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4 years late! N.Y. Times finally admits Trump 'dossier' was fake
https://www.wnd.com ^ | May 17, 2021 at 11:16pm | Art Moore

Posted on 05/18/2021 6:11:32 AM PDT by Red Badger

The New York Times was a major promoter of the now debunked Trump-Russia election conspiracy narrative, which featured the infamous "Steele dossier" of outlandish and salacious claims about President Trump.

Republican investigators turned up evidence that the document compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele was an opposition-research project funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee. What's more, ironically, it was based largely on Russian propaganda fed to Steele by a single source.

Now, the Times has published a feature by former Times investigative report Barry Meier acknowledging many of the claims in the dossier "have never materialized or have been proved false."

Meier said he knocked on the door of Steele's home in Farnham, England, in his research of a book on the business of private intelligence. During the 2016 presidential campaign, he recalled, Steele had been hired by an investigative firm called Fusion GPS "to gather dirt about Donald J. Trump and Russia."

At that time, Meier wrote, those "involved with the dossier were intent on controlling its narrative and eager to capitalize on their fame."

Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, the founders of Fusion GPS, wrote a best-selling book about the dossier that became a best seller. Steele sold his life rights to a Hollywood studio owned by George Clooney.

But the glow has faded, he said, noting the collapse of the dossier’s "most explosive claims — like a salacious 'pee' tape featuring Mr. Trump or a supposed meeting in Prague between Michael Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former attorney, and Russian operatives."

The dossier, he said, went on a "journey from media obsession to slush pile."

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dossier; fakenews; trump
There are still millions of Americans that believe it was all real............................
1 posted on 05/18/2021 6:11:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Durham report must be coming out soon . . .


2 posted on 05/18/2021 6:13:37 AM PDT by MCSETots
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To: Red Badger

This was shameful.
The NYT has zero credibility...


3 posted on 05/18/2021 6:14:08 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Red Badger

“There are still millions of Americans that believe it was all real............................ “

Including my parents.

The thing to REALLY point out is the following: Why isn’t the New York Times, Washington Post, or anyone else ANGRY that they were totally duped, and why haven’t they outed the people involved?

That, even more than the crap being proven to be fraudulent, shows EXACTLY that the media is now ‘players’ rather than simply reporting the news...and literally NOTHING from them can be trusted.


4 posted on 05/18/2021 6:15:38 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Red Badger

Too bad they couldn’t be sued into oblivion.


5 posted on 05/18/2021 6:15:45 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

They are no different than the tabloids of London........................


6 posted on 05/18/2021 6:15:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: MCSETots

Who?


7 posted on 05/18/2021 6:16:48 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: BobL
The thing to REALLY point out is the following: Why isn’t the New York Times, Washington Post, or anyone else ANGRY that they were totally duped, and why haven’t they outed the people involved?

Because the Dems will lie, cheat, steal and even murder to achieve their dream of absolute power "BT ANY MEANS NECESSARY". And the 'useful idiots' will get the Ernst Rohm treatment when they do............

8 posted on 05/18/2021 6:18:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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So we had 1,000 front page stories about the validity of the whole case and now we have one story with Emily Litella saying "never mind".

And that story's on Page B-27.

9 posted on 05/18/2021 6:27:39 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Red Badger

Does this mean that Trump gets a do-over?


10 posted on 05/18/2021 6:29:13 AM PDT by A Voice (As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the end times.)
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He should get to sue the NYT for a billion dollars....................


11 posted on 05/18/2021 6:31:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: Red Badger
The Brit “tabloids” are usually entertaining, with semi-nude photos...
12 posted on 05/18/2021 6:31:30 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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There are still millions of Americans that believe it was all real............................

Seems like we may have some Russia/Russia posters on FR, who ignore the ChiComs and real enemies.


13 posted on 05/18/2021 6:43:51 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Don’t mask! Don’t tell! by GranTorino!!)
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To: Red Badger
Typical Modus Operandi (MO) of the LEFT given their near total domination of the 'news' outlets! Go back to 1964 and how GOP Candidate Barry Goldwater got tagged as a crazy madman by a single magazine run by LEFTists and got tons of publicity!

A generation later, the accusation that 1980 GOP Candidate Ronald Reagan managed to get his VP nominee, George H.W. Bush, on a SR-71 to fly to Paris to secretly negotiate with the Iranian Mullahs on NOT RELEASING the Teheran Hostages until after the 1980 election, got the following response from top Democrats. “We have no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, but the seriousness of the allegations and the weight of circumstantial information compel an effort to establish the facts,” said House Speaker Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash.) and Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Me.) in a joint statement.

Then, in more recent 'news', how about the last-minute attack accusation of a 30+ year old 'bad behavior' by Trump's Supreme Court nominee Bret Kavanaugh. Out of left field with a single person's vague memory that had no collaboration but generated a hell-storm of bad media and another near lynching of an innocent man.

14 posted on 05/18/2021 8:02:06 AM PDT by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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Since ‘political speech’ is protected speech, they can and do say anything without regards to truth or facts................


15 posted on 05/18/2021 8:05:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: BobL

That, even more than the crap being proven to be fraudulent, shows EXACTLY that the media is now ‘players’ rather than simply reporting the news...and literally NOTHING from them can be trusted.


We need the MSM to be dupe meisters so Israel can use them to fake things like Gaza ground invasions. I am still laughing at that one. I love it.


16 posted on 05/18/2021 8:56:04 AM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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“We need the MSM to be dupe meisters so Israel can use them to fake things like Gaza ground invasions. I am still laughing at that one. I love it.”

Spokesman for Israel: “We’re terribly sorry, Mrs. Abdul, the version of Google Translate we have licensed here sometimes is a bit off of the mark. We were trying to say that we’re ‘setting up ground forces’. But do tell Kahil to say to Allah for me, down there.”


17 posted on 05/18/2021 9:07:55 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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