It had nothing to do with that phony dossier... It was Papadopoulos, that is why the investigation began... Incorrect and phony narrative, but it’s the NY Slimes... They need some sort of fallback story in an attempt to thwart the coming investigation of the dossier, it’s creators, it’s funding, etc.
If the dossier is all they had to secure wiretaps... Any convictions based on wiretapping will likely not survive appeals, etc.
It was all about the dossier for the NYT and the rest of the media. They harped on that and Carter Page’s trip to Russia endlessly as being the LEGITIMATE basis for the investigation. One need only look at the NYT’s own reporting.
Now, in yet another case of treating us as if we are stupid, the NYT calls in their version of SERVPRO to make it like it never happened. “Dossier?!? What dossier? No, stupid Americans, we never said that and if you think we did, well, you are too stupid to think for yourselves. It is our job to tell you what to think.”
It’s Papadopolus and always has been. Of course, the NYT brings us this tripe by relying on the usual plethora of “unnamed sources” and a bevy of co-authors. Could it be that the unnamed sources are really a Deep State that is desperate to cover for its use of a bought and paid for piece of political propaganda that it knew was false?
Nah, it is into Trump Russia Collusion v50000.01. Que Adam Schiff. Que the never ending CNN groupthink panels.
Before the Papadopoulos story the Slimes claimed it was Carter Page. Remember that? That story never got traction and the dossier has become very revealing and problematic for the Deep State conspirators so they needed a new narrative to cover their tracks. Hence the latest red herring.
I suspect that the news will be released soon that the dossier was used to get the warrant, which will severely damage the reputation of the FBI, thr DOJ, etc., and the NYT and other MSM. Also, it will dsmage the basis for the Mueller investigation, and the Democrats and Media are desperate for itto continue past the mid term elections. So, as soon as the connection between the dossier and the Fisa Warrants is officially recognized, the MSM will pound out this idiotic cover story of bar talk justification for the investigation.