Trump blasts John McCain as 'last in his class' after new texts from FBI lover Peter Strzok revealed the late senator handed off the 'dirty dossier' to journalist Carl Bernstein
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UK Daily Mail ^
| December 18 2020 | KEITH GRIFFITH
President Donald Trump has vented his fury at late Senator John McCain, following the release of newly declassified text messages from former FBI agent Peter Strzok indicating that McCain leaked the infamous 'dirty dossier' to legendary journalist Carl Bernstein. 'Check out last in his class John McCain, one of the most overrated
people in D.C.' Trump tweeted late on Wednesday of the Arizona Republican who died of brain cancer in 2018, linking to a report on the new messages. The text messages, released by Republican Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley on Wednesday, include a January 9, 2017 exchange between...
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Valerie Jarrett: "Lindsey Graham is the one that encouraged McCain to turn over the dossier to the FBI"
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Real Clear Politics ^
| July 28 | Maria Bartiromo
Former senior adviser to President Barack Obama Valerie Jarrett talks to FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo about the Trump/Russia investigation. "I
have a high degree of confidence in our intelligence community, investigators comported themselves responsibly," Jarrett said. "Lindsey Graham is the one that encouraged Sen. McCain to turn over the dossier in the first place to the FBI.""I do know that it’s nearly four years ago and I don’t understand why our focus isn’t on what’s happening right now and today. That’s the investigation I’d like to see," she said. Bartiromo asked about the origins of the Steele dossier: "What’s happening...
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U.K. Spy Steele Claims John McCain Aide Leaked ‘Pee’ Dossier to BuzzFeed
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Breitbart ^
| 1/2/2019 | aaron klein
Anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele testified that he was “absolutely flabbergasted” when BuzzFeed published the dossier after an advisor to late Senator John McCain shared the controversial document with the media outlet purportedly against Steele’s wishes. That
tidbit was buried in a footnote on page 176 of the Justice Department’s recently released 476-page Inspector General (IG) report on the FBI’s Russia collusion investigation. Steele made the remarks about Buzzfeed and the McCain staff member during an interview with the IG. The relevant footnote relates: Steele testified in foreign litigation that he did not provide his reports to journalists or media...
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Donald Trump: John McCain 'Not Very Nice' Spreading Russia Dossier
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Breitbart ^
| Dec 28, 2019 | Charlie Spiering
President Donald Trump again criticized the late Sen. John McCain on Friday for spreading the phony Russia dossier to the FBI. “Now that wasn’t very nice, was it?” Trump
asked on Twitter, as the president retweeted Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, who shared a Breitbart News story on the subject:
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Photo Unearthed of John McCain with “Source D-Source E” of Steele Dossier — Sergei Millian
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GATEWAY PUNDIT ^
| 5/27/2019 | Jim Hoft
John McCain with “Source D – Source E” of the Steele dossier – via Paul Sperry In January 2017 ABC News identified Sergei Millian as the key source of the Fusian GPS anti-Trump Dossier. Sergei Millian has since been identified as as the mysterious “Source D” and “Source E” in the junk
Steele dossier. ABC News interviewed Millian in 2017. Sara Carter wrote more about Sergei Millian in March 2019. Millian was a source for the Steele dossier who disappeared after the election. According to former Trump policy advisor George Papadopoulos, Millian, a Belarus-born businessman, became an unwitting source of...
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Trump rips McCain, says he gave Steele dossier to FBI for 'very evil purposes'
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The Hill ^
| 03/22/19 | Tal Axelrod
President Trump in an interview broadcast Friday criticized the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for giving the FBI a controversial dossier "for very evil purposes," keeping up a week-long series of criticisms of the former senator that has roiled the Republican Party. Trump's latest fight with McCain, which began over the weekend
and almost seven months after McCain's death, has centered on the president's seemingly festering resentment that McCain gave to the FBI a dossier of unverified claims about Trump and Russia that had been compiled by a former British spy named Christopher Steele. “If you realize, about three days...
