Thread by @SethAbramson

Fox News host Dan Bongino had a real normal one today, going on a rant about me and repeatedly imagining me being marched into a Nazi concentration camp

I'm sure Fox News Channel will get right on disciplining Bongino, the same way Kevin McCarthy is all over the Paul Gosar sitch

PS/ I'm *very* happy to post screenshots of the 2020 deposition with Steele the far right is obsessed with. In it Steele confirms 1) he didn't know Perkins Coie was Fusion GPS's client when he began his research, 2) he didn't know the Clinton campaign was the "ultimate client"...

PS2/ ...3) he never asked Fusion GPS who the client was, 4) he learned who the client was "later on," 5) by July 2016—after he'd been doing research on Trump for weeks—he came to suspect the Clinton campaign was involved and Fusion GPS confirmed it, 6) he continued not to know...

PS3/ ...who the ultimate client was (the DNC), 7) he did not *take* the contract with any idea who the client was (as I have said), 8) at no point did he have any information on how his research would be used (by anyone), 9) the research was never used by the Clinton campaign...

PS4/ ...10) Perkins Coie (as you might expect) tried to get media to investigate the raw intel further, but Steele had no part in any of that—and *his* first response was not to go to media but to the FBI, as you'd expect a former MI6 Russia desk chief to do and *want* him to do.

PS5/ Now *my* question is, how many times have Bongino, Glenn Greenwald, and Matt Taibbi told their sizable followings that Chris Steele is *friends with Ivanka Trump* and was *so admired by the Trump Organization they considered hiring him*? Just curious—do they ever mention it?

PS6/ Taibbi in particular is now obsessed with the idea that Steele planned to go to *both* the FBI *and* the media *before* he even began his research. Does he have any proof? Of course not. It's all a conspiracy theory that has no basis in fact. But it sure gets lots of clicks.

PS7/ BTW, my *favorite* quote from that deposition—which you'll never see from Bongino, Greenwald, or Taibbi, who are obsessed with painting Steele as a political partisan—is this quote from the man angrily *questioning* Steele (from the *very next page* after the one they cite):

PS8/ I don't know how many times I have to say this, but these guys will never—*ever*—out-research me.

I'm not just an academic, attorney, journalist, editor, Trump biographer, and bestselling chronicler of the Trump-Russia scandal, I also *care* about getting the story *right*.