John McCain admitted on Wednesday that he committed treason against the United States out of hatred against President-elect Donald Trump.
The ageing Senator revealed that he passed the fake Russian dossier claiming that Donald Trump was into “golden showers” over to the FBI in order to try and overturn his election win.
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Dailymail.co.uk reports:
‘I did what any citizen should do. I received sensitive information and handed it to the FBI,’ he told CNN – the network which broke the story that the document existed. It was then published in full by Buzzfeed.
‘That’s why I gave it to the FBI. I don’t know if it is credible or not but the information I thought deserved to be delivered to the FBI, the appropriate agency of government.’
He added: ‘It doesn’t trouble me because I don’t know if it is accurate or not. I have no way of corroborating that.
‘The individual gave me the information. I looked at it. After receiving that information I took it to the FBI.’
He added that he was now aware from media reports that the FBI was apparently already in possession of the information. ‘
The Arizona senator had issued a public statement amid mounting questions of his exact role in the affair – and how a document riddled with errors and unverifiable claims came to be published.
‘Late last year, I received sensitive information that has since been made public,’ he said.
‘Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgment about their accuracy, I delivered the information to the Director of the FBI.
‘That has been the extent of my contact with the FBI or any other government agency regarding this issue.’
But the 2008 Republican loser, who disowned his party’s candidate weeks before the election, may have been far more intimately involved than that.
The chain of how the document reached the FBI is not officially known.
However Carl Bernstein, the Watergate reporter who contributed to the first story about its existence, published by CNN on Tuesday afternoon, suggested that McCain was handed it by a former British ambassador to Moscow.
Bernstein told CNN: ‘It came from a former British MI6 agent who was hired from a political opposition research firm in Washington who was doing work about Donald Trump for both republican and democratic candidates opposed to Trump.
‘They were looking at Trumps business ties, they saw some questionable things about Russians, about his businesses in Russia, they in turn hired this MI6 former investigator, he then came up with additional information from his Russian sources, he was very concerned by the implications of it, he then took it to an FBI colleague that he had known in his undercover work for years, he took it to this FBI man in Rome who turned it over to the bureau in Washington in August.
‘And then, a former British ambassador to Russia independently was made aware of these findings and he took the information to John McCain – Senator John McCain of Arizona – in the period just after the election, and showed it to McCain – additional findings.
The new information, which has not been independently verified, claims that Russian officials also gathered highly damaging information on Trump, but only released the details attacking Clinton through the WikiLeaks website.
The Kremlin has denied all of the allegations, while Trump tweeted: ‘FAKE NEWS – A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT’.
However, McCain was so concerned about the information contained within the 35-page dossier, which included allegations that Trump had hired prostitutes in Moscow to urinate on a bed that had previously been used by US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, that he passed the information onto the FBI
CNN reported that intelligence chiefs had presented Trump with a two-page summary of the dossier late last week following a briefing with President Obama.
It is not known if it included the most salacious details.
Trump has consistently denied that Russian intelligence agencies had launched a massive cyber attack ahead of last November’s election.
The dossier which McCain passed to FBI Director James Comey was compiled by the former MI6 man.
The memos describe sex videos involving prostitutes filmed during a 2013 visit by Trump to a luxury Moscow hotel, supposedly as a potential means for blackmail.
They also suggest Russian officials proposed lucrative deals in order to win influence over the Republican real estate magnate.
One claim, that special counsel to Trump Michael Cohen met with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016 has been branded as ‘fake news’.
Cohen denied that he was central ‘to the ongoing secret liaison relationship between the New York tycoon’s campaign and the Russian leadership’.
Cohen tweeted a photograph of his passport and said he had never visited Prague.
According to reports, the former MI6 man had been hired to conduct ‘opposition research’ on the Trump campaign by first Republican enemies of Trump, then Democratic ones.
Russia denied the claims, with President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov telling journalists: ‘The Kremlin does not have compromising information on Trump.’
The Kremlin spokesman called the dossier a ‘total fake’ and ‘an obvious attempt to harm our bilateral relations’.
Earlier, the Kremlin had denied hacking the Democratic National Committee and leaking information to deliberately weaken Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Donald Trump’s transition team has repeatedly denied allegations that it had received any help from Moscow.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
John McCain acts demented or mind controlled, and as such would be considered a threat to humanity. For McCain to go to such lengths to block the best President America has had in 50 years, shows how out of touch with reality he is.
I’m not particularly a John McCain supporter…and even if I oppose him on most things, that doesn’t change the fact that this so0called news piece is obviously written to put words in his mouth. This is the sleaziest twisted writing/reporting I think I have ever seen. Maybe McCain is guilty of something….but I submit that “Your News Wire” is, too. I’m a career reporter/media consultant…and this is self-serving, slanted propaganda if I ever saw it.
