Glen Simpson from Fusion GPS testified today and is claiming they did very well
There is very limited info right now because it was a closed door meeting
Radio show about this
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We need the transcript released
Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson testified today
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>After more than 7 hours behind closed doors, Glenn Simpson finished being interviewed by the House Intel Cmte. Simpson’s lawyer said they were able to cooperate and work with the committee to give them the information they needed for its investigation. pic.twitter.com/xY1XGIuRfV
>Asked about Glenn Simpson’s interview with the committee, House Intel Ranking Member Adam Schiff replied: “We learned a great deal.”
>Glenn Simpson’s lawyer said Simpson was told by no one at anytime of the Trump Tower meeting either before it happened or after it happened. Simpson was shocked & surprised this matter appeared in the news media this summer. His client was w/her in morning as were a # of others.
>Glenn Simpson’s lawyer said “never” when asked if Natalia Veselnitskaya ever told his client of his research materials would be presented at the meeting in Trump Tower.
>Simpson’s lawyer said his client & Fusion GPS had never made payments to the media to publish stories. Fusion GPS contracted Steele to look for info about Trump & the campaign & ties to Russia. Steele came back w/a report that “in hindsight looks quite accurate.”
>Simpson’s lawyer said Akhmetshin had no communications w/anyone from Fusion GPS about the Trump Tower meeting & replied “that’s correct” when asked if it was a coincidence that Akhmetshin & Veselnitskaya were both there.
>“They talk from time to time,” Glenn Simpson’s lawyer replied when asked how much contact his client & Steele still have
>Simpson’s lawyer said on at least one occasion Steele briefed news organizations on the contents of the dossier & when asked if his client ever did that too, replied “I believe he has.”
So lots of denials / i was not aware - both the other co-founders previously pled the fifth rememmber
Mason Richardson
>claiming they did very well
Considering they have been invoking the 5th and stonewalling congressional subpoenas for their financial records I'm guessing it didn't go as well as they are claiming.
Evan Mitchell
Schiff would never leak anything bad about them and they have previously obstructed, this is from the hearing with the other two co-founders of Fusion
>But Fusion’s secret weapon in its latest operation is the Democratic Party, whose most powerful members have made protecting Fusion’s secrets their highest priority. Senate Democrats invoked a parliamentary maneuver in July to block temporarily Mr. Browder’s public testimony. Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic ranking member on the Intelligence Committee, has been engineering flaps to undercut and obstruct Mr. Nunes’s investigation. Democrats on the House Ethics Committee have deep-sixed what was meant to be a brief inquiry to clear Mr. Nunes so as to keep him sidelined.
>Then there is the intel committee’s meeting this week. Despite the spin, forcing Fusion to appear was Republicans’ only recourse after months of stonewalling. Fusion’s letter ludicrously claimed that Mr. Nunes’s subpoenas were invalid, which essentially forced the committee to show otherwise. It was a question of authority.
>Florida Rep. Tom Rooney put the Fusion attendees through a series of questions not out of spite but to clarify finally just what topics the firm is refusing to talk about. The Fifth Amendment doesn’t provide protection against answering all questions. It only protects against providing self-incriminating evidence. It is therefore revealing that Fusion took the Fifth on every topic—from its relationship with British spook Christopher Steele, to the history of its work, to its role in the dossier.
We have to wait for republicans to leak or for the transcript to be released for any of the good stuff
Anthony Carter
Detailed rundown on the Dossier
>There is nothing normal about the Fusion GPS dossier (The Hill)
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>Russia dossier investigators suspect reporters were paid to spread collusion claims (WashTimes)
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>Spinning in circles on the Trump dossier (WashEx)
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>Lifting the Steele Curtain (WSJ)
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This third article is important when considered next to Grassleys letter to the FBI about the dossier:
>Grassley concerned about FBI use of Trump ‘dossier’ in Russia investigation (politico)
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>Noting that the dossier was passed on to the U.K. government according to lawyers representing author Christopher Steele, Grassley asked the FBI to clarify whether the document's contents could have been "surreptitiously funneled into U.S. intelligence streams through foreign intelligence sharing."
