Shuttleworth Defends Russian Disinformation Op
A Series On Misinformation, Disinformation and Subterfuge
Brad Shuttleworth, a referral-mill lawyer whom supports Mike Flynn, Mike Rothschild, Susan Portnoy, Louise Mensch, and anyone else he has to, is upset that the 2016 Steele Dossier’s raw intelligence has been mostly found credible.
First, let’s point out some facts about the dossier.
One, a Republican website, The Washington Free Beacon backing likely Marco Rubio, indirectly paid for the intelligence gathering on Donald Trump using Fusion GPS who then hired Steele.
They did so up until Trump’s nomination as the party’s representative in the 2016 Presidential election was secured likely before the tranche of raw intelligence had been compiled and/or delivered. The dossier was sold to the Clinton campaign some time after that allowing the GOP to weaponize the intelligence gathering one of their own did against the Clinton campaign, a quintessential false flag, despite most of the key statements factually verified with only a few still being considered unsubstantiated.
Second, the Dossier did not cause the DOJ to open up an investigation into Trump’s lies regarding his business dealings with Russia. The investigation into Trump’s campaign was opened a month before the FBI had received the dossier, doing so after a foreign diplomat reported George Papadopoulos, a campaign advisor of Trump’s, to the FBI for his possible ties to Russian intelligence. Papadopoulos was convicted of lying to the FBI about those contacts.
Other parts of the dossier are verified such as Russia backing Trump and targeting the Clinton campaign, that Trump’s campaign was in contact with various Russian-connected intelligence officials. Then there were other parts that have not been substantiated nor thoroughly discredited.
Let’s start with the one most have dismissed that shouldn’t have been—That Michael Cohen didn’t go to Prague.
Factually we know that Michael Cohen, Trump’s lawyer, now ex-Felon, has publicly testified that he didn’t go to Prague to discuss polling numbers, with the Mueller Report finding no evidence to support that he had, either.
But what about the pollster Michael Cohen, who was working for sketchy Fabrizio and Mclaughlin the push-polling firm Trump had hired to give him the type of poll number headlines meant to influence others, not be an accurate representation of what was happening?
We simply don’t know if the VP at Fabrizio McLaughlin and Associates, the second known Micheal Cohen working for Trump at the time had went to Prague summer of 2016, simply because he hasn’t been asked.
Other than that one item that isn’t yet disproven fully, the rest of the dossier has panned out or were factually supported as likely credible or outright proven including the most tabloid-ish of them, the infamous pee-pee tape made during Don’s time directing beauty pageants. Even that one has some heft to it lending credibility that it might be true.
Here is a headline of Keith Schiller testifying that the Russian prostitute offer to Donald Trump was made, that he rejected personally then told Trump before leaving for the night.
The Dossier has mostly been substantiated with little if any of it being outright debunked, a marvel given how raw the more than a dozen collected notes were. That didn’t however, stop the Republicans and Brad here from weaponizing their own paid for dossier.