Sunday, March 02, 2025

Red scare mccarthyism from OTB

 Stop the red scare mccarthyism. Trump is following in the giant steps of the great World War II Democrat Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Uncle Joe Stalin.

“And yet the Hillary Clinton campaign financed and created one of the greatest works of fiction in living memory in the Steele Dossier,Despite it being total fiction, it enthralled the press, the Intel community, and federal law enforcement for years. And so I applaud her for that work of fiction and am excited about the work she does in the future on her totally fictional presidency,”

  1. The Steele Dossier was always raw data, understood by its users as likely to have bad info mixed in with reality. Which it was, as expected, largely true with some bad info mixed in.

  2. Where can I find a summary of what was largely true, verified and corroborated in the Steele dossier. In a press release from Sen Adam Schiff or the unredacted Trump FISA warrants that primarily referenced the Steele dossier as evidence that were signed, authorized and approved by FBI law enforcement heroes J. Comey, J. Baker, A. Weissman and A. McCabe?

  3. @Steven L. Taylor:

  4. Checking the approved official narratives from the main source of conventional wisdom woke thought.

A Red Scare is a form of moral panic provoked by fear of the rise, supposed or real, of left-wing ideologies in a society, especially communism and socialism.

According to wiki McCarthyism can only be applied to left wing ideologies similar to racism only applies to whites

.To my knowledge nothing in the Steele Dossier has been disproven. Which matters not one whit. The Mueller Report, the Senate Bi-Partisan Report, the Stone Trial Transcript, and Manafort’s own admissions all spell out the reality which MAGAts refuse to accept.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/steele-dossier-retrospective

@Daryl: Michael Cohen in Prague to set up Russia collusion for the 2016 presidential election.

Again, the current public official record does not affirmatively corroborate the assertion that Cohen spearheaded, even for a short time, efforts by the Trump team to obtain unlawful election assistance from the Russian government. But neither does the absence of such detail mean that the dossier is false. For what it’s worth, Cohen strenuously denied ever traveling to Prague, though that denial preceded his guilty plea and (spotty) cooperation with the government.

Is this the standard evidence required for FISA warrants?

The dossier is, quite simply and by design, raw reporting, not a finished intelligence product.