>Steele, a former British intelligence agent, initially compiled the dossier — replete with unproven details of alleged Russian efforts to compromise Trump — for the firm Fusion GPS.
>If the FBI had interpreted a foreign intelligence service's receipt of the Steele dossier as a de facto confirmation, "it would be alarming," Grassley wrote on Friday to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
>"Mr. Steele’s dossier allegations might appear to be 'confirmed' by foreign intelligence, rather than just an echo of the same 'research' that Fusion bought from Steele and that the FBI reportedly also attempted to buy from Steele."
In short Clinton and the dems engineered the dossier with the intention of injecting it into the Intel community so it would be reported by the media as an official intelligence issue rather than oppo research.
Gabriel Reed
>We have to wait for republicans to leak
The Republicans are in on it
Connor Lewis
Nothing leaked so we know it’s not good for the Democrats.
Isaiah Fisher
I trust Nunes
Specific, Fusion friendly soundbites got leaked here:
Those bank records need to be fully exposed ASAP
Christian Harris
When has anti-Democrat news ever leaked? Democrats don't care about laws.
Anthony Morales
This. Popcorn ordered.
Mason Garcia
This is the sequence of events during the week that led up to the DNC admitting it paid for the dossier
>Dems obstructed the Fusion GPS hearing, Fusion GPS pleads the fifth to everything
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>Nunes issued a subpoena for bank records back to 2015, Court was due to supply records Monday
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>Obama appointee Judge delayed subpoena
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>WaPo publishes story saying DNC funded the dossier tuesday
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>This strengthened the injunction
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>Because there’s something Fusion cares about keeping secret even more than the Clinton-DNC news—and that something is in those bank records. The release of the client names was a last-ditch effort to appease the House Intelligence Committee, which issued subpoenas to Fusion’s bank and was close to obtaining records until Fusion filed suit last week. The release was also likely aimed at currying favor with the court, given Fusion’s otherwise weak legal case.
They cannot be allowed to hide those bank records.
Eli Kelly
Usually we get leaks via circa i.e. Uranium One, Obama spying, McCabe vs Flynn etc.
Nothing has come out on this YET
Oliver Perez
>lied all day
>softball questions by the swamp all day
Jackson Jenkins
Why isn't the Democratic Party in prison for treason yet?
Why isn't the Democratic Party in prison for treason yet?
Why isn't the Democratic Party in prison for treason yet?
Why isn't the Democratic Party in prison for treason yet?
Why isn't the Democratic Party in prison for treason yet?
Why isn't the Democratic Party in prison for treason yet?
Isaiah Flores
Podesta tried to stop the hearing with the other two co-founders.
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>The untold story is the Democrats’ unprecedented behavior. Mr. Rooney had barely started when committee staffers for Mr. Schiff interrupted, accused him of badgering witnesses, and suggested he was acting unethically. Jaws dropped. Staff do not interrupt congressmen. They do not accuse them of misbehavior. And they certainly do not act as defense attorneys for witnesses. No Democratic lawmakers had bothered to come to the hearing to police this circus, and Mr. Rooney told me that he “won’t be doing any more interviews without a member from the minority present.”
See pic related.
The Fusion GPS bank records subpoena was delayed for a few days by Obama appointee Judge Tanya Chutkan
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>U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan granted the House motion to intervene and has delayed the due date for the bank to comply with the subpoena until Wednesday while she evaluates the complaint.
Tanya is the judge that was trying to force Trump to give an illegal an abortion
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>The temporary restraining order, issued by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan Wednesday evening, said the federal government must allow the unnamed 17-year-old girl, who is about 15 weeks pregnant, to receive the abortion within days.
This gave WaPo and other media critters time to fess up before Nunes got the truth
Jack Edwards
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>The structure of Fusion’s agreement with Perkins Coie, which is similar to its other contracts, allows Fusion to hide behind attorney-client privilege in the event that its work becomes the subject of litigation.
