Let me ask you this... have you ever considered why the FBI chose to brief Trump on this absurd dossier shortly after his election, and only then did the media divulge the existence of the dossier, despite the fact that it had been shopped around to these same media outlets for months preceding the election and was deemed too absurd to touch? Why do you think the FBI did that? Do you think maaaaaybe it was to provide the pretext necessary for the media to finally "break the story"?
This is the stupidest rough ridin' theory I've heard on this blog and I just read about KU fans being convinced they are getting Harbaugh.
Come on now, even I wouldn't stoop to comparing the liberal hysteria around here to KU delusion. Let's play nice. To expound a bit more on the theory (and it is just a theory until we learn more)....
8) Jim Comey personally briefed Trump on the dossier, shortly before CNN reported it
As confirmed by the Washington Post, the Russia-Trump COLUSION narrative was a Clinton campaign political operation. The dossier itself was shopped around by Fusion GPS a year ago to The New York Times, the Washington Post, Yahoo News, The New Yorker, and CNN, according to lawyers for the ex-spy who worked on the dossier. The dossier was so unverifiable that the only reporter to bite was from Mother Jones.
What really got the ball rolling on last year’s Russia-Trump conspiracy theory, then, was not the dossier itself but the briefing of it by Obama intelligence chiefs to President-elect Trump in January. Former FBI head Jim Comey admitted under oath that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper asked him to personally brief President Trump about this dossier. The fact of that meeting was quickly leaked to CNN.
Given the dossier’s many problems, was the entire purpose of the meeting to produce the leak that the meeting happened? No one was biting on the dossier and it needed legitimization by opponents of Trump. If the dossier was so shoddy that it was debunked in hours after BuzzFeed posted it in all its salacious glory, why brief the president and president-elect on it, much less leak it? What was the real purpose of that meeting, and that leak to CNN?
http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/25/top-10-things-to-know-about-dossier/
So your theory is that the dossier was available for months, FBI/Obama wanted to sabotage Trump, and FBI/Obama knew briefing Trump would get the dossier in the media.
Giving you all of that, why on earth would they wait until after the election? It makes absolutely no sense.
Maybe because everybody thought Hillary was going to win easily?
Ordinarily, this theory would seem like a bit of a stretch, but James Clapper is increasingly looking like a never-Trumper partisan hack, and the fact that he personally interceded to ask Comey to brief Trump and Obama on a dossier that had not been corroborated, a briefing which then immediately leaked to the media, is very suspicious. It looks like a political dirty trick.
You seriously believe the people that you think will stop at nothing to tear down Trump didn't use it because they were taking it easy on Trump? Meanwhile, the media that you believe attacks and fabricates stories about Trump constantly, needed some pretext to report on it. Also, you think the FBI should of withheld telling Trump about the existence of the dossier.
Far more likely is that the Dem's didn't use it because the information it contained was pretty outlandish and unusable without any corroboration or proof. The media didn't print the article until it came to the bottom of the barrel of media outlets for the same reason. The FBI briefed Trump on the documents existence, not only because it is about the incoming President himself, but because any truth to the allegations could have an effect on national security. Even if the media was waiting for something from higher up to validate the dossier in any way, they only got it when the leakiest of leaky staffs let the information out.
