McCain's motive was pure hatred for The Trumpster, which extends into death. Remember how he specifically banned the President from his funeral, and then the libs criticized him for not going.
IMHO, he should be tried anyhow, his body is buried on government property in Maryland. Dig up the corpse, and have him stand trial like they did with Formosus in AD 897
tried for what?
It wasn't illegal to release the dossier to the press... the guy who did it isn't in jail, because it wasn't illegal...
backhanded or scummy politics perhaps, but certainly NOT against the law.
Try to get your facts straight. Steele was paid by Clinton to create the dossier and McCain sent it to the FBI. Lying to the FBI is a felony so if McCain knew it was a phony, he effectively lied to the FBI and should have been charged with at felony.
no, no one paid Steele to ''create'' the dossier. He was hired by Fusion GPS to do research on Donald Trump and his Russian connections, by the Dnc's lawyer and Clinton Campaign lawyer who hired GPS for the opposition(trump) research.
Previous to the DNC/Clinton hiring Fusion GPS, the Washington Free Beacon had hired them for opposition research on Donald Trump... their investigation in the United States on Donald and his businesses and his financing, kept hitting dead ends, well not dead ends...just dead ends in the USA... they were ALL leading to Russia, and his business and financial relationship with Russia.
Before Fusion GPS could hire an investigator that could follow their Russian leads for the Free Beacon, Donald Trump had won the Republican primary and the Free Beacon simultaneously, ended their opposition research on DJT.
I am not certain how Fusion GPS came across the DNC lawyer, to be hired by him....? It's not like the lawyer of the DNC would KNOW that Fusion GPS was already doing opposition research on DJT by the Washington Free Beacon? My instincts tell me that Fusion GPS might have approached the lawyer at the DNC, to see if they would fund the research, since the Free Beacon had ended their contract...
Fusion GPS wanted to get to the bottom of all of those Russian ties to DJT? I don't know, I dont know, I don't know...?
but something smells in Denmark about how the DNC/ Clinton Campaign lawyer could so luckily pick out of the clear blue, a company for opposition research on DJT, that already had 50% of the research job done, and paid for by a Republican operative, the Free Beacon.... this is why I think GPS must have approached the lawyer....
Steele's expertise was in Russia with the MI5, and was known by them and others, for being an expert and was the perfect person for Fusion GPS to hire.
He didn't create out of clear blue what we call "the dossier".... the dossier is simply "field notes" done in 35 memos, that are preliminary findings of his investigation.... more like a table of contents of chapters, of sorts.... only with a short description of what the chapter will be on.
His research was not complete or verified yet, it was simply what he could find out from his sources and investigation.
It all needed further in depth fact finding, and he's the first to say such.
It was not made up out of thin air, it is what his sources lead him to believe were things to investigate.
And he was right in the general sense, on several of the 35 field memos....
-Trump's Campaign staff were in contact with Russian operatives over 100 times during the campaign period
-Trump was pursuing Business interests in Russia during the whole campaign, Trump Tower Moscow
-the Russians were interfering in our elections to help Donald Trump and they were trying to lure the Trump campaign in to working with them
-the Russians were trying to cause division between the Bernie Camp and the Hillary camp as his so called dossier said as well
-Flynn was paid to visit Russia, even though he initially denied it....
etc.
None of these things were known to us peons during the election period... yet Steele was on to it, on to something. I had my suspicions at the time, but there was no main stream media coverage that was worthy to pay attention to....
Only after DJT's election, did the citizenry really become aware.