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The Steele Dossier, Russian Collusion, and the Deep State Debate
from Graveyard Shift At A Bread Warehouse · #87
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13 minTim walks through Jane Mayer's New Yorker article on Christopher Steele and the Trump-Russia dossier, covering Steele's MI6 background, the golden shower allegation, Devin Nunes' memo, John Brennan's claims, the Comey letter, and Manafort, Flynn, and Papadopoulos in the Mueller investigation, debating whether Trump's team colluded with Russia and whether Trump himself knew.
- 40:58The Steele dossier was paid for by the DNC through Fusion GPS, a firm run by retired intelligence operatives.
- 41:52Tim explains Steele was an ex-MI6 spy who ran the Russia desk and had lived and worked in the Soviet Union.
- 42:48The dossier allegedly claimed Trump had prostitutes perform a golden shower on a bed Obama had stayed in.
- 44:00Devin Nunes released a memo saying the Steele dossier was bullshit, paid for by the DNC, with no real evidence underneath.
- 44:35Democrats counter that US intelligence verified many details in the report through independent sources and back-channel communications.
- 45:06Intelligence work typically achieves 70-80% accuracy at best, meaning Steele got some details wrong but others right.
- 46:05The Russia collusion theory is used as proof the deep state invented anti-Trump narratives to weaponize intelligence.
- 46:32Obama and John Kerry supposedly didn't act on the dossier due to an amendment preventing a sitting president from influencing elections.
- 47:26Evidence increasingly suggests Trump campaign members were conducting back-channel negotiations with Russia, possibly without Trump knowing.
- 50:20Scott Young, a London oligarch connected to Russian money, died falling from a penthouse in what may have been murder over hidden divorce assets.
- 53:19Tim argues that dealing with the mob means never getting your money back—they will kill you instead of paying up.
DNCDonald TrumpChristopher SteeleScott YoungDevin NunesSteele dossierRussia collusionJohn BrennanFusion GPSMichael FlynnHillary ClintonBoris BerezovskyPaul ManafortCarter PageGeorge PapadopoulosBarack ObamaNeil Bush