Your opinion of human nature is subjective and therefore it is not evidence. Only supposition. As I stated, I’m more logic-driven based on factual evidence. You know the old saying about opinions.
Not true. While not all of it has (especially the more raunchy stuff), the intelligence community has corroborated some of it. The fallacy that it’s all someone’s imagination keeps getting repeated by talk radio and Fox, but the intelligence community says otherwise.
“Some of what was in the dossier was actually corroborated — but separately — in our intelligence community assessment, from other sources that we were confident in,” Clapper said.
“The salacious parts, no. That’s never been corroborated,” he added. “It would appear to me that as time has gone on more and more of it has been corroborated, but I can’t actually give you a percentage.”
How do I explain what exactly? Harry Reid’s innuendo’s at the time? The fact the article asks a bunch of unanswered questions? None of this shows that the dossier was used prior to the election to influence the election. The dossier and its contents were not made public until after the election. It is pretty cut and dry here.
Oh really…what was motherjones talking about here?
What was the date on that article?
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One last point, the dossier was not used during the election. So how could it have been used to “derail the candidacy?” It was not publicly revealed until 3 full months after the election had transpired.
You said it wasn’t public revealed prior to election…but I knew about it before Nov 8th.
Not the detailed contents of the dossier. A bunch of broad questions and speculations. Of which the DOJ promptly shot down to the NYT prior to the election, thus ensuring the dossier and the investigation would not be used to influence the election results. The history is already written here.