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Fox News host hits Giuliani: Dossier isn't why Mueller probe was started
Fox News host Shep Smith on Wednesday fact-checked President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani after he again falsely claimed that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation started with the so-called Steele dossier.
In an interview on Fox News on Monday, Giuliani claimed that former CIA Director John Brennan brought the dossier to the special counsel's attention, kicking off the more than yearlong investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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"It was not," Smith continued. "The Russia investigation began after the former Trump policy adviser George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat that the Russians had dirt on his then-political opponent Hillary Clinton. That information was passed on to intelligence officials."
Giuliani, who often claims Mueller's probe began with the Steele dossier, on Monday said Brennan is the mastermind behind Mueller's investigation.
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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/402062-fox-news-host-hits-giuliani-dossier-isnt-why-mueller-probe-was
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Fox News host hits Giuliani: Dossier isn't why Mueller probe was started (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Aug 2018
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TomSlick
(11,098 posts)1. How does Shep Smith keep his job?
Saying things that are obvious and true must be contrary to Faux company policy.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)2. Fox News host hits Giuliani
It should just stop right there. I'd be satisfied.
Rhiannon12866
(205,405 posts)3. What Giuliani has to say makes no more sense than Trump does
They make a perfect pair - and I wish that they'd both just go away...
Nitram
(22,801 posts)4. The truth needs to be repeated every single time right wingers repeat these lies.