The "strongest" argument made by Trump supporters in the House regarding the now infamous memo........alleges that the FBI STRONGLY relied on the Steele dossier to convince the FISA judge to grant them a warrant to monitor Carter Page's activities.......
The key sentence in the memo states:
Furthermore, Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information.
Now, notice the wording and the use of the verb (past tense,) SOUGHT.....
Compare the term "sought," used by McCabe, with the much stronger term had McCabe used, APPROVED.
In short, had McCabe stated that the warrant would NOT have been APPROVED without the dossier, THEN Trump supporters would have a stronger case.....But, what McCabe actually stated is that the seeking of a warrant to monitor Page did rely on the dossier..........
Simply put, what Trump supporters are alleging, is that the FISA judge must have been a stooge for the FBI and not objective enough to discern the important reasons for APPROVING a warrant.
They DNC paid for the dossier which was false and then was used in conjunction with a yahoo news story that regurgitated the same bunk, to launch an investigation. You need to quit lying.
the (D)s picked up where the (R)s left off. The (R)s went to fusion GPS first. & the author of that yahoo news article said he was surprised to have even been mentioned in the memo, because he knew that the FBI
already had the info contained in his article before it came out.
Isakoff also said he had "no idea whether anything in the dossier was factual.
Steele, the famous RUSSIAN EXPERT, who doesn't speak Russian and has never even been to Russia BTW testified he didn't know if ANYTHING was factual in the dossier he prepared. The GPS asshole also said he never bothered the try to collaborate ANYTHING in the dossier.
The "REPS" never ordered the dossier.
It was one REP billionaire who hated Trump and didn't want Trump to win the nomination who commissioned FGPS to dig up dirt on Trump. After Trump won the nomination the never-Trumper stopped paying FGPS. Hillary and the DNC, the same thing, approached FGPS and commissioned them to keep digging for dirt on Trump. FGPS hired Steele, another radical Trump hater to basically concoct anything he could to prevent Trump from winning the Presidency.