Uncorroborated plus uncorroborated plus largely uncorroborated is not the accumulation of questions, much less of evidence.
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"Uncorroborated plus uncorroborated plus largely uncorroborated is not the accumulation of questions, much less of evidence," he writes.
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He just calls Ford's claims "largely uncorroborated," adding that Ramirez's and Swetnick's allegations are "uncorroborated" as well.
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BuzzFeed published the report, whose conclusions remain uncorroborated, on Tuesday.
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" He also described the accusations as being "At best ... uncorroborated.
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Many more are pending confirmation and a number remain uncorroborated.
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"It's irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet," he said.
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Some of the woman's story has gone uncorroborated, per The Atlantic.
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But for now, Parnas's claims about him are broad and uncorroborated.
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The classified pages contain "uncorroborated, unvetted information," the CIA head has claimed.
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Both Cruz and his father vehemently denied the uncorroborated and unfounded claim.
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"It is irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet," Tapper said.
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"It is questionable whether any jury would believe his uncorroborated testimony," they added.
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Over the past few days, other false and uncorroborated accusations have been aired.
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The list contains numerous unproven, uncorroborated allegations against men from different media outlets.
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After all, many assault cases are based on uncorroborated testimony of the complainant alone.
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Wade and others seeing him as an honest distinguished jurist slimed with uncorroborated lies.
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It contained a number of uncorroborated personal attacks against a string of Vatican officials.
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Based on what they said, Republican leaders have declared that Blasey's story remains uncorroborated.
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Kavanaugh denies the allegation and a White House spokeswoman dismisses the claim as uncorroborated.
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But that didn't keep Kavanaugh's opponents, in politics and the press, from seizing them as evidence of corroboration with Blasey's allegation, which is not preposterous but is also largely uncorroborated, and with the allegation of Kavanaugh's Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez — uncorroborated again.
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The charges -- many still uncorroborated -- added to the questions surrounding the Trump team and Russia.
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Some think Kavanaugh was presumed guilty and persecuted by the press over an uncorroborated account.
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Absent that, his whole adult life tips the scales far more than one uncorroborated accusation.
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The film takes uncorroborated allegations that supposedly happened 20 years ago and treats them as fact.
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The film takes uncorroborated allegations that supposedly happened 220 years ago and treats them as fact.
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"The New York Times article is based on uncorroborated sources," she said during Wednesday's press briefing.
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Pell's lawyers said the prosecution's case relied entirely on the "uncorroborated evidence" of one surviving complainant.
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Most importantly, this great life cannot be ruined by mean & despicable Democrats and totally uncorroborated allegations!
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Ford is a "nice lady, who has come forward to tell a story that's uncorroborated," Graham said.
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"Over the past few days, other false and uncorroborated accusations have been aired," his prepared statement says.
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Justin Fairfax denies a woman's newly surfaced but uncorroborated claims that he sexually assaulted her in 2004.
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Still, Mr. Guo's claims are uncorroborated and have been challenged even by some critics of the party.
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" 85033/20:The myriad statements and suggestions that financial or political considerations played a part in the decision making process, are both highly offensive and entirely false...To repeat such uncorroborated rumors and lies is reprehensible... He added that "to repeat such uncorroborated rumors and lies is reprehensible.
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Second, there are the darker possibilities of the sort alleged in the salacious and mostly uncorroborated Steele dossier.
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Specifically, they accused the FBI of using uncorroborated and anonymously sourced information to justify starting the Russia probe.
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On Friday, Spicer told reporters that the Trump administration had no regrets about citing the uncorroborated Fox News report.
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"The film takes uncorroborated allegations that supposedly happened 20 years ago and treats them as fact," the statement read.
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Unverified, uncorroborated, Clinton bought and paid for, foreign national put together Christopher Steele, Russian lies to influence an election.
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Out of 215 claims in the latest investigation, 100 were uncorroborated and 47 claims were related to sexual harassment.
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Ohr's notes show that Steele's main source of uncorroborated allegations against Trump came from an ex-Russian intelligence officer.
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There was doom and gloom among many, myself not included, during Christine Blasey Ford's uncorroborated and deeply suspect testimony.
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" Bowe then told EW after the announcement of Bolling's suspension, "The anonymous, uncorroborated claims are untrue and terribly unfair.
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That allegation, it turns out, was one of many in the uncorroborated Steele dossier guiding the FBI's collusion probe.
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To make matters worse, Red Flag hearings can be adjudicated based on uncorroborated claims made by a single individual.
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Democratic members of the committee who have seen the memo claim it is full of "inaccuracies" and uncorroborated information.
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Efforts today to conflate responsible reporting on IC presentation of 2628 page annex with irresponsible posting of uncorroborated 28503-pager.
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That operation gathered uncorroborated evidence from foreigners in Russia and Ukraine who had their own motives for influencing the election.
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The lawsuit alleges that the government largely relied on uncorroborated news media reports as evidence in a review of Kaspersky software.
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The FBI is currently conducting a weeklong investigation of the allegations of sexual misconduct surrounding Kavanaugh, all of which remain uncorroborated.
