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To: Bill who wrote (1131190)	4/22/2019 3:22:06 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Recommended By Bill locogringo Respond to of 1588485

Nolte: Top 51 Fake News ‘Bombshells’ the Media Spread About RussiaGate Collusion Hoax Hall of Shame This list cannot begin to count the countless times these 51 fake stories were repeated as fact throughout other news outlets, social media, and thousands upon thousands of cumulative broadcast hours. Here are the top 51 pieces of fake news the establishment media spread about the Russia Collusion Hoax over the past two years, and I describe this list as the Top 51 because there is a behemoth of an iceberg lurking below. Since the release of the Mueller Report last week, which — despite two years, $30 million, and a team of rabidly partisan left-wing investigators — found exactly zero crimes of Russia collusion or obstruction associated with President Trump and his campaign, one of the most bizarre results has been watching the media pat themselves on the back for the stories they believe they got correct. Imagine that. Imagine your industry is so broken and corrupt that all you have left is to point to what you believe you did right. This is like watching an airline pilot brag about the times he didn’t crash, a district attorney point to the people he prosecuted who were not innocent — or in the words of comedian Chris Rock, a parent boast about taking care of his kids. You’re supposed to take care of your kids! And the media are supposed to get stories correct. But here is the media forced to brag on when they didn’t crash the plane, when they did take care of the kids, which tells you something is horribly, terribly, ridiculously wrong. Hey, here are some examples of when we didn’t mislead the country with disinformation! So many things that were called "fake news" by the president and his team turned out to be true. The Mueller Report is an exoneration ... of the mainstream media. — Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) April 19, 2019 Check out this one below. Here you have a reporter forced to focus on the “highlights” of her outlet’s reporting because the Washington Post got so much wrong she was able to quickly cobble together a list of those times the Post did not mislead its readers: It’s worth taking a moment to reflect on how much the public learned about Russian interference, contacts between Russians and Trump associates and the president’s actions in office because of rigorous independent reporting. Here are some highlights of @washingtonpost coverage. — Matea Gold (@mateagold) April 19, 2019 While a list of what the media might have gotten correct is fairly easy to put together, no one will ever be able to grasp the tsunami of fake news Americans were buried under for over two years. The list below of 51 might sound like a lot, but it is a drop in the ocean when you recall the thousands and thousands of hours CNN, MSNBC, Meet the Press, This Week, PBS NewsHour, State of the Union, Good Morning America, Reliable Sources, and the Today Show devoted to anchors and pundits pushing the hoax that Trump colluded with Russia. Not to mention, millions and millions of establishment media tweets and Facebook posts. Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell, Shepard Smith, Andrew Napolitano, Joe Scarborough, Chris Hayes, Chuck Todd, Joy Reid, Chris Matthews, Jake Tapper, Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, Brian Stelter, Erin Burnett, et al., are alone responsible for thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of lies and conspiracy-mongering. This list of 51 doesn’t count the half-million — half-MILLION — Russia collusion stories published over the past two years, almost all of which were premised on the idea that Trump did, indeed, collude with a foreign power to steal the 2016 presidential election. This list cannot begin to count the countless times these 51 fake stories were repeated as fact throughout other news outlets, social media, and thousands upon thousands of cumulative broadcast hours. What’s more, this list of 51 can’t begin to count the countless examples of fake news launched against Trump that have nothing to do with Russia — desperate and deliberate lies involving fish food and ice cream scoops… Before we begin, credit where it’s due. This list would not have been possible without the lists already compiled by Sharyl Attkisson, Glenn Greenwald, and Sohrab Ahmari. New York m agazine , McClatchy: Michael Cohen went to Prague. BuzzFeed: Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie, and Mueller has emails proving it. The New York Times: Paul Manafort passed polling information to Kremlin. Axios: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein forced out. NBC News: Federal investigators wiretapped Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, have recordings of Trump. Associated Press: Phony Russia dossier was initially funded by Republican group. ABC News: Donald Trump directed Flynn to make contact with Russian officials during the 2016 presidential campaign Talking Points Memo: Russian social media company provided documents to Senate about communications with Trump official. CNN: Donald Trump Jr. conspired with WikiLeaks. Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal: Robert Mueller subpoenaed Trump’s Deutsche Bank records. ABC News: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort worked with Russia intelligence-connected official as late as December 2017. The New York Times: Trump Deputy National Security adviser K.T. McFarland lied about another official’s contacts with Russians. CNN: Trump’s campaign was never wiretapped. NBC News: Manafort notes from Russian meeting refer to political contributions. The New York Times: Seventeen intelligence agencies concur Russia hacked the 2016 presidential race. CNN: Congress investigating Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials. The New York Times: Former FBI Director James Comey says Attorney General Jeff Sessions told him not to call Russia probe an investigation but “a matter.” CNN: James Comey will testify he never told Trump he was not under investigation. NBC News: Putin admits he has compromising information about Trump. Politico, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, AP, Reuters, and the Wall Street Journal: Trump fired Comey after Comey asked for additional resources for the Russia investigation. The New York Times: Numerous contacts between Trump campaign staff and “senior Russian intelligence officials.” MSNBC: Among others, a Trump family member will be indicted on February 8. The Guardian: Paul Manafort visited WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange on three occasions. The Washington Post: Trump campaign changed GOP platform on Ukraine. The Atlantic: Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied about meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. McClatchy: Michael Cohen really did visit Prague. CNN: Trump is lying when he calls Russia dossier “phony.” Fortune: RT had hacked into and taken over C-SPAN and C-SPAN “confirmed” it had been hacked. USA Today, MSNBC, Associated Press: Russia’s hacked the election systems of 21 American states. The Washington Post, ABC News, CNN: Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont. The Washington Post: “More than 200 websites” were “routine peddlers of Russian propaganda during the election season.” NBC News, MSNBC: Russia is the main suspect in the sonic attacks that sickened 26 U.S. diplomats. Slate: Trump created a secret Internet server to covertly communicate with a Russian bank. CNN: Donald Trump knew in advance of the Trump Tower meeting. CNN: Mueller Report will show Trump “has helped” Putin “destabilize” the United States. NBC: Russia supports Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI). CNN: Sessions failed to disclose meetings he had with the Russian ambassador. Vox: “There’s actually lots of evidence of Trump-Russia collusion.” The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR , Reuters , the Guardian, USA Today, CNN, BuzzFeed: Trump revealed classified information to Russians. The Washington Post: House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Russia paid Trump. Fox News: Mueller can show Trump campaign “had a connection to Russian intelligence.” MSNBC: “Rudy Giuliani just told America that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia.” The Washington Post: Evidence suggests Trump could be a Russian “asset.” NBC: Russians began hacking Hillary Clinton’s emails on the day Donald Trump joked about it in July 2016. Mic.com: Russia spy visited Trump’s Oval Office. CNN: Phony Russia dossier has been “corroborated.” NPR: Donald Trump Jr. lied under oath about Trump Tower deal in Moscow. NBC, The Hill, New York Daily News: Russia successfully hacked voting systems in a number of states. CNN: Trump is “bonkers” for claiming Hillary Clinton behind Russia dossier. CNN: “Every intelligence expert, both under the Obama administration and under the Trump administration,” agrees with the assessment that Russia attempted to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. BBC: Ukrainian president “authorized” an illegal payment of $400,000 to Michael Cohen for additional face time during a June 2017 meeting with President Trump. *Follow John Nolte on Twitter* *@NolteNC. Follow his Facebook Page* *here*.

