Let’s examine the facts behind the supposed Trump-Russian connection one by one.
First, the Trump dossier, supposedly written by Christopher Steele, a former MI6 operative for Great Britain (read spy), was unlikely to have been written by him at all, but rather by an unknown Russian. The report was so poorly written and with incorrect grammar that other MI6 agents claim it is unlike the quality of Steele’s usual work. In addition, names in the report are written in all capital letters, something that Russian expert, Paul Roderick Gregory explains is a normal KGB way of handling names in a report.
The veracity of the report is much in doubt. The writer cites unnamed high government officials who are close to members of Putin’s inner circle. We are to believe that these usually tight-lipped, highly secretive officials suddenly became very chatty with someone whose BFF is a retired MI6 agent. Give me a break here! And then the report claimed that one source saw Michael Cohen, Trump’s attorney, in Prague in the Czech Republic in August, meeting with a top Russian official to work out details of the Trump-Putin conspiracy. Well, sorry, but Michael Cohen has eye-witnesses to place him safely in the U.S. at that time and a passport that clearly shows that he never traveled to Prague at all.
So much for the so-called Trump dossier. Well then, how about Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his secret meeting with the Russian Ambassador? Hmm. Well, those so-called secret meetings took place at the Republican National Convention and in then Senator Sessions’ office in the Senate office building, with several staff members to witness it. Pretty clandestine meeting places, right? And Sessions’ supposed lie to the congressional committee was in response to a question about what he would do if it was discovered that members of Trump’s team had met with the Russians. He stated that he was considered by some to almost be a part of the team and he had never met with the Russians. Actually true. He had only met with the Russian Ambassador in his position as Senator, not as a member of the Trump team.
But isn’t that still questionable? Not at all. The Russian Ambassador as well as ambassadors and business leaders from countries all over the world meet regularly with senators and congressmen of both parties. It is simply a part of the Washington scene. Democratic Senator Mansion readily admitted that he had met with the Russian Ambassador, and while Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill immediately reported that she had never met with the ambassador, someone quickly found tweets that she had made announcing meetings with that very man. Did you lie, Senator, or did you just forget?
Others who met with the Russian ambassador include Hillary Clinton and 30 Democrats who met with the Russians about the Iran deal. The Ambassador also visited the White House 20 times during Obama’s presidency, and it was President Obama who, in 2012, thinking he was off-mike, confidentially told Russia’s Medvedev that he would “have more flexibility” after the election. Hmm. Flexibility to do what, exactly? As for all the other Trump campaign staffers who supposedly met with Russians, Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Putin confirmed to CNN last week that they had also met with people from the Clinton campaign, something Clinton staffers must have forgotten or they would have spoken up immediately to allay the furor.
As for the allegations themselves, if word of the meetings and phone calls has been leaked, why not the transcripts of those conversations? Could it be because there is no there, there?
The Telegraph from Great Britain reports that “Journalists from numerous media companies spent months trying to find evidence to back up the claims made in the dossier, without success.”
Executive editor of the New York Times, Dean Baquet admits “We heard about the back-channel communications between the Russians and Trump. We reported it, and found no evidence that it was true.”
The Hill reports that “none of the allegations in the report have been corroborated.”
NBC’s Chuck Todd, on the March 5 Meet the Press, asked Former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper if there was any evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, to which Clapper, replied “not to my knowledge.”
I could go on and on, but I hardly think it is necessary. Still, you have to hand it to the Democrats. They never give up!