Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Having a conversation with the likes of your 3 celled brain is becoming comical these days.

You truly are the epitome of a complete buffoon. 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/donald-trump?source=%2Fnews%2Fsteele-admitted-in-court-he-used-unverified-website-to-support-the-trump-dossier

From the March 15th of 2019 article:  He was deposed and said this:  

During his deposition, Steele was pressed on the methods he used to verify allegations made about Webzilla, which was thought to be used by Russia to hack into Democratic emails.


When asked if he discovered “anything of relevance concerning Webzilla” during the verification process, Steele replied: “We did. It was an article I have got here which was posted on July 28, 2009, on something called CNN iReport.”

"I do not have any particular knowledge of that," Steele said when asked what was his understanding of how the iReport website worked.

When asked if he understood that content on the site was not generated by CNN reporters, he said, "I do not." He was then asked: “Do you understand that they have no connection to any CNN reporters?” Steele replied, “I do not.”

He was pressed on this further: “Do you understand that CNN iReports are or were nothing more than any random individuals’ assertions on the Internet?” Steele replied: “No, I obviously presume that if it is on a CNN site that it may has some kind of CNN status. Albeit that it may be an independent person posting on the site."

When asked about his methodology for searching for this information, Steele described it as “what we could call an open source search,” which he defined as “where you go into the Internet and you access material that is available on the Internet that is of relevance or reference to the issue at hand or the person under consideration.”

Steele said his dossier contained "raw intelligence" that he admitted could contain untrue or even "deliberately false information."

The obvious point here that Steele is making is that he understands "the raw intelligence" collected could contain untrue or deliberately false information. He's not basing his dossier on that. His assertion of the tapes in question obviously aren't based upon an internet search and that's the primary aspect of his dossier. 

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

After reading more about the pee tape, I can't respect the effort the believers put into finding out how likely this is.

Mel,
Here's Christopher Steele's interview and explanation from yesterday:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/confronting-critics-christopher-steele-defends-controversial-dossier-major/story?id=80623385

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

I think we all know why this steaming pile of BS is coming back up.....They are running scared of Trump running again which is highly likely. I can just imagine how much BS is going to be spouted about Trump and/or dragged back into the light as that time draws closer LOL

"They" Who's "they"? 
I see, it's another conspiracy!
As far as the BS goes, one only has to listen to Trump and his followers speak at one of his ongoing rallies. Outrageous lies from Trump wholeheartedly embraced by a cult-like following. The big lie echoed every time he opens his mouth. Frankly, anybody in their right mind would run scared of Trump... 

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi Greg:

Obviously I think less of Trump than you do, but I agree that the dossier was likely bogus as subsequent investigations proved.  You mentioned earlier that Trump is likely to run again...  If he does run again (and I hope he doesn't, but no one is going to ask me!) I can't believe that the Democrats would be so lame as to recycle the Steele Dossier.  My guess is that a move like that would turn off more voters than it attracted.  Only the hard core 40% (or so) of the D base thinks that the Russia collusion affair was based in reality.  The dossier and things like it are great for turning out that hard-core base, but would it be enough?

Trump has his approximately 40% too of course, so the primary concern if I were a strategist on either side would be how do I reach the 20% who might be persuaded one way or the other.

Jim

Jim,
Do you agree parts of the Steele dossier, as noted in this link, are true?

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-russia-dossier-true-proven-929839

Originally Posted by James Brown

Of course - Russia meddled, that is what they do.  Russia had dirt on HRC, duh.  Who would expect otherwise?  None of the "true" stuff proves that Trump colluded with Russia, which would have been a very big deal, if proved.  Do you agree with the conclusion on criminal collusion reached by the Mueller team?  

I agree with Mueller's team that they couldn't find enough evidence of collusion and, unlike Trump's claim to the contrary, he was wasn't exonerated. 
Do you find Carter Paige's trip to Russia along with Manafort's dealings there to be just a coincidence?

"Steele reaffirmed his confidence in the most controversial claim in the unverified dossier -- that Russia had video of Trump watching prostitutes urinate in a hotel suite, according to BuzzFeed News, which published the dossier in full."
"Steele reinforced his belief that most of the claims made in the dossier are accurate."
"I stand by the work we did, the sources that we had, and the professionalism which we applied to it," Steele said."
"I think the Russians felt they'd got pretty good value out of Donald Trump when he was President of the US."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/17/politics/christopher-steele-dossier-trump/index.html

The Trump administration wanted to ease sanctions against Putin oligarch Oleg Deripaska but was being thwarted by a joint Republican Democrat resolution denying it so Mitch McConnell initiated a filibuster that stopped the move to reenact the sanctions, "he took a key role in lifting sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a Putin ally under FBI investigation for his involvement in 2016 election-meddling; three months later, Deripaska’s aluminum company, Rusal, announced a $200 million investment in Kentucky. A billboard funded by a -liberal group was subsequently erected on a busy stretch of I-75: “Russian mob money . . . really, Mitch?”"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/mitch-mcconnell-man-who-sold-america-880799/
Today, FBI agents "swarmed" over the oligarch's home in Washington DC. "Deripaska also had business ties to Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman to former President Trump who was convicted of fraud charges as a result of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 election.""That investigation found that Manafort allegedly offered, in an email to an intermediary, to provide Deripaska with private briefings on the campaign weeks before Trump accepted the 2016 presidential nomination.
"If he needs private briefings we can accommodate," Manafort wrote in a July 7, 2016, email, The Washington Post reported."
"Deripaska also has ties to British spy Christopher Steele, the author of a controversial and unverified dossier on Trump's alleged dealings with Russia. A Senate Intelligence Committee report later claimed that Deripaska had "early knowledge" of Steele's controversial report."
"He was previously denied a U.S. visa due to his alleged "criminal associations and relationships"
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/577385-fbi-agents-raid-russian-oligarch-oleg-deripaskas-dc-home

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

Trump can really be a classy guy.
It wouldn't be so bad that presidents sounded like an ass if they had policies I liked.
For 20 minutes Biden is telling stories that nobody wants to hear at a time that people are looking for some substance about mounting problems.

I listened to his speech and there were plenty of specifics, primarily on infrastructure, that Biden addressed. You only heard what you wanted to hear...

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

"...heard what you wanted to hear..."
Difficult to not hear what he says. Twenty minutes of family time and memory lane. At the age he is he is better dealing with things in the past than dealing with the present. 

Here's what you didn't hear:
Rebuilding of our infrastructure, including roads and bridges, something Trump talked about for four years and did nothing.
Caping defunct oil wells and methane leaks across the country with enough jobs for everybody who might have lost one when the wells dried up.
Replacing water lead pipes throughout the country. LA county, for example, which is the largest county in the country, has blows-outs from water mains that are over a hundred years old.
All of the above are necessary projects that would provide well-paying jobs including those in the oil industry who may have lost theirs... 

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

A very impressive plan and it only took a few seconds.

"A very impressive plan"
You got that part right.
"It only took a few seconds" 
For you to read it but for you to comprehend it and for Trump to enact it when he was president, never...