Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016

“I think a full investigation would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.” — Former President Jimmy Carter 6/27/19

January 6 report review: 845 pages, countless crimes, one simple truth — Trump did it

Whether fomenting insurrection, standing accused of rape or stiffing the IRS, Donald Trump remains in the news. On Monday, the House select committee voted to issue its final report. Three days later, after releasing witness transcripts, the committee delivered the full monty. Bennie Thompson, Liz Cheney and the rest of committee name names and flash receipts. At 845 pages, the report is damning — and monumental.

MSNBC host pushes 3 debunked claims about Trump in single segment

• Nicolle Wallace repeats widely discredited claims to attack Trump

Journalists who fell for Danchenko’s mythical dossier source

After Special Counsel John Durham last month charged the primary source of the Steele dossier with lying to investigators about a Trump supporter providing its most explosive allegations, some high-profile journalists who made a connection between the supporter, Sergei Millian, and the dossier have retracted their published reporting.

Trump SPAC under investigation by feds, SEC

The special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, that announced plans to merge with former President Donald Trump’s new social media company is under investigation by federal regulators, the company disclosed on Monday.

Trump should be arrested for attempted murder

#DonaldTrump should be arrested for attempted murder. He tried to infect & kill #JoeBiden at the debate; by turning up too late to be tested, knowing full well he was positive; then screeched, sputtered, spit, and foamed at the mouth, hoping to infect Joe. He IS the devil.

Forget the Steele dossier: Mueller report release shows why Trump-Russia inquiry was required

• A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that parts of the redacted Mueller report be made public

Why the discredited Dossier does not undercut the Russia Investigation

• Donald J. Trump and his backers say revelations about the Steele dossier show the Russia investigation was a “hoax.” That is not what the facts indicate.

It Wasn’t a Hoax: The Steele Dossier and the New Trump-Russia Denialists

• People with scant illusions about Trump are volunteering to help him execute one of his Big Lies.

Even if the Steele dossier is discredited, there’s plenty of evidence of Trump’s collusion with Russia

Ever since then, Trump and his right-wing media chorus have been loudly proclaiming that the entire “Trump-Russia collusion narrative” was “phony” and that he was the victim of a “hoax” perpetrated by the Democrats, the media and the FBI.

Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum explains why ‘even if every single word in the Steele dossier was wrong,’ the FBI and media were right to treat it as legit

Even if every single word in The Steele Dossier was wrong, that would not change the fact that the Russians sought to manipulate the U.S. election using hacked material and a disinformation campaign. Nor would it change the fact that the Trump family welcomed this intervention.

Also, given the fact that the Russians sought to manipulate the U.S. election campaign using hacked material and a disinformation campaign, it was not stupid for the FBI to take the Steele dossier seriously. Was a mistake to publish it, but that wasn’t the FBI’s fault.

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Washington Post’s Russiagate retraction

Another major editor’s note attached to a Washington Post Russiagate story.

This one is essentially a retraction. There’s no way for major media outlets can keep evading this accountability. It’s crashing down.

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The Washington Post corrects, removes parts of two stories regarding the Steele dossier

The Washington Post on Friday took the unusual step of correcting and removing large portions of two articles, published in March 2017 and February 2019, that had identified a Belarusian American businessman as a key source of the “Steele dossier,” a collection of largely unverified reports that claimed the Russian government had compromising information about then-candidate Donald Trump.

Adam Schiff shuts down conservative ‘View’ guest host

The parade of conservative guest hosts auditioning to replace Meghan McCain continued this week on The View. And this time, yet another former Trump administration official took her turn, trying and failing to score gotcha points against the show’s guest, in this case Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).

Hillary’s secretive, Russiagate-flogging pair of super-lawyers

The indictment of Hillary Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann for allegedly lying to the FBI sheds new light on the pivotal role of Democratic operatives in the Russiagate affair. The emerging picture shows Sussmann and his Perkins Coie colleague Marc Elias, the chief counsel for Clinton’s 2016 campaign, proceeding on parallel, coordinated tracks to solicit and spread disinformation tying Donald Trump to the Kremlin.

Christopher Steele defends Russia Dossier, says Trump golden shower tape ‘probably does’ exist

October 18, 2021

It gets worse: Look who worked together to frame Donald Trump with fake Russia hoax

How much more frightening will this conspiracy get? Now, according to court documents reported by JusttheNews.com, we learn that The Dark Lord himself, George Soros, paid for his own investigator to work for the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee to plant the fake Trump-Russia story — and that then-Senator John McCain let him do it.

Effort to spread discredited Russia collusion theory welcomed by McCain Senate panel, memos show

• Armed Services panel secretly fought court battle this summer to quash subpoena seeking records of contacts with ex-FBI official Daniel Jones and liberal-funded The Democracy Integrity Project nonprofit.

How Russiagate became a story of old friends in high places

The indictment of Washington attorney Michael Sussman — accused of lying to the FBI in order to smear Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign — reveals the ace up the sleeve of high-powered Democrats. It’s a card they played time and again to advance the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory: friends in high places.

The former so-called president

Three times during the administration of the former so-called president, three times House Democrats cooperated in raising the debt ceiling.

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