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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 04:59 AM Oct 2020

Trump's false 'Russian spy' claims put me in danger, says Steele dossier source

Source: Guardian


Luke Harding

Exclusive: New York-based analyst Igor Danchenko did gather intelligence about Trump but he is certainly not a spy, he says

Wed 21 Oct 2020 01.30 EDT

A Russian analyst says he is in hiding and “afraid for his life” after being unmasked by top congressional Republicans as the source behind the Steele dossier on Donald Trump and Moscow.

In his first-ever interview Igor Danchenko said he is the victim of a smear campaign by the president and the Republican senator Lindsey Graham. Both have repeatedly alleged that Danchenko is a suspected Russian spy who fed disinformation to Christopher Steele, the former MI6 officer.

Danchenko said he was not a Kremlin operative. He added that the accusation had made him a target for the pro-Trump radical right and left him effectively unemployed. “It’s a stigma. Being a ‘Russian spy’ is quite different from being James Bond. There are myths,” he told the Guardian.

He is now threatening to take legal action against Trump. Last week Danchenko’s lawyer, Mark E Schamel, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Pat Cipollone, the president’s counsel. It said Trump had endorsed and retweeted “completely unsubstantiated lies”, which damaged Danchenko’s professional reputation and were “endangering his life”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/21/trumps-false-russian-spy-claims-put-me-in-danger-says-steele-dossier-source



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/21/trumps-false-russian-spy-claims-put-me-in-danger-says-steele-dossier-source

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Trump's false 'Russian spy' claims put me in danger, says Steele dossier source (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2020 OP
This is right out the repuglican playbook mdbl Oct 2020 #1
Yes empedocles Oct 2020 #2

mdbl

(4,972 posts)
1. This is right out the repuglican playbook
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 05:57 AM
Oct 2020

throw those working on behalf of the country under the bus to protect your own ass. Anyone remember Dick Cheney's treatment of Valerie Plame? Anyone working for these traitors is in danger.

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