Posted on 05/10/2019 12:15:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Now, again, despite everything we think we know, theres still some things that have surfaced that we dont know. And, again, the FBI is really insistent and even Comey last night in his town hall on CNN, they are insistent, they are standing firm, theyre holding firm on the idea that their investigation of Trump-Russia collusion began with Papadopoulos. Even though this has been exposed and nuked every which way from Sunday, theyre standing by it.
They are claiming this whole thing began when George Papadopoulos told the Australian ambassador, Alexander Downer, that the Russians had a bunch of dirt on Hillary Clinton and that the Trump campaign knew about it. This caused Downer Downer, by the way, is in bed with the Clintons. Hes a donor to the Clinton Foundation. He was a fundraiser for the Clinton Foundation. He has direct ties to the FBI.
We all know that Papadopoulos didnt know anything about any of this until he was told by two other FBI operatives, Joseph Mifsud and Stefan Halper. You know what theyre relying on? Theyre relying on the fact that what I just told you and what you know, youve heard so many times youre sick of it, people that watch CNN and read the New York Times do not yet know any of this.
People that watch CNN, PMSNBC, or read the New York Times do not know the name Joseph Mifsud. They may have a peripheral knowledge of the name Stefan Halper, but they dont know how the information was planted in Papadopoulos and then he was arranged to have drinks with Alexander Downer.
All they know is that a Trump foreign policy guy met for drinks with an Australian ambassador in a London bar in July of 2016 and started bragging about the fact the Trump campaign knew that the Russians had some dirt on Hillary. Papadopoulos didnt mention emails. And neither did Downer. Thats been added to juice up the story, but emails were not even mentioned. It was just dirt.
Well we know for a fact that it didnt happen. The FBI, Comey last night on CNN in his town hall wherever you look, theyre holding fast to the idea that thats what caused everything, thats what caused em to go out and hire Christopher Steele. Thats what caused them to start looking into this possible Trump-Russia collusion. But we know thats not true.
We have learned that the FBI made Steele an informant in February of 2016. He was given the list of admonitions: These are the things that you are not to do as an informant. Let me give you a heads-up. If the FBI ever hires you to be an informant, theyre gonna give you a list of admonishments or admonitions, things that you cannot do.
One of the things you cant do is admit that youre an informant, and you cannot tell anybody in the media that you are. Well, Steele did! And they fired him! But then Mueller went and talked to him and now hes been rehired by Fusion GPS for this organization still trying to dig up dirt on Trump run by the Feinstein former staffer.
So the question is why did the FBI hire Steele in February 2016 if nobody knew anything about anything until July 16 when Downer met Papadopoulos? What the hell? And now Comey is out there (imitating Comey), Well, of course the FBI, quite normal to implant informants and so forth into political campaigns. Theres nothing unusual about that. And now we got government officials attempting to say, Oh, yeah, we had an informant in the Hillary campaign too.
Oh, you did?
Oh, yes, yes, yes, of course. We didnt know anything about it, but, yes, we did, of course. Back to the original question. Why make Steele a confidential informant in February 2016? Papadopoulos didnt meet Downer til July 2016 and the only reason that matters is cause thats when the FBI says, You know, were just moving along, were fine and dandy, were investigating crime, got our top 10 list, were out there trying to find bad guys, put em in jail, looking for the next John Dillinger and Bugsy Malone. And all of a sudden we get this call from the Australian ambassador saying a Trump campaign guy is bragging about the fact that the Russians have some dirt on Hillary. Whoa, we gotta get in gear.
Except they hired the guy who wrote the dossier that was a pack of lies that got em their FISA warrant to spy on Trump in February. This might have even been before Papadopoulos was hired by the Trump campaign, I dont know. But close. And then there are other reports.
This woman, Ukrainian American by the name of Chalupa, Democrat National Committee woman, Ive seen reports that this woman spun up about Manafort in January of 2016, thats several weeks before Manafort even joined the Trump campaign. We got a Democrat National Committee woman by the name of Chalupa all bothered and irritated about Paul Manafort in January of 2016, before Trump even hires him. Comey briefed Obamas National Security Council shortly after Carter Page joined the Trump campaign. Thats a week before Manafort did in late March.
My point is theres a whole bunch of stuff that went on long before July of 2016, long before Papadopoulos started having drinks and chatting with the Australian ambassador, that they are hiding! They are hiding. The real origins of this investigation are long before July 2016, and they are hiding it.
And this is why Trump has to force the disclosure of all of these documents, FBI, Department of Justice, CIA, hes got to force this all to be disclosed or were never gonna really know what happened here, cause it did not happen with Papadopoulos. Thats the story that theyve stuck with since they first made it up.
