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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if he's seen the PP tape.[/quote]

Nobody has, because there isn’t one.

Trump-Russia collusion was fabricated issue by the DNC and the Clinton campaign.

Now a high level FBI agent who investigated Trump is being sentenced to prison for collusion with Russia, and you are still in denial.

Steele Dossier Analyst Who Claimed Trump Pee Tape Existed Arrested by Feds
Danchenko was arrested as part of a special counsel inquiry into whether there was any wrongdoing in the FBI's investigation of the Trump administration's ties with Russia

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/steele-dossier-analyst-arrested-igor-danchenko-1253151/amp/

Igor Danchenko — the analyst who was the lead researcher on the infamous Steele dossier that made outlandish claims about then-President Elect Donald Trump, including the allegation that a tape existed of him with urinating hookers in a Russian hotel room — was arrested Thursday by federal authorities, The New York Times reported.

Danchenko is a Russia analyst who reported in the Steele dossier the infamous pee tape claim that Trump asked “a number of prostitutes to perform a ‘golden showers’ (urination) show in front of him,” although no evidence has been revealed to back that claim up. Trump denies the allegation. Danchenko was arrested as part of a special counsel inquiry being led by John H. Durham, who is looking into whether there was any wrongdoing in the FBI’s investigation of the Trump administration’s ties with Russia. The charges against Danchenko are not yet known but are expected to be unsealed sometime on Thursday, according to The Washington Post, which spoke with people familiar with the matter.[/quote]

At present, the tape has neither been proven [i]nor disproven.  [/i]

Just because there was a Durham witch hunt over the dossier doesn't mean it was disproven or debunked, in any way, shape or form.  Also, around 80% of what was in the Steele Dossier has in fact been proven to be true.[/quote]

Christopher Steele was an opposition researcher paid by the Democrats to dig up dirt on Trump. Democrats and media smeared a presidential contender, and then president, and paralyzed U.S. politics for three years.

https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf

^^Inspector General Michael Horowitz  found the Dossier was compiled from hearsay and third-hand gossip from two low-level sources and that they denied the testimony attributed to them. The only “verified” information that Horowitz found was available from public sources.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/11/18/politics/steele-dossier-reckoning/index.html

^^^A series of investigations and lawsuits have discredited many of its central allegations and exposed the unreliability of Steele's sources. They also raise serious questions about the political underpinnings of some key explosive claims about Trump by shedding new light on the involvement of some well-connected Democrats in the dossier, and separate efforts to prod the FBI to investigate ties between Trump's campaign and Russia.

Democrats paid for the research, funneled information to Steele's sources, and then urged the FBI to investigate Trump's connections to Russia.

Mother Jones first revealed the existence of the dossier a few days before the 2016 election, and said the memos were part of an "opposition research project" underwritten by Democrats. Nearly a year passed before the full truth came out about the financing: The money flowed from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign to law firm Perkins Coie, to the research company Fusion GPS, and then ultimately to Steele, who got $168,000.

(Anti-Trump Republicans initially funded Fusion GPS' research during the 2016 GOP primaries, but the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee picked up the tab before Steele got involved.)

Clinton's campaign funded the project, and we now know that much of the material in Steele's memos ended up being mere political gossip. Steele then sent his explosive but unverified findings to the FBI and State Department.

While Steele was passing his tips onto the FBI in fall 2016, a Clinton campaign lawyer separately met with a senior FBI official and gave him information about strange cyberactivity between servers at the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, the largest private bank in Russia.

The lawyer, Michael Sussmann, has since been charged with lying to the FBI during that meeting,

Sussmann repeated this lie during a meeting with CIA officials in February 2017. Sussman peddled the same material to a Slate reporter, who published a story right before the election. The story said reputable computer scientists uncovered unusual activity between servers belonging to the Trump Organization and the Moscow-based Alfa Bank, suggesting a secret backchannel.

The Trump Organization and Alfa Bank both denied there was a backchannel. The FBI investigated the underlying data and ruled out any improper cyber links by February 2017.

But after the Slate article came out, Clinton's campaign went on a PR blitz, tying Trump to Russia.

Sussmann was a partner at the law firm Perkins Coie, which indirectly hired Steele. Both men separately went to the FBI in 2016 with dirt about Trump, though there's no indication Sussmann knew about the dossier. (A 2019 Justice Department watchdog report pointed out that the FBI routinely accepts information from biased or dubious sources, and then investigators try to independently vet the material.)

After he was charged, Sussmann resigned from Perkins Coie. He declined to comment for this story.

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For one, many of the items identified in the Steele Dossier were corroborated by the FBI, resulting in many of the 34 criminal indictments that came out of the Mueller Report.  However it is also notable that Mueller was held back from investigating most of Trump's business dealings, which is a far more target rich environment for criminality.  There were many compilations of findings of things identified in the Steele Dossier which detail how they were corroborated, such as this article - https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/steele-dossier-retrospective along with many other things which were corroborated by investigative journalists.

Also, [i]very little[/i] of what was in the Steele Dossier was actually disproven or debunked, even by Horowitz.  Horowitz focused primarily on trying to impugn some of the sources, such as Danchenko, but didn't go very far toward actually debunking or disproving the Dossier content.
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