Initially, I was receptive to the “Trump-Putin collusion” stuff but became more skeptical over time as one theory after another got debunked and the Christopher Steele dossier was exposed as a fraud.
Dear Left-Bank,
Are you aware that Steele's main source, Igor Danchenko, is very probably a Russian intelligence agent? As James Angleton told the Church Committee (iirc), "A double agent will tell you 98% truth and 2% lies, and really mess you up, boy" (or words to that effect).
Regardless, could you please tell me which of the following sections of the Steele Dossier have been debunked?
Thanks!
The following sections of the Steele Dossier describe how some allegations have been
corroborated, while others remain
unverified because they
may be "untrue, unimportant or too sensitive." There are sometimes conflicting reports for or against their veracity, and, in some cases, there are discrepancies between sources and their allegations. (emphasis added)
1) Cultivation of Trump through time
2) Russian assistance to the 2016 Trump Campaign
3) Fake news and social media misinformation
4) Manafort’s and others’ cooperation with Russian efforts
5) Russian conversations confirmed
6) Kompromat and “Golden Showers” allegations
7) Role of the Agalarovs
8 ) Trump viewed as under Russian influence
9) Kremlin’s “Romanian” hackers and use of Wikileaks, and Trump campaign reaction
10) Timing of release of hacked emails
11) Manafort and kickback payments from Yanukovych
12) Page met with Rosneft officials
13) Brokerage of Rosneft privatization
14) Trump’s attempts to lift sanctions
15) Cohen and alleged Prague visit
16) Republican position on Russian conflict with Ukraine and related sanctions
17) Relations with Europe and NATO
18) Spy [Mikhail Kalugin, misspelled "Kulagin" in the Steele Dossier] withdrawn from Russian Embassy
19) Botnets and porn traffic by hackers
-- Wikipedia
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We now know that most of those theories from the 2016 election originated from Clinton campaign operatives who paid for oppo-research on Trump in 2016. They laundered false information from the Steele dossier through the Press.
Dear Left-Bank,
I know that the Clinton Campaign assumed the funding of Steele's research when the original funder, a Never-Trump Republican, no longer had use for it, but what's your source for claiming that Clinton Campaign operatives laundered false information from the Steele Dossier through the press?
What "false information"?
At worst, Trump’s campaign didn’t disapprove of the Russians spreading “dirt” about Hillary.
Since Robert Mueller conducted a narrow criminal investigation instead of what he was supposed to conduct -- a counterintelligence investigation -- and even at that he didn't "follow the money" -- how can you be so sure that, "
At worst, Trumps's campaign didn't disapprove of the Russian's spreading "dirt" about Hillary"? (emphasis added)
Addendum:
Just for giggles, google the following names simultaneously: Stone Schlanger Caddy. When you do, you'll find that Roger Stone (who left Trump's Campaign in August 2015 and who had just met with Harley Schlanger of the anti-Globalist / pro-Russia Lyndon LaRouche organization right after Schlanger had returned from Moscow) told former Watergate attorney and JFKA CT Douglas Caddy in early 2016 that he had a "back channel to Trump."