Prosecutor ends probe of FBI's Trump-Russia investigation with harsh criticism, but no new charges

[I_M4_AU 9,038]

8 minutes ago, aubiefifty said:

you are not interested in the truth. you want to imply trump and company did nothing altho mueller said they needed to keep investigating. this is a little old but it is a refresher on why things happened.

My God, are you serious?  The Durham report just came out and said ALL the investigations into Trump and Russia were based on a lie, therefore, anything after that was made up by the FBI and Hillary, Obama and Biden knew about it and approved it.  Yet they let the investigation continue knowing full well it was based on a lie.  They lead people like you to believe in the article you just posted and, evidently, still believe in that garbage.

I don’t expect you to abandon the Dems over this as you are too deep in to realize the truth and you, as you have just shown, only believe your truth.  It exonerates Trump for the Russian collusion and telling America his campaign was spied on as it was.

This doesn’t make me want to vote for the man, but a lot of people will in the primaries.

[aubiefifty 18,441]

1 minute ago, I_M4_AU said:

My God, are you serious?  The Durham report just came out and said ALL the investigations into Trump and Russia were based on a lie, therefore, anything after that was made up by the FBI and Hillary, Obama and Biden knew about it and approved it.  Yet they let the investigation continue knowing full well it was based on a lie.  They lead people like you to believe in the article you just posted and, evidently, still believe in that garbage.

I don’t expect you to abandon the Dems over this as you are too deep in to realize the truth and you, as you have just shown, only believe your truth.  It exonerates Trump for the Russian collusion and telling America his campaign was spied on as it was.

This doesn’t make me want to vote for the man, but a lot of people will in the primaries.

did you read all the ties his staff had to russia? i will always think trump had a favor done or got lucky. i will never believe a damn thing trump says because he is such a damn liar. i also firmly believe if he could have done it he would have. we differ on things. you distrust dems and i would not trust a repuke any farther than i could throw him. you have a lot of nerve talking about truth when you supported trump for so long.

[I_M4_AU 9,038]

3 minutes ago, aubiefifty said:

did you read all the ties his staff had to russia? i will always think trump had a favor done or got lucky. i will never believe a damn thing trump says because he is such a damn liar. i also firmly believe if he could have done it he would have. we differ on things. you distrust dems and i would not trust a repuke any farther than i could throw him. you have a lot of nerve talking about truth when you supported trump for so long.

Typical leftist thinking.  The truth is the truth, sometimes you have to dig for it like Durham did.  He presented it and you and the Dems, along with their propaganda machine (the MSM) have circled the wagons and downplay the truth.  You will go to your grave thinking Trump was a Russian asset and that’s fine.  The only people that care about the Durham report are the ones that knew Hillary cooked this thing up from the start.  It just confirms what was believed to be the truth.

[icanthearyou 4,468]

1 hour ago, I_M4_AU said:

The Durham report just came out and said ALL the investigations into Trump and Russia were based on a lie

Two IGs said otherwise.  I suppose it comes down to who you want to believe. 

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2 minutes ago, icanthearyou said:

Two IGs said otherwise.  I suppose it comes down to who you want to believe. 

Those IGs believed what the FBI said, it was their job to listen to a supposed credible law enforcement organization.  The present DOJ just replace 3 whistleblowers on the Hunter Biden laptop investigation; is this a concern to you?

[icanthearyou 4,468]

1 hour ago, I_M4_AU said:

The truth is the truth, sometimes you have to dig for it like Durham did.  He presented it and you and the Dems, along with their propaganda machine (the MSM) have circled the wagons and downplay the truth.

Yes, the Republicans are known for truth.

Fox

Q

Infowars

Trump

Nixon

Iran/Contra

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Roger Stone

Rudy Gulliani

Cruz

Rand Paul

 

And yet, the only Republican lie you remember is,,, "read my lips,,, no new taxes".  

When you become completely partisan, when you are more partisan than patriotic,,, truth becomes very difficult to accept.

 

[icanthearyou 4,468]

8 minutes ago, I_M4_AU said:

to a supposed credible law enforcement organization

So you believe the FBI is compromised, no longer legitimate?

8 minutes ago, I_M4_AU said:

The present DOJ just replace 3 whistleblowers on the Hunter Biden laptop investigation; is this a concern to you?

Possibly, I do not have any facts and,,, the reputation/accuracy of the right wing media is not very good.

[Auburnfan91 1,408]

6 hours ago, homersapien said:

Well, I guess we're going to find out if the majority of the American people buy into that sort of conspiratorial thinking. 

I don't think they will.

I guess the FEC bought into conspiratorial thinking when they fined the DNC and Clinton campaign for misreporting spending that was used for the Steele dossier.

 

DNC, Clinton campaign agree to Steele dossier funding fine

By JILL COLVIN March 31, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation into whether they violated campaign finance law by misreporting spending on research that eventually became the infamous Steele dossier.

That’s according to documents sent Tuesday to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, which had filed an administrative complaint in 2018 accusing the Democrats of misreporting payments made to a law firm during the 2016 campaign to obscure the spending.

The Clinton campaign hired Perkins Coie, which then hired Fusion GPS, a research and intelligence firm, to conduct opposition research on Republican candidate Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. But on FEC forms, the Clinton campaign classified the spending as legal services.

