TEL AVIV — David J. Kramer, a former State Department official and longtime associate of John McCain, received a copy of the infamous, largely discredited 35-page dossier on President Donald Trump directly from the controversial Fusion GPS political opposition research firm, according to a report in the Washington Post.
Republican National Committee (RNC) spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany told Breitbart News Daily on Wednesday that the latest batch of text messages between FBI couple Lisa Page and Peter Strzok revealing that now former President Barack Obama wanted to know “everything” about their efforts are “deeply, deeply disturbing.”
Sens. Grassley and Graham on Monday released a memo revealing a friend of Hillary and Bill Clinton fed information for the Steele dossier.
The House Intelligence Committee memo released Friday suggests that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee officials knew about the dossier, despite their denials.
Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy who authored the Trump dossier, also gave the FBI a “second dossier,” written by a former journalist “who was close to the Clinton White House in the 1990s” as corroboration for the first.
A showdown between the White House and Congress exploded with the appearance of former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon in front of one of the committees conducting a Russia probe on Tuesday.
Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy who Fusion GPS hired to work on the Trump dossier, went to the FBI after a source told him the story that led to the document’s infamous designation as the “pee dossier.”
BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief Ben Smith wrote an op-ed in the New York Times on Wednesday that declared he was “proud” of publishing the dossier exactly one year ago.
Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) may have tried to discredit Republican scrutiny of Fusion GPS and its dossier’s role in the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign, but could have ended up justifying it instead.
Publication of the Trump dossier has led to someone’s death, a lawyer for Fusion GPS, the firm that produced the dossier, said during testimony released by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on Tuesday.
The Justice Department has agreed to make documents and eight senior officials available to the House Intelligence Committee for interviews this month, according to the committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA).
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have recommended a criminal investigation of Christopher Steele, author of the Trump dossier commissioned by Fusion GPS.
Devin Nunes (R-CA) has subpoenaed David Kramer, a former State Department official who was briefed on the Trump dossier and gave it to John McCain.
“WOW,” Trump wrote, pointing to the Fox & Friends report. “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.”
Did the Obama administration launch an investigation into the Trump campaign based solely off of unverified political opposition research?
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) has launched a parallel investigation into corruption by Obama Justice Department and FBI officials during the election against the Trump campaign, according to reports.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Thursday called for an investigation about high-ranking Obama government officials who might have worked to stop the election of President Trump.
The former assistant director of the FBI wonders who investigates the investigators in the wake of former Trump administration national security advisor Michael Flynn pleading guilty to lying to the FBI and agreeing to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.
The senior counsel for the House intelligence committee is urging lawmakers to seek a contempt of Congress citation against the FBI and Justice Department for not turning over requested documents related to the Trump dossier, according to Fox News.
Democrats have gone silent on the Trump dossier in recent weeks, as Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have begun to find out more information about it.
Recently filed court documents revealed that Fusion GPS, the firm that produced the Trump dossier, paid three journalists who reported on Russia issues, and the House intelligence committee is trying to find out why.
Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win, is a new book by UK Guardian reporter Luke Harding. The title misleads: the book fails to prove any collusion between Trump and Russia and does nothing more than rehash discredited charges and highlight Russian activity unrelated to the Trump campaign.
FBI and Justice Department officials have told congressional investigators in recent days that they have not been able to verify or corroborate the substantive allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign made in the Trump dossier.
Associates of Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya arranged a June 9, 2016, meeting with President Trump’s son, Donald Jr., luring him to attend by promising “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. But there was no dirt whatsoever produced at the meeting.
President Donald Trump dismissed federal charges against his former campaign manager Paul Manafort, reminding the public that his alleged crimes happened “years ago.”
One day after Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) denied his presidential campaign was involved in the production of the so-called Russia dossier against President Donald Trump, the former Trump presidential primary rival candidate’s top campaign donor, Paul Singer, was revealed to have originally funded the firm’s anti-Trump research through the Washington Free Beacon.
Buried under countless paragraphs of outright lies or those soon-to-be retracted “bombshells” from anonymous sources, the national media will sometimes slip in a variation of the only thing we know to be true in this matter: As of now there is no evidence President Trump colluded with the Russians to rig the 2016 presidential election. The same can no longer be said for Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton is claiming she was not aware of Trump dossier research until after BuzzFeed published it after the election, even though her campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) paid for it, according to the New York Times.
The bombshell revelation that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee funded Fusion GPS’s work on the Trump dossier came just days before the company faced the prospect of it becoming public anyway.
President Donald Trump hinted he knew the name of the mysterious Republican donor who kicked off the Fusion GPS investigation of the fake Russia dossier that was widely spread around political and media circles.
The Hillary Clinton lawyer who hired Fusion GPS to produce the Trump dossier “vigorously” denied doing so to the New York Times earlier this year, according to one of their reporters.
President Donald Trump highlighted news that the employees of the firm behind the fake dossier on him had decided to “take the fifth.”
The House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed the FBI and the Justice Department for documents related to the unverified dossier on President Trump, the FBI’s relationship with the dossier’s author, and the FBI’s possible role in supporting the dossier.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said the intelligence community could not corroborate a dossier on Trump produced by a former British spy Christopher Steele.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday brushed aside accusations in a recent discredited report that President-elect Donald Trump had once cavorted with prostitutes in Moscow. While doing so, however, he managed to plug the local sex trade.
On Fox News Sunday, CIA Director John Brennan blasted incoming President Donald Trump for insulting the intelligence community, warned Trump to watch what he says on Twitter, and said Trump lacked a “full understanding” of diplomacy with Russia.
Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam asked former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton a blunt question about the “dodgy dossier” of opposition research on Donald Trump that has dominated the news this week: “Is this real?”
The UK Daily Mail on Wednesday reported that Senator John McCain (R-AZ) pushed the dossier full of unverified claims about Donald Trump to the FBI.
By reporting on, and publishing, a salacious, unsubstantiated, and likely false dossier of lurid accusations against President-elect Donald Trump, CNN and Buzzfeed have hurt the media’s ability to hold the new administration accountable in future.
