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Charlie Savage, national security and legal policy correspondent for the New York Times , played defense on behalf of the now-discredited “Steele dossier” that led to the first Trump impeachment, in Thursday’s “ Discredited Steele Dossier Doesn’t Undercut Russia Inquiry .”
The infamous tissue of rumors and lies that would foster the false “collusion”-with-Russia narrative (a word the Times once tossed over Trump-related stories like salt) was put together by British spy Christopher Steele as opposition research funded by the Democratic National Committee on behalf of candidate Hillary Clinton. The conspiratorial stew dishonestly used by the FBI to persuade a court to authorize a wiretap of Trump campaign staffer Carter Page.
Yet the document was treated seriously as an excuse to launch investigations into Trump and his associates, under the rubric of “Russiagate.”
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