{"id":12127,"date":"2020-01-08T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12127"},"modified":"2020-01-08T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T20:45:17","slug":"the-steele-dossier-bacillus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-steele-dossier-bacillus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Steele Dossier Bacillus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016, Hillary Clinton presidential candidate hired an ex-intelligence officer and foreign national, British subject Christopher Steele, to use Russian sources to find dirt (\u201copposition research\u201d) on her then political opponent Donald Trump. So much for the worry about \u201cforeign interference\u201d in U.S. elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The public would take years to learn of the funding sources of Steele, because Clinton camouflaged her role through three firewalls: the Democratic National Committee; the Perkins-Coie legal firm; and Glenn Simpson\u2019s Fusion GPS opposition-research firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steele had collected rumor and gossip from mostly Russian sources in an effort to tar Trump as a Russian colluder and asset. We know now that his sources were either bogus or deliberately warped by Steele himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost everything in the dossier was unverified and later was proved fanciful. Yet with the help of high Obama administration and elected officials, the dossier\u2019s gossip and rumor were leaked throughout the top echelons of Washington politics and the media. Its lies spread because its chief message \u2014 Donald J. Trump was a fool, dangerous, should never be elected, and once elected had no business as president \u2014 was exactly what the establishment wished to hear. In other words, the dossier was infectious because it was deemed both welcome and useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/01\/the-steele-dossier-bacillus\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In 2016, Hillary Clinton presidential candidate hired an ex-intelligence officer and foreign national, British subject Christopher Steele, to use Russian sources to find dirt (\u201copposition research\u201d) on her then political opponent Donald Trump. So much for the worry about \u201cforeign interference\u201d in U.S. elections. The public would take years [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-39B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12554,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/steeles-dossier-clown-show-or-the-greatest-russian-coup\/","url_meta":{"origin":12127,"position":0},"title":"Steele&#8217;s dossier: &#8216;Clown show&#8217; or the greatest Russian coup?","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The following article is from my colleague, Paul Roderick Gregory, in The\u00a0Hill The known details of the so-called Steele dossier point to a peculiar ambiguity. 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