U.K. Spy Steele Claims John McCain Aide Leaked ‘Pee’ Dossier to BuzzFeed

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Anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele testified that he was “absolutely flabbergasted” when BuzzFeed published the dossier after an advisor to late Senator John McCain shared the controversial document with the media outlet purportedly against Steele’s wishes.

That tidbit was buried in a footnote on page 176 of the Justice Department’s recently released 476-page Inspector General (IG) report on the FBI’s Russia collusion investigation. Steele made the remarks about Buzzfeed and the McCain staff member during an interview with the IG.

The relevant footnote relates:

Steele testified in foreign litigation that he did not provide his reports to journalists or media organizations and did not authorize anyone to share them. According to the McCain Institute staff member’s testimony in the same litigation, Steele requested that the staff member meet with BuzzFeed, and that Steele neither requested nor prohibited the staff member from sharing the reports with BuzzFeed. Additionally, the staff member testified that Steele was aware that the staff member was furnishing Steele’s reports to The Washington Post.

Steele told the OIG that he trusted the staff member to handle his reports discretely and that the staff member betrayed that trust. Steele explained that the staff member had spent his career handling sensitive intelligence. Steele also said he understood from a former Ambassador that Senator McCain requested that Steele trust the staff member. Steele said he was “absolutely flabbergasted” when BuzzFeed published his election reports.

The unnamed McCain staff member is known to be David J. Kramer.

Kramer revealed in previous testimony that he held a meeting about the dossier with a reporter from BuzzFeed News, who he says snapped photos of the controversial document without Kramer’s permission when he left the room to go to the bathroom. That meeting was held at the McCain Institute office in Washington, Kramer stated.

BuzzFeed published the Christopher Steele dossier on January 10, 2017, setting off a firestorm of news media coverage about the document.

The Washington Post reported last February that Kramer received the dossier directly from Fusion GPS after McCain expressed interest in it.

Fusion GPS was paid for its anti-Trump work by Trump’s primary political opponents, namely Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) via the Perkins Coie law firm.

As Breitbart News reported last week, the IG report also reveals that McCain provided disgraced former FBI chief James Comey with five separate reports from Steele that the FBI didn’t previously possess related to unsubstantiated allegations of collusion between Russia and President Trump’s 2016 campaign.

There have long been questions about why it was necessary for McCain to pass Steele’s anti-Trump dossier to Comey on December 9, 2016, several weeks after the November 2016 presidential election. By then, Steele had already met numerous times with FBI agents to provide them with his controversial reports. Steele, however, was terminated as an FBI source in the fall of 2016 because he spoke to the news media.

The IG report discloses that McCain gave five new Steele reports to Comey that the FBI did not previously possess, showing that McCain served as a conduit for Steele’s information to reach the FBI after the British ex-spy was formally cut off as an FBI source.

It is not clear whether McCain knew at the time that Steele had previously been terminated as an FBI source.

The IG report also verifies that Kramer obtained the Steele reports directly from Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, meaning that when McCain transferred the anti-Trump charges to Comey he had to have known that the material originated with a firm that specializes in controversial opposition tactics.

Prior to his death, McCain admitted to personally handing the dossier to Comey but he refused repeated requests for comment about whether he had a role in providing the dossier to BuzzFeed, including numerous inquiries sent to his office by this reporter.


In his book published last year, McCain maintained he had an “obligation” to pass the dossier charges against Trump to Comey and he would even do it again. “Anyone who doesn’t like it can go to hell,” McCain exclaimed.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/02/u-k-spy-steele-claims-john-mccain-aide-leaked-pee-dossier-to-buzzfeed/

Buttigieg Plan Reinstates Obamacare Mandate With Far Steeper Penalty For Uninsured Individuals

2020 Candidate Pete Buttigieg’s plan for Medicare includes the return of one of the most unpopular parts of Obamacare the individual mandate, that punishes individuals who don’t have healthcare.

However, the penalties involved in Buttigieg’s plan are far steeper than with Obamacare and could amount to thousands of dollars for those who choose to remain uninsured.

Per TheFederalist, a Buttigieg presidency means the individual mandate could return and at a much higher price. Matt Bruenig, the head of a left-wing think tank, told the Washington Post that Buttigieg’s individual mandate will be far more expensive than Obama’s individual mandate.

If an individual was uninsured under the Obamacare mandate, he or she was forced to pay a $695 annual fine or 2.5 percent of his or her income, whichever number was higher. According to Bruenig, this price could be far higher under a Buttigieg administration.

“Instead of paying a $695 fine at the end of the year for being uninsured, you are hit with a bill to pay an entire year of premiums that could be ten times that amount. This will be a political nightmare,” Bruenig told the Washington Post. The estimated costs for Buttigieg’s individual mandate, according to the Washington Post, is approximately $7,000 per uninsured individual.

It is ridiculous to claim that Buttigieg is a moderate in the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination. Any attempt to charge individuals upwards of $7,000 per year for being uninsured can’t be labeled moderate. In fact, Buttigieg’s health care plan is just as insane as Sanders’s and Warren’s plans, he’s just trying harder to hide the underlying costs.

https://newsthud.com/buttigieg-plan-reinstates-obamacare-mandate-with-far-steeper-penalty-for-uninsured-individuals/?fbclid=IwAR0gc5Ysjq6ScrRtroeXR5SF9bWKAC8oZ9WFU1SWR1Y3EiZ369m673YkKr0

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IT’S OFFICIAL: 2019 Was the Greatest Year in Stock Market History – First Time Ever DOW Gained More Than 5,000 Points In a Single Year!

America is having its greatest stock market rally ever but no one would know it due to the media’s fixation on anything anti-Trump.

The DOW increased by more than 5,000 points in 2019 making it the greatest year in Stock Market history.

After President Trump was elected the stock markets exploded. The markets are a gauge of the economy and include expectations of the future. On November 8^th, 2016, the DOW stood at 18,332. Since that date the DOW has soared. On Tuesday the DOW closed out the year 2019 at 28,538 or 10,206 points higher than the day of the 2016 election!

Never has has the DOW risen so much in such a short period of time. THIS IS HISTORIC!

Not only has the DOW skyrocketed since Donald Trump was elected President, the market’s rise is record breaking.

 

President Trump’s first year in office (2017) saw the most all-time stock market closing highs (71) as well as the largest single year increase in DOW history (4,956 points) up to that year.  This was the record until 2019. Prior to 2017, no year in the DOW’s more than 100-year history ever saw the DOW increase by more than 3,500 points. In 2017 the DOW set a record for largest increase ever at nearly 5,000 points until this year. (The most all-time highs in a year prior to 2017 was 69 in 1995.) At the end of last year (2018) the DOW landed at 23,327.  In 2019 the DOW is up more than 5,000 points (5,210) for the first time ever!

Since President Trump was elected President the DOW tied the record for the most all-time closing highs in a row. In January of 1987 President Reagan saw the DOW increase to new all-time highs a record 12 days in a row. In February of 2017, President Trump matched Reagan’s record.

The DOW reached its fastest 500 point increase between major milestones under President Trump. In January of 2018 the DOW surpassed 26,000 and six days later the DOW surpassed 26,500. Under President Trump the DOW has seen the fastest 1,000; 2,000; 3,000; 4,000; 5,000; 6,000; 7,000, 8,000 and 9,000 point increases in DOW history. No similar records occurred at any time in history.

Also, President Trump didn’t ride an Obama wave, the DOW under Obama was down in 2015 and stayed relatively flat until the 2016 election. The DOW is now officially up more than 55% since the 2016 election.

Presidents GW Bush and Obama NEVER reached a new all-time high in their entire first terms. Presidents (Franklin) Roosevelt, Truman and Carter never reached a new all-time high in their Presidencies.

President Trump has now increased the markets by more than any other President in their entire Presidency (when counting from their election win to the election day in their last year in office.)  This has never happened before.

