You leave out some critical facts in your statement. First of all, the dossier was initially commissioned a Republican organization looking for opposition research against Trump during the GOP primary. That organization hired Fusion GPS to do the research and once Trump became the official nominee, it was scrapped. The Clinton campaign hired the same firm, Fusion GPS, to do oppo research on Trump for the general election. I would imagine that Fusion kept all that research when the earlier job was scrapped.
If the Clintons committed a crime, show me the evidence and throw 'em in jail. I have no love for the Clintons, but sometimes facts are unfortunate. I've never voted for a Clinton in my life.
Another unfortunate fact is that most of the Steele dossier has already been proven to be true.
Another unfortunate fact for those who think this is a 'witch hunt'
Michael Flynn - Trump's National Security Advisor (whom Obama suggested to Trump: get rid of that guy!!) - Plead Guilty
Paul Manafort - Trump's Campaign Chairman (who stepped down because of media scrutiny of his ties to Ukraine) - Plead Guilty
Rick Gates - Trump's Deputy Campaign Chairman - Plead Guilty
George Papadopoulos - Trump's Campaign Foreign Policy Advisor - Plead Guilty & sentenced
Michael Cohen - Trumps Personal Lawyer / Wannabe-Consigliere - Please Guilty & sentenced
Roger Stone - Indicted
That's a whole bunch of witches for a hoax witch-hunt.
Again, I don't identify with one party or the other. I lean right on fiscal matters and lean left on social matters. I follow facts and not the bullshit lines fed to the public by politicians. I don't care what party you belong to, if you break the law -- you go to jail. I hope Mueller exposes EVERYONE involved, EVERY last congressman that has accepted money from a foreign adversary
Honest question: At what point to you take a step back and say "Hey, maybe there's something there there" Because innocent people don't plead guilty and Trump has a shitload of guilty players formerly on his campaign and cabinet.
Flynn guilty, of lying about a conversation he had with the Russians in December of 2016, when he was part of the transition team. Was communicating with the Russians a crime? NO, butt an investigation into a crime that never happened gave Mueller a chance to create a crime, his perjury trap MO, and that he did
Was Manafort for guilty of any crime he committed during the Trump campaign? NO, he's guilty of tax evasion from many years ago. From the moment Mueller was appointed, Manafort was fucked, because Mueller was chasing him about this stuff over a decade ago but couldn't win in the court of law. More on that in my next post.
Gates? he was Manafort's partner, same issues as Manafort
Papadopulos? with Trump campaign for some minimal amount of time. His crime? Trying to set up a meeting between Trump and the Russians but failing, and then lying about it
Cohen? Guilty of tax fraud, taxi medallion fraud, bank fraud, and generally lying to everyone everywhere, even selling access to Trump which he never delivered
Stone? Already discussed in this thread, Talked to Wikileaks AFTER they started releasing dirt and then guilty of lying to Congress about it.
Flynn, Papadopulos and Stone never committed a crime, never colluded with the Russians, but were all guilty of lying during an investigation into a crime that never happened, Mueller's MO
Manafort, Gates & Cohen were all convicted of real crimes they committed on their own time, NONE of them colluding with the Russians during the Trump campaign.