{"id":31763,"date":"2017-10-15T21:28:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T01:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31763"},"modified":"2017-10-15T21:28:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T01:28:04","slug":"after-more-than-a-year-of-questions-there-are-still-no-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31763","title":{"rendered":"After More Than A Year Of Questions, There Are Still No Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Robert Mueller\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Mueller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Robert Mueller<\/a> was appointed to investigate ties between President Trump and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Russia\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=55.75,37.6166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=55.75,37.6166666667 (Russia)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Russia<\/a>, possibly involved in sabotaging the election process. Historically, this was the excuse put out by the Hillary campaign when they lost, but the media liked it, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"James Comey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Comey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">James Comey<\/a> played along, and we now have a special prosecutor. One of the questions in the part of the investigation that has been made public is the dossier on President Trump that was used as an excuse for the electronic surveillance on the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign%2C_2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Trump campaign<\/a> staff and Trump cabinet before and after the election. Where did that file come from, how did the media get hold of it, and who authorized it? Even the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Wall Street Journal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wall_Street_Journal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> is commenting on the media&#8217;s lack on interest in finding the answers to these questions. The article is behind the subscribers&#8217; wall, but here is the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/amp\/articles\/the-rest-of-the-russia-story-1507935042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Daily Caller\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Daily_Caller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">The Daily Caller<\/a> has also taken an interest in the story. They posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/10\/15\/wsj-editorial-board-accuses-beltway-media-and-democrats-of-trump-dossier-coverup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article <\/a>today about the media cover up of the history of the dossier.<\/p>\n<p>The article in the Daily Caller notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>What\u2019s significant about the newspaper\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/amp\/articles\/the-rest-of-the-russia-story-1507935042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece<\/a> is that Fusion <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Global Positioning System\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_Positioning_System\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">GPS<\/a> was co-founded by three former Journal reporters, Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch and Tom Catan. But that relationship provides no cover for the Fusion trio.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThe Beltway media move in a pack, and that means ignoring some stories while leaping on others. Consider the pack\u2019s lack of interest in the story of GPS Fusion [sic] and the \u2018dossier\u2019 from former spook Christopher Steele,\u201d writes the Journal\u2019s editorial board, which is considered right-of-center on the political spectrum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cAmericans don\u2019t need a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of Justice\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8933333333,-77.025&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8933333333,-77.025 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20Justice)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Justice Department<\/a> coverup abetted by Glenn Simpson\u2019s media buddies.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The dossier, which Steele began working on after being hired by Fusion GPS last June, has become a centerpiece of the ongoing investigation into possible Trump campaign collusion with Russian operatives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Fusion was working for an ally of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hillary Clinton\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillary_Clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>\u2019s when it hired Steele to\u00a0look into Trump\u2019s activities in Russia.\u00a0The result was a\u00a035-page dossier consisting of 17 memos dated from June 20 to Dec. 13 containing a slew of salacious allegations about Trump\u2019s personal activities in Russia. It also alleges that the Trump campaign was exchanging information with the Kremlin to help the election effort.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article reminds us that when Republicans have attempted to investigate the origins and history of the dossier, they have been met with opposition from the Democrats. Not that opposition from the Democrats is anything new, but you would think that the Democrats might want to learn the truth about this matter.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThe real question is why Democrats and Fusion seem not to want to tell the public who requested the dossier or what ties Fusion GPS boss Glenn Simpson had with the Russians in 2016,\u201d they write.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Fusion GPS has maintained close ties to reporters at the major news outlets, not just on the Trump-Russia story but for other investigations conducted for corporate and political clients.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>During the campaign last year, Fusion GPS and Simpson shared some of Steele\u2019s reporting with reporters at The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorktimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">New York Times<\/a>, The Washington Post, Yahoo! News and Mother Jones. Steele has revealed in a court in London, where he is based, that Fusion GPS directed him to brief reporters on some of his findings. He has also said that Fusion directed him to provide some memos in the dossier to Arizona Sen. John McCain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I totally understand why globalists in Washington would not want Donald Trump to become President and why they would not want his agenda to succeed. I guess I just thought that there might be a few more honest people in Washington who really wanted what was best for the country, rather than for their own personal ambitions. Obviously, the few honest people who are there are going to have to fight very hard to drain the swamp. As Harry Truman once said, &#8220;You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate ties between President Trump and Russia, possibly involved in sabotaging the election process. Historically, this was the excuse put out by the Hillary campaign when they lost, but the media liked it, James Comey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31763\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[712,10959,1457,10095,269,3035,1083,7015,8558,238],"class_list":["post-31763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-fusion-gps","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-james-comey","tag-justice-department","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia","tag-the-daily-caller","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31764,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31763\/revisions\/31764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}