The accusation that Donald Trump “colluded” with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election was always an elaborate and perfidious hoax. James Comey’s FBI knew this all along but managed to conceal it. Until now.
Newly declassified documents reveal that the anti-Trump “dossier” was substantially the product of Russian disinformation. It was sedulously fed to a gullible and maladroit ex-British spy, Christopher Steele, who was being paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to gather and disseminate the bogus allegations.
It was the “dossier” that fueled the FBI and special counsel investigations of President Trump that battered his presidency. The largely phony series of Steele memos were also “central and essential” to gaining by deception four successive warrants to spy on a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page. His Fourth Amendment rights were egregiously violated by surveillance warrants unlawfully obtained.
For the better part of 4 years, top officials at the FBI kept their knowledge and evidence of the Russian disinformation hidden from congress, judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and the American people.
For the better part of 4 years, top officials at the FBI and the intelligence community kept their knowledge and evidence of the Russian disinformation hidden from congress, judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), and the American people…
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