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New Details Reinforce That The FBI Used Fake Pretexts To Start Investigating Trump
The Federalist ^ | November 30, 2018 | Margot Cleveland

Posted on 11/30/2018 11:05:40 AM PST by detective

The evidence continues to mount that during the Obama administration, the FBI used George Papadopoulos as a prop to legitimize launching its investigation into the Donald Trump campaign. While the FBI claimed it initiated Crossfire Hurricane on July 31, 2016 in response to reports that Russian-linked individuals told Papadopoulos the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton, that story seemed shaky from the start.

Since then, text and email messages between former MI6 spy and Fusion GPS dossier author Christopher Steele and twice-demoted Department of Justice attorney Bruce Ohr raised the possibility that information Steele fed the FBI through Ohr was the true justification for the the FBI targeting the Trump campaign. A Wednesday tweet from Carter Page gives further credence to the suggestion that the Hillary Clinton campaign-funded Steele dossier served as the basis for the FBI’s interest in the Trump campaign.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: doj; fbi; trump
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This I an excellent article.

The author details the many lies told by the FBI and the Mueller group. She shows that the entire Russia collusion investigation and the illegal, fraudulent and totally without evidence.

1 posted on 11/30/2018 11:05:40 AM PST by detective
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And when can we hope for any investigations and prosecutions?? Where are the FISA Court judges? The DOJ? There don’t seem to be any consequences for this criminal activity, that’s the scary part.


2 posted on 11/30/2018 11:12:17 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: detective

At some point and time it will take about a million of us with rifles to get the ball moving.


3 posted on 11/30/2018 11:13:15 AM PST by Salvavida
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To: detective

So now that it’s even more obvious Mueller and his Rats are going to use anything and everything to take Trump out will he go on offense? because if he doesn’t he’s toast. He should start by arresting Rosenweasel for lying to the FISA Judges.


4 posted on 11/30/2018 11:15:17 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Menehune56

agreed, even the comey subpoena is a joke, they knew they had 2 years and waited until he could run the clock out.. Justice my butt, only oppression of good moral citizens is coming..No more games, if fisa warrant was wrong expose it or run the risk of the American people no longer buying the bs from either side..


5 posted on 11/30/2018 11:15:23 AM PST by aces
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To: detective

This is where we could learn from the French, set up a guillotine on the mall and proceed to rid ourselves of the deep state.


6 posted on 11/30/2018 11:23:57 AM PST by DCmarcher-976453
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To: detective
Could anything be more bizarre than watching the politicians and the chattering class in DC and NY play this soap opera day in and day out while the truth that everyone knows lays idle with nary a comment?
7 posted on 11/30/2018 11:28:18 AM PST by Baynative ("A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore)
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To: detective

The FBI has been totally corrupted as has the CIA and every other agency.

The founders had very good reasons for insisting on a natural born citizen as President.

Barack Obama is NOT a natural born citizen.
And they ALL knew it.


8 posted on 11/30/2018 11:28:21 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Menehune56

The FISA court judges are all appointed and supervised by Chief Justice John Roberts.

There will be no consequences.


9 posted on 11/30/2018 11:30:00 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: detective

Shut it all down, including Mule Head, and start indicting those who started this mess and who have been perpetuating it. Nothing less is acceptable.


10 posted on 11/30/2018 11:32:05 AM PST by Boomer (The other name for "Democrat" is "Nation Killer")
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we’ll get right on that.


11 posted on 11/30/2018 11:34:26 AM PST by RitchieAprile (paging W. Mozart...)
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To: detective

Big f***ing deal! Details like this have been coming out for the past two years and not a goddamned thing has been done about it. Moreover, nothing will be done about it. Normal Americans continue to be indicted, prosecuted and imprisoned for crimes that pale in comparison to those committed by multiple senior members of the Obama administration, some of whom remain in their positions today and none of whom have been prosecuted.

Yeah, I know, there are thousands of sealed indictments. Horowitz and Huber (and formerly Sessions) are conducting real investigations and further indictments are on the way. Trump is going to declassify the FISA affidavits and other information any day now.

Is anyone else getting tired of this bullshit? I’m feeling a lot like Charlie Brown and Trump is looking a lot like Lucy.


12 posted on 11/30/2018 11:47:51 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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This is as close to an attempted coup as I have seen in my life. I feel that Navy Admiral Mike Rogers who sat down with Trump and warned him he and his offices were under surveillance should become a national hero.

https://www.npr.org/2016/11/22/502980006/reports-suggest-nsa-director-mike-rogers-is-on-his-way-out


13 posted on 11/30/2018 11:54:58 AM PST by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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......Hillary's money secretly funded the salacious Steele dossier that served as the impetus for the FBI’s spying on Trump......

