I never said that. But spin all you like. I don’t expect anything else. — NOS4A2
The first intel about bounties was bad. The second intel walking it back was good. Sounds like spin to me.
Do you believe the intel about bounties was good? — NOS4A2
The former MI6 spy Christopher Steele produced a second dossier for the FBI on Donald Trump while he was in the White House, sources told The Telegraph.
Mr Steele filed a series of intelligence reports to US authorities during the Trump presidency, including information concerning alleged sexual exploits.
Mr Steele’s continued involvement supplying intelligence to the FBI appears to give credibility to his original dossier, which sparked a Special Counsel investigation by prosecutor Robert Mueller into Russian interference into the 2016 US presidential elections.
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The Telegraph understands that Mr Steele, through his company Orbis Business Intelligence, continued supplying raw intelligence to the federal authorities in the US.
The second dossier contains raw intelligence that makes further claims of Russian meddling in the US election and also references claims regarding the existence of further sex tapes. The second dossier is reliant on separate sources to those who supplied information for the first reports.
The fact the FBI continued to receive intelligence from Mr Steele, who ran MI6’s Russia desk from 2006 to 2009 before setting up Orbis, is potentially significant because it shows his work was apparently still being taken seriously after Mr Trump took hold of the reins of power.
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Intelligence gathered by Mr Steele for his second dossier is understood to include further details of Mr Manafort’s alleged Russian contacts.
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The FBI interviewed Mr Steele at the Grosvenor Hotel in central London, close to his offices, in September 2017 as part of then ongoing inquiries into Russian meddling.
In the interview, Mr Steele told the FBI that Orbis had "four discrete, ‘hermetically-sealed’ main agent networks". His primary "sub-source" for the dossier was no longer "active" at the time of the interview with FBI agents, but that another "main agent network is up and running and is now starting to get good information".
The Telegraph understands this agent, referred to by Mr Steele in his interview with the FBI, supplied information for the second dossier.
The new dossier contains, like the first, a series of raw intelligence reports on alleged Russian interference linked to Mr Trump and his associates.
It appears that he thinks that Cyber Ninjas will find many thousands of votes for him in Arizona. Then they will move on to Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin where they will also find many thousands of votes for him. Enough votes to overturn the election in his favor. — Trump Thinks That He Will Be Reinstated In The White House (Caren White, May 2021)
What’s really scary about this is not just that Trump is obsessed with this recount but that he thinks that it will lead to Biden being thrown out of the White House and Trump becoming president instead. — Trump Thinks That He Will Be Reinstated In The White House (Caren White, May 2021)
This is why I am convinced that Trump will run for president in 2024. In his reality, it makes sense to run for a second term and believe that he can win. — Trump Thinks That He Will Be Reinstated In The White House (Caren White, May 2021)
People, Trump and co. really could win.Then the fun will be over. — baker
Because of this, other principles of democracy, such as inclusiveness and equality, become increasingly irrelevant. — baker
I remember this story finding a home among the credulous (one can type "bounties" into the search bar for a good laugh).
U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put Bounties on American Troops
"It was a huge election-time story that prompted cries of treason. But according to a newly disclosed assessment, Donald Trump might have been right to call it a “hoax.”" — NOS4A2
I think it's safe to say that without the pandemic he would have made an easy second term. — Count Timothy von Icarus
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