Nolan Ward
they own the justice system, why would they hurt themselves deliberately?
Parker Watson
Treason charges and military tribunal. These are traitors not civvies.
Jose Myers
They're traitors who tried to overthrow US democracy. The military should arrest them and put them before a tribunal.
Lincoln Nguyen
Podesta committed perjury
>Exclusive: In Hill interviews, top Dems denied knowledge of payments to firm behind Trump dossier (CNN)
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>Podesta was asked in his September interview whether the Clinton campaign had a contractual agreement with Fusion GPS, and he said he was not aware of one, according to one of the sources.
>Sitting next to Podesta during the interview: his attorney Marc Elias, who worked for the law firm that hired Fusion GPS to continue research on Trump on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC, multiple sources said. Elias was only there in his capacity as Podesta's attorney and not as a witness.
So Podesta denied paying Fusion while sitting directly next to the guy who paid Fusion on his behalf
So it looks like purjury but can it be proven? Maybe.
>EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton is in 'secret negotiations' with ex-British spy Christopher Steele to buy SECOND 'dirty dossier' on Trump's romantic englements with Russian women, claims Clinton author (DailyMail)
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>Hillary personally authorized her campaign chairman, John Podesta, to launch the first controversial Russian dossier, according to a senior Clinton campaign strategist who worked for Hillary in both her 2008 and 2016 presidential bids
This is why Fusion is trying to distance themselves from Steele amd the dossier
Cooper Kelly
That is inaccurate. As a side story to show you the inner workings of the House Intel Committee, the Democrat members had in their possession, the hard drives from Comey that they stated never existed. They had them in their possession and sat on them for months before revealing to the Republican members of the committee that they had the hard drives. Why would they do this? They are fucking jaded and compromised where propping up the party by any means supersedes doing what they are compelled to do by the will of the people.
Regarding Fusion GPS, they are running the same game and this is only a matter of time before the truth comes out. Let them plead the 5th and dig that hole deeper and deeper. Fucking commies.
Nolan Wood
Yo do you have a source on that my man?
Connor Scott
>When Scandals Collide (National Review)
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>Here, the Clinton campaign and the DNC retained the law firm of Perkins Coie; in turn, one of its partners, Marc E. Elias, retained Fusion GPS. We don’t know how much Fusion GPS was paid, but the Clinton campaign and the DNC paid $9.1 million to Perkins Coie during the 2016 campaign (i.e., between mid-2015 and late 2016).
>A friend draws my attention to an intriguing coincidence.
>In its capacity as attorney for the DNC, Perkins Coie – through another of its partners, Michael Sussman – is also the law firm that retained CrowdStrike, the cyber security outfit, upon learning in April 2016 that the DNC’s servers had been hacked.
To sum it all up
>DNC pays CrowdStrike to tell the FBI Russia hacked the DNC
>DNC pays Fusion GPS to give the FBI the dossier
>Fusion linked lawyer gets visa approved by Lynch to attend meeting with Don Jr
>one or all of these use in FISA court to spy on Trump
Grayson Myers
I'm looking my dude. There was a thread on this information some time in mid october. I am currently searching Jewggle for the article. The summary was that the CALIFORNIAN Democrats of the House Intel Committee had in their possession the hard drives from Comey (i.e. Clinton) and sat on them under tight lips for quite a while. It wasn't until a recent hearing that one of the Democrats on the committee slipped up and revealed that they in fact had the hard drives when the Republicans and public were led to believe that the hard drives were missing.
I know some poltard has that article, but will keep looking.
James Davis
Is this Schiff AGAIN?
Benjamin Campbell
They are trying to adjust their stories in a number of small ways
>A Second Fusion GPS Dossier Implicated Clinton Foundation Donors (NationalReview)
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Takeaways here
>there was an anti clinton dossier that fusion GPS tried to give to Trump Jr
>it didnt incriminate clinton
>Trump Jr rejected it
>Glen Simpson from Fusion met the russian lawyer before and after
>Fusion are good bois, they dindu nuffin.
