Even in death, Senator John McCain is haunting President Trump. It has been discovered that the entire reason for the Russia investigation came from him, and he was the one that gave the unvetted dossier to Buzzfeed that has divided the nation for the last couple of years.
A longtime associate of late Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain provided a copy of the infamous Steele dossier to BuzzFeed News, according to an explosive court filing released Wednesday.
David Kramer, a former State Department official who was an executive at the McCain Institute, provided BuzzFeed News reporter Ken Bensinger with a copy of the dossier Dec. 29, 2016, according to a filing submitted Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro.
BuzzFeed published the dossier, which was authored by former British spy Christopher Steele, on Jan. 10, 2017.
The disclosure was made as part of a final report ahead of Ungaro’s ruling in favor of BuzzFeed in a defamation lawsuit.
The revelation that Kramer was BuzzFeed’s source settles one of the main mysteries of the dossier, which alleges a vast conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian government to influence the 2016 election.
Kramer obtained copies of the dossier after meeting in late November 2016 with Steele. He and McCain became aware of Steele’s investigation of then-candidate Donald Trump earlier that month at the Halifax International Security Forum.
“Kramer advised McCain to share the reports with the FBI and the CIA,” Ungaro said, The Daily Caller reported.
“Kramer reviewed with Bensinger what he knew about the Dossier and explained that he took the allegations seriously,” the court filing said.
By briefing president-elect Trump in Jan 2017, Comey gave media news hook to report Steele dossier. Then Buzzfeed published whole thing–with, it turns out, an assist from John McCain. From @ChuckRossDC: https://t.co/71vBo9rf5B
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/1075535613774966791
https://twitter.com/sahenry/status/1075543594616934406
This has been one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the dossier. We should have known it'd all lead back to McCain. https://t.co/bDnWrVrJ9v
— Young Conservatives (@YoungCons) December 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/TheLoyalTen/status/1075532973246578689
This confirms what we all know. @SenJohnMcCain was a vindictive self obsessed politician.
— Jim Hill (@hilljim) December 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/Budman56/status/1075545480346492928
There was nothing great about this man or his integrity. Anyone who can do this sort of deed has no respect from me and that will never change.
