The political fraud of the century

 NY Post:

Inside the Clinton dossier and the con behind the Russiagate scandal

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Special counsel John Durham this week obtained an indictment of Igor Danchenko, a Russian who provided information for the dossier. Danchenko is charged with lying to the FBI, but the bigger story of the indictment is Democrats’ central role in every aspect of the dossier and the FBI investigation.
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It took a year for congressional investigators to reveal the dossier had in fact been commissioned by the opposition-research firm Fusion GPS, working for the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. It took two more years for Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to expose that Steele had relied on a Russian source who said he had never expected Steele to present his info as facts, since most of it was “hearsay.”

Two more years on, Durham’s indictment says this source — Danchenko — obtained material from a longtime Democratic operative who was active in the 2016 Clinton campaign. Clintonites here, Clintonites there, Trump “scandals” everywhere.

The revelation shouldn’t surprise us, given that Danchenko was never some high-level Russian in Moscow. From 2005 through 2010, he worked at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, a center-left think tank. Around the end of that employment, the indictment asserts, he was introduced to “PR Executive-1,” a Clinton crony who The New York Times confirmed is Charles Dolan.

Dolan has long been in Clinton circles, having served seven years as head of the Democratic Governors Association and state chairman of Bill Clinton’s 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns. President Clinton appointed him to a State Department advisory commission, and the indictment notes he was an active “volunteer” on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. He also had far more ties to Russians than anyone in Trump’s circle, having for eight years helped handle “global public relations for the Russian government” and throughout 2016 interacted frequently with senior Russian officials and Russian Embassy staff.

The indictment reveals that in August 2016, Danchenko asked Dolan for any “thought, rumor, allegation” regarding the summer’s resignation of Paul Manafort as Trump’s campaign manager. Danchenko explained he was working on a “project against Trump.”

Dolan replied that he’d had a drink with a “GOP friend of mine who knows some of the players” and provided gossip. Sentences of this e-mail appear nearly verbatim in the Steele dossier, though they are (hilariously) sourced to a “close associate of TRUMP.” To add farce to fantasy, the indictment says the Dolan later told the FBI he had fabricated meeting a GOP friend and had simply passed on info he had read in the press.
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There is much more and it is worth reading in full.  This focuses on the people who largely fabricated the fraud.  It does not focus on the liberal media which facilitated it and gave itself awards for publishing the fraudulent material.  It does tell you something about the dishonesty at the heart of the fraud involving Democrats with a political agenda. 

See, also:

Durham Unravels the Russia Case 

His indictments reveal facts embarrassing to former special counsel Robert Mueller and the press.

Mueller's investigation failed to get to those responsible for the fraud and mainly created process crimes against Trump associates attempting to intimidate Trump supporters instead of going after the real crooks. 

Will Clinton escape being held accountable for the political fraud of the century?

And:

Clinton Operative Linked to Steele Dossier Did Not Disclose Work for Russia to Justice Department 

Charles Dolan's involvement in the dossier saga flips Democrats' allegations of Russian collusion on their head