The Steele Dossier was faulty, but Trump was very, very guilty. jonathanchait writes
Donald Trump’s attorney has written a letter threatening to sue the Pulitzer Committee unless it revokes the awards given to the Washington Post and the New York Times for their coverage of Trump’s secretive ties to Russia. Trump, of course, will probably never actually file this suit.
The mainstream media did not treat Steele’s allegations as facts. Not even opinion journalists claimed his allegations should be considered factually true. What some analysts and opinion journalists did was speculate that Steele’s claims may well be true, using verified facts to assess the possibility of Steele’s unverified claims.
Knocking down Steele’s unfounded speculation is a real public service by the Trump administration–appointed special prosecutor John Durham . But conservatives are not satisfied with merely correcting the record on Steele. They want to make Steele the underpinning of both the FBI investigation and the journalistic narrative about Trump and Russia.
In March 2016, Trump hired a campaign manager who had previously run a pro-Kremlin presidential campaign in Ukraine and appeared to be indebted to Russian oligarchs. In May, reporters noticed that the Kremlin’s propaganda apparatus was openly cheering on Trump, who in turn was lavishing Vladimir Putin with fawning praise.
Neither Manafort nor Stone cooperated with investigators or federal prosecutors, calculating correctly that Trump would reward them with pardons for keeping silent. Thus, the committee was left with suggestive but not conclusive evidence of the full extent of the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia. It said “some evidence suggests Kilimnik may be connected to the GRU hack-and-leak operation related to the 2016 election.
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