Eight years ago today, Jake Tapper planted the seeds of the Russia collusion hoax in the media. Until then, the media avoided the story because it was so obviously fabricated. But Tapper got a fake news hook from Comey and ran with it, giving the hoax a fake veneer of legitimacy. https://t.co/X3xqqRzd3f
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) January 11, 2025
On January [10], 2017, Jake Tapper, Karl, Bernstein, Jim Sciutto, and Evan Perez dropped an article at CNN based on BuzzFeed’s report of the fake dossier, titled Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him.
It began,
“Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operators claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings to CNN.”
One paragraph says,
“The classified briefing last week was represented by four of the senior most senior US intelligence chiefs – director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA director Admiral Mike Rogers. Allegedly, they told the president-elect about this because such allegations involving him are circulating among intelligence agencies, senior members of Congress and other government officials in Washington, multiple sources, Tennessee, CNN.”
One paragraph stepped it up so Congress would demand to see it:
“Sources tell CNN that these same allegations about communications between the Trump campaign and the Russians, mentioned in classified briefings for congressional leaders last year, prompted then-Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid to send a letter to FBI Director Comey in October, in which he wrote, “It has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government – a foreign interest openly hostile to the United States.”
The purpose of it was to begin to cast suspicions on the President-elect and whet the public’s appetite to know the details.
The Fake Dossier
There’s a lot more, and you can read the article, but we now know that Hillary Clinton‘s close apparatchiks planned the dossier. Her DNC paid them to come up with dirt by any means necessary. It was written from clearly fraudulent information by a very compromised Russian tied to the Kremlin, who later admitted he made it up.
To make it believable, they found a Trump-hating ex-MI-6 agent named Christopher Steele to put it together. (Read more: Independent Sentinel, 1/13/2025) (Archive)