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SleeplessinSoCal

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2. I wasn't there. Suspect neither were you.

Fri Jun 14, 2019, 04:01 PM

Jun 2019

But I can recall the dossier being said to be used by Jeb Bush in the Republican primary, so I continually get my hackles up when it becomes accepted as fact that H Clinton initiated it. She did not.

https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2019/jun/13/how-pundits-defended-trumps-abc-interview-and-why-/

"Steele, a former British intelligence agent, created the Steele dossier on behalf of Fusion GPS, a U.S.-based opposition research firm that was hired to work for the Clinton campaign.

But the firm’s research into Trump was already underway when the Clinton campaign got involved. It was originally hired by the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website.

It was only after Trump secured the Republican nomination that Fusion GPS was hired on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee by their law firm, Perkins Coie, to continue compiling research about Trump."

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The Steele Dossier Lie [View all] SleeplessinSoCal Jun 2019 OP

A conservative site was NOT the funder of the Steele Dossier mr_lebowski Jun 2019 #1

I wasn't there. Suspect neither were you. SleeplessinSoCal Jun 2019 #2

I am basing my knowledge on what Glenn Simpson (I think the name was) testified to under Oath mr_lebowski Jun 2019 #4

Has Hilary Clinton her campaign or her attorney ever had possession of the Steele Dossier? Thomas Hurt Jun 2019 #3

Hillary Clinton wrote a book, "Wat Happened". SleeplessinSoCal Jun 2019 #5