All the major indices are way up under President Trump and many records have been set. The market increases since President Trump’s election three years ago truly are historic.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/its-official-2019-is-was-the-greatest-year-in-stock-market-history-first-time-ever-dow-gained-more-than-5000-points-in-a-single-year/

https://spectator.org/trump-proves-not-all-inequalities-are-equal/

So the leader of U.S. embassy attack in Iraq was a guest in the Obama White House?

President Obama's been kind of quiet these days, last tweeting his Christmas greetings and best wishes for the health of Rep. John Lewis.

So has former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, former UN ambassador Samantha Power, former Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, and former CIA Director John Brennan.

Only lowly Ben Rhodes, the creative-writing major promoted to Deputy National Security Advisor for "communications" and his sidekick Colin Kahl, Joe Biden's NSC man, have been Twitter-talkative.

The Obama bigfoots have good reason to lay low. The U.S. embassy in Iraq was attacked by one of the people they'd tried to coddle earlier, back in 2011, Hadi Farhan al-Amiri, a guy so bad even a former FBI director, Louis Freeh, spoke out against letting the guy in at the time. It's not like this guy pretended to be a friend and then went bad on them. They knew. And they let him in, giving him lots of clout back home from which he was able to draw new terrorist resources, since terrorism was what he did.

According to the 2011 report in the Washington Times:

Embassy was unavailable to elaborate on Mr. al-Amiri’s role in the White House visit.

Louis J. Freeh, who served as FBI director in the Clinton administration and the early months of the George W. Bush administration, said it was shocking that Mr. al-Maliki would include Mr. al-Amiri in his visit to Washington.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been involved in “countless acts of terrorism, which are acts of war against the United States,” Mr. Freeh said in an interview.

Mr. al-Amiri served as a commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s Badr Corps, a battalion that was tasked with operations in Iraq. He remained active in the Badr Corps during the late 1980s and 1990s, when he was working on resistance efforts against Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq.

The FBI linked the Revolutionary Guard to the attack on the Khobar Towers in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, on June 25, 1996. Nineteen U.S. servicemen were killed by a bomb blast at the towers, which were housing American military personnel.

“As a senior leader, [Mr. al-Amiri] would have to have known about Khobar, and he would know Gen. [Ahmad] Sherifi, who was the IRGC general that conducted the operation,” Mr. Freeh said.

He added that the “FBI would love to sit down and talk to him, show him photographs and ask him questions” about the fugitives named in the Khobar Towers indictment.

The Obamatons ignored him. 

Al-Amiri got invited the White House as the Iraqi government's "transport minister" after he fought on the side of Iran in the horrendous Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, continued work with the Iran Revolutionary Guards, got more practice with terrorism in Kuwait in 2008, according to this credible-looking Middle Eastern source on Twitter:

Dr. Ali Bakeer@AliBakeer

Not only this, al-Amiri executed terrorist attacks in #Kuwait in the eighties on behalf of #Iran.@brett_mcgurk reportedly met him. Even if this info was not accurate, #Obama & his team made the #US -practically- the air force of the pro-Iran #shiite militia in #Iraq 4 a while! https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1188140045712154624 …

Michael Weiss

✔@michaeldweiss

Believe it or not, there were US officials in the last administration who thought Hadi al Ameri was on our side or could be brought to our side. He isn’t even on Iraq’s side (he fought with Iran in the Iran-Iraq war). https://twitter.com/AliBakeer/status/1188124615031304192 …

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...and still managed to cadge a White House invitation, undoubtedly to browbeat the White House into caving in on some factor, or else to convince them that there was no winning the Iraq war, the Iranians there were too powerful. Whatever the purpose of this visit, it sure as heck didn't deserve the White House treatment, it's something world leaders normally have to earn to get. That this terrorist got an invitation so cheaply could only have sent the message to his ilk that the U.S. was weak. And now we have the embassy attack.