To: Bill who wrote (1131190)	4/22/2019 3:56:07 PM
From: Land Shark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1588485

Dolt, they declined to charge FatRump and left it to Congress. Even if they did indict FatRump, there still would be a trial, and upon his likely conviction one could say he was guilty. I’ll say it anyway, FatRump is #guilty as f@ck.

To: Bill who wrote (1131190)	4/22/2019 4:12:52 PM
From: puborectalis	1 Recommendation Recommended By Fiscally Conservative Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1588485

Breaking a law is not a necessary requirement for impeachment,brainless!

To: Bill who wrote (1131190)	4/23/2019 4:03:40 AM
From: FJB	4 Recommendations Recommended By Bill locogringo longnshort majaman1978 Respond to of 1588485

Spygate and The Steele Dossier Were The Cover Story – The Real Issue is Years of Obama-era Surveillance and Political Spy Operations… Posted on theconservativetreehouse.com If you read the Weissmann/Mueller report carefully one aspect stands out strongly; the Mueller investigation was fully committed to The Steele Dossier. An inordinate amount of the report is focused on justifying their investigative validity and purpose in looking at the claims within the Steele Dossier. Repeatedly, the investigative unit references their mandate based around the Steele Dossier, and the mid-summer 2016 origin of the FBI counterintelligence operation. Why? Why was/is Crossfire Hurricane (July ’16) and the Steele Dossier (Oct. ’16) so important to the principle intelligence apparatus, and the Mueller team (’17, ’18, ’19)? I believe former NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers has told us the answer. In early 2016 Rogers caught on to a massive and pre-existing weaponization of government surveillance and the use of collected NSA metadata for political spy operations. Everything, that comes AFTER March 2016 is one big blanket cover-up operation….. ALL OF IT. The Russian election interference narrative; the use of Joseph Mifsud, Stefan Halper, the London and Australian embassy personnel; Erika Thompson, Alexander Downer, U.S. DIA officials; everything around Crossfire Hurricane; and everything after to include the construct of the Steele Dossier; all of it was needed for the creation of an ‘after-the-fact‘ plausible justification to cover-up what Mike Rogers discovered in early 2016, AND the downstream unmasked records that existed in the Obama White House SCIF. Fusion GPS was not hired in April 2016 to research Donald Trump. The intelligence community was already doing surveillance and spy operations. They already knew everything about the Trump campaign. The Obama intelligence community needed Fusion GPS to give them a justification for pre-existing surveillance and spy operations. That’s why the FBI, and later the Mueller team, are so strongly committed to, and defending, the *formation of the Steele Dossier* and its dubious content. On Pages #11 and #12 of the Weissmann/Mueller report, the special counsel team outlines the purpose and intent of the probe as delivered by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Within these pages Mueller outlines the August 2nd Scope Memo that has previously been hidden and remains redacted through today. Read the highlighted portion carefully to understand the scope of the instructions. Note the careful wording “the Special Counsel had been authorized since his appointment to investigate allegations”… This means from Day #1 of the special counsel, the scope of the probe was always to investigate the claims within the Ohr/Steele Dossier: The August 2nd Scope Memo additionally authorized the investigation of “certain other matters” specifically relating to Manafort (financial crimes), and Papadopolous and Flynn (FARA violations). These paragraphs tell us a great deal about what originated the purpose of the FBI investigation and the continued purpose of the special counsel. Remember, the special counsel was a continuance of the FBI counterintelligence operation which officially began on July 31st, 2016. [The unofficial beginning was much earlier] Understanding now that Mueller is saying from Day One he was investigating the Steele Dossier; here’s where we all need to question the assumptions. Why is the Steele Dossier so important? From the beginning most people have thought the Fusion-GPS objective was to dig up dirt on Trump for political exploitation. However, with all the recent information outlined there’s actually a more significant role for Fusion. The overall intelligence apparatus of the U.S. government was already conducting political surveillance on their political opposition. The systems of the intelligence apparatus such as FISA-702(16)(17) databases searches were being exploited months (if not years) beforehand. When NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers discovered the use of the database he shut down contractor access on April 18th, 2016. When Fusion GPS was hired by the DNC and Clinton team; also in April of 2016 immediately following the shut-down of FBI contractor access; it now appears the purpose was to provide cover for government surveillance already taking place. Perhaps part of that motive was fear of what NSA Mike Rogers might do. The Obama administration (U.S. government intelligence apparatus) needed an external source of information that could cover their domestic surveillance and spy operations. That’s why Fusion GPS was hired, and why emphasis was put on using European and Australian intelligence contacts to create the plausible process to continue surveillance that was always taking place. This corrupt weaponizing of the U.S. intelligence apparatus is MUCH BIGGER than anyone currently absorbs. The Steele Dossier was an eventual part of the cover-story. When Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were discussing the “insurance policy” in August 2016, they were not discussing insurance from the perspective of their success, ie. Clinton elected; they were discussing insurance from the position of: if they failed. If Clinton was elected, great; everything continues as normal. However, if Clinton was not elected the weaponization of government needed a cover story, a plausible legitimate reason for why political surveillance/spying was taking place. This is the insurance policy need…. This is why they needed the Steele Dossier. Regardless of anything happening to stop them, the intelligence community was conducting surveillance of their political opposition. To validate that surveillance the intelligence community needed a plausible FBI counterintelligence operation. That’s where John Brennan (CIA) comes in. Brennan manufactured the plausible excuse for an FBI operation to begin through the use of “unofficial channels” via Joseph Mifsud, Stefan Halper and eventually Alexander Downer via an Australian intelligence asset Erika Thompson; who was working in London with U.S. intelligence assets Terrence Dudley and Greg Baker, ie. the “Papadopoulos operation”. While the overseas operation was working to create plausible explanation and start Crossfire Hurricane, back in the U.S. Fusion-GPS was contracted to supplement the appearances for a domestic parallel track. Fusion ran operations for the Russian appearances inside the U.S., ex. Trump Tower meeting. For their effort, Fusion was using previously extracted FISA-702(16)(17) results to create more supportive evidence and plausible material. That Fusion effort led to the Steele Dossier. However, in a similar way the Brennan operation needed the Australian Diplomat Alexander Downer to cross from “unofficial” into “official” channels, the Steele Dossier needs a way to cross from “unofficial opposition research” into “official investigative product” status. Enter the FISA warrant and Carter Page. A FISA warrant that could be built upon the Steele Dossier was what they needed. The Steele Dossier is the investigative virus the FBI wanted inside the system. To get the virus into official status, they used the FISA application as the delivery method and injected it into Carter Page. The FBI already knew Carter Page; essentially Carter Page was irrelevant, what they needed was the Dossier in the system { Go Deep}. With the communication from Alexander Downer ( foundation for the EC), in conjunction with the Steele Dossier ( foundation for the Page FISA), the CIA and FBI now held a plausible -albeit fraudulently obtained- basis to explain/justify all of their 2015 and 2016 political spying and surveillance activity. This is their insurance policy. If Hillary wins the election, everything just evaporates into the ether. However, if Hillary loses the election – the fraudulent investigative evidence now protects all of the players for their role in weaponized intelligence spying and surveillance operations. Andrew Weissmann was/is one of the DOJ participants who is well aware of the status of the operations as they proceed. In 2016 and 2017 Weissmann is being briefed by DOJ official Bruce Ohr who is carrying messages from Fusion-GPS and Chris Steele into the FBI. Fraudulent justifications. Just like the Susan Rice justification Memo, fraudulent justifications are what’s behind those paragraphs in the Rosenstein scope memos as delivered to Weissmann and Mueller. Fusion GPS was not hired to research Trump, the intelligence community was already doing surveillance and spy operations. The intelligence community needed Fusion GPS to give them a plausible justification for already existing surveillance and spy operations. See the difference? Fusion-GPS gave them the justification they needed with the Steele Dossier. That’s why the Steele Dossier is so important in the scope memos. .