>its all russias fault
This article is trying to shift the blame and say Russia tricked poor old Fusion.
John Podesta's lies to congress are getting more exposed
>Russia Scandal Befalls Two Brothers: John and Tony Podesta (NYT)
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>After the postelection publication of a dossier by a former British spy into those connections — which included some salacious claims — John Podesta met with Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of the firm that commissioned the opposition research, to compare notes on Russia’s involvement, according to an associate of Mr. Podesta.
>During the general election season, the firm’s research was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, though John Podesta has told congressional investigators that he had no knowledge of those payments. The associate said the meeting came as Mr. Simpson was considering whether, and how, his firm could continue its Russia-related Trump research. A spokeswoman for Mr. Simpson’s firm, Fusion GPS, declined to comment.
Really activates those almonds since Podesta claimed he didn't know the campaign he was running paid for the dossier. I guess Glen Simpson just forgot to mention that to Podesta.
This article also attempts to put distance between Tony and John Podesta which is at odds with what we learned from Tucker (pic related)
>Podesta Group Is In Mueller’s ‘Crosshairs’ Over Russian Influence (DailyCaller)
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Lucas Bailey
Frick. I cannot find this article anywhere on Google. Sorry man; cannot find the sauce. Hopefully someone else was in that thread and did a screen cap or something.
Jose Martinez
Trump Jr meeting was a setup
>The same political research firm that prepared a dossier on Trump campaign ties to Russia had unrelated information on Clinton Foundation donors that a Russian lawyer obtained and offered to President Donald Trump’s eldest son last year, three sources familiar with the matter said.
3 of the people in that Trump Jr meeting were linked to fusion GPS
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Glenn Simpson was with Veselnitskaya before and after the Trump Jr meeting
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But we are supposed to believe this shit
>Glenn Simpson’s lawyer said Simpson was told by no one at anytime of the Trump Tower meeting either before it happened or after it happened. Simpson was shocked & surprised this matter appeared in the news media this summer. His client was w/her in morning as were a # of others.
>Glenn Simpson’s lawyer said “never” when asked if Natalia Veselnitskaya ever told his client of his research materials would be presented at the meeting in Trump Tower.
>Simpson’s lawyer said his client & Fusion GPS had never made payments to the media to publish stories. Fusion GPS contracted Steele to look for info about Trump & the campaign & ties to Russia. Steele came back w/a report that “in hindsight looks quite accurate.”
>Simpson’s lawyer said Akhmetshin had no communications w/anyone from Fusion GPS about the Trump Tower meeting & replied “that’s correct” when asked if it was a coincidence that Akhmetshin & Veselnitskaya were both there.
the balls on these people.
>JUST A COINCIDENCE GOYIM
Carson Nguyen
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>Former president Barack Obama’s official campaign organization has directed nearly a million dollars to the same law firm that funneled money to Fusion GPS, the firm behind the infamous Steele dossier. Since April of 2016, Obama For America (OFA) has paid over $972,000 to Perkins Coie, records filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show.
>The timing and nature of the payments to Perkins Coie by Obama’s official campaign arm raise significant questions about whether OFA was funding Fusion GPS, how much Obama and his team knew about the contents and provenance of the dossier long before its contents were made public, and whether the president or his government lieutenants knowingly used a partisan political document to justify official government actions targeting the president’s political opponents named in the dossier.
>At the same time that Hillary’s campaign, Obama’s campaign organization, and the DNC were simultaneously paying Perkins Coie, the spouse of one of Fusion GPS’s key employees was working directly for Obama in the West Wing. Shailagh Murray, a former Washington Post reporter-turned-political operative, was serving as a top communications adviser to Obama while the Obama administration was reportedly using information from the dossier to justify secret surveillance of Trump campaign staff.
Dominic Cruz
>Podesta committed perjury
Why isnt he in prison!?
Blake Mitchell
California dems are objectively trash though your right.
