Authorities Arrest Analyst Who Contributed to Steele Dossier

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The fact that an unverified and completely fabricated political smear campaign ravaged a US presidency for 4 years is so unbelievably corrupt and disturbing. I hope everyone who knew the truth about the phony story received adequate justice.

> The fact that an unverified and completely fabricated political smear campaign ravaged a US presidency for 4 years is so unbelievably corrupt and disturbing. I

I’m not sure why you are bringing up Birtherism now but, FYI, it lasted more than 4 years.

Was he impeached based on fake news?

None of the three Presidential impeachments that have happened were based on Fake News, even granting, for the sake of argument, that the Steele Dossier at issue in TFA was “fake news”.

As opposed to those verified and completely unfabricated events that a US presidency ravaged the US with for 4 years...

First, I completely understand and empathize with your sentiment.

But do you think the FBI should be allowed to pursue multi-year investigations against U.S. citizens based on intelligence information that they knew was fake?

Because that's what happened in this case and I find it deeply troubling that the FBI was willing to brush aside all the valid concerns while deciding to proceed with this case.

Whatever you might believe this changes the narrative around Trump a lot.

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