Team McCain's Blackmail Plot Against Trump EXPOSED
Looks like traitor John McCain and his aide had a plot to take down President Trump.
McCain's aide reportedly wanted the globalist senator to approach Trump with the dirty dossier,
and essentially blackmail him into resigning.
To this day, McCain has remained quiet on his significant connections to the Steele
dossier, funded by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
From Breitbart
NEW YORK — An extensive New Yorker profile cites a former national-security official
claiming that a longtime associate of John McCain sent by the Arizona senator to obtain
the infamous anti-Trump dossier hatched a plan whereby McCain would use the document
to confront President Donald Trump and get him to resign.
David J. Kramer, a former State Department official and close McCain associate, received
a copy of the largely-discredited dossier directly from Fusion GPS after McCain expressed
interest in the document, the Washington Post previously reported.
McCain then reportedly passed the dossier directly to FBI Director James Comey.
In the magazine profile, released this week and titled, "Christopher Steele, the Man
Behind the Trump Dossier," the New Yorker reported on Kramer's alleged plan for McCain
to use the dossier to compel Trump to step down following his 2016 presidential victory.
An attorney for Kramer denied there was such a plan.
New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer reports:
The week before Thanksgiving, Wood briefed McCain at the Halifax International Security
Forum.
McCain was deeply concerned.
He asked a former aide, David Kramer, to go to England to meet Steele.
Kramer, a Russia expert who had served at the State Department, went over the dossier
with Steele for hours.
After Kramer promised to share the document only with McCain, Steele arranged for Kramer
to receive a copy in Washington.
But a former national-security official who spoke with Kramer at the time told me that
one of Kramer's ideas was to have McCain confront Trump with the evidence, in the hope
that Trump would resign.
"He would tell Trump, 'The Russians have got you,'" the former official told me.
(A lawyer for Kramer maintains that Kramer never considered getting Trump to resign and
never promised to show the dossier only to McCain.)
Ultimately, though, McCain and Kramer agreed that McCain should take the dossier to the
head of the F.B.I.
Kramer reportedly recently invoked the Fifth Amendment to get out of testifying before
the House Intelligence Committee regarding the dossier.
The New Yorker profile related that "Steele arranged for Kramer to receive a copy in Washington,"
referring to the dossier.
The magazine did not report exactly who passed the dossier copy to Kramer.
Last month, the Washington Post reported that Kramer received the dossier document directly
from Fusion GPS after McCain expressed interest in the dossier.
Those details marked the clearest indication yet that McCain may have known that the dossier
originated with Fusion GPS, meaning that he may have knowingly passed on political material
to the FBI.
It has not been been clear whether McCain was aware of the origins of the dossier when
he hand delivered the unsubstantiated document to Comey.
It is still not clear whether McCain knew that Fusion GPS's anti-Trump work resulting
in the dossier was funded by Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic
National Committee (DNC) via the Perkins Coie law firm.
McCain has not responded to multiple Breitbart News requests seeking comment on the matter.
The details about McCain's involvement were buried toward the end of a nearly 4,100-word
February 6 Post article titled, "Hero or hired gun?
How a British former spy became a flash point in the Russia investigation."
The article was an extensive report describing the work done by Steele, who was contracted
by Fusion GPS to produce the dossier.
The Post article followed the release of a four-page House Intelligence Committee memo
alleging abuse of surveillance authority allegedly utilizing the questionable dossier.
According to the Post, Steele originally sought out Sir Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador
to Moscow and friend of Steele, for advice prior to the election concerning his alleged
research into Trump.
In mid-November, following Trump's victory, Wood reportedly turned to Steele to discuss
whether additional steps were necessary to ensure the U.S. government was aware of Steele's
charges about Trump and Russia.
Wood said that he then reached out to Kramer, who was known for his close ties to McCain,
according to the Post.
The Post cited Wood explaining that Kramer had arranged for Wood to meet McCain in December
2016 on the sidelines of a security conference in Canada.
There, Wood described detailing Steele's claims at the meeting with McCain, telling
the Arizona senator that he could arrange for the politician to review the purported
research.
"I told him, 'I know there's a document.
I haven't read it, but it seems to me that it's reliably set up,'" Wood told the
Post.
Wood described McCain as being "visibly shocked," and expressing interest in reading
the full report.
Ten days after the Canada meeting, Kramer met Steele at Heathrow Airport in London and
then went to Steele's home, where the McCain associate spent several hours reviewing the
dossier claims, according to people familiar with the events who spoke to the Post.
The Post relates that Kramer then received a physical copy of the dossier directly from
Fusion GPS Co-Founder Glenn R. Simpson:
Back in Washington, Kramer received a copy of the dossier from Simpson and completed
the handoff to McCain.
In a private meeting on Dec. 9, McCain gave Comey the dossier — passing along information
that Steele had provided to the FBI earlier in the year.
Shortly before Inauguration Day, Comey briefed Trump on the document, alerting him to what
the FBI director would later describe to Congress as a report that contained "salacious, unverified"
information that was circulating in the media.
The Post's reporting marks the first public description of McCain's associate, Kramer,
as having received the dossier directly from Fusion GPS.
In a New York Times oped in January, Simpson and fellow GPS Co-Founder Peter Fritch wrote
that they helped McCain share their anti-Trump dossier with the Obama-era intelligence community
via an unnamed "emissary."
"After the election, Mr. Steele decided to share his intelligence with Senator John
McCain via an emissary," the Fusion GPS founders related.
"We helped him do that.
The goal was to alert the United States national security community to an attack on our country
by a hostile foreign power."
Simpson did not write that he directly handed the dossier to any "emissary."
It was not clear from the obscure phraseology in the Times oped whether McCain knew Fusion
GPS was behind the dossier or whether the unnamed "emissary" was even aware of Fusion
GPS's connection to the document.
The Post's revelation about Kramer reportedly receiving the dossier from Simpson sheds new
light on the topic.
A January 11, 2017 statement from McCain attempted to explain why he provided the Steele dossier
to the FBI but did not mention how he came to possess the dossier or whether he knew
who funded it.
"Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgment about their accuracy, I
delivered the information to the director of the FBI," McCain said at the time.
"That has been the extent of my contact with the FBI or any other government agency
regarding this issue."
Newsweek earlier reported that McCain directly Kramer to meet Steele:
Kramer was reportedly directed to meet with Steele in London by McCain, who then received
copies of the Trump-Russia dossier and delivered them to the Arizona senator upon returning
home.
McCain then gave the dossier to the FBI in December 2016.
Also, Fox News, which saw the British court documents related to a civil lawsuit, reported
that Steele testified that an arrangement was made whereby Fusion GPS would use Kramer
to deliver hard copies of the dossier to McCain, who in turn gave the dossier to the FBI.
It is still unclear why McCain needed to deliver the dossier to Comey last December.
By then, according to the House memo, the FBI had not only already launched an investigation
into Trump's campaign partially utilizing the dossier but Comey himself had two months
earlier signed an application using the dossier to obtain a FISA warrant on Carter Page, who
briefly served as a volunteer foreign policy adviser to Trump's campaign.
Shortly after McCain gave Steele's dossier to Comey, the FBI chief updated then President-Elect
Trump and President Obama on the dossier in a classified briefing.
As Breitbart News documented, Comey's dossier briefing to Trump was subsequently leaked
to the news media, setting in motion a flurry of news media attention on the dossier, including
the release of the document to the public.
The briefing also may have provided the veneer of respectability to a document that had been
circulating for months within the news media but widely considered too unverified
to publicize.
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