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The corrupt FBI offered Christopher Steele $1 million to corroborate Trump allegations in dossier in order to undermine Trump

The FBI offered ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele $1 million to corroborate salacious allegations made in his dossier against former President Donald Trump and members of his 2016 campaign, but he was unable to do so, an FBI official testified Tuesday.

FBI supervisory counterintelligence analyst Brian Auten was the first witness in the trial of Igor Danchenko, the Russian national who served as the primary sub-source for Steele's anti-Trump dossier and has been charged with five counts of making false statements to the bureau.

Auten testified that he and a group of FBI agents went overseas in early October 2021 to speak with Steele about the dossier. During questioning by Special Counsel John Durham on Tuesday, Auten said that during those meetings the FBI offered Steele $1 million if he could corroborate allegations in the dossier. Auten testified that Steele could not do so

Auten also said that the FBI had no corroboration of allegations in the dossier but nevertheless took that information and inserted it into the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

"On October 21, 2016 [the date of the Carter Page FISA application], did you have any information to corroborate that information?" Durham asked.

"No," Auten said, confirming that the FBI began receiving Steele’s reports, later known as the dossier, on Sept. 19, 2016, and submitted its first FISA application on Page on Oct. 21, 2016.

Sept. 19, 2016, was also the day that then-Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann brought white papers to a meeting at FBI headquarters with then-FBI General Counsel James Baker that alleged the Trump Organization was using a secret back channel to communicate with Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank in the weeks leading up to the presidential election.
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Meanwhile, Auten also said the FBI reached out to other intelligence agencies to see if they could corroborate information relating to dossier, which was commissioned by opposition research firm Fusion GPS and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee through law firm Perkins Coie.

Auten repeatedly admitted under questioning from Durham that the FBI never received corroboration of the information in the Steele dossier, but he stressed that it was used in the initial FISA application and in the three subsequent renewals.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dur...ations-dossier
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If the United States federal government were to pay one MILLION dollars to a British spy to upset an American presidential election, would that be a crime? If so, what crime would it be? Insurrection, treason, obstruction of justice?
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How much you want to bet the corrupt FBI didn't offer Tony Bobulinski $1 million to verify all the crimes on Hunter Biden's laptop?
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A million bucks to verify his own bullshit “dossier”, he won’t do it and the feds still use it to spy on Trump. Welcome to the Police States of America.
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When is Durham gonna drop ALL these supposed charges?

Last time I checked, there was 2 ppl charged ....and one was for lying, but-was acquitted.- the other pled to a false email charge.


Based on the link below- The Durham investigation is wrapping up and so far, no additional charges are pending. Seems like a yuge talking point and hope chest posed to yield big results, and while you believed what the GOP and FOX news has tee'd it up as a big to-do, it has proven to be a ...wait for it....

NOTHING BURGER ��

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/u...mp-russia.html
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I couldn’t care less about who gets convicted, they all (politicians and those in their orbit) only ever get a slap on the wrist when they should be hung.

What these revelations do is prove, without an ounce of doubt, that the entire OMFG RUSSIA narrative was nothing more than entrenched bureaucrats who just couldn’t live with an outsider holding power. They can and did manufacturer evidence, shit all over the constitution and make a mockery out of our justice system. This should frighten every citizen. If they can do it to a sitting President, they can do it to you.
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I couldn’t care less about who gets convicted, they all (politicians and those in their orbit) only ever get a slap on the wrist when they should be hung.

What these revelations do is prove, without an ounce of doubt, that the entire OMFG RUSSIA narrative was nothing more than entrenched bureaucrats who just couldn’t live with an outsider holding power. They can and did manufacturer evidence, shit all over the constitution and make a mockery out of our justice system. This should frighten every citizen. If they can do it to a sitting President, they can do it to you. Originally Posted by Jacuzzme

Yep, what he said
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I couldn’t care less about who gets convicted, they all (politicians and those in their orbit) only ever get a slap on the wrist when they should be hung.

What these revelations do is prove, without an ounce of doubt, that the entire OMFG RUSSIA narrative was nothing more than entrenched bureaucrats who just couldn’t live with an outsider holding power. They can and did manufacturer evidence, shit all over the constitution and make a mockery out of our justice system. This should frighten every citizen. If they can do it to a sitting President, they can do it to you. Originally Posted by Jacuzzme
Exactly !!!

The FBI Put A $1 Million Bounty On Trump As The Bureau Sought To Frame Him - James Comey and his crooked cronies at the bureau were so desperate to topple Trump that they put the equivalent of a a taxpayer-funded bounty on the president’s head to frame him.

https://thegreggjarrett.com/the-fbi-...-to-frame-him/