>feinstein
>schiff
>becerra
Liam Long
Hopefully we will get there eventually. Mueller is going after his brother
>Podesta Group Unravels as CEO Plans to Take Clients to New Firm (Bloomberg)
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>Chief Executive Officer Kimberly Fritts told employees Thursday afternoon she is working on launching a new firm that would take many of Podesta’s staff and clients with her, said two people familiar with the meeting. She told employees they shouldn’t expect a paycheck past Nov. 15, the people said.
>It was not an entirely unexpected moment for the 30-year-old firm after Podesta’s sudden resignation Oct. 31, when he announced he was stepping down following an indictment issued against Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort by U.S. Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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>Mueller’s indictment identified the firms as Company A and Company B and said they were allegedly paid by Manafort with more than $2 million in offshore funds. A person familiar with the matter confirmed that Company B is the Podesta Group, which disclosed in April that it had worked for the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine. Company A is Mercury Public Affairs LLC, said another person familiar with the matter.
So Tony Podesta steps down, his firm will cease to exist and reform without his name
Also check the WaPo fluff piece here:
They are trying to pretend John and Tony totally dont work together
I wonder what Mueller will make of Tony's art collection?
James Gray
Who is Marc Elias?
>When Marc Elias, general counsel for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, hired a private research firm in the spring of 2016 to investigate Donald Trump, he drew from funds he was authorized to spend without oversight by campaign officials, according to a spokesperson for his law firm.
>The firm hired by Elias, Fusion GPS, produced research that resulted a dossier detailing alleged connections between Trump and Russia. While the funding for the work came from the campaign and the Democratic National Committee, Elias kept the information about the investigation closely held as he advised the campaign on its strategy, according to the spokesperson, who requested anonymity to discuss the internal dynamics.
>Elias’s involvement in the financing and internal dissemination of the Trump research underscores the influence he wields behind the scenes in Democratic politics — a role that is now being pushed into the spotlight amid multiple investigations into Russia’s attempts to meddle in the 2016 elections.
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Jayden Martinez
>I wonder what Mueller will make of Tony's art collection?
Same reaction as everyone else: thinking the Podestas are psychopaths
Joshua Ortiz
Pic related: dailycaller.com
CNN does not want to bite the hand that feeds them
>Faith in the outfit’s journalistic expertise and experience is one of the chords that Fusion GPS strikes in its relations with journalists, whether they’re trying to block a story or shop one. “If they have a story they think you’d be interested in,” says one Washington, D.C. journalist familiar with Fusion GPS’s operations, “they call you down to their office on Dupont Circle and show you a dossier. There’s no confidentiality agreement, but it’s understood that if they show you something and you talk about it, you’re cut off, or worse.”
What did they mean by this?
>In order to report honestly on the Trump scandals, a weakened press would have to report honestly on Fusion GPS—which would mean lifting the lid on the incompetence and malfeasance of their own institutions and colleagues, which would reveal a scandal as threatening to democracy as anything Trump has said or done. “Imagine if they subpoena Fusion GPS’s emails,” said a veteran Washington reporter, “there are going to be lots of journalists in there who’ve taken stories from them. Big names, senior figures in the field. It will look like an apocalypse.”
Matthew Harris
Yea there is not really anything you can say to defend this shit.
Blake Miller
Why isnt this thread getting more attention?
Shills are trying to keep this at the bottom!
Evan Hall
>21 posts by this ID
>All solid info
Well done as always, kiwibro
Camden Ortiz
>The target of a Fusion GPS opposition research investigation is accusing the firm, best known for its work on the Trump dossier, of assisting the Kremlin in its effort to have him “imprisoned and killed.”
>The strong allegation comes from Bill Browder, a London-based banker who spearheaded the Magnitsky Act, a sanctions law vehemently opposed by the Russian government.
>Browder made the allegation in response to the recent revelation that Fusion GPS and its founder Glenn Simpson compiled what he says is false information about him that was given to Yuri Chaika, Russia’s prosecutor general, and to Donald Trump Jr. during the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
>“If it is true that Glenn Simpson was supplying information about me to the Russian government, it’s far more serious than smear campaigning or Foreign Agents Registration Act violations,” said Browder, the head of Hermitage Capital.