Have you even seen the memo that McCain passed on to the FBI? It’s not slanted reporting if it’s obvious that McCain was trying to do his part to defeat Trump, and would use an obviously faked document to try to do it.
Mr reporter then tell us how a traitor to this country was ever elected to office from Arizona
Are you serious? Turning information you receive over to the FBI is considered treasonous in your world?
It was obviously faked information; the header on the memo wasn’t even correct. Anyone who saw it as real must have either had some mental issues or thought Hillary would win, and wanted to do his part to ingratiate himself with the New Party Leader. The Songbird sings again.
THE idiot that delivered it to him knew he was songbird and they could count on him to sing like a bird even if it was fake. John Mc Cain needs to be gone from our Gov. . He is a disgrace and if this is going on in our Gov. our Gov. is not functioning right. He is a blight on his nation. A military treasonist and a Gov. treasonist. All the same and he should pay for his crimes against the people and Donald Trump.. I hope Trump extracts punishment on him one way or the other. McCain is a useless AH.
Don’t believe what you read. John McCain isn’t going to come out and tell anybody he committed treason. This is some kind of trick to try and stop Donald J. Trump. John McCain is and Obama ass kisser that the stupid people of Arizona keep re-electing every year.. He calls his self a republican just to get votes. He is a democrat.
McCain sent an aid by private jet to Moscow to pick up the 35-page report. After reading it he sent it to the FBI. They leaked it on October 31, just before the election as part of the intended October surprise; it went nowhere. Podesta picked it up on December 18th in another attempt to smear Trump; again, nothing. Now it’s a few days before the inauguration and it pops up again. This time the media makes it into a one-hit-wonder even though it’s proven false.
Now it’s just another nail in the Democrat coffin. That party is dead to America!
Golden Showers? THIS is the information he thought would do something to Trump? WTF? Golden Showers are old sexual behavior and idk, not necessarily deviant. I don’t think it’s a horrible thing to have prostitutes pee on the bed Obama slept it – maybe against hotel policy, but somehow I think they didn’t care if the price was right and you know what? I don’t give a flying fig either. Pizzagate happens and they pull out golden showers? ROFLMAO! They don’t know the difference between sexual oddities (getting peed on – allegedly republican) and illegal sexual depravity (sex with children – allegedly democrats), do they? Poor deluded fools.
It is time McCain disappeared from our political system entirely.
That’s the opposite of treason. Treason is what we’re watching from trump and his not-ready-for-prime-time-players.
That’s the opposite of treason. If you want to see treason, look at the White House and his gang-that-cant-shoot-straight.
Hahahahahahaha. I’ m sorry. This is just hilarious. I can not believe that it has come down to this. They are trying to blackmail him with stories about Russian prostitutes? Then why is this the first we have heard of this? Sounds desperate.
The Russians did not do it. We just did not like Hillary Clinton because she is too corrupt and the entire DNC acted like they were above the law. I say this as a Democrat. I would never have voted for her after what they did to Bernie. No way. That is what a lot of people were thinking. It was not Russians.
This guy who wrote this piece sounds like a smart guy.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/942867271009042432.html
And I believe that is probably what happened.
The Democratic Party will have to evolve or become obsolete because this kind of obsessive behavior over imaginary Russians is not going to fly. The way they protested Trump’s inauguration was disrespectful and childish. I didn’t see any of them complaining about the way votes were counted when Bernie was unfairly set aside. That was unforgiveable. So let Trump have his Presidency and stop crying about it. That is what the DNC should have expected when they failed to nominate Bernie Sanders.
I shed no tears when he died. His passing of the fake information on Trump was his final act of sedition and treason.
This is the second time he was accused of treason. He would have been shot if it wasn’t President Nixon pardoning his war crimes. He was not a good guy folks,
This is the seccond time for teason. Mcain would have been shot and killed if he wasn’t pardoned by president Nixon for war crimes.
I got a lot of backlash when I told people McCain was a traitor. I bet he probably sold US secrets when he was POW in order to get out alive knowing what we know now. The proof is when his own wife endorsed Biden after he died. Further proof is the propaganda he pushed in order to spy on his country’s own citizens post 9/11. And even more proof when he attacked the greatest president to the free people ever, over feelings. Not to mention his anti gun legislation track record, wtf! He is one of the primary reasons I switched to the American Independent party after 2020. You all should to, Since republicans only pretend to fight for us but are shaking hands behind the curtain with Dems. Offset the 2 party system and you’ll have real politicians (patriots) fighting for your rights. Trump will switch if he sees the trend. He knows his own party is capable of betraying him.