{"id":33592,"date":"2018-06-07T12:31:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T16:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33592"},"modified":"2018-06-07T12:31:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T16:31:44","slug":"the-smelly-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33592","title":{"rendered":"The Smelly Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breitbart<\/a> posted an article today with the following headline:<\/p>\n

Russian Lobbyist at Don Jr. Meeting Says He \u2018Might\u2019 Have Seen John McCain at Summit Where Senator Learned of \u2018Pee\u2019 Dossier<\/h1>\n

Wow. What an incredible coincidence.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Russian-born Washington lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin says he might have spoken to McCain and the senator\u2019s assistant David J. Kramer at the Halifax International Security Forum in 2016. However, Akhmetshin claimed that he did not discuss the dossier with McCain or Kramer, and that he didn\u2019t know about the existence of the controversial dossier.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The information raises immediate questions about the possibility of dirty tricks in arranging the infamous Trump Tower meeting. This considering a recent Breitbart News\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0that email transcripts and other information disclosed in Akhmetshin\u2019s testimony reveal a significant relationship between the lobbyist and the controversial Fusion GPS firm that produced the infamous, largely discredited anti-Trump dossier.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was at the\u00a0security conference in Canada in November 2016 that McCain says<\/a> he was approached by Sir Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to Moscow and friend of ex-British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wood briefed McCain and Kramer, a former State Department official and longtime McCain associate who agreed to meet Steele in London for a fuller briefing on the dossier contents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0in February that after meeting with Steele, Kramer went to Washington and received the dossier document directly from Fusion GPS. McCain then passed the dossier to FBI Director James Comey.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0oped<\/a>\u00a0in January, GPS co-founders Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritch wrote that they helped McCain share their anti-Trump dossier with the Obama-era intelligence community via an unnamed \u201cemissary.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. It is becoming obvious that members of both parties were involved in the ‘insurance policy’ to derail the Trump administration. This actually makes sense when you realize the threat President Trump is to both parties–if an outsider who is not part of the ‘in crowd’ can be successful in Washington, the power of both political parties will be diminished. Most of the people in Congress are there to increase their power–not to have it diminished. We can only hope that the few members of Congress who love America more than they love their own power can drain the smelly swamp Washington has become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Breitbart posted an article today with the following headline: Russian Lobbyist at Don Jr. Meeting Says He \u2018Might\u2019 Have Seen John McCain at Summit Where Senator Learned of \u2018Pee\u2019 Dossier Wow. What an incredible coincidence. The article reports: Russian-born Washington … Continue reading →<\/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":[10331,1225,10802,1456,9777,10959,11351,6555,491,10589,11185,615],"class_list":["post-33592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breitbart-news","tag-canada","tag-christopher-steele","tag-clinton","tag-dirty-tricks","tag-fusion-gps","tag-glenn-simpson","tag-insurance-policy","tag-john-mccain","tag-president-trump","tag-trump-dossier","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33592","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=33592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33593,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33592\/revisions\/33593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}