all signs point to the FBI having substantial info on the Russian connection

[wacojoe]

The real reason for Comey going to meet Trump and inform him of the charges in the Dirty Dossier was to prime the pump of the press giving them a plausible reason to publish about it. Once Comey discussed it with the President, as he did mere hours after meeting in the White House with Michael Rogers, John Brennan, and James Clapper, Susan Rice, Joe Biden, acting Attorney General Sally Yates, and Barack Obama and then a very private meeting with just Comey, Obama, Biden, Yates & Rice on January 5th, 2017, in which the plot to publicize the dossier was hatched among other plots, sitting the stage where the dossier would be fair game for the press, which had known of it for months (Steele had meetings with them and handed out copies), but could not justifiably print mere salacious rumors without a plausible reason. Once it was discussed with Trump by the FBI Director all bets were off and could be written about openly. EVERYTHING WE HAVE SEEN SUBSEQUENTLY FOLLOWED FROM THAT AS LONG AS NO ONE KNEW IT CAME FROM THE BOWELS OF THE HILLARY LIE MACHINE. Comey did his part, he mentioned the Dossier to Trump and withheld who was responsible for it.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/...investigation/

This reveal proves in his own words that Comey intentionally brought up the Dirty Dossier to give CNN a reason to report it. Comey and CNN were in cahoots to give legs to a Trump-Russia collusion meme...which has never borne out.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/19/co...trump-dossier/

And people still question why the mook was fired.

[TxMusky]

Yes sir, it was a dirty rotten setup to begin with and the liberals bought it hook, line and sinker. Now 14 months since this thread was started, we have no Trump in jail, he still has a job and those in the meeting you just described are all gone. Guess who won that battle? The corrupting is and was coming from the very people who were calling attention to collusion and corruption.

[wacojoe]

...The corrupting is and was coming from the very people who were calling attention to collusion and corruption.

Bingo, and proved more and more with each successive revelation.

[TxMusky]

Did the media fail to mention that Pete Comey, James's brother has been an attorney for the Clinton Foundation for years? Maybe Bro did not want his Bro being out of a job. The list of garbage just keeps getting deeper, and the NYT and the MSM could not figure this out on their own? Bunch of trash peddlers.