Aaron Maté: Victoria Nuland Approved FBI’s Reception Of Steele Dossier, Was Alarmed By Trump’s Campaign Rhetoric
Megyn Kelly is joined by RealClearInvestigation’s Aaron Mate to discuss how the Russiagate hoax is deeper than we knew, how new documents cast doubt that Russia even hacked the DNC, and more.
MEGYN KELLY: By the way, Russia has done this in many elections. It wasn’t just the 2016 election in which they tried to sow chaos or amplify bad news articles that would make us fight. Before I went to interview Putin, that was one of the main things that I learned, was he, what he was really interested in doing is sowing chaos… That’s his real goal, it’s to make us fight each other. But like they’ve been doing that for a long time, it was nothing new to help Trump in 2016. AARON MATE, REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: We also know that weeks before the FBI opened up its investigation, Victoria Nuland, who was then a senior State Department official and a very hawkish bureaucrat when it comes to Russia, and was really alarmed by Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail, where he was criticizing foreign interventions and even talking about getting along with Russia, even saying we don’t want to have WWIII over Ukraine. Victoria Nuland approves the deployment of an FBI agent to go to Rome and meet with Christopher Steele and receive his dossier. And this FDA received the dossier, this is early July 2016, and gives it to his colleagues. And then three weeks later, the FBI opens up the Trump-Russia investigation. Immediately uses Steele’s dossier source material, including for surveillance warrants on Carter Page, and they want us to believe that that the FBI receiving the steele dossier weeks earlier had nothing to do with opening up crossfire hurricane, and they want us to loop the official pretext is this ridiculous official predicate of George Papadopoulos, a low level Trump campaign volunteer, receiving quote a suggestion of a suggestion of someone specified Russian help. It doesn’t make any sense. So if this Fox News report is correct, that there’s new evidence that the FBI was in on this, it just attracts exactly with what we already know.
