We'll never know what George said, on either May 6th or May 10th, to either Alexander Downer or Erika Thompson, or both. The closest we'll get is what's in the Downer 302, which even our side has never thought to ask for.
But if I had to guess, I would say George said THIS:
But if I had to guess, I would say George said THIS:
How did I arrive at this formulation.
Let's start here:
Let's start here:
What material did the Trump team have? How about this?
Now we see the first sentence is innocuous. But there's a second sentence. This two sentence formulation would explain the highlighted words in EC, that have puzzled many readers
"Also" because it was the second sentence. "This process" refers to the process of traditional legal opposition research described in the first sentence.
Now what about this highlighted portion? This is actually the only part of the verbatim section of the EC that matters when it comes to Collusion allegations.
If you read the second sentence from my original guess at what George said, you see that he says he "hears" Russia has this and that and might do this or that. Where did he get that information? The Aussies had a guess. Their GUESS is what you see highlighted above 👆
But here's what George's statement SUGGESTS to me where he got that information:
forbes.com/sites/paulrode…
forbes.com/sites/paulrode…
I found a new article just now, from Australia. Check out how well it tracks with my theory.
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