President Donald Trump blasted the ‘bogus’ dossier of salacious and unverified information about him in an angry early morning tweet the day after Christmas, calling it a ‘tainted’ document that the FBI must not use as a basis for investigation.
Trump railed against the dossier as ‘bogus’ and a ‘pile of garbage,’ bringing up its Democratic funding origins, while going after the FBI for reportedly using the dossier as the foundation for its investigations of Trump campaign officials and associates.
‘WOW, @foxandfriends “Dossier is bogus. Clinton Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all of this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED,” Trump wrote.
‘And they used this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage as the basis for going after the Trump Campaign!’
President Donald Trump went after the salacious and unverified information about him in an angry early morning tweet
Trump fired off the tweet as Republicans in Congress have followed his lead and turned up the heat on top FBI officials over the alleged ‘bias’ among top agents pursuing the Russia investigation.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has obtained guilty pleas from two Trump associates, including former national security advisor Mike Flynn, for lying to the FBI.
Trump’s attack followed a Fox News report that FBI officials had their ‘back against the wall’ following hours-long testimony by deputy director Andrew McCabe.
The network referenced a Washington Times report.
That report stated that the FBI was declining to repudiate the dossier, which it partially relied on during its investigation of the Trump campaign during the election.
It also stated that the FBI concedes that ‘major core charges of election collusion’ contained in the original dossier remain unsubstantiated.
Lawmakers have blasted funding sources of the infamous dirty dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, and wanted to know if it formed the bases for FISA warrants
Lawmakers want to investigated the infamous dirty dossier, its funding sources, and whether it got used to obtain surveillance warrants. Salacious unproven parts of the dossier have been discredited
The House GOP’s probing of the FBI’s actions come amid rising Democratic warnings about efforts to tarnish or even push out special counsel Robert Mueller
The Fox anchor relating the report said the FBI was ‘admitting they cannot verify the trump dossier.’
The dossier, in additional to containing unverified and salacious information about Donald Trump’s alleged conduct in a Moscow hotel room, catalogued various alleged contacts between Trump advisors and the Russians and even alleged pay-offs.
Many of those claims have not yet been substantiated, although Mueller’s probe has unearthed multiple contacts between Trump officials and Russians that the officials have now acknowledged took place.
Trump’s lawyers continue to predict that Mueller is wrapping up his probe as it relates to anyone in the White House. His lawyers were to have met with Mueller and his team last week.
The dossier was compiled by retired British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. Its murky origins have been revealed to include a Republican donor who hired political intelligence firm Fusion GPS. A Democratic lawyer then provided payments on behalf of the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign to continue research on Trump after the primaries.
The information in the dossier, which included allegedly compromising information on Trump, made its way to the FBI, which opened its own investigation of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and other officials.
House Intelligence Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes has taken part in secret meetings with other GOP panel members to attempt to ferret out corruption they believe exists within the FBI and the Justice Department
The dossier Trump trashed claimed that Russia had gotten compromising information on Donald Trump
The dossier got handed over to the FBI during the campaign. During oversight hearings, Republican lawmakers have complained that a tainted document could have been the basis for conducting surveillance on Trump associates.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe has obtained guilty pleas from two Trump associates, including former White House security advisor Mike Flynn.
It has charged former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his one-time deputy, Rick Gates.
The Washington Post reported that House Intelligence chairman Rep. Devin Nunes of California is considering producing a report with other Republicans on alleged ‘corruption’ at the FBI.
The House GOP’s probing of the FBI’s actions come amid rising Democratic warnings about efforts to tarnish or even push out Mueller as his investigators make their way through key Trump advisors.