jack_christie
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Considering the entire investigation started off the back of the fraudulent Steele dossier that was paid for by the Clinton campaign,
Sorry most of it is probably true and so far there has been no successful litigation against it.
In October 2015, before the official start of the 2016 Republican primary campaign, The Washington Free Beacon, an American conservative political journalism website primarily funded by Republican donor Paul Singer, hired the American research firm Fusion GPS to conduct general opposition research on several Republican presidential candidates, including Trump.
The second operation of opposition research was funded by the DNC and the Clinton campaign, working through their attorney of record, Marc Elias of Perkins Coie.[10] In an October 2017 letter, Perkins Coie general counsel Matthew Gehringer described how, in March 2016, Fusion GPS approached Perkins Coie and, knowing that the Clinton campaign and the DNC were its clients, inquired whether its clients wished to pay Fusion "to continue research regarding then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, research that Fusion GPS had conducted for one or more other clients during the Republican primary contest."[37] In April 2016, Elias hired Fusion GPS to perform opposition research on Trump
former FBI Director James Comey described Steele as a "credible source": "It was coming from a credible source, someone with a track record, someone who was a credible and respected member of an allied intelligence service during his career, and so it was important that we try to understand it, and see what could we verify, what could we rule in or rule out."[183]
In May 2018, former career intelligence officer James Clapper believed that "more and more" of the dossier had been validated over time.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/steele-dossier-retrospectiveAs we noted, our interest is in assessing the Steele dossier as a raw intelligence document, not a finished piece of analysis. The Mueller investigation has clearly produced public records that confirm pieces of the dossier. And even where the details are not exact, the general thrust of Steele’s reporting seems credible in light of what we now know about extensive contacts between numerous individuals associated with the Trump campaign and Russian government officials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump–Russia_dossier#Research_funded_by_conservative_website
Stormy Daniels original lawyer Keith Davidson confirmed that the payments were campaign related, so Trump has no defense on campaign finance violations. Lucky not to go to jail on this alone as he has told so many lies about it. Question marks about obstruction, witness intimidation, co-ordinating testimony to congress, etc.
Between criminal, civil and Congressional there must be about 20 or more, and probably a record amount of investigations into his staff.
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