I talked about this couple of weeks ago, the fact that very often when a liberal accuses a political opponent of wrongdoing, it is usually because that liberal has either engaged in that activity, is still engaging that in that activity, or has a close associate that is engaging in that activity. Because of the policies the liberals have enacted, they are the true racists. As it turns out they are also the ones who are committing the sexual harassment in the workplace. And now it turns out that it was not Pres. Trump’s campaign that was colluding with the Russians to try and cheat Hillary Clinton out of the presidency, it was actually the Clintons and the Democratic National Committee along with other powerbrokers in the political elite in America that were colluding with the Russians against Pres. Trump. We now know that there has not been any documentation found by the Robert Mueller committee even indicating there might have been collusion by Trump with the Russians. But there is a ton of documentation and money trails showing that the Russians did work with Hillary Clinton not only to take over 20% of America’s uranium stockpile, for which the Clinton foundation and its related charities were paid $145 million and Bill Clinton was paid in excess of $500,000 to give a speech, but we also now know that the Clintons paid a Russian firm $10 million or more to create the so-called “Trump dossier.”

The Russian firm is named, Fusion GPS. This is a quasi-governmental company that is controlled by Vladimir Putin. He has used it to smear his political opponents in Russia. We know that the Clinton campaign along with the Democratic National Committee funneled $10 million to them to dig up dirt on President Trump. This created that so-called dossier that has turned out to be absolutely false. There has not been one shred of documentable evidence that has proven any of the allegations made in that dossier. In fact the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, NBC, and other liberal news outlets refused to publish the dossier when it was originally provided to them by executives from Fusion GPS. None of these news agencies could independently verify the allegations made in the dossier so they did not originally run with the story. It was later published by the website BuzzFeed, which by the way is now a subsidiary of NBC Universal. It stands to reason that NBC decided to run with the story on their subsidiary website to see if it got any traction or if they received heavy criticism for publishing unverified allegations. We know it got a lot of traction and the other major media outlets soon ran with the story as well. All of whom knew full well that it was most likely a complete fabrication.

But Sen. John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, also got wind of the dossier. His office was contacted by that alleged former member of Britain’s intelligence service, MI-5, and the dossier was offered to Sen. McCain. McCain was so intrigued by the information that he sent a personal representative to England to physically pick up the dossier and interview this former government agent. I guess the interview was conducted to determine the veracity of this person, which as it turns out, he was not very honest. He was paid by Fusion GPS to distribute the document because of his former position with the British government, believing that would give some added weight to the truthfulness of the document.

Why would John McCain wants the dossier? Because he hates Donald Trump. Not only because of what Trump said about Sen. McCain being a prisoner of war but more because he saw Donald Trump, should he get elected, as a threat to the power base of the political elite in Washington DC. He was hoping, as was Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, that the information contained in that dossier, even though it was false, would be enough to derail the campaign of Pres. Trump. It was not obviously enough to stop the Trump train. But it also calls into question the authenticity of any allegations and/or statements made by Sen. McCain since then. It’s probably time for Sen. McCain to follow his brethren, Senators Corker and Flake, out the door and into retirement. As an aside, Pres. Trump promised to drain the swamp in Washington DC and with the resignation of Senators Corker and Flake he is taking the first steps towards doing just that.

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