>“It would mean that Simpson was assisting the Putin regime in their plot to get me back to Russia to have me imprisoned and killed.”
WHATS IN FUSIONS BANK RECORDS?
Joshua Jackson
So the narrative is supposed to be that Russia gave both sides fake info about the other, the trump campaign told them to fuck off and the Clinton campaign used it to slander trump. That doesn’t sound as good for the dems as they think it does...
Justin Martinez
Exactly. And Fusion knew nothing about anything if course. No one knew anything, Comey just tripped and fell on a FISA warrent
I try but i have been getting slid pretty hard.
Going to bed guys
Xavier Baker
I am starting to think that might not be such a crazy idea
>thehill.com
>Marc Elias, the lawyer for the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, lying about any involvement with the dossier for more than a year with great sanctimony, as The New York Times pointed out.
>If it were normal opposition research, there’s nothing to be ashamed of, no need to lie about it, unless you know the work product is highly questionable and might actually raise questions as to why the Clinton campaign and the DNC were funding the spread of Kremlin-sourced misinformation.
>Also not normal: the hiring of a foreign national, Christopher Steele, a former MI6 agent, who readily admits he sought former contacts from his days working the Russia beat for Great Britain.
>Curiously, however, Steele filed documents this spring in British court stating that the Trump dossier was never to have been made public. Again, not “normal” for opposition research; the point is to make such information public, bringing facts from the past to remind people what someone said or did.
Did you know Buzzfeed subpoenad the DNC in their lawsuit for libelling that Russian dude in the dossier?
foreignpolicy.com
Seems kinda misplaced, like Buzzfeed fucked them dems on this without knowing.
Kayden Morgan
Continuing this idea, Comey is an oddball to the whole story.
If you look at what he did during the election he basically told everyone Clinton was guilty even if he didnt charge her. Then he just had to reopen the case just before the election and close it super fast because he had made a 'duty to inform'
The dems flipped their opinions when it looked like he was anti-trump but look at this:
washingtonexaminer.com
>As it turned out, the fact that Comey told Trump about the dossier gave the media the hook it needed to report on the document. Unable to verify the dossier, none, other than Corn, had reported its existence. But the fact that the head of the FBI informed the president-elect about the dossier -- that was news. And that was indeed the hook the media used to report the existence of the dossier. From there, it was just a short hop to Buzzfeed publishing the dossier itself. Comey's action moved things along.
So strangely enough if not for comeys actions
1. Buzzfeed would not have published the dossier that has led us to Fusion
2. Mueller would not have been made special council (Comeys letters in the NYT)
Was this what Gowdy ment when he said history would remember Comey more kindly?
Robert Barnes
>Was this what Gowdy ment when he said history would remember Comey more kindly?
maybe, I just wish that whatever is gonna happen would hurry up and happen already, tired of all the theories
Jayden Flores
>Was this what Gowdy ment when he said history would remember Comey more kindly?
maybe, I just wish that whatever is gonna happen would hurry up and happen already, tired of all the theories
Cooper Harris
>but i have been getting slid pretty hard.
i noticed. they're afraid of this thread
Connor Carter
i shall bump this well archived and researched thread.
Hunter Moore
Yep, this.
Ethan Scott
shills are sliding hard
Nolan Allen
holly shit
Dominic Cooper
Good thread, bump
Christopher Watson
It's 100% proof the Democratic Party tried to overthrow US democracy and should be in prison for treason.
Charles Mitchell
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Is the board slow for anybody else tonight?
Henry Brown
was completely down for me for about 2min
Benjamin Adams
this is the thread they're trying to stop people from seeing
they must be shitting themselves
Jose Sullivan
bump
thread is slow because there's not much to talk about, it's mostly just an infodump
remember this board is full of faux outrage and trolling, so calm discussions quickly fall off the front page because of this
sliding isn't even necessary, it's just a fact of human nature to respond to bait but otherwise do nothing when they read or see things they mostly agree with.
Adam Lopez
Dope.
Parker Gonzalez
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