10 Things Reporters Need To Understand About The Steele Dossier

10 Things Reporters Need To Understand About The Steele Dossier
'Here Are The 10 Most Important Reported Claims About The Steele Dossier On Russia
There's a lot of misinformation swirling about that shoddy dossier on Trump and Russia compiled by Christopher Steele.
Here's what's actually been reported on the matter.- Mollie Hemingway By Mollie Hemingway
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Last night the Washington Post reported that the infamous “Russia dossier” was partly funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The dossier’s inflammatory and unsubstantiated claims about Donald Trump provided the framework for mainstream media treatment of the president for much of the last year and fueled multiple investigations. Here are 10 things to keep in mind about the dossier.
1) Russian officials were sources of key claims in dossier...
2) No, the Russian dossier was not initially funded by Republicans...
4) The dossier was used as a basis for wiretaps on American citizens...
5) The FBI also paid for the dossier...
10) The Steele dossier was a Clinton/DNC-funded operation supported by the FBI and influenced heavily by Russian operatives in the Kremlin...
...Yet here we have the realization that the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and the FBI all worked wittingly or unwittingly with Russians to affect the results of the 2016 election.
Far from just meeting with a Russian and not getting dirt on a political opponent, these groups wittingly or unwittingly paid Russian operatives for disinformation to harm Trump during the 2016 election and beyond..."
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