'It's not a fabrication': Six times the firm behind the infamous dossier contradicted Trump's claims

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

‘It’s not a fabrication’: Six times the firm behind the infamous dossier contradicted Trump’s claims

By Amber Phillips January 9 at 5:09 PM

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The Fix skimmed most of the nearly 300 pages of the transcript to bring you the most politically notable nuggets and to note how they contradict what Trump and his supporters have been saying.

1. Researchers weren't expecting to find what they did: The research started as open-ended, but as they uncovered more about Trump's alleged connections to Russia, Simpson said, he and former British spy Christopher Steele, whom Simpson hired to do the research, made a decision to go to the FBI.

“The purpose of this was to see if we could learn more, generally speaking, about his business dealings in Russia. What came back was something very different and obviously more alarming,” Simpson said. “... To me this was like, you know, you're driving to work and you see something happen and you call 911,” he said in another part of the testimony.

How this contradicts Trump and his supporters: Trump has accused the firm of specifically setting out and colluding with Democrats and even the FBI to find something incriminating on him.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/09/its-not-a-fabrication-six-times-the-company-behind-the-trump-russia-dossier-contradicted-trump/

[underpants]

1. "infamous" huh?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210080562

[Hortensis]

2. Yup, using their language is batting for them.

[Hortensis]

3. Responses to Simpson's understanding that a Trump

campaign insider was talking to the FBI are suggesting that was actually a misunderstanding. But the possibility that there's a Deep Throat in the Trump campaign isn't ruled out.

"Simpson says Steele told him that the FBI had “other intelligence about this matter from an internal Trump campaign source,” someone “inside the Trump organization.”

“It was someone like us who decided to pick up the phone and report something,” Simpson said. It's not clear who this person is. It's also possible that Simpson misspoke, confusing a whistleblower with an Australian diplomat who heard a Trump adviser, George Papadopoulos, say he knew Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton.