finance.
The 54-year-old wrote: "In these strange and troubling times, it is hard to speak unpalatable truths to power, but I believe we all still have a duty to do so.
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OH but he did. He testified in an Engish court they were unverified. In other words, he made them up.
Everytime I imagine this Steele character....I have this image of Johnny English as the fake Bond guy.
“truths to power”
Another nauseating new age phrase for faggots.
I see. So it is hard to speak unpalatable truths to power, yet very easy ,evidently, to speak salacious, vile, completely fabricated falsehoods because one cannot accept the results of a legal, duly certified election.
Trump had no political power when Steele fabricated his lies.
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