In all of these cases, sooner or later, the Trump administration can be expected to seek refuge in the work of Chief Justice John Roberts, whose maximalist language in Trump v. United States not only granted Trump a shield from criminal investigation and prosecution, but also handed him a sword to order criminal investigations and prosecutions"even sham ones.
Chief Justice John Roberts practically wrote Donald Trump a permission slip to prosecute anyone by using sham investigations like the one into James Comey, Cristian Farias writes.
-- New York Magazine (@nymag.com) Sep 27, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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@#31 ... The money trail behind the Steele dossier has been a subject of intense political scrutiny for years. ...
Yup.
Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier (2017)
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... The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, first hired the research firm that months later produced for Democrats the salacious dossier describing ties between Donald J. Trump and the Russian government, the website said on Friday.
The Free Beacon, funded in large part by the New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, hired the firm, Fusion GPS, in 2015 to unearth damaging information about several Republican presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump. But The Free Beacon told the firm to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.
Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee had begun paying Fusion GPS in April for research that eventually became the basis for the dossier. ...
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