Now, theres news on Alexander Downer. Alexander Downer decided to come out of the woodwork. He did an interview in the U.K. with Sky News. He tried to defend himself against the charge that he was working with the FBI as a spy.
Downer said that he provided the FBI with a memo he wrote after a May 10, 2016 meeting in which he says Papadopoulos mentioned that Russia might release information about Hillary Clinton close to the election. May, 2016.
Downer claims he doesnt know why Papadopoulos told him that. May 2016 meeting with Papadopoulos? Well, it was July where the supposed drinks took place with the message from Papadopoulos about the Russians having dirt on Hillary.
Downer also said in his interview with Sky News that there was no suggestion of collusion between Trump or Trumps campaign and the Russians. Well, if Downer is saying that he reported what Papadopoulos said to him, reported it to the Brits and he reported it to the FBI, but hes also saying he told them that there was no suggestion of collusion between Trump or Trumps campaign and Russia.
Well, if thats true, then why did the FBI start its counterintelligence investigation based on his nothing of a report? As Comey and others claim, this thing started in July after the Brits learned of Papadopoulos meeting with Downer. But Downer says he told them, Nothing to see here. I dont think theres any campaign or Trump collusion with Russia going on here.
But then if you go further into the story: Downer, who served as Australias top diplomat to the U.K. at the time, provided a memo he wrote following the meeting [with Papadopoulos] to the FBI more than two months later. He meets with Papadopoulos in May, doesnt tell anybody about it for two months. If what Papadopoulos told Downer was so unsettling, why did he wait more than two months to tell the FBI about it?
According to Downer, Papadopoulos mentioned that Russia might have information on then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that they could release before the 2016 election. Even if that were true, there be nothing illegal about it. Papadopoulos knew it. If thats true, Hillary would be in jail for the information she got from the Russian foreign agents via the Steele dossier. I mean, she took information from the Russians, too, that she paid for.
Anyway, Downer disputed claims that [he] was part of a conspiracy to entrap Papadopoulos. See, these people are all coming out of the woods now, folks. Theyre all coming out of the woods to deny what has been reported. This is all happening because Barr said, I know there was spying on the Trump campaign. Theyre investigating it. The IG. So many people now are trying to rewrite their own versions of history in which they were involved. Downer says of Papadopoulos, I dont know why he told me this, meaning the Russians had dirt on Hillary.
[B]ut he did, and we reported it. And the rest is history. Theres no defense for him saying its some sort of weird conspiracy. I mean, its what he told me. (impression) Theres no conspiracy. Im not making anything up! Yeah, he might have told you, but the question is who told him, Mr. Downer? You know that it was Mifsud and you know that it was Halper. You know that Papadopoulos did not know this on his own. The Trump campaign didnt know this.
The Trump campaign had no knowledge of the Russians having dirt on Hillary because they didnt, to the extent that anybody knew. It was all made up. Downer told Sky News, quote, I would regard myself as a warrior for the Western alliance, and thats why I passed on what Papadopoulos said. Now, [w]hile Downer was critical of Papadopoulos, he said that there was no indication from his May 2016 conversation that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia to steal or release any Clinton information.
There was no suggestion from Papadopoulos nor in the record of the meeting that we sent back to Canberra
There was no suggestion that there was collusion between Donald Trump or Donald Trumps campaign and the Russians, Downer said. This is Downer talking to Sky News. No suggestion? (Snort!) The FBI is only saying your meeting with him triggered the counterintelligence investigation. Holy smokes! This is
Its coming together now, I think, folks.
Eliottt Mess
Poppy told the Australian FBI agent what Misfud, the maltese British (FBI agent) told poppy. It was all a cheap trick to lat a palse predicate. We want all document in the FBI or CIA on Misfud— NO REDACTIONS and we want the Australian plant to appear before a grand jury. He is not exempt under diplomatic immunity because he was not in this country. We want all FBI/CIA records and documents dealing with this set up meeting with Poppy both prior to and after the meeting.
Limbaugh sometimes steps on the timing of the Downer meeting with P (saying it occurred in July 2016, rather than May) but his point is still correct. The FBI didn’t start an investigation in February or March because of a report they received subsequently in July.
What I am 100% sure of is that once more of the truth comes out, the FBI group will claim that all that preliminary spying was done by the CIA, which America’s finest FBI patriot into thinking it was really Russkies instead of their own agents talking to P and Carter Page, therefore they all meant well and deserve raises.
Some people remind me of comic book characters. James Comey comes across as an evil Baby Huey.
Will we ever “know” enough to empower the UniParty RINOpublicans?
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