{"id":11743,"date":"2019-03-28T11:07:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T18:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11743"},"modified":"2019-03-28T11:07:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T18:07:37","slug":"mueller-report-confirms-the-steele-dossier-belongs-in-the-dustbin-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mueller-report-confirms-the-steele-dossier-belongs-in-the-dustbin-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller report confirms the Steele dossier belongs in the dustbin of history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump dossier \u2014 compiled by Christopher Steele, commissioned by Fusion GPS and paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee \u2014 has tied up U.S. politics for more than two years with its accusation that an elected U.S. president colluded with Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My analysis<\/a>, published one day after the dossier\u2019s publication<\/a> in BuzzFeed on Jan. 12, 2017, argued that the dossier was a fake and gave the logical reasons why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mueller<\/a>\u2019s \u201cno collusion\u201d finding destroys the dossier\u2019s multiple charges of a deep Trump-Russia conspiracy, shows that the dossier should not have been used to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants (if that is the case) and may go down as one of the most elaborate hoaxes in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of the attempted verification of the dossier focused on pinning down details, such as travel dates of Trump campaign associates, stamps in passports and whether parties to purported meetings could have been present. Such verifiable details are rare and do not yield useful results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill The Trump dossier \u2014 compiled by Christopher Steele, commissioned by Fusion GPS and paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee \u2014 has tied up U.S. politics for more than two years with its accusation that an elected U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1139,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-33p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11012,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-paradoxes-of-the-mueller-investigation\/","url_meta":{"origin":11743,"position":0},"title":"The Paradoxes of the Mueller Investigation","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review They are numerous, and none of them are good news for President Trump\u2019s opponents. 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