To: zzpat who wrote (1082937 ) 8/13/2018 7:14:08 PM From: RetiredNow Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574864 First of all, Mother Jones broke the story one week before the election, on Oct. 31, 2016, and their story was based on the Steele Dossier. Second of all, when the smear campaign on Trump failed to produce the results they wanted, Hillary and her crew used the dossier to begin their coup campaign against President Trump. The dossier got leaked all over the place. Exactly how do you think those leaks occurred before the election and afterwards? You are naive if you think Hillary and her cronies had nothing to do with it. ----------A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump Has the bureau investigated this material? motherjones.com --------- By October 2016, Steele had compiled 33 pages (16 memos), and he then passed on what he had discovered to David Corn , a reporter from Mother Jones magazine. On October 31, 2016, a week before the election, Mother Jones reported that a former intelligence officer, whom they did not name, had produced a report based on Russian sources and turned it over to the FBI. When the Mother Jones story broke, John Podesta , chairman of the Clinton campaign, said he was "stunned by the news that the FBI had launched a full-blown investigation into Trump, especially one that was informed by research underwritten by the Clinton campaign." Although they knew that Perkins Coie had spent money for opposition research, neither Podesta nor campaign manager Robby Mook knew that Steele was on the Democratic payroll. They both maintain they "didn't read the dossier until BuzzFeed posted it online.en.wikipedia.org –Russia_dossier#Mother_Jones_story