BOMBSHELL: McCain Handed Trump Dossier to FBI, Now His Team Is In BIG Trouble
John McCain, the RINO Senator from Arizona, handed the ridiculous and faulty "Trump
dossier" over to the FBI a little while ago.
McCain played dumb, not willing to admit whether or not he knew the dossier was funded by the
DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign.
Now, big things are going down…
From Breitbart:PHILADELPHIA — Sen. John McCain may find himself facing serious questions
following the disclosure that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National
Committee helped fund research utilized in the infamous, largely discredited 35-page
dossier on President Donald Trump.
In December, it was McCain who notoriously passed the controversial dossier documents
produced by the Washington opposition research firm Fusion GPS to then FBI Director James
Comey, whose agency reportedly utilized the dossier as some of the basis for its probe
into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
A McCain associate, David Kramer, was subpoenaed in late 2017.
From Washington Examiner:
House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes has issued a subpoena to David Kramer,
a former State Department official who, in late November 2016, traveled to London to
receive a briefing and a copy of the Trump dossier from its author, former British spy
Christopher Steele.
Kramer then returned to the U.S. to give the document to Sen. John McCain.
Kramer is a senior fellow at the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State
University.
McCain later took a copy of the dossier to the FBI's then-director, James Comey.
But the FBI already had the document; Steele himself gave the dossier to the bureau in
installments, reportedly beginning in early July 2016.
Continued:
McCain, recovering in Arizona from treatments for cancer, has long refused to detail his
actions regarding the dossier.
For his part, Kramer was interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee on Dec. 19.
The new subpoena stems from statements Kramer made in that interview.
In the session, Kramer told House investigators that he knew the identities of the Russian
sources for the allegations in Steele's dossier.
But when investigators pressed Kramer to reveal those names, he declined to do so.
Now, Kramer has pleaded the fifth.
From Fox News:
A former State Department official and associate of Sen. John McCain has invoked his Fifth
Amendment right not to testify in connection with questions from the House Intelligence
Committee about the anti-Trump dossier's Russian sources, according to a law enforcement
source.
David J. Kramer, who is a central player in how the unverified Trump dossier made its
way to the FBI in late 2016, testified before the committee in December in a closed-door
session, indicating he had information about the dossier's sources.
A subpoena was issued for mid-January, as first reported by The Washington Examiner.
The law enforcement source confirmed, however, that Kramer did not appear and has exercised
his Fifth Amendment rights.
Continued:
Yet Kramer gave a videotaped deposition last December in separate civil litigation against
BuzzFeed about the dossier and his contact with the former British spy who compiled it,
Christopher Steele.
Steele was hired by opposition research firm Fusion GPS to write and research the dossier,
with funding from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign.
According to British court records obtained by Fox News as part of its ongoing investigation
of the Trump dossier, Kramer was personally briefed in late November 2016 by Steele in
Surrey, England.
After that briefing, Steele told the British court that an arrangement was made so that
Fusion GPS — co-founded by Glenn Simpson – would provide hard copies of the dossier
to McCain via Kramer.
Shortly afterward, the dossier was given to the FBI, which already had its own copy from
Steele.
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