Shortly before the 2016 election, the FBI offered retired British spy Christopher Steele “up to $1 million” to prove the explosive allegations in his dossier about Donald Trump, a senior FBI analyst testified Tuesday. The cash offer was made during an October 2016 meeting between Steele and several top FBI officials who were trying to corroborate Steele’s claims that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to win the election.
FBI supervisory analyst Brian Auten testified that Steele never got the money because he could not “prove the allegations.” Auten also said Steele refused to provide the names of any of his sources during that meeting, and that Steele didn’t give the FBI anything during that meeting that corroborated the claims in his explosive dossier.
We've known for some time that the FBI was desperate to investigate the fake Trump Russia collusion claims. They ignored their own analysts (and CIA analysts) who flat out demanded that the evidence being used was fake. One of their own analysts suggested that theories about Trump and Russia was pushed by people with "brain disabilities". Apparently the FBI brass was more than willing to fit that description by pushing it themselves.
But to literally offer someone a bribe or payment to "prove" what they could not... is just a bit of a bridge too far. This is an institution that needs to be burned to the ground and recreated from scratch. No question about it.
But just think... there are Democrats who "still" believe that Trump colluded with Russia. Quite a few of them. So the idiocy of the FBI was maybe just a ploy (on purpose or not) to get their idiotic following to fall in line with the nonsense.
