What began as ordinary commissioned opposition research into candidate Donald Trump back in 2015, stopped in April 2016. The contract to Christopher Steele to create the dossier came months later in June 2016.
Christopher Steele didn’t even enter the picture until June 2016, he had nothing to do with the research from the GOP primary; and the only similarity is the sub-contracting company Fusion GPS hired by the Clinton/DNC legal team at Perkins Coie. This is the distinction the current Clinton Crew is attempting to avoid.
What began as ordinary commissioned opposition research into candidate Donald Trump back in 2015, stopped in April 2016.
What is increasingly obvious from the entire timeline is that the FBI and Clinton’s contracted Christoper Steele and were in cahoots in turning the information within the dossier into evidence used to gain FISA warrants
to monitor the Trump Campaign.The original FISA application was turned down because there were no grounds for a criminal investigation of banking violations against Trump.
That FISA application in which Trump was “named” was rejected by the FISA court as overbroad!
After Steele provided the initial (phony) dossier information to the FBI in October 2016, they were able to get the FISA warrant!
After the election, the FBI agreed to pay Steele to continue gathering intelligence about Trump and Russia, but the bureau pulled out of the arrangement after Steele was publicly identified in news reports.
Journalists who are friendly with Fusion GPS and opponents of the Trump administration claim, without any evidence of any kind beyond anonymous sources’ that the dossier has parts that were “verified.”
That could mean something as simple as the parts about Russia trying to find information about Trump, or about Trump affiliates having friendly business relations with Russians.
We have no evidence to suggest that anything significant from the dossier has been verified.
And we don’t know how much, if any, was actually deliberate disinformation from the Russian government sources.
We have reports that the freelance spy who put together some of the information in the dossier was paying Russians for their information and used intermediaries. Former acting CIA director and Hillary Clinton campaign surrogate Michael Morrell said this was discrediting:
Clinton Ally Says Smoke, But No Fire: No Russia-Trump Collusionhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/clinton-ally-says-smoke-no-fire-no-russia-trump-collusion-n734176SURPRISE!!