“By intentionally obscuring their payments through Perkins Coie and failing to publicly disclose the true purpose of those payments,” the campaign and DNC “were able to avoid publicly reporting on their statutorily required FEC disclosure forms the fact that they were paying Fusion GPS to perform opposition research on Trump with the intent of influencing the outcome of the 2016 presidential election,” the initial complaint had read.

The Clinton campaign and DNC had argued that the payments had been described accurately, but agreed, according to the documents, to settle without conceding to avoid further legal costs.

The Clinton campaign agreed to a civil penalty of $8,000 and the DNC $105,000, according to a pair of conciliatory agreements that were attached to the letter sent to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation.

The documents have not yet been made public and FEC spokeswoman Judith Ingram said the FEC has 30 days after parties are notified about enforcement matters to release them.

The Steele dossier was a report compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele and financed by Democrats that included salacious allegations about Trump’s conduct in Russia and allegations about ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Documents have shown the FBI invested significant resources attempting to corroborate the dossier and relied substantially on it to obtain surveillance warrants targeting former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

But the dossier has been largely discredited since its publication, with core aspects of the material exposed as unsupported and unproven rumors. A special counsel assigned to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe charged one of Steele’s sources with lying to the FBI and charged a cybersecurity lawyer who worked for Clinton’s campaign with lying to the FBI during a 2016 meeting in which he relayed concerns about the Russia-based Alfa Bank.

Trump, who has railed against the dossier for years, released a statement celebrating the agreement and once again slamming the dossier as “a Hoax funded by the DNC and the Clinton Campaign.”

A DNC spokesperson played down the decision, saying: “We settled aging and silly complaints from the 2016 election about ‘purpose descriptions’ in our FEC report.” The lawyer representing both the campaign and the DNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The letter was first reported by the Washington Examiner.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-2022-midterm-elections-business-elections-presidential-elections-5468774d18e8c46f81b55e9260b13e93

[I_M4_AU 9,038]

4 hours ago, icanthearyou said:

When you become completely partisan, when you are more partisan than patriotic,,, truth becomes very difficult to accept.

Yes, you are coming around.  Good for you.

[I_M4_AU 9,038]

4 hours ago, icanthearyou said:

So you believe the FBI is compromised, no longer legitimate?

Possibly, I do not have any facts and,,, the reputation/accuracy of the right wing media is not very good.

Yes, since 2016 I have been questioning the upper leadership of the FBI.  It has been weaponized as of late.

The reputation/accuracy of media is not very good.  You have believed certain media for so long you can’t weed out the truth.

[homersapien 12,303]

53 minutes ago, Auburnfan91 said:

I guess the FEC bought into conspiratorial thinking when they fined the DNC and Clinton campaign for misreporting spending that was used for the Steele dossier.

 

DNC, Clinton campaign agree to Steele dossier funding fine

By JILL COLVIN March 31, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation into whether they violated campaign finance law by misreporting spending on research that eventually became the infamous Steele dossier.

That’s according to documents sent Tuesday to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, which had filed an administrative complaint in 2018 accusing the Democrats of misreporting payments made to a law firm during the 2016 campaign to obscure the spending.

The Clinton campaign hired Perkins Coie, which then hired Fusion GPS, a research and intelligence firm, to conduct opposition research on Republican candidate Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. But on FEC forms, the Clinton campaign classified the spending as legal services.

“By intentionally obscuring their payments through Perkins Coie and failing to publicly disclose the true purpose of those payments,” the campaign and DNC “were able to avoid publicly reporting on their statutorily required FEC disclosure forms the fact that they were paying Fusion GPS to perform opposition research on Trump with the intent of influencing the outcome of the 2016 presidential election,” the initial complaint had read.

The Clinton campaign and DNC had argued that the payments had been described accurately, but agreed, according to the documents, to settle without conceding to avoid further legal costs.

The Clinton campaign agreed to a civil penalty of $8,000 and the DNC $105,000, according to a pair of conciliatory agreements that were attached to the letter sent to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation.

The documents have not yet been made public and FEC spokeswoman Judith Ingram said the FEC has 30 days after parties are notified about enforcement matters to release them.

The Steele dossier was a report compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele and financed by Democrats that included salacious allegations about Trump’s conduct in Russia and allegations about ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Documents have shown the FBI invested significant resources attempting to corroborate the dossier and relied substantially on it to obtain surveillance warrants targeting former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

But the dossier has been largely discredited since its publication, with core aspects of the material exposed as unsupported and unproven rumors. A special counsel assigned to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe charged one of Steele’s sources with lying to the FBI and charged a cybersecurity lawyer who worked for Clinton’s campaign with lying to the FBI during a 2016 meeting in which he relayed concerns about the Russia-based Alfa Bank.

Trump, who has railed against the dossier for years, released a statement celebrating the agreement and once again slamming the dossier as “a Hoax funded by the DNC and the Clinton Campaign.”

A DNC spokesperson played down the decision, saying: “We settled aging and silly complaints from the 2016 election about ‘purpose descriptions’ in our FEC report.” The lawyer representing both the campaign and the DNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The letter was first reported by the Washington Examiner.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-2022-midterm-elections-business-elections-presidential-elections-5468774d18e8c46f81b55e9260b13e93

Yeah, that's sure to convince a majority of voters that Democrats conspired to steal the election from Trump, who actually won.