Wait.
Are you trying to say clinton/DNC didn't hire fusion, didn't commission the creation of the Steele dossier, didn't see it used to obtain FISA warrants to spy on Trump staff, and that the steele dossier wasn't a pack of lies, all because Russia?
Really?

 

Senate Intel report confirms Russia aimed to help Trump in 2016
The report represents a confidence-booster to the country’s intelligence community.


Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

By Martin Matishak and Andrew Desiderio

04/21/2020 10:58 AM EDT

Updated: 04/21/2020 05:01 PM EDT

The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday reaffirmed its support for the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of putting Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

Tuesday’s bipartisan report, from a panel chaired by North Carolina Republican Richard Burr, undercuts Trump’s years of efforts to portray allegations of Kremlin assistance to his campaign as a “hoax,” driven by Democrats and a “deep state” embedded within the government bureaucracy.


The intelligence community’s initial January 2017 assessment of Moscow’s influence campaign included “specific intelligence reporting to support the assessment that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and the Russian government demonstrated a preference for candidate Trump,” the committee’s report says. The panel also found “specific intelligence” to support the conclusion that Putin “approved and directed aspects” of the Kremlin’s interference efforts.



Senators and committee aides examined everything from the sources and methods used for the intelligence-gathering, to the Kremlin’s actions itself. The 158-page report is heavily redacted, with dozens of pages blacked out entirely. But its final conclusions were unambiguous.

“The committee found no reason to dispute the intelligence community’s conclusions,” Burr said in a statement, adding that the intelligence community’s conclusions reflect “strong tradecraft” and “sound analytical reasoning.”


Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the committee’s vice chairman, praised the intelligence agencies’ “unbiased and professional work,” and warned that there was “no reason to doubt that the Russians’ success in 2016 is leading them to try again in 2020.”

The panel’s findings are in line with a previously issued bipartisan statement in which Senate Intelligence leaders endorsed the January 2017 assessment by the clandestine community. The newest conclusions come in the fourth of five reports the committee is releasing on Moscow’s interference in the 2016 campaign. The committee last month approved the report unanimously.




“The fact that you have a committee with members that range from John Cornyn and Tom Cotton to Dianne Feinstein and Ron Wyden coming to a unanimous conclusion that that report was correct and was soundly based, I think is very significant in light of the continuing questions about what did the Russians do and how did they do it,” Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), a member of the intelligence panel, said in an interview.

“This puts it to rest,” he added.

The report devotes “additional attention” to the disagreements among some intelligence agencies about the Russian government’s intentions in meddling in the 2016 campaign. The report states that “the analytic disagreement was reasonable, transparent, and openly debated among the agencies and analysts.”

It also notes that the committee interviewed officials involved in drafting the January 2017 assessment, which came out days before Trump’s inauguration, and states that they were not subject to political pressure.

The January 2017 assessment found that “Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump. We have high confidence in these judgments.”

Notably, according to the Senate’s report, the initial assessment did not include information from or citations based on former British spy Christopher Steele’s unverified dossier of claims about Trump’s relationship with Russia. It noted that the FBI’s senior leadership insisted, though, that the dossier be mentioned in an annex. The Steele dossier is expected to be addressed in the committee’s fifth and final report.

King, who has read the unredacted version of the 158-page report, said the heavy redactions were not intended to shield the committee’s findings — rather, to protect the sources and methods of the U.S. intelligence community.




https://www.politico.com/news/2020/...rms-russia-aimed-to-help-trump-in-2016-198171

 

Stumbler promoting stumbler promoting wrong story.

 

It's not MSN, it's The Daily Mail. Another right wing rag...

 

Denying the messenger doesn't change the facts does it?

 

Not the point. You lied! You said it was a left wing source. It isn't.

 

So, your claim is that because our intelligence community intercepted Russian communication that said Clinton planned to tie Trump to Russia to draw attention away from her e mail thingy, it is not to be believed.
Is that your point?

Don't be fooled?
Don't be obtuse!
First, we know Clinton did exactly what the Russian communication said; she hired Fusion GPS who in turn hired a foreign agent to build a pack of lies about Trump and Russia and then used that pack of lies to get the FBI/DOJ to spy on Trumps people, even after he was in the white house.

And second, if you can point to any of the allegations in the Steele thingy that were proven accurate, please tell us. Even Steele said they were "unconfirmed" and turned down an invitation by the FBI to confirm any of the allegations. Course, that didn't stop the FBI from using the dossier, did it?

And the Clinton campaign even violated the law by hiding the payment to Fusion as "legal fees" and they got their wrists slapped for that. If it had been Trump doing that we'd see criminal charges out of the DOJ in Manhattan.
Oh.
Wait ..............

Don't be fooled?
Indeed.

Which facts are you struggling with again?

 

Putin must be so proud to have e so many treasonous conservative America Hating Republicans willing to betray the United States of America and push his lies.

 

This from the American hater who calls America a "shithole country" and a "banana republic"
Diversion fail.

Cmon Stumbler, tell us, what's your take on the idea that the intelligence community alerted President Obama to Clinton's ILLEGAL and highly immoral actions to smear Trump to draw attention away from her e mail thingy?

Oh never mind, we already know;
If someone doesn't subscribe to your version of reality and hate for America they're traitors.
What a delusional piece of work stumbler is.

 

Russia has been pushing disinformation for years...Some of us swallow it without question.

 

You won't answer the question, will you?

So, your claim is that because our intelligence community intercepted Russian communication that said Clinton planned to tie Trump to Russia to draw attention away from her e mail thingy, it is not to be believed.​

No matter. Even you can't deny that Clinton did pay Fusion to create the Steele dossier, the FBI did use it to spy on Trump, it did divert attention away from Hillary's e mail thingy, and the CIA did brief Obama on all this.

 

Kay. You're welcome to believe what you want of course, no matter how the facts refute your belief.

 

From the King of unanswered questions!

 

Who's disputing your "facts"? Besides, you've been known to make things up.

 

So shooter in what kind of countries do president's try to overturn elections they lost?
And have the backing of his political party?

Enlighten us

 

dismissed

 

So shooter in what country in 2021, did a sitting president attempt to stay in power after losing an election? And with the backing of his political party?

Any guesses?

 

Dismissed

 

I know trumptard "facts" are always quite amusing.