It’s more telling that Lindsey Graham actually believed the “Golden Showers” report in his first reading of the Steele Dossier, that the Russians had something on Trump. It’s still a process complaint, but the facts are still there, despite GOP hand-waving or table-pounding. Today’s Senate Judiciary committee hearing showed that there has been so much nonsense with AG Barr’s recent statement on FBI spying on the Trump campaign. There remains no discrediting of the Mueller report.
Those past comments somehow did not make it into Graham’s opening. What did make it, delightfully enough, was Lindsey Graham discussing that the opening document from the research provided by Christopher Steele included Trump being involved in “a golden shower,” and making it clear that this was an incident involving prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room. Graham also explained that he was shown this material not by Democrats but by John McCain, and that on seeing the document, his first thought was, “They have something on Donald Trump.” During the opening, Graham also complained that “my goddamned name is all over the legal documents investigating Trump’s staff.” Which might be because he constantly referred to Trump as a “threat,” as “completely unhinged,” a “racist,” a “liar,” and an “opportunist” who would do anything to win.
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Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham opened a high-stakes hearing with the Justice Department's inspector general by blasting ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele's 'golden showers' dossier and the FBI for using it.
Graham said when he first saw the dossier during the 2016 campaign, it initially confronted him with the possibility Russians 'have something' on Donald Trump. Otherwise, he said, there could have been a Russian 'disinformation campaign' going on.
The South Carolinian Republican also revealed that the late Sen. John McCain, who obtained the dossier during the campaign after attending a security conference in Canada, shared it with him. Graham ran for president in 2016 as one of a bevy of Republicans.
He accused the FBI of a 'vast criminal conspiracy' for its handling of the FISA warrant to monitor Carter Page, a one-time Trump campaign staffer.
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