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John McCain aide spread Steele dossier around Washington during Trump's presidential transition
The Washington Times ^ | March 14, 2019 | Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 03/14/2019 5:06:45 PM PDT by jazusamo

David Kramer, the John McCain aide who leaked the discredited Christopher Steele dossier on President Trump, testified in a libel case that he spread the unsubstantiated anti-Trump material all over Washington during the presidential transition.

Mr. Kramer, a former State Department official and a Trump detractor, leaked dossier material to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt, CNN’s Carl Bernstein, National Public Radio, McClatchy news service and others, he said.

But his most momentous meeting was with Ken Bensinger of BuzzFeed. In Washington during the Christmas holidays, he let Mr. Bensinger read the dossier. He then stepped away.

The reporter took cell phone photos. They ended up on Jan. 10, 2017 on BuzzFeed’s web site, forever changing political history.

“He said he wanted to read them, he asked me if he could take photos of them on his — I assume it was an iPhone,” Mr. Kramer said during a deposition in a libel case brought against BuzzFeed by a Russian entrepreneur.

(Excerpt) Read more at outline.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 20170110; antitrumpdossier; arizona; buzzfeed; carlbernstein; christophersteele; cnn; davidcramer; davidkramer; dossier; fredhiatt; johnmccain; kenbensinger; mccainaide; presidenttrump; steeledossier; trump
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Pathetic.
1 posted on 03/14/2019 5:06:45 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Yes, time to pile another layer of natural fertilizer on the McCain stained final resting place.


2 posted on 03/14/2019 5:09:01 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: jazusamo

He should be in a hard core prison.


3 posted on 03/14/2019 5:10:13 PM PDT by tennmountainman (Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: jazusamo

and yet he’s still dead.


4 posted on 03/14/2019 5:12:43 PM PDT by Fhios
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To: jazusamo

McCain.


5 posted on 03/14/2019 5:12:48 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (We are in the midst of a Cold Civil War.)
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To: jazusamo

Well, he's in Davey Jones' locker now...

6 posted on 03/14/2019 5:13:00 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!!)
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To: jazusamo

McCain will go down in history, if history even remembers him, as a small, pathetic little man who lacked integrity and character.


7 posted on 03/14/2019 5:19:49 PM PDT by falcon99 (qu)
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To: jazusamo
R.I.H. John McRibs.
8 posted on 03/14/2019 5:20:16 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: jazusamo

Related article and link to Kramer deposition testimony at ....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3734729/posts


9 posted on 03/14/2019 5:21:45 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: jazusamo

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccain-associate-gave-unverified-steele-dossier-to-buzzfeed-court-filing-says

For general reading pleasure from that place we’re not to discuss outside our exile...

From back in December...

https://qmap.pub/read/2633


10 posted on 03/14/2019 5:24:32 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: DoughtyOne

Yup, that excrement pretty much started it all against Trump. He also helped light the Mideast on fire with Clinton. He should have been put in prison many times but the rule of law is dead.


11 posted on 03/14/2019 5:33:57 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Fhios

“This just in....”


12 posted on 03/14/2019 5:34:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: jazusamo

They ONLY way you really know most GOP Congress critters is if you know who fills the top desks on their staff, and what EXACTLY are those folks backgrounds. They are the ones who help create RINOS out of ignorant GOPers who can talk a good conservative talk in a campaign but really lack sound conservative principles inside.


13 posted on 03/14/2019 5:55:29 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: jazusamo

Well he’s roasting marshmallows where he’s at!!


14 posted on 03/14/2019 6:02:36 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: EasySt

Excellent way to red-pill. Drop from 2017!


15 posted on 03/14/2019 6:05:44 PM PDT by TXBubba ( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
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To: jazusamo

How ironic.

TCM is now showing “Ace in the Hole” with Kirk douglass playing a reporter who makes the news all about himself. (Acosta hero?)

The intro was Mankowitz talking with none other than Carl Bernstein

Who of course, was lamenting the rise of yellow journalism and what he called the “Murdochization” of the media in the last century.

These people own no mirrors.

I finally had to mute it until the movie started


16 posted on 03/14/2019 6:15:05 PM PDT by digger48
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We knew that reporters all over DC knew about the dossier but since it was all obvious bullstuff they were scared to print it. Until one rogue website did and then they could report that the website was reporting it ... giving them cover to print the obvious lies.

It was also pretty obvious that the source of it was that worthless scumbag John McCain. All this does is connect dots that most of us had already connected.

17 posted on 03/14/2019 6:29:06 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: jazusamo

Scum bag McCain was involved


18 posted on 03/14/2019 6:41:15 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: ronnie raygun

Shakespeare called it....

“The evil that men do lives after them....”


19 posted on 03/14/2019 7:34:55 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: jazusamo

Not surprised....McCain was an asshole.


20 posted on 03/14/2019 7:35:53 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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