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(THREAD) BREAKING: Several Major Revelations About the Steele Dossier Hit Trump All at Once independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
1/ The man who commissioned Steele's dossier—and stands by its accuracy—has now given more hours of testimony to Congress than any witness.
2/ While tying for most hours of questions with Page (10; Mueller) of any probe witness, Simpson has so far been found to have told 0 lies.
3/ All investigations—House Intel, Senate Intel, Special Counsel—are now said to be taking the dossier's allegations "extremely seriously."
4/ Bob Mueller has begun *locating Steele's clandestine sources*, and one of those sources is now *regularly providing evidence to the FBI*.
5/ The conclusion of the British press—which has researched the dossier *much* more than ours—is "many of its claims have been proven true."
6/ The Independent implies all 3 U.S. investigations concur with the conclusion that "many of [the dossier's] claims have been proven true."
7/ All 3 U.S. investigations are now *actively* seeking to have Steele travel to the United States to testify in person about his dossier.
8/ A secret trip Trump agents made to find Steele is now seen by both Dems and Mueller as an effort to intimidate Steele out of testifying.
9/ Implied in Trump using Nunes (again) to thwart the Russia probe is that Trump believes Steele's dossier and his testimony could hurt him.
10/ Those few Republicans willing to talk to Steele hope to use him to hurt *Comey*—protecting Trump from an impeachable Obstruction charge.
11/ Far from working only on retainer, Steele in fact gave his research gratis to the FBI last summer due to his concern about its contents.
12/ The Independent implies Mueller's suspicion of—and his knowledge about—Manafort's illicit activities was partly provided by the dossier.
13/ Paul Manafort *confirmed to Roger Stone* that he expects to be indicted over allegations identical to the ones made in Steele's dossier.
14/ Steele's dossier is so good—its intel so ahead of the curve—even the FBI has taken *15 months* to catch up and see its leads bear fruit.
15/ The quality of Steele's sources is now becoming known—there are reports sources "D and E" are both Belarusan businessman Sergei Millain.
16/ Sources with "inside knowledge of the Steele report" say Felix Sater—a criminal and Trump business partner—is *also* a Steele informant.
17/ Sater—who by his own admission acted as a go-between between Putin and Trump—can with some certainty sink Trump if he *is* an informant.
18/ Mueller has hired the *very same prosecutor* who *previously* turned Sater into an informant—suggesting it may well have happened again.
19/ Sater's currently "helping federal authorities" on a money laundering case that may involve Trump—linking the Trump and Manafort probes.
20/ THE INDEPENDENT: "Claims Trump was the 'Muscovian Candidate' for the presidency—raised by Mr. Steele—continue to grow and reverberate."
PS/ The only "theory" this feed ever indulges is that Steele's dossier is "at least 80% accurate." That looks to be an *understatement* now.
PS2/ Other *questions* I've raised include "Would Manafort ever work for *free*?" BREAKING at MSNBC is news on this: msnbc.com/msnbc-news/wat…
PS3/ Despite threats on his life and the life of his family, Steele has *never* backed down from a *single word* of his (GOP-paid) research.
PS4/ What Steele *has* said is raw intel must always be double-checked—which is exactly why he gave his work directly (for free) to the FBI.
PS5/ The FBI double-checked—and now uses Steele's sources, follows his leads to indictments, and takes his work "extremely seriously." {end}
