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Showing Original Post only (View all)Breaking: Meuller investigating Russia ordering Trump who to choose as Secretary of State [View all]
One subject that Steele is believed to have discussed with Muellers investigators is a memo that he wrote in late November, 2016, after his contract with Fusion had ended. This memo, which did not surface publicly with the others, is shorter than the rest, and is based on one source, described as a senior Russian official. The official said that he was merely relaying talk circulating in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but what hed heard was astonishing: people were saying that the Kremlin had intervened to block Trumps initial choice for Secretary of State, Mitt Romney. (During Romneys run for the White House in 2012, he was notably hawkish on Russia, calling it the single greatest threat to the U.S.) The memo said that the Kremlin, through unspecified channels, had asked Trump to appoint someone who would be prepared to lift Ukraine-related sanctions, and who would coöperate on security issues of interest to Russia, such as the conflict in Syria. If what the source heard was true, then a foreign power was exercising pivotal influence over U.S. foreign policyand an incoming President.
This is in a long article about Christopher Steele (Around 9th to last paragraph)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier?irgwc=1&utm_medium=10078&utm_campaign=Online%20Tracking%20Link&utm_source=IR
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Breaking: Meuller investigating Russia ordering Trump who to choose as Secretary of State [View all]
Doodley
Mar 2018
OP
Tillerson is only hanging around to collect on the sanctions so he can drill in the Arctic. Why else
Doitnow
Mar 2018
#32
If this can be proven, I'm not sure how that doesn't put an end to this presidency.
Bleacher Creature
Mar 2018
#9
I wonder what he's been up to lately, too - haven't seen any coverage -- I'm sure he likes it
diva77
Mar 2018
#19