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She said while she believed Ford, blocking Kavanaugh's nomination over uncorroborated allegations would be deeply damaging to the Senate confirmation process.
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Moreover, prosecutors should be reluctant to rely on the uncorroborated word of a defendant who pleaded guilty to lying and defrauding.
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"Over the past few days, other false and uncorroborated accusations have been aired," Kavanaugh plans to say before the panel Thursday morning.
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A Justice Department spokeswoman says that she will not comment on a story based on anonymous sources and an uncorroborated intelligence intercept.
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No credible evidence was ever offered, and the only things that were reported like facts were nothing but hearsay and uncorroborated accusations.
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But there have been conspiracy theories about the matter for years — and as mentioned, the president loves spreading completely uncorroborated conspiracy theories.
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That changed, however, after Fox News began publicly promoting an uncorroborated and later retracted story authored by Fox News reporter Malia Zimmerman.
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Another was how Mr. Trump and Mr. Spicer conflated BuzzFeed's reporting of the Russia story with CNN's, which omitted the uncorroborated details.
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The whistleblower denied acting with political motivations and argued that the complaint being uncorroborated was "what investigations are for," according to the Post.
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Kavanaugh has unequivocally denied the allegation, which remains uncorroborated, and provided his calendars from the period, which show no trace of the event.
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Much of the dossier remains uncorroborated, including its most salacious details, but a number of its allegations have held up on some level.
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The BuzzFeed story made several other claims that remain uncorroborated by other media outlets regarding Cohen's lies to Congress and communications with Mueller.
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"That's the facts I'm left with: A nice lady who has come forward to tell a hard story that's uncorroborated," Mr. Graham said.
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Republican Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley said that it was "disturbing" that such "uncorroborated" allegations had emerged ahead of the committee vote.
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The 35-page Steele dossier contains several bits of raw but as yet uncorroborated intelligence about Trump and some of his campaign surrogates.
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They are "ancient, remote, incredible and uncorroborated ... a bandwagon of claims that have been put together in Pandora's box," defense attorney Brian McMonagle said.
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Asked if he found Ford credible, he said he believes something happened to her but her memory had holes and her story was uncorroborated.
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Other sources suggest that the poison was fake; Rasputin was killed by three shots, but the tale of his satanic resurrection is wholly uncorroborated.
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And Yates is also one of the corrupt officials that signed off on at least one of the FISA warrants that was unverified, uncorroborated.
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Fairly or otherwise, the uncorroborated allegations against Trump have given new life to the broader story of alleged Russian influence on the presidential election.
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Trump has repeatedly denied any collusion between his campaign and Russian officials and has fiercely denied allegations made in the dossier, which remains uncorroborated.
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" The university's settlement with this accuser, the Paterno family spokesman added, "does not remotely validate the assertions about an uncorroborated conversation with Joe Paterno.
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It is not fair to the federal judge who has devoted his life to public service only to be stonewalled by an uncorroborated claim.
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In fact, the Steele dossier was found by the FBI to be largely uncorroborated before it was used to secure the Page surveillance order.
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"Anyone, whether it's a woman or a man, can hopefully trust that their reputation will not be destroyed by one, uncorroborated allegation," Cassidy said.
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Judge Spooner says in his report that he found Ondaan's testimony credible, while the landlord "raised various uncorroborated and unlikely accusations against" the tenant.
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"House Democrats and Michael Cohen put on a circus that was full of lies and uncorroborated allegations," said Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.
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A journalist for BBC News asked about the allegations in an uncorroborated, leaked report on Mr. Trump published by BuzzFeed News the night before.
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That was a cavalier risk in possibly destroying a demonstrably capable and, to date, innocent judge by embracing uncorroborated and largely disproved or irrelevant innuendo.
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Justin Fairfax on Monday unequivocally denied uncorroborated 2004 sexual assault allegations against him, suggesting that it's not a "coincidence" that they resurfaced at this time.
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" The Senate Majority Whip also said that Judge has a deep fear of public speaking and was subject to the "most salacious, uncorroborated, outrageous allegations.
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But an uncorroborated allegation illustrated by unrelated footage is not even close to a video record of an actual incident — which is what Fiorina claimed.
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In other words, it was political op research, filled with all things Russian lies that even Steele himself has admitted was totally unverified and uncorroborated.
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Just as important, Ohr told Congress he understood Steele's information to be raw and uncorroborated hearsay, the sort of information that isn't admissible in court.
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" That allegation appears to come from an NPR interview, and Mr. Wizner rejected it as "totally uncorroborated," saying the lawmaker was "not in the loop.
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Rape cases are notoriously difficult to prosecute because victims tend to be alone when they are attacked and their statements are, by nature, often uncorroborated.
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The wedding, like other key events portrayed in "The Irishman," really happened, a scaffolding of hard facts within which Sheeran's largely uncorroborated tale plays out.
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But McMonagle said the prior accusations, which stretch back to the 1960s, were "ancient, remote, incredible and uncorroborated," and lacked key details like exact dates.
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Prominent figures in media, including the executive editor of The Times, said they wouldn't have made the same decision, emphasizing the uncorroborated claims it contained.
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Fusion, in turn, hired Christopher Steele, the former British spy who put together a mostly uncorroborated dossier alleging that the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia.
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Dr. Ford's allegation is not merely uncorroborated, it is refuted by the very people she says were there, including by a longtime friend of hers. Refuted.
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And, while it's true that other women in Depp's life have come forward to speak of their own positive experiences with him, Heard's allegations aren't uncorroborated.
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He released a two-page document detailing serious, but uncorroborated, allegations that the senator said were brought to the committee by Jackson's former and current colleagues.
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"Does anybody think it's any coincidence that on the eve of potentially my being elevated that that's when this uncorroborated smear comes out?" he asked reporters.
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Shearer's notes, a copy of which were obtained by CNN, make uncorroborated allegations involving Trump and Russia, and they cite unnamed Russian intelligence and Turkish sources.
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The Court of Cassation, one of Egypt's highest, has voided capital convictions for members of the Brotherhood obtained with evidence exclusively from (often uncorroborated) national-security investigations.
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That, by itself, is not an obstacle to prosecution; the uncorroborated testimony of a sex offense victim may be sufficient to establish the guilt of the accused.
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"This 35-year-old, uncorroborated claim is the latest in a coordinated smear campaign by the Democrats designed to tear down a good man," the statement said.
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" In a statement, the White House said the "uncorroborated claim is the latest in a coordinated smear campaign by the Democrats designed to tear down a good man.
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" Speaking to reporters at the state capitol on Monday afternoon, Fairfax reiterated his claim that the encounter was consensual, and that allegations to the contrary were "completely uncorroborated.
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Overall, viewing this uncorroborated document very skeptically was always a good idea, and the fact that its funders were Trump's biggest opponents only makes that more the case.
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The accusation against Kavanaugh — involving an incident 36 years ago in an undetermined location, uncorroborated by those present — would not currently stand up in a court of law.
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" In his autobiography, "On the Move: A Life" (2015), Dr. Sacks wrote: "Isabelle would never permit me, any more than she permitted herself, any loose, exaggerated, uncorroborated statements.
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"It's something that obviously the agency thinks they have to track down," he told The Associated Press Thursday, referring to the dossier of salacious, uncorroborated claims about Trump.
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However, to accuse Saudi of spreading the ideology of violent extremism and terrorism is nothing but pure conjecture that is based on a shaky foundation of uncorroborated assumptions.
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Their lawyers vowed to vigorously fight the charges, arguing that prosecutors had given too much credence to the woman's "uncorroborated" claims and suggesting that the encounter was consensual.
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Though certain parts of the 35-page document, compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, have been verified, most of the allegations it contained were raw, uncorroborated intelligence.
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I think it also shows that anyone, whether it's a woman or a man, can hopefully trust that their reputation will not be destroyed by one, uncorroborated allegation.
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A report from Business Insider cites Starbucks employees (and otherwise uncorroborated social media posts) as saying that the 2019 launch date for the Pumpkin Spice Latte will be Aug.
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"That's why we did not publish it, and why we did not detail any specifics from it, because it was uncorroborated and that's not what we do," Tapper added.
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Last week, White House press secretary Sean Spicer cited an uncorroborated Fox News report to allege that the UK intelligence agency spied on Trump at the behest of Obama.
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I look at FISA court judges, a fraud committed four separate times on a court with unverified, uncorroborated information and purposefully withholding the information that Hillary paid for it.
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GCHQ's surveillance became politically sensitive when Trump -- citing an uncorroborated Fox News report -- claimed that Britain had tapped his phones in Trump Tower at former President Barack Obama's behest.
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MARCH 8 Obama was irked and exasperated in response to Trump's uncorroborated wiretapping accusation, sources say The Obamacare replacement bill is under fire from both sides of the aisle.
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"Senate Democrats and their allies are trying to destroy a man's personal and professional life on the basis of decades-old allegations that are unsubstantiated and uncorroborated," he said.
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An uncorroborated dossier put together by a former British intelligence operative, Christopher Steele, claims there was an "extensive conspiracy" between Trump and the Russians to weaken the Clinton campaign.
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"But why just in the context of this Supreme Court hearing for this man based on 36-year-old allegations that are still uncorroborated 'til this moment," Conway asked.
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"When the noise fades, when the uncorroborated mud washes away, what's left is the distinguished nominee who stands before us," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor.
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Mark Summers, the lawyer representing the Indian government, said Mitchell's evidence involved an uncorroborated account which could be used as a "platform for a compensation claim against the UK government".
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Mr. Cosby's lawyers say they will show that the women's testimonies fail to meet the criteria for inclusion, because, they say, for example, the accusations are decades old or uncorroborated.
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The political party that invented the term "Borking" is using uncorroborated and unverified sexual misconduct charges made by Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez as a battering ram against Kavanaugh.
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" Michelle Malkin, a conservative commentator, tweeted: "This is hearsay, uncorroