They did this using shoddy intelligence, little pieces of intelligence gathered from places that intelligence professionals refused to reference previously because they knew it was substandard and did not meet the quality and the credibility that is expected of them as intelligence professionals. And They used the Steele dossier, knowing John Brennan, knew James Clapper, knew others within the intelligence community, knew that the Steele dossier was a political manufactured dossier document intended to be weaponized against then candidate Donald Trump. Well, Donald Trump won the election. The American people voted for Donald Trump in 2016. (02:43–03:00)
CLAIM
Asserts that intelligence leaders used the Steele dossier knowing it was politically manufactured.
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