mothership the doj. it was the state department. it was the cia. they were running false stories that they knew were faults about trump s ties to a russian bank because what was happening at the same time, brian? hillary clinton s email scandal was raging. so they needed something else. so they ran these false stories about donald trump s business interest in russia. they didn t need any of it to be true, brian, you for this. this was laid out by sussmann. they just needed an investigation that could then be reported upon so a reported investigation which feeds a news cycle which then the investigators used as justification as a big dust cloud. they use to try to turn donald trump into a russian agent. cynical enough they did it before. they continued it after the campaign information getting now shows how widespread it really was. it wasn t one person. wasn t just christopher steele. it wasn t just michael sussmann. if john durham does his job he could have uncovered a web here. mul