There's a lot of "Mueller is wrapping up any day now" buzz, so it's at least an indicator.

I don't really understand this Ukraine stuff... if Gates isn't cooperating on a conspiracy with Russia, then clearly there's something significant with their Ukrainian lobbying that goes beyond just FARA violations.

two more details:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/key-doj-officials-mueller-knew-about-dossier
Bruce Ohr didn't just tell McCabe & Strzok about the Steele Dossier, but also told DoJ officials Andrew Weissmann and Zainab Ahmad, both who joined Mueller's team
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mccabes-fbi-tried-to-re-engage-christopher-steele-after-comey-was-fired_2766822.html
After Steele was terminated when his 'credibility issues' surfaced, Bruce Ohr remained a conduit for him to work 'unofficially' for the FBI
Andrew McCabe attempted to bring Steele back on an official capacity in the 8 day interim between Comey's firing and Mueller's appointment

also this good point of speculation;



It makes a case worth considering that Mueller's appointment was embraced as a means to shut out McCabe when he started on his anti-Trump crusade.

Also, Steele expressed frustration to Ohr because once Mueller took over they weren't contacting him for months.



The perceived anti-Trump bias of Steele seems like a stupid talking point... he believed his sources were telling him the truth, so obviously he wouldn't want a man compromised by Russia to become president.

Some of Papadopoulos's testimony was interesting. The FBI wanted to wire him up to talk to Mifsud, which he refused to do. I do wonder if the FBI had some sting operation with the Greek guy giving him 10k.

Any theories on who the Trump campaign spy was? Those assholes at Epoch aren't releasing the name.

Giuliani needs to stop going on TV

Ugggggghhhh

that guy needs to seriously go over and work for Breitbart or another outlet that's openly biased. he'd do fine there.

the only 4d chess argument that works for him is he's the bad news fall guy that they trot out there to low key drop shitty news ahead of media breaking them. but if that's the case he's got to be an absolute genius and perfect actor, anything less and he's clearly just slipping.

Now we're at "maybe the campaign colluded, but Trump didn't know about it".

Thanks Rudy, that's one step closer to the light.

How would you know that nobody in your campaign colluded? That's a good question Rudy.

This post was edited by IceMage on Jan 17 2019 11:06am

I've long supported Rudy being on TV

just a straight shooter honest type of patriot. Hopefully he keeps doing many more interviews in support of our great President

also, the Bruce Ohr transcript being revealed exposes that Adam Schiff was indeed full of shit and simply lying in his 'FISA Rebuttal letter', when the house was doing its dueling FISA memos.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/425739-fisa-shocker-doj-official-warned-steele-dossier-was-connected-to-clinton
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/17/bruce-ohr-adam-schiff-dossier/

The cliffs notes version: Schiff's memo claimed that Ohr only met with the FBI after the election, that the republicans were lying about him meeting earlier, and thus was uninvolved in the earlier FISA process, that the FBI was unaware of Steele's bias at the time and that Steele had been terminated and uninvolved in the FBI's investigation after his bias became clear.

Bruce Ohr however testified that he met with the FBI only days after meeting Steele, first on July 31st and then in August, briefing the top FBI/DoJ officials who sought the FISA warrant, particularly McCabe & Strzok. And he told them at the time about Steele's bias and desperation to stop Trump being elected, and directly told them that the Steele dossier was a product of Democratic campaign research. And after Steele's termination, Ohr continued to serve as a back channel conduit for Steele to pass information to the FBI, which traveled from Steele to Ohr to Pientka to Strzok. And in that 8 day span after Comey's firing, McCabe tried to re-enlist Steele as said above.

so lets all travel through the time machine and remember what was said about the dueling FISA memos now that we have the benefit of hindsight:
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=78040287&f=119

This post was edited by Goomshill on Jan 17 2019 03:26pm

Except the dossier wasn't "a product of Democratic campaign research". It was initially Republican oppo research which rolled over to Democratic oppo after the primaries were all but over (don't believe me, read the transcript of Glenn Simpson's testimony to the SJC - I have read the entire thing: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4345537-Fusion-GPS-Simpson-Transcript.html).

still stand by everything that i wrote that i've read thusfar.