Another important detail......."shoo-in" Hillary made-up dirt on Trump, and leaked it to her slavish media pals.

Then after it was published "news," Hillary ruthlessly used the dirt against Trump.

14 posted on 11/30/2018 12:06:28 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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It never ceases to amaze me that no one has connected the dossier dots....

<><> The Democrats’ salacious dossier features a “prostitute” character.

<><> This is straight out of the low-life sex-saturated mind of Bill Clinton-— cavorting with prostitutes is a big deal Arkansas thing.

<><> Mueller hasnt figured it out that the dossier’s prostie character is the exculpatory clue——
and evidence of the criminal Clintons colluding to take down Trump.

CASE IN POINT: Playboy’s Hugh Hefner was shot down bigtime-——Hefner could NOT get a gaming license for a Playboy Club in Atlantic City.
The inference, of course, is Hefner’s connection with prostitutes made him unsuitable for an A/C gaming license.

The gaming commission is assiduous in vetting those who apply for gaming licenses.

Donald Trump passed the vetting with flying colors———if he had any connection to prostitutes, it would have been exposed.

End of story. The A/C gaming commission allowed Trump to operate four A/C casinos. Somebody better call Mueller.


15 posted on 11/30/2018 12:11:06 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: detective

Of course they lie, that’s what liars do. Today’s new lies about Trump offering Putin a 50 million dollar penthouse joins the many previous lies pumped into the public’s collective head. Meanwhile Donald Trump allows lying literal crimanals to investigate HIM! They will win because THEY seem to be operating the justice system while they force Trump over and over to make defensive statements. All the while there is enough evidence to put quite a few of them in jail. Does anyone doubt for a second that they wouldn’t have Trump and half his people in on trial by now if the situation were reversed? If Trump doesn’t rise to his responsability and and operate the law against them he will always remain what he is now:A miscreant defendant under investigation and eventually prosecution.


16 posted on 11/30/2018 12:13:22 PM PST by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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New Details...

New?

Really?

17 posted on 11/30/2018 12:16:57 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: detective

It’s very obvious what they did. For Papadopoulis, they sent Misfud to plant the idea that Trump had “dirt” on Hillary given by Russia (which in no way Papa could know). Then they sent the Aussie Ambassador to invite him for drinks and solicit this information from him. There is no ostensible reason for the Aussie Ambassador to want to meet with Papa, a low ranking adviser who wasn’t even resident in the USA and barely active in the campaign.
After the meeting the Aussie reports what Papa said to his superiors who inform the FBI. It was a set-up. FTR, Papa claims he never said a word of this to the Aussie but it doesn’t matter. The report is enough of a pretext.

Same thing with Don Jr. One guy tries to arrange a meeting with Russian lawyer. Russian lawyer btw had an arrangement with Fusion GPS. She met with Fusion just before and just after the meeting. At the meeting no “dirt” was offered, solicited, paid for, exchanged. But they have the email and he went to the meeting. Appearances of impropriety.

The Don Jr. issue is especially troubling because besides the question of “collusion”, there is the additional possibility to an attempt to blackmail the POTUS by threatening to prosecute and imprison his son.

Dirty tricks. All for the pretext of an investigation.

I learned from a Bongino interview that they have this “2 hop rule” which means if Papa is the suspect that gives them the right to wiretap Papa, and then to follow up each person Papa communicates with. So if Papa wrote me 1 email for example, that would give them the right to trace my communications and the people I communicate with. From an anti-terror perspective this makes sense. We want to follow the money and see who the suspect communicates with and who they communicate with. But highly abused when it is used to weaponize the intelligence community for spying on political opponents.


18 posted on 11/30/2018 12:41:07 PM PST by monkeyshine
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And the left has always been fierce critics of the FBI and CIA abuse... unless of course these agencies work for their political agenda. Suddenly all skepticism and criticism goes out the window, and CNN actually hires the CIA director to speak on air. The CIA director is a liar. This is not a moral criticism, it is a necessary function of his job. He must be an expert in lies and the dark arts. Automatically his opinions should be discounted and viewed with skepticism and the media usually did take those views with a grain of salt. But CNN puts him on air as if he is a truth teller.


19 posted on 11/30/2018 12:45:38 PM PST by monkeyshine
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To: detective

Bump


20 posted on 11/30/2018 2:35:35 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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