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You Have to Hand It to Hillary – the Girl Can Smear
American Thinker.com ^ | November 12, 2017 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 11/12/2017 5:49:34 AM PST by Kaslin

With the help of the DNC (broke, but forking over millions to this end), Hillary pulled off what Kimberly Strassel rightly calls “one of the dirtiest tricks in U.S. political history." She hired a smear outfit (Fusion, headed by Glenn Simpson) which put together ludicrous claims, leaked them to willing press cohorts, including David Corn at Mother Jones, hired Christopher Steele (GPS) to concoct a fairytale about Donald J Trump and had Steele give the Dossier to the FBI in July 2016. Then press megaphone Michael Isikoff at Yahoo News -- obviously tipped off by Steele -- reported, “U.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump advisor and Kremlin.”

Having generated this nonsense, handed it off to the FBI, and shared the news of that handoff to Isikoff, Hillary “jumped all over it, spinning its own oppo research as a government investigation into Mr. Trump.” She and her surrogates hit the airwaves with it:

To that point, it is fair to ask if the entire Trump-Russia narrative -- which has played a central role in our political discourse for a year, and is now resulting in a special counsel issuing unrelated indictments -- is based on nothing more than a political smear document. Is there any reason to believe the FBI was probing a Trump-Russia angle before the dossier? Is there any collusion allegation that doesn’t come in some form from the dossier?

The idea that the federal government and a special counsel were mobilized -- that American citizens were monitored and continue to be investigated -- based on a campaign-funded hit document is extraordinary. Especially given that to this day no one has publicly produced a single piece of evidence to support any of the dossier’s substantive allegations about Trump team members.


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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: dossier; hillary2016; smearcampaign; trumprussia

1 posted on 11/12/2017 5:49:34 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
forgot the best part:
had Steele give the Dossier to the FBI in July 2016 - and sets up McCain to take the fall as the bag man for giving the dossier to the FBI 12/9/2016.
2 posted on 11/12/2017 5:54:57 AM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.Ever.)
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To: stylin19a

She may have pulled the greatest dupe in history however it is quite possible, but highly unlikely, that she will EVER, repeat EVER be charged with a crime. I despise that hag.


3 posted on 11/12/2017 5:59:21 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: stylin19a

Thank you for mentioning His Honorable Righteousness. I’d noticed Juan McCain was left out as well.


4 posted on 11/12/2017 6:07:10 AM PST by moovova
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To: Kaslin

Oh the Clintons are good at what they do.


5 posted on 11/12/2017 6:09:03 AM PST by Savage Beast (TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS ARE THE RESISTANCE !!! VIVE LA RESISTANCE!)
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To: Kaslin

The first I ever heard of Trump and Russia was at the second debate. She brought it up seemingly out of thin air. There is no way she didn’t know it was in the works already.


6 posted on 11/12/2017 6:15:28 AM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: Kaslin

The US Congress also stubbornly clings to the Russian collusion narrative in the face of evidence to the contrary...seemingly because they are desperate to hobble the President.


7 posted on 11/12/2017 6:27:10 AM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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The proverbial ilk of those who smear is clearly evident in this one...


8 posted on 11/12/2017 6:47:20 AM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: Kaslin

Wonder why this is written with a colon as if it was a quote from “she and her surrogates?” They definitely aren’t statements that would be attributed to Trump’s opposition...Well, that’s the way I read it anyway - and had to do so several times to make sense of it and that didn’t happen...

“”She and her surrogates hit the airwaves with it:

To that point, it is fair to ask if the entire Trump-Russia narrative — which has played a central role in our political discourse for a year, and is now resulting in a special counsel issuing unrelated indictments — is based on nothing more than a political smear document. Is there any reason to believe the FBI was probing a Trump-Russia angle before the dossier? Is there any collusion allegation that doesn’t come in some form from the dossier?

The idea that the federal government and a special counsel were mobilized — that American citizens were monitored and continue to be investigated — based on a campaign-funded hit document is extraordinary. Especially given that to this day no one has publicly produced a single piece of evidence to support any of the dossier’s substantive allegations about Trump team members.””


9 posted on 11/12/2017 6:48:27 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Kaslin; bobfeland; COUNTrecount; GladesGuru; glock rocks; HotKat; jazusamo; Maine Mariner; ...

Clarice Feldman ping.

If you'd like to be on or off the Clarice Feldman ping list, please drop me a FReepmail.

10 posted on 11/12/2017 6:52:11 AM PST by upchuck (Justice should be blind and not brain-dead. ~ Daniel John Sobieski . Hello Jeff Sessions...)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Kaslin.

11 posted on 11/12/2017 6:53:43 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Kaslin
Outstanding article by Clarice. One of her best. Final 'graph:Clarice is a treasure.
12 posted on 11/12/2017 7:05:36 AM PST by upchuck (Justice should be blind and not brain-dead. ~ Daniel John Sobieski . Hello Jeff Sessions...)
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To: stylin19a

McCain set himself up. I am so sick - and ashamed - of him.


13 posted on 11/12/2017 7:09:13 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: ez

I cringed when Trump encouraged Russia to find Hillary’s missing emails. I think that is when the idea was hatched to frame Trump.


14 posted on 11/12/2017 7:09:16 AM PST by Engedi
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To: Kaslin

Yes because she’s allowed to by the media who covers for her.


15 posted on 11/12/2017 7:16:48 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: Kaslin

She sure can.

IIRC, she taught courses in ‘scorched earth’ and ‘politics of personal destruction’ in the early 1990s. [/s]


16 posted on 11/12/2017 7:48:25 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: DaveA37
She may have pulled the greatest dupe in history however it is quite possible, but highly unlikely, that she will EVER, repeat EVER be charged with a crime. I despise that hag.

I agree, sadly.

However, I do have faith and hope that she will eventually pay for all of the crimes and murders in the next world. There must be some karmic justice for such a lust for power.

Otherwise, it's just not fair. And ... well, I don't know what else to say.

17 posted on 11/12/2017 9:46:14 AM PST by proud American in Canada
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To: Kaslin

As expected.

Seeing something similar now with Roy Moore.

“one of the dirtiest tricks in U.S. political history.”

Democrats, GOPe, RINOs - it’s just what they do.


18 posted on 11/12/2017 11:58:19 AM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: proud American in Canada

“......well, I don’t know what else to say.”.....

All I can say is, “there will be justice in this world..........or the next!” In not too many minutes, days or years, should Hitlary live out a natural life, she will pass to another place that MAY NOT be acceptable to her and her ways. As a Christian, I believe she will eventually pay for her sins.


19 posted on 11/13/2017 5:40:40 AM PST by DaveA37
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