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mr_lebowski

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7. Is there even any evidence that Steele shared the damaging Trump info w/Clinton's people?
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 11:07 AM
Aug 2018

IOW I know he was indirectly paid by the Clinton Campaign via Fusion GPS (and no, that conservative paper didn't pay for Steele, he was brought on after Clinton started paying), but has anyone ever even claimed the Clinton's were TOLD of the stuff in the Dossier?

From my understanding Steele decided this info was 'beyond politics', basically, and got it to the FBI rather than handing it over to Clinton's people ... for the very reason that he regarded it as 'too serious' to be used in a Campaign.

Do I have that wrong? Other than Hillary's 'puppet' comments I don't know of any way in which Clinton 'used' what she knew from Steele, if she indeed ever did.

Certainly there was nothing she did akin to Trump saying 'Wikileaks!' over and over on the campaign trail ... 130-ish times, IIRC ... and that was just him personally, let alone the help he got from Faux, and some of his surrogates, in 'spreading the word' on the 'dirt' he'd met with the Russians to get that Wikileaks was releasing.

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