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Who Colluded with the Russians? Apparently the Democrats!

<p>According to public records&comma; the Democrats commissioned and accepted a report from former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele &lpar;pictured at left&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The report contains several unverified charges against members of the Trump campaign&comma; including coordinating Russia&rsquo&semi;s hacking of DNC computers&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchingbagpost&period;com&sol;former-intelligence-officer-buzzfeed-russia-trump-documents-are-fake---here-the-proof&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank&quot&semi;" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>As we wrote in a previous article<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&comma; the report is noticeably fake&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The report was first published in January by&nbsp&semi;<em>BuzzFeed<&sol;em>&period; At the time&comma; the site&rsquo&semi;s editor said he doubted it was true&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Steele himself admitted that many of the charges in his report were unverified&period; Even so&comma; the document has been used by the media to spread fake news and by House Democrats during hearings&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s even being used in the FBI&&num;8217&semi;s Russia investigation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the document&comma; Steele clearly states that the accusations against Trump are from Moscow &ndash&semi; which means that Democrats have been repeating Russian propaganda for public consumption in Washington&period; In other words&comma; the same Democrats who are accusing Russia of destroying Hillary Clinton&rsquo&semi;s campaign are quoting Kremlin sources to attack Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Steele received payment for the report from&nbsp&semi;Fusion GPS&comma; a Democrat-funded research firm with ties to Hillary Clinton&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;If anyone colluded with the Russians&comma; it was the Democrats&comma;&rdquo&semi; said a former Trump campaign adviser&period; &ldquo&semi;After all&comma; they&rsquo&semi;ve routinely shopped around false claims from the debunked Steele dossier&comma; which listed sources including senior Kremlin officials&period; If anyone should be investigated in Washington&comma; it ought to be Adam Schiff&comma; Eric Swalwell&comma; Mark Warner&comma; and their staffers&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One of the report&rsquo&semi;s main targets was Carter Page&comma; a former Merrill Lynch employee who lived and worked in Moscow for a time&period; He has loose ties to the Trump campaign&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The accusations against Page surfaced during the presidential campaign as a <em>Yahoo News<&sol;em> story that failed to cite the dossier as a source&period; Just minutes after that story was published&comma; the Hillary Clinton campaign &ldquo&semi;put out an equally false press release&comma;&rdquo&semi; says Mr&period; Page&comma; who believes&nbsp&semi;Clinton&rsquo&semi;s team had access to the report and relied on it for public statements and interviews&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Author&&num;8217&semi;s Note&colon; <&sol;strong>This is radical change of perspective&period; There is public evidence of substantial&comma; indirect collusion between the Dems and Russian disinformation&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Dems commissioned and accepted Steele&&num;8217&semi;s report&period; Either they thought it was real and were working with the Russians or they were spreading false information they knew was false&period; They can&&num;8217&semi;t have it both ways&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m still convinced most if not all of the report was fake&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> &nbsp&semi;If the mainstream media had any sense of balance&comma; this would have been the narrative all along&period; The word &&num;8220&semi;collusion&&num;8221&semi; certainly fits here&period; The only variable is whether Steele made up the report from scratch&comma; without working with the Russians&comma; or if he actually received some information from them&period; Either way&comma; the Democrats are dirty as hell&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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