SpyGate (#17) Jan – Aug 2019

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January 8th, 2019

Eric Metaxas interviews Jerome Corsi on Interrogation excesses of the Mueller investigators.

Jan 25th

Roger Stone is arrested.

March 6th, 2019

Deposition of Michael Cohen

Trump’s former lawyer Cohen, who turned on Trump, wound up confirming that the infamous ‘Pee tape’ was fiction.

Also linked here.

page 227 – 229

MS. SPEIER: lt wasn’t infamous then, was  it?

MR. COHEN: Yes, yes. That the tape – the conversation about the tape has gone back almost a couple months past when they were there for the Miss Universe Pageant that that tape existed.

MS. SPEIER: So you’re suggesting you’ve known about the rumors about this tape for many years —

MR. COHEN: Yes, ma’am.

MS. SPEIER: – before October 30th?

MR. COHEN: Oh, yes.

MS. SPEIER: And did you ever try to follow up? Did you ever talk to  Mr. Trump about this potential rumor?

MR. COHEN: Yes.

MS. SPEIER: And what did Mr. Trump say to you?

MR. COHEN: lt’s not true.

MS. SPEIER: But it persisted, evidently?

MR. COHEN: Yes.

MS. SPEIER: As some things do. And did he ask you to follow up and determine where that was coming from?

MR. COHEN: He asked me to find out where  it was coming from, yes.

MS. SPEIER: And what did you find out?

MR. COHEN: lt didn’t exist.

MS. SPEIER: Who did you talk to to determine that –

MR. COHEN: Many people. Over the course of the years,  I must have had half a dozen people reach out. One gentleman reached out to me — I don’t know who he was — claiming that he had the tape. I said, okay, send me  4 seconds of it and name your price. So he turned around and he said to me,  I’m not sending  it to you. So how do I know you have it? He said, Well, you’re going to have to trust me. I said, Well, how much do you want? He said, $20 million. I said, sure, why don’t you tell me what bank account you want me to wire  it to and under whose name. So he said to me, he goes, I’m being serious, I’ll release the tape.  I said, well, send me 4 seconds, not even any of the salacious stuff. Just send me something so I know it’s real, I can walk into Mr. Trump’s office, and l’ll figure out how to get you — you know, how to get you your money. He hung up on me, never heard from him again.

MS. SPEIER: So .. but it persists, and then you’re hearing it again on October 30th. lt does not become public knowledge until January of 2017, when BuzzFeed releases the Steele dossier.

MR. COHEN: That’s not really true. There were conversations way before that. TMZ, Harvey Levin called me, said he had heard about the existence of it. You know, other people had heard of the existence of that tape.

MS. SPEIER: Okay.

MR. COHEN: And that conversation has been going on, very much like me being in Prague. lt’s just something that just ..

MS. SPEIER: Has a life of its own.

MR. COHEN: Correct. You know, just to kind of be comical for a half a second.

MS. SPEIER: Do it.

MR. COHEN: When l was speaking with Mr. Trump about it, you know, I said to him, I’m a little disappointed. He’s like, what do you mean? Why? And I said, Well, I would have liked to have been invited to the party. lt sounds like it was wild. So he goes, Michael, it never happened. And I said, All right, you know, if you say so, it never happened. And he said, no, I’m serious, it never happened. This whole thing is just pure nonsense. And  I believe it simply because, as everybody said to me, the event was over kind of late. And then I spoke with Keith Schiller about it, who told me that he had brought Mr. Trump up to his room and then stayed there about a half hour to ensure that he was okay, then went to his own room. And  I said, well, if these women were brought in and then they urinated on the bed, where did Mr. Trump sleep? He said, well, you’re right about that. So I’m sure he –  it didn’t happen. That’s how we kind of deduced it didn’t happen.

07:43
MARK: Have you ever been approached in an unusual way?
JOHN: I’ll tell you  a story about a mailbox which occurred at my home. Its seminal to the Russia story. Sara and I had just began working on what we call the NSA abuse stories
SARA: the unmaskings
JOHN: and unmasking.
07:50
We had just gone on the Sean Hannity show that night. about a sudden rise of the unmasking’s and i drove home got to my mailbox. there was a blue sedan sitting outside my mailbox.
08:02
There were two gentlemen clearly intelligence officers from the government–never identified their names–  and they stepped out and said, “Are  you Mr. Solomon?”
08:11
They said,  “We just saw you on Sean Hannity show. We wanted to talk to you for a second. We cannot tell you much because most of what we know is classified but we will tell you this:
08:20
If you keep digging you will find out that the United States intelligence community was used for a political opposition research project and we are deeply concerned. And I said “Well, why are you concerned?” [They said]  “We need these tools–things like FISA and the NSA to catch the bad guys.
08:30
If we misuse it for political dirty tricks we won’t have those tools when the next terrorist attack or the next spy shows up in town. 
08:40
We need you to go to find out what happened and that’s all they told me. It was about  11:30 that night. I ran in. I wrote this long e-mail of everything I could remember.
08:55
[Sara] responds right back but that how we got started and to understanding that this is was much  bigger than just an unmasking scandal.
Mark:  How long ago was this?
09:01
JOHN: March 2017.
SARA: We were getting tips. We saw what was happening to General Flynn. I remember being approached by… let’s say federal law enforcement officers who
09:23
told me you really need to dig into what is happening with attorney general Flynn Apparently there is a lot going on inside the FBI. look at Andrew McCabe
09:34
Focus on these characters. I started to focus to take a step back with what is going on and the more we started to investigate, little by little
09:46
we started peeling back what we call the onion, right? The layers of the onion. It really felt like that. So then I think it can’t get much worse than this…. It can’t get much worse than this.
MARK: Was General Flynn set up?
09:57
SARA: I absolutely believe General Flynn was a target from the very beginning absolutely.

April 18th, 2019

The Mueller Report is released to the public.

May 3rd, 2019

Devin Nunes’ letter to Pompeo, Haspel, Nakasone, and Wray. Regarding Joseph Mifsud’s connections with Western Intelligence.

c. August 4th , 2019

Maria Bartiromo interviews Trey Gowdy on classified transcript that exonerates George Papadopoulos.