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18 May, 6 tweets, 2 min read
1/x: No, it really didn’t @ggreenwald. It informed a minor subset of reporting around Trump and Russia, but was hardly the crux — even conceding errant and/or misguided reporting associated with it.

You want the Steele dossier to be the Rosetta Stone of Trump-Russia reporting…
2/x:…because it gives you a convenient excuse for all of reason the knee-jerk apologias you kept pushing about Russia during all of this. But there was plenty of important history, hardcore facts and intersections between Trump and Russia quite apart from the Steele dossier…
3/x…that made that line of reporting necessary and valuable — even though you were either willfully ignorant about it, or just simply ignorant about it.

So if you want to go down the Trump-Russia road, raise your game and stop leaning on the Steele dossier as a crutch.
4/x: Here’s something I wrote two years ago when your partner in this charade, @mtaibbi, also tried trotting out this well-worn MAGA/Fox/Trump apologist garbage about the centrality of the Steel dossier: bloomberg.com/view/articles/…
*Steele*
These guys can't help themselves. 😂

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