{"id":29159,"date":"2017-08-24T14:06:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T21:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29159"},"modified":"2017-08-24T14:06:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T21:06:30","slug":"this-could-be-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/24\/this-could-be-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"This Could Be the End"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure if we’ll get videos Putin’s Piddle Pervert getting a golden shower, or just a bunch of dull spreadsheets detailing Russian payola for quid pro quo<\/em>, but if all the research it took to produce the Steele Dossier goes public, and that may be very soon, it could bed the end of Trump.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Senate investigators met this week with the co-founder of the political research firm behind the explosive dossier of unsubstantiated and salacious material about President Trump’s alleged ties with Russia.<\/p>\n

Glenn Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who later helped found the private investigation firm Fusion GPS, sat down with Senate Judiciary Committee staff behind closed doors on Tuesday, congressional aides told NPR.<\/p>\n

Simpson’s firm hired a respected former British intelligence officer, Christopher Steele, to compile the dossier, which alleges that Trump had a long-running relationship with Russia and that the Kremlin holds compromising material on him<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The file also claims that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton in last year’s election<\/strong>. Trump denies the allegations… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow<\/a> did such an extensive job of covering this story that she devoted three segments to it.  That’s over 30 minutes (sorry Lona) of video.  In the first she covers the background  and History of the dossier, the testimony to Senate staffers and how it is likely be released soon.<\/font><\/p>\n