Thread by @JohnWHuber

The Top 10 most important NEW things in @LeeSmithDC book, “The Plot Against The President”

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First of all, buy the book, then following along with this thread will be a lot easier. Either the link at the top of this thread, or you can find it on Amazon 👍🏻

This thread won’t be a lot of detail or commentary, just one to help signpost you to (IMO) the best material

ONE: The early “Protodossiers” that appear to have been copied and expanded on by Steele’s dossier, and how both were used by the press

(Chapter 4, The Protodossiers)

TWO: The fact that Steele cut and pasted an almost identical allegation against Carter Page that he’d used *years before* in the FIFA case: Igor Sechin was bribing people with gas deals for Putin

(Chapter 6, The Avatar, p.82-83)

*I’ll be doing a separate thread on this one*

THREE: Devin Nunes confirming that “Whatever Brennan told Reid, he didn’t tell me” (if true, Brennan lied to Congress)

(Chapter 7, The Insurance Policy, p.92)

See this thread for more:

https://twitter.com/johnwhuber/status/1105977508867043328?s=21

FOUR: That the FBI “insurance policy” has a “deeper meaning” - “it’s what else they did to get the FISA, to ensure they got the warrant on Page. It’s as bad or worse than using the dossier”

(Chapter 7, The Insurance Policy, p.98)

FIVE: The compressive analysis of the Protodossiers, the Steele memos and the timeline of when the allegations appeared in the press and under which byline

(Multiple chapters, search for “Miller”, “Entous”, “Devlin” and you’ll find most of them) 😚

SIX: “The financial collapse of the press was followed by its professional and ethical collapse”

Probably the most important non-spygate line in the book

(Chapter 9, The Press Breaks, p.139 for the quote, but really the whole chapter)

SEVEN: DAG Rosenstein asked about Ohr 302s & said “none of these exist...if you think my ADAG was out there running this side investigation you’re crazy”. <48hrs later, DOJ admitted *12* 302s existed, so RR either out of the loop or lying

(Chapter 16, Deep State Digs In, p.231)

EIGHT: The Kathleen Kavalec and Christopher Steele meeting at the State Dept. in Oct 2016 almost certainly shows Steele wasn’t the author of the “Steele” dossier

(Chapter 20, The Forgers, p.282)

NINE: Stefan Halper falsely counted Russian SVR Officer Trubnikov as a source for his work twice (with faked names), and “Steele” may have done the same in the dossier

(Chapter 20, The Forgers, p.284-287)

TEN: The names of the people on Devin Nunes team (or at least most of them willing to go on the record) who put in the mostly thankless hard yards to get the Nunes memo out and complete the Russia/Collusion investigations

(Multiple chapters, search: “Patel”, “Jim”, “Nelson” etc)

I’m sure there are many others, if so, feel free to comment on this thread with ones you found

/ENDS