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Donald Trump: John McCain Peddled Fake Dossier ‘Garbage’ to Media and FBI
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Breitbart News- ^
| March 17, 2019 | Mario Tamo
Donald Trump: John McCain Peddled Fake Dossier ‘Garbage’ to Media and FBI President Donald Trump ripped the late Senator John McCain on Sunday for passing on the bogus opposition dossier to the FBI and the media. Trump
mocked McCain for being “last in his class” after reading reports that the deceased senator and his associate David Kramer helped spread the dossier compiled by Christopher Steel to reporters and government officials. “So it was indeed (just proven in court papers) ‘last in his class’ (Annapolis) John McCain that sent the Fake Dossier to the FBI and Media hoping to have it...
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Trump attacks late Sen. John McCain over role in spreading Russia dossier
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NY Post ^
| March 16, 2019 | 8:22pm | Mary Kay Linge
President Trump attacked the late Sen. John McCain Saturday over recently revealed evidence that the Arizona lawmaker helped push Russia-collusion rumors in the weeks after Trump’s election. “Spreading
the fake and totally discredited Dossier ‘is unfortunately a very dark stain against John McCain,’” Trump tweeted, quoting former independent counsel Ken Starr. Trump continued that McCain “had far worse ‘stains’ than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace [Obamacare] after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!”
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Court files reveal role of McCain, associate in spreading anti-Trump dossier
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Fox News ^
| March 15,2019 | Adam Shaw
Newly unsealed court filings show how the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and an associate shared with the FBI and a host of media outlets the unverified dossier that alleged the Russians had compromising information on now-President Trump. the source for BuzzFeed after it published the dossier, which was funded by the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, but had acknowledged giving it to the FBI. In a newly unsealed declaration from September, former senior counterintelligence FBI agent Bill Priestap confirmed that the FBI received a copy of the first 33 pages of the dossier in December...
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Court files reveal role of McCain, aide in spreading anti-Trump dossier
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FOX News ^
| 03-15-2019 | By Adam Shaw
Newly unsealed court filings show the office of the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., shared with the FBI and a host of media outlets the unverified dossier that alleged the Russians had compromising information on now-President Trump. McCain had denied being the source for BuzzFeed after it published the dossier, which was
funded by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, but had acknowledged giving it to the FBI. In a newly unsealed declaration from September, former senior counterintelligence FBI agent Bill Priestap confirmed that the FBI received a copy of the first 33 pages of the...
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John McCain Associate Had Contact With A Dozen Reporters Regarding Steele Dossier [+ Transcript]
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The Daily Caller ^
| March 14, 2019 | Chuck Ross
David Kramer, a former State Department official, said in a deposition on Dec. 13, 2017 that he provided a copy of Christopher Steele's dossier to reporters from McClatchy, NPR, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and BuzzFeed and to CNN's Carl Bernstein. He also shared the report with State Department official
Victoria Nuland, Obama National Security Counsel official Celeste Wallander and Illinois GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger. ... Kramer said he also met Mother Jones's David Corn, The Guardian's Julian Borger, and Washington Post reporters Tom Hamburger and Rosalind Helderman. Kramer also said that ABC News's Brian Ross showed him...
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John McCain aide spread Steele dossier around Washington during Trump's presidential transition
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The Washington Times ^
| March 14, 2019 | Rowan Scarborough
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....
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Confirmed: McCain Associate David Kramer Gave Junk Trump-Russia Pee-Pee Dossier to Jim Comey and Bu
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GATEWAY PUNDIT ^
| 12/19/2018 | Jim Hoft
David Kramer, an associate of Senator John McCain, invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not testify to Congress in connection to his role in distribution of the fake Russia dossier to the FBI. Kramer was briefed by the Russian dossier author Christopher Steele in London in 2016. The
Russian dossier was paid for by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The junk dossier was used as evidence in a FISA court hearing as evidence to spy on Trump volunteer Carter Page — in October 2016. Kramer then returned back to the US and delivered the phony dossier...
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BREAKING: JOHN MCCAIN ASSOCIATE GAVE DOSSIER TO BUZZFEED
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www.dailycaller ^
| 12/19/18 | Chuck Ross
A longtime associate of late Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain provided a copy of the infamous Steele dossier to BuzzFeed News, according to an explosive court filing released Wednesday. David Kramer, a former State Department official who was an executive at the McCain Institute, met on Dec. 29, 2016 with BuzzFeed reporter
Ken Bensinger, according to a filing submitted Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro. BuzzFeed published the dossier, which was authored by former British spy Christopher Steele, on Jan. 10, 2017. The disclosure was made as part of a final report ahead of Ungaro’s ruling in favor...
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(Flashback) John McCain describes how he received the Steele dossier that contains the most salaciou
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Business Insider ^
| May 22, 2018
Sen. John McCain provides intimate details of how he obtained the infamous so-called Steele dossier in his new book, "The Restless Wave." The Republican senator was attending an annual security conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia shortly after the presidential election in November 2016 when retired a British diplomat approached him. According
to McCain, he didn't recall ever having a previous conversation with Sir Andrew Wood, but may have met him before in passing. Chris Brose, a staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and David Kramer, a former assistant secretary of state with Russian expertise, joined McCain and Wood...
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THE MYSTERY OF MCCAIN'S 2ND COPY OF THE CLINTON-STEELE DOSSIER
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Front Page Magazine ^
| July 11, 2018 | Daniel Greenfield
Anyone following the investigation of the Clinton campaign's attempt to frame Trump probably already knows that while the primary vector for the Clinton-Steele dossier, a document alleging Russian control over Trump created by the Clinton campaign and used as the basis for the FBI investigation, was Fusion GPS and its media and
Dem allies, a secondary vector was McCain. Now it turns out that McCain had a different version of the Clinton-Steele dossier. Fusion GPS has discussed doing more work on the dossier afterward and it's likely that the version McCain had was a newer copy. It would explain why...
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GOP’s McCain and Romney Were on the FBI’s Radar for Funding Trump Dossier..
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True Pundit ^
| June 19, 2018
GOP’s McCain and Romney Were on the FBI’s Radar for Funding Trump Dossier; Then Comey Pulled the Plug on the Probe John McCain’s and Mitt Romney’s ties to Fusion GPS had the makings of a promising federal investigation before FBI agents were told to stand down and walk away from compelling evidence,
FBI insiders said. Now Romney is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Utah, another lesson in why the FBI’s chronic issuance of get-out-of-jail-free cards has turned the once-great law enforcement agency into a rubber-stamping political hack. Almost one year ago True Pundit broke the story linking McCain...
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John McCain: ‘Go To Hell’ If You Don’t Like That I Passed Pee Dossier To FBI
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Breitbart ^
| 05/24/18 | Aaron Klein
In his newly released book, Sen. John McCain admits he knew the anti-Trump dossier that he infamously passed to the FBI contained “unproven accusations,” “mostly raw, unverified intelligence” and allegations about which the senator “had no idea” if “any were true.” Yet
McCain maintains he had an “obligation” to pass the wild charges against Donald Trump to FBI Director James Comey and he would even do it again. “Anyone who doesn’t like it can go to hell,” McCain exclaimed. In the book The Restless Wave, McCain provides an inside account of how he says he came across the dossier. He...
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John McCain - Conspiracy Theories - Russia Dossier: 'Anyone Who Doesn't Like It Can Go To Hell'
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Business Insider ^
| 5-22-2018
Sen. John McCain dives deep into conspiracy theories regarding the salacious so-called Steele dossier in his new book, "The Restless Wave," defending his decision to turn over the documents to former FBI Director James Comey. "Conspiracy theories have grown around what I did and why," McCain wrote, saying those included that he's
a "double agent for Russia" and that he "acted out of jealousy" that Donald Trump won a presidential election when he didn't. But the Arizona Republican said he felt he had an obligation "to bring to the attention of appropriate officials unproven accusations I could not assess myself"...
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McCain Confirms He Gave Trump Dossier to Comey: 'Duty Demanded I Do' It
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yahoo ^
McCain Confirms He Gave Trump Dossier to Comey: 'Duty Demanded I Do' It The Daily BeastMay 9, 2018 McCain Confirms He Gave Trump Dossier to Comey: 'Duty Demanded I Do' It McCain Confirms He Gave Trump Dossier to Comey: 'Duty Demanded I Do' It In his new book, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
confirms that he gave a controversial dossier about President Trump to former FBI chief James Comey. “I agreed to receive a copy of what is now referred to as 'the dossier,'” McCain writes in the upcoming book, titled The Restless Wave, referencing information compiled by former British intelligence...
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