Care to come back to the real world and tell us how the dossier was "largely discredited"
Let me get you started: No corroboration of the pee tape and mixed evidence re what's-his-face at a meeting in Prague.
That's what you call "largely discredited"? Got anything else?.
Have you ever read the dossier? How about this bit of conspiracy theorizing.
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the Russian authorities had been cultivating and supporting US Republican presidential candidate, Donald TRUMP for at least 5 years..."
So Trump had been conspiring with Putin and Russian intelligence for 5 years so at least since 2011.
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In terms of specifics, Source A confided that the Kremlin had been feeding TRUMP and his team valuable intelligence on his opponents, including Democratic presidential candidate Hillary CLINTON, for several years..."
So the Kremlin was plotting with Trump, a reality show star and real estate developer, to run for President in 2016 to thwart the ambitions of Hillary Clinton and this all started in 2011.
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This was confirmed by Source D, a close associate of TRUMP who had organized and managed his recent trips to Moscow."
So Source D is a close confidant of Trump and managed his recent trips to Moscow. This was written in 2016. Trump is a very public person and launched his campaign for President in June of 2015. His only known trip to Moscow during this time was the Miss America Pageant in 2013. Now if Trump was really making trips to Moscow this would have been very easy for the FBI to confirm. Trump even flies around in a big plane with TRUMP written on the side of it. So why haven't we heard about these trips to Moscow? Because this is just made-up BS.
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Speaking in confidence to a compatriot in late July 2016, Source E, an ethnic Russian close associate of Republican US presidential candidate Donald TRUMP, admitted that there was a well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between them and the Russian leadership. This was managed on the TRUMP side...Paul MANAFORT...Mechanism for transmitting this intelligence involves "pension" disbursements to Russian emigres living in US as cover, using consular officials in New York, DC and Miami."
Trump, Manafort and Page, long before the campaign, are secretly running a "two-way flow of intelligence and other useful information" between the Kremlin and Russian emigres living in America. This is being coordinated out of consular offices. But a few minutes searching on the Internet will verify that there was no Russian consulate in Miami.
The source for this conspiracy theory appears to be Sergey Millian. He has been described as a "big talker" and he was likely feeding nonsense to Steele and Simpson. The FBI should have attempted to confirm such idiocy before they sought the FISA warrant on Page.
Maybe you can fill me in on the important and verified portions of the Steele Dossier.
There's an evidence established history of how the Russian election interference probe began. It was not a deep state CT against Trump. Maybe you've been gas-lighted. The rest of us haven't been.
So what was the origin of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation?
Rather than being false as you claim, your own link supports what I said. It took Reid coming out and disclosing that there was an investigation to even get a media story.
You had stated, "the Russian Attacks and the Trump Campaign were never used to attack Trump during the elections..."
The statement by Harry Reid and articles by Michael Isikoff, New York Magazine, and
Mother Jones were before the election. David Corn's article was entitled: "
A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump." It was published on October 31st, 2016. To say that there weren't stories in the press regarding Trump-Russia collusion before the election is false.
Shall we compare with a real media attack and look at the Email Stories? Your own link states that the FBI was sitting on explosive information about Trump, information they didn't release, you know, the very people you are accusing of being the "Deep State" and who had all the information, and what did they do with it? They sat on it and kept it hidden. Amazing sort of attempted coup that, a coup in which those running the coup did exactly nothing to actually use the damaging information they had at hand.
This explosive information about Trump they were sitting on was apparently the Steele Dossier which was paid for political opposition research, not verified intelligence. Information from the dossier was reported in Michael Isikoff's Yahoo article.
You write: "They sat on it and kept it hidden..."
So leaking information from the dossier to the press and using it to obtain a FISA warrant on an American citizen(Carter Page) is sitting on it and keeping it hidden?
p.s. The coup attempt occurred after Trump was elected President.