So now we have Rhodes desperately trying to spin the matter, studiously avoiding the topic of that al-Amiri invitation, something Rhodes himself probably extended to the terrorist with full knowledge of the kind of things al-Amiri had made a career of. Rhodes, if you read his memoirs, and I did, had a taste for making personal contact with the world's gamiest players, blissfully unaware of how naive and arrogant he came off in his written account. I'd bet money Rhodes was the one who invited al-Amiri in to take a look around the Oval office and have a seat on the Blue Room furniture.

He's since responded with a violent terror attack against the U.S. coordinated with full blessing of Iran's mullahs. Proud of yourselves, Obamatons? Someone on the nets ought to be asking them about it.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/so_the_leader_of_us_embassy_attack_in_iraq_was_a_guest_in_the_obama_white_house.html

WATCH: Joe Biden Announces His Radical Far-Left Plans To Give Citizenship And Driver’s Licenses To Illegal Aliens

Biden is such a Jackass.  It's like he is all anti American

During a campaign rally in New Hampshire, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden revealed his true far-left views on illegal immigration.

Biden says he wants to give every criminal illegal alien a driver’s license and wants to create a pathway to U.S. citizenship for 11 million illegals.

People need to stop referring to Biden as a “moderate” Democrat.  There’s NOTHING moderate about this far-left radical.

 

WATCH:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/watch-joe-biden-announces-his-radical-far-left-plans-to-give-citizenship-and-drivers-licenses-to-illegal-aliens/

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/12/yes_joe_biden_really_is_that_dumb.html

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/biden-says-hero-who-stopped-texas-church-massacre-was-wrong-to-have-a-gun-that-hero-just-responded/

RATINGS CRASH: CNN’s Brian Stelter Just Fell To Embarrassing Low With Key Demo

When it comes to biased, liberal, anti-Trump media, CNN’s Brian Stelter is in a class all his own.

As if that isn’t bad enough, Stelter often tries to pass himself off as fair and balanced, which couldn’t be further from the truth.

It seems however, that viewers have caught on to his little game and they’re tuning him out.

Big time.

FOX News reports:

CNN’s ‘Reliable Sources’ with Brian Stelter hits rock bottom in key demo

CNN’s beleaguered media show “Reliable Sources” with Brian Stelter hit an embarrassing new low on Dec. 22, when it averaged only 85,000 viewers among a key age group.

Stelter regularly touts the significance of the news demographic of adults age 25-54 but the dismal performance marked his lowest viewership of 2019 in the category.

The dismal performance from Stelter came as Fox News’ “Media Buzz,” a direct timeslot competitor, thumped CNN’s “Reliable Sources” across the board in 2019.

Stelter’s “Reliable Sources” averaged only 748,000 total viewers for the year prior to its 2019 finale on Dec. 29, while “Media Buzz” averaged 1.3 million over the same time period.

In addition, CNN’s Sunday morning media show lost 12 percent of its viewers compared to 2018, while “Media Buzz” kept its audience with nearly identical year-to-year averages.

Among the demo, “Reliable Sources” averaged only 167,000 viewers during 2019 compared to 227,000 for “Media Buzz” prior to the Dec. 29 episodes.

The 2019 demo low of “Reliable Sources” on Dec. 22 occurred on the same day that “Media Buzz” topped its yearly demo viewership, averaging 298,000 age 25-54 viewers for its third-best performance of the year, indicating the holiday season is not what kept viewers away from CNN.

Now for some fun. Mark Dice is a YouTube humorist who often makes fun of Brian Stelter by redubbing his videos with a higher voice.

Dice recently released a ‘Best Of’ video on this and it’s absolutely hilarious.

Watch below and enjoy!

Cross posted from American Lookout.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/ratings-crash-cnns-brian-stelter-just-fell-to-embarrassing-low-with-key-demo/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/oh-boy-cnns-anderson-cooper-starts-talking-about-cocks-during-new-years-coverage-video/

Todd is such an idiot and he doesn't hide it

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/01/01/nbcs-todd-trump-facing-uphill-battle-to-win-reelection-because-of-character/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/beyond-parody-msnbc-contributor-says-tax-delinquent-and-sore-loser-stacey-abrams-won-2019-in-politics/