Thread by @JohnWHuber

Deputy FBI Director ANDY MCCABE & his legal counsel LISA PAGE were in possession of the key Steele dossier allegations on Sat Jul 30 2016, one day BEFORE the FBI opened an investigation into Trump (Sun Jul 31 2016)

They got them from BRUCE OHR & there’s documentary proof

THREAD

SUMMARY (1/2)

1) Bruce Ohr of DOJ met with Steele in D.C @ 9am Sat Jul 30

2) Steele’s name was on 3 key memos by the time he met Ohr:

—Trump “compromized” by Putin
—Page secretly meeting Russians
—Manafort-led “extensive conspiracy” to hack DNC

3) Steele gave this info to Ohr

SUMMARY (2/2)

4) Ohr then met with McCabe & Page with the purpose of “passing on” Steele’s info to them

5) They met in McCabe’s Office, on the same day Ohr met Steele

6) Ohr gave Steele’s info to McCabe/Page in that meeting

7) Investigation opened the next day, Sun Jul 31

Now here’s the evidence for all those points, solely based on emails & sworn testimony to Congress

(This isn’t “sources familiar” or “officials”, like those spinning to the media that @GeorgePapa19 was the “spark” for the investigation into Trump being opened in the first place)

1) BRUCE OHR OF DOJ MET WITH STEELE IN D.C @ 9AM SAT JULY 30 2016

From an email FOIA’d by @JudicialWatch. This meeting was at the Mayflower Hotel in D.C

TRIVIA: That’s also the same hotel anon “officials” accused Jeff Sessions of secretly meeting Russian ambassador Kislyak

2) STEELE’S NAME WAS ON 3 KEY MEMOS BY THE TIME HE MET OHR

—Trump “compromized” by Putin (Jun-20)

—Page secretly meeting Russians in Moscow about sanctions (Jul-19)

—Manafort-led “extensive conspiracy” to hack DNC (undated but numerically [95] before a memo dated Jul-30 [97])

3) STEELE GAVE THIS INFO TO OHR

In Bruce Ohr’s testimony to Congress he clearly describes an allegation directly taken from one of Steele’s memos

NOTE: This doesn’t mean Steele gave Ohr the physical “dossier”: but he told him the *allegations*, which amounts to the same thing

N.B. Technically that testimony doesn’t prove beyond doubt that Steele told Ohr ALL of the allegations in ALL 3 memos, but it does prove he definitely told him the most important: that Trump was “compromized” by Putin

Plus Ohr says this was only “one of the items” from Steele

4) OHR THEN MET WITH MCCABE AND PAGE WITH THE PURPOSE OF “PASSING ON” STEELE’S INFO TO THEM

Ohr’s testimony: “I wanted to provide the information he [Steele] had given me to the FBI”

And “I reached out to McCabe”

5) THEY MET IN MCCABE’S OFFICE ON THE SAME DAY OHR MET STEELE

Page/McCabe/Ohr met on a Saturday at the office at very short notice, with Ohr coming almost straight from the Steele meeting to meet with the Deputy Director of the FBJ and his legal counsel

Sounds...unusual/urgent?

Side note: according the media, @RepAdamSchiff and FBI/DOJ cover story, the official opening of a massive counterintelligence investigation into Trump/Russia ON THE VERY NEXT DAY (a Sunday, Jul 31 2016) was unrelated to this meeting about Steele’s allegations just a day before 🙎🏼‍♂️

Side note 2: two of the @nytimes reporters who wrote the story that @GeorgePapa19 “sparked” the investigation into Trump/Russia ALSO wrote that Paul Manafort was caught on NSA surveillance “repeatedly” talking to “Russian intelligence officers” 🤔

https://twitter.com/johnwhuber/status/1103813213009920000?s=21

6) OHR GAVE STEELE’S INFO TO MCCABE/PAGE IN THAT MEETING

Ohr’s testimony: “I went to his [McCabe’s] office to provide the information”

“Lisa Page was there”

“So I provided the information to them”

(After that Ohr is put in touch with Strzok, running the Trump/Russia case)

7) THE INVESTIGATION WAS OPENED THE NEXT DAY (JULY 31)

Or at least it was *marked* July 31. Here’s Strzok texting to Page about exactly what “good faith date” they can put on the “LHM” (Letter Head Memo) for the opening case file for the Trump/Russia case

SCHIFF WRONG AGAIN

@RepAdamSchiff: “the FBI’s closely held investigative team only received Steele’s reporting in mid-Sep...7 weeks [after July 31]”

DOJ OIG: Page was part of that “closely held investigative team” on Russia

UH: Page received Steele’s reporting from Ohr Jul 30

For people who can count (not you @RepAdamSchiff) that’s a day BEFORE, not 7 weeks LATER

And that’s before we factor in that Strzok and Page were illicit lovers who texted each other dozens of times a day

Maybe Page didn’t mention the Ohr/Steele bombshell info to her lover?

I doubt it - here’s Strzok day later to Page on July 31:

“Damn this feels momentous ... super glad to be on this voyage with you”

Then he becomes the contact point for Ohr himself

SUMMARY

—Documentary proof that Deputy FBI Director MCCABE & his legal counsel PAGE were in possession of the core Steele dossier allegations on Sat Jul 30 2016

—One day *before* the FBI opened an investigation into Trump on Sun Jul 31 2016

—Schiff’s memo wrong. AGAIN

/ENDS

Sources:

Ohr email: judicialwatch.org/wp-content/upl…

Steele Dossier: documentcloud.org/documents/3259…

Ohr testimony: dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcoll…

Schiff memo: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4387…

Strzok texts: scribd.com/document/37100…

NYT story: nytimes.com/2017/12/30/us/…

OIG report: justice.gov/file/1071991/d…