Steele briefed British intelligence on his Trump dossier before Trump knew anything about it.

[triron]

Link to tweet

[mr_lebowski]

1. I'd bet in fact he wasn't even President-Elect yet then ...

I'd bet that in reality, Steele told British Intelligence well before the election.

But regardless it's well before he was PRESIDENT.

Oh and BTW you generally don't tell criminals when you're investigating them. It's kinda Law and Order 101.

But nice Try, Murdoch

[trueblue2007]

5. the URL for the whole article ..... READ IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7047865/British-spies-briefed-dossier-Trumps-ties-Russia-months-knew-existed.html



AND REMEMBER..... the GOP paid for the Steele Dossier first. they always say "Hillary paid for it" ...... but that is not entirely true !!!



WASHINGTON — The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, first hired the research firm that months later produced for Democrats the salacious dossier describing ties between Donald J. Trump and the Russian government, the website said on Friday.

The Free Beacon, funded in large part by the New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, hired the firm, Fusion GPS, in 2015 to unearth damaging information about several Republican presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump. But The Free Beacon told the firm to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee had begun paying Fusion GPS in April for research that eventually became the basis for the dossier.

The Free Beacon informed the House Intelligence Committee on Friday that it had retained the firm. That committee is one of a number of congressional committees investigating Russian attempts to disrupt the 2016 election and whether there was any collusion with Mr. Trump’s associates.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/politics/trump-dossier-paul-singer.html

[trueblue2007]

6. trump lied

It has long been known that Fusion GPS was first hired by Republicans, but it was not known who was the source of the funding. This week, Mr. Trump and his allies seized on the fact that Democrats had paid the firm for the research as evidence that the dossier was part of a political smear campaign.

[mr_lebowski]

7. GOP didn't pay for the dossier, Steele wasn't hired by Fusion until after

the Clinton Campaign took over funding the operation.

Prior to Steele's work, Fusion's investigation had nothing to do with Russia, it was standard domestic opposition research, and there was no dossier.

Just sayin'

I've been following this whole thing very closely since the beginning.

That said ... this point of fact is immaterial.

[tanyev]

2. Oh noes, will Trump punish them by canceling his state visit?

That would kick off a giant street party in the UK.

[triron]

3. Huh?

[tanyev]

8. Donald sees headline, throws fit, cancels his trip to England, England rejoices?

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[struggle4progress]

4. "I have Barr investigating right now to see why they aren't all in jail!"