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That says the Steele dossier was "fraudulent and discredited". Did I miss something? I thought a decent amount of it was framed as hearsay and not trying to make a factual claim.
The Steele Dossier was largely validated, even the more outrageous stuff like the pee tape. It's fake, but it was a real tape and one of Trump's goons in Russia tipped off Michael Cohen about it and how they stopped it from getting out.
Confirmed in a footnote in the Mueller report of all things, that nobody read.
https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/4/18/mueller-report-confirms-compromising-tapes-trump-russia
The report found that Cohen received a text from Russian businessman Giorgi Rtskhiladze that stated he had, "Stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there's anything else... Just so you know.'"
In a follow-up text to Cohen, Rtskhiladze makes clear he's talking about "compromising tapes of Trump rumored to be held by persons associated with the Russian real estate conglomerate Crocus Group, which had helped host the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Russia."
Devils advocate: It may not be “pee tapes”, it may be video of him sexually assaulting a Miss Universe candidate.
The "P" stands for pedophile.
Was exactly what stuck out to me. Don't remember when that conclusion was reached.
As best as I can remember, everything in the Steele Dossier has either been verified, or is unverified. Nothing to my knowledge has been proven to be incorrect.
I picked up on that too. The dossier was comprised of raw intel, it wasn't characterized as comprehensive and 100% accurate.