(DCNF)—“War Room” White House correspondent Natalie Winters ripped the author of a discredited dossier accusing President Donald Trump of colluding with Russia during his successful 2016 presidential campaign.
Christopher Steele authored a dossier that was repeatedly cited on MSNBC and other corporate media outlets to advance the unproven claims that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential race due to Russian interference in the election. Winters lit into the former intelligence officer for two minutes over the dossier.
“I know Christopher Steele wanted to go down in history as someone that colluded with the Clinton campaign to take down President Donald J. Trump, but I really think that you represent probably the ultimate grifter in the American political space,” Winters told Steele during a panel discussion on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.” “For you to even come on here, obviously you’re trying to sabotage what President Trump is doing when it comes to Russia and Ukraine. But to sit here, what is it, nearly a decade later, and try to smear President Trump as a Russian asset, to then say, ‘Well, I think he’s a Russian asset, but even though I’m really good at my job and create all these intelligence reports, it’s just sort of a feeling that I have.’”
“I’m sorry, but what stones do you even have left to turn over to try to corroborate your claim that Trump is a Russian asset?” Winters continued. “What? Weaponized FISA courts, surveillance, warrants, not just domestic spy agencies, international spy agencies, too. The entire DNC apparatus, a bunch of political operatives, registered foreign agents in the United States. The American people would really appreciate it if you would stop injecting your efforts to curtail and totally tank the America First movement by smearing anyone who doesn’t get involved in forever wars or continue the needless and ceaseless dying in Ukraine and in Russia just so you can sit there from your nice perch and just continue to defend the globalist world order by continuing to fan the flames of conflict in Russia and Ukraine.”
Special counsel John Durham released a report on May 15, 2023, on the origins of the FBI investigation of allegations that Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russia that found that the FBI “did not and could not corroborate” the claims from the now-discredited Steele Dossier, which was used to obtain warrants to monitor communications by Carter Page and other associates of Trump. Winters also called Steele out over Hunter Biden’s laptop.
In April 2019, special counsel Robert Mueller released a report saying he found no evidence Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
Winters also called out Steele over the October 2020 letter published by Politico signed by dozens of former intelligence officials that claimed a bombshell New York Post report about emails from a laptop supposedly abandoned by Hunter Biden “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The Daily Caller News Foundation confirmed the authenticity of one of the emails in October 2020.
“Well, it turned out that was true, and shame on you for the last decade trying to inject the idea that smearing President Trump as a Russian agent or Russian asset is some how going to take the MAGA movement,” Winters told Steele. “It’s about putting America first, and the fact that you can still sit here and you have no actual evidence aside from one random Russian meeting, and oh, we need to just continue to get more evidence. You’re a complete political hack and grifter and I wish the American political scene didn’t have your voice in it.”
FBI analyst Brian Auten testified in an October 2022 trial that the FBI offered Christopher Steele $1 million if he could corroborate the claims in the dossier, but Steele never did. Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee were fined by the Federal Election Commission in 2022 for their involvement in the since-discredited Steele Dossier, which was used to further allegations of collusion, CNN reported.
