The point of the Russia investigation was to make a case against Donald Trump.
In accordance with the collusion narrative, the latter would mean trying to show that Trump was compromised by the Kremlin.
Obviously, if a book can show that Donald Trump was in the FBI's crosshairs all along, that fact had to have been knowable for some time.
What we learn is that Comey and his top FBI advisers prepared extensively for the then-director's January 6, 2017, briefing of then-president-elect Trump.
The detailed preparation owed to the fact that the FBI regarded the session at Trump Tower in New York not as a mere briefing but as an evidence-gathering opportunity.
The plan on January 6 was for Comey to hit the president-elect with a Steele-dossier allegation: the salacious and unverified claim that Trump had cavorted with prostitutes at a Moscow hotel in 2013, and been covertly recorded doing so by Russian intelligence.
The Obama administration launched an investigation in which the target was Donald Trump and the objective was short-circuiting his presidency.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/trump-was-always-the-target-of-the-russia-investigation/
In accordance with the collusion narrative, the latter would mean trying to show that Trump was compromised by the Kremlin.
Obviously, if a book can show that Donald Trump was in the FBI's crosshairs all along, that fact had to have been knowable for some time.
What we learn is that Comey and his top FBI advisers prepared extensively for the then-director's January 6, 2017, briefing of then-president-elect Trump.
The detailed preparation owed to the fact that the FBI regarded the session at Trump Tower in New York not as a mere briefing but as an evidence-gathering opportunity.
The plan on January 6 was for Comey to hit the president-elect with a Steele-dossier allegation: the salacious and unverified claim that Trump had cavorted with prostitutes at a Moscow hotel in 2013, and been covertly recorded doing so by Russian intelligence.
The Obama administration launched an investigation in which the target was Donald Trump and the objective was short-circuiting his presidency.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/trump-was-always-the-target-of-the-russia-investigation/
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