BOOM! Sen. Chuck Grassley Drags Dems And The Media(D) For Criticizing Pursuing Criminal Referral Of Christopher Steele
Hey, media hotshots — have any of you got anything to say about how VERY wrong you’ve been about FBI malfeasance and the Steele Dossier? Because your past positions are a matter of public record.
And, as they like to say on social media… Grassley’s got the receipts.
Here’s his epic thread where he starts calling individuals out by name:
Criticism of the Grassley-Graham criminal referral of Christopher Steele hasn’t aged well. Let’s do a look-back at how media and commentators received the referral in January 2018. https://t.co/8xyIxiMDew
— Sen. Grassley Press (@GrassleyPress) December 11, 2019
First up — Feinstein.
The Ranking Member even issued a now-somewhat-embarrassing “refutation” of the referral. https://t.co/BAmv4eSPx1
— Sen. Grassley Press (@GrassleyPress) December 11, 2019
Next, up, it should surprise none of us, is CNN:
He also made the surprising claim that the “dossier isn’t bogus” without any apparent factual backing…https://t.co/Z4lqpyPVfO
— Sen. Grassley Press (@GrassleyPress) December 11, 2019
Next up, the place Democracy goes to die in darkness… WaPo:
Liberal columnist for the Washington Post, @JRubinBlogger, called the referral “entirely inappropriate” and said it “raises a real question as to Grassley’s credibility.” https://t.co/xe9TZHu2BG
— Sen. Grassley Press (@GrassleyPress) December 11, 2019
NeverTrumper Max Boot got called out as the Liberal he truly is… and a dishonest one at that. And then, what a surprise, a Democrat employee working toward House impeachment…
.@NormEisen, WHO NOW WORKS FOR HOUSE DEMOCRATS ON IMPEACHMENT, thought in March 2018 that the “dossier is more & more corroborated by the day.” Nope.https://t.co/iIVHJ8pO1D
— Sen. Grassley Press (@GrassleyPress) December 11, 2019
Look who was caught celebrating Fusion GPS:
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse was on the same page. https://t.co/0mlZasRHtp pic.twitter.com/qG3VwCWKki
— Sen. Grassley Press (@GrassleyPress) December 11, 2019
And now the IG has blown their narratives all to Hell.
The IG called the FBI’s unsourced flip flop on Steele’s contacts with the press “disturbing.” Those contacts were at the heart of the referral.https://t.co/pF4Ni6MNjd
— Sen. Grassley Press (@GrassleyPress) December 11, 2019
CNN again…
Even straight news reporters pushed out claims that weren’t substantiated about the dossier and its relevance to the FISA. CNN’s @jimsciutto said US gov’t had “corroborated portions” of dossier—when in fact, sub-source said it was bunk. https://t.co/VirSgRNTcA
— Sen. Grassley Press (@GrassleyPress) December 11, 2019
And CNBC’s bogus take did not age well.
CNBC’s @JohnJHarwood was repeating unsubstantiated conjecture about how the dossier ‘holds up well over time’https://t.co/OqoyvvIUWS
— Sen. Grassley Press (@GrassleyPress) December 11, 2019
And to round it out, we have WSJ/WaPo contributor Shane Harris defending the indefensible…
Actually, despite the credibility issues of its author and the uncorroborated nature of its substance, and its political origins, the Steele dossier played a “critical and essential role” in the FBI’s decision to pursue the FISA against Page (p. iv): pic.twitter.com/F2rKzGHzrE
— Sen. Grassley Press (@GrassleyPress) December 11, 2019
They’ll all get right on with offering prompt apologies to everyone on the Right they all worked so hard to malign, right?
Of course not. They’re entirely unaccountable. That’s why they’re fake news, and that’s why they are working so hard to shut down the alternative voices in the New Media that call them out on their Bull-Schiff.