And yes, you are right, the mainstream media pretends they don’t know this. Trump was their target. Page was just the door they used to gain access to Trump. They tried Papadopoulos first but their own lawyers shot them down because there was no crime alleged even if he did say something silly in that London bar.
And as we now know, they wouldn’t have even been able to get to Page if they didn’t have the lies of the Steele Dossier and the documents they forged and the exculpatory evidence they withheld.
The creation of the Steele Dossier is probably the “insurance policy” they discussed. The Horowitz report tells us they got a tip from an unnamed spy in July but by its description it seems that that this spy was Steele. Then in August Page and Strzok text each other about an insurance policy. Then in September they get the written Steele Dossier. The FBI claims they didn’t get any evidence until September but Horowitz says they got it in July. I suggest that the “insurance policy” was their decision to get Steele to put his lies into writing so that they could take it to the FISA Court. Otherwise, without it being in writing, they had no probable cause to get the warrants in the first place.
Seems to me they did all of this intentionally. They pushed Steele off the FBI payroll and attached him with Glen Simpson’s firm in order that they could collect his Dossier without it appearing as if the FBI itself was running the operation, but merely ‘acting on a tip’. The entire scheme was contrived and made to look legit and it probably started in the spring of 2016.
Seems to me they did all of this intentionally. They pushed Steele off the FBI payroll and attached him with Glen Simpson’s firm in order that they could collect his Dossier without it appearing as if the FBI itself was running the operation, but merely ‘acting on a tip’. The entire scheme was contrived and made to look legit and it probably started in the spring of 2016.
Agree. Steele had special FBI status as a source or whatever they called it that allowed the FIB confidence trick.
This, of course, should have been investigated in 2017 but thanks to the recusal of Rip Van Sessions here we are nearly in 2020 discussing these issues.