Trump Calls Out FBI on Fake Dossier Which Almost Cost Him the Election
President Donald Trump did not allow a succulent Christmas dinner to stop him blaming and tweeting. After loading various and dangerous foreign policy problems upon himself in the past few weeks, Trump has returned to an old classic: the FBI. Many would agree, whether they voted for Trump or not, that he may have good point this time. He has called out an FBI dossier, which almost cost him the presidential election, as “fake news.”
Trump tweeted:
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WOW, @foxandfrlends “Dossier is bogus. Clinton Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all of this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED.” And they used this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage as the basis for going after the Trump Campaign!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 26, 2017
The dossier in question, known as the “Steele dossier,” is also known as the so-called “Pissgate” dossier. As a reminder, this is the document that purports that Trump stayed at a Moscow hotel, where he demanded former President Barack Obama’s room, which he used to engage in some urine-themed sexual activity. (Source: “Pissgate,” RationalWiki, last accessed December 27, 2017.)
The FBI Dossier Sprayed a Bad Odor Around Trump
The story tainted the current administration before Trump was inaugurated. Buzzfeed leaked it–no pun intended-in January 2017, and many media outlets gave it serious attention, as odd at as it sounded. It literally stank. Many Democrats should have been disappointed that this was what the Democratic Party was going to use to defeat Trump in the future. It’s one of the documents that has helped shape the current and highly ineffective opposition.
If special prosecutor Robert Mueller decides to focus on this document as the foundation to build his case against the Trump campaign, it’s not just the Democratic Party that has a problem; all Americans should be concerned. Indeed, no matter how you feel about Trump or which name you ticked on the ballot in November 2016, you should be worried.
Stalling the Investigation
Last October, none other than The Washington Post, one of the main Trump-Russia collusion promoting publications, conceded that Hillary Clinton, through the Perkins Coie LLP law firm, hired Christopher Steele, a former British spy, through the firm Fusion GPS to investigate Trump’s character–or, better, to get some dirt on Trump. The Clinton campaign was especially interested to find any “Russiagate”-themed dirt on Trump. The supposed Moscow “incident” above is a part of Steele’s claimed findings. (Source: “Clinton lawyer kept Russian dossier project closely held,” The Washington Post, October 27, 2017.)
Still, even though the FBI investigation and various other three-letter agencies appearing to have been pursuing leads implying collusion from both Democrats and Republicans, the mainstream media has been rather hush about Hillary’s campaign tactics. (Source: “Trump continues attack on FBI, calls Clinton dossier ‘garbage,’” RT, December 26, 2017.)
Meanwhile, Fusion GPS has tried to stall the investigation into its own activities. It has demanded that a federal judge refuse to comply with a House of Representatives Intelligence Committee demand to access its bank accounts. The company argues that this would violate its constitutional rights, even as Mueller and his team continue to scrutinize minute details of alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election. Indeed, the very nature of what collusion means is in question. (Source: “Judge gives research firm in Trump-Russia probe more time to answer subpoena,” Reuters, October 25, 2017.)
Trump has demanded, and rightly so, that the FBI verify the claims on the “Moscow golden shower” episode. Indeed, if anything, the episode isn’t getting enough attention because the authorities are ignoring a glaring fact. Its very existence, the timing of its release and, most of all, the way in which the document was produced demand many answers from Hillary Clinton and her campaign. They are accusing Trump of having received damaging information from the Russians, but “Goldenshowergate,” or whatever you wish to call it, suggests that Hillary Clinton went out of the way to smear Donald Trump–literally.
