The Donald Trump fake “Russian Collusion” story just got a bit weirder, especially for Democrats who continue to treat the scandal as real. The Steele Dossier, loaded with fake collusion myths between Trump and Russia, was not sourced from Russians or Kremlin insiders.
Yes, we know that. Igor Danchenko made up stories to feed to Christopher Steele. We knew it was campaign opposition research. We did not (really) know that the actual source for those stories (the Russian source) was the same campaign that paid for Steele to “dig up” dirt on Trump.
The indictment isn’t about him having contacts with Russians — it’s about him lying about having contacts with Russians, and getting all his tips from a Hillary Clinton operative! A public relations flack the indictment pseudonymizes as “PR Executive-1.”
In other words, the Hillary campaign paid Christopher Steele (through a laundromat legal firm, among others) to source information from a Russian guy who was receiving that intel from a paid staffer of the Clinton Campaign.
Techo_Fog further reports that Danchenko claim that this call came from Sergei Millian — who has long denied placing such a call.
Sergei Millian is now absolved. Danchenko lied about who placed the call to cover up for the fact that his Hot Tip From The Kremlin came from an American operative for the Hillary Clinton campaign.
The only “Russian collusion” was between Hillary’s paid staffer and Igor Danchenko and Igor and Hillary’s paid “investigator, Christopher Steele (laundered through lawyers to protect Clinton and her campaign).
Ace has many details here from the Durham indictment, including a suggestion that they know the name of that Clinton operative. There’s also some nifty stuff about how a Russian in the US was offered a potential gig in the US State department for playing along with the scam.
It’s all very enlightening and exposing. For example, every Democrat who took the bait, swallowed it, then puked it up endlessly for years on social media might have a bad taste in their mouths.
Maybe not as bad as the taste in the mouths of all those “Republican” Never-Trumpers. Their defection was based on a series of lies created by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and fed to Hillary Clinton’s campaign as campaign material to use against a Republican.
As Ace notes, be sure to check for updates from the media and especially the entire staff at National Review, whose TDS led me and many others to stop reading them altogether.
I’m so glad that’s not “working out for you.”
