Thread by @JewhadiTM

But that doesn’t even begin to fully inform the reader about Steele, the political hired gun who was retained by Fusion GPS and paid by the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee to dig up dirt on Trump in 2016.

His “memos” comprised the “dossier,” which included wild allegations that remain unverified. Steele met with American news outlets in the weeks before the election, planting negative stories about the Trump campaign.

He was fired by the FBI right before Election Day for those unauthorized disclosures and for lying to the FBI about his contacts with the media.

Desperation Plays

There were other misrepresentations in the Times piece.

No, Trump did not call on Russians to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails and no, the Republican Party did not soften its platform on the Ukraine to please the Russians. Not only are these well-worn myths in the media, even if true, they hardly rise to the level of treasonous offenses.

And while The Resistance views the Times piece as the next big thing that will surely take out Donald Trump, it actually was a way to spin the pending release of damning congressional testimony by Lisa Page and James Baker, a former top official at the Justice Department.

Leaked testimony confirms the FBI investigation, and other news, such as involvement of former CIA director @JohnBrennan, tension between Obama’s DOJ & FBI as a Trump-Russia collusion plot took shape, and how the FBI was considering investigating Trump before he fired Comey.

“We need to open the case we’ve been waiting on now while Andy is acting,” Strzok texted to page after McCabe was appointed interim director.

As the Mueller probe approaches its second anniversary without a single indictment related to collusion and the public grows impatient with the special counsel, the media are clinging to any lifeline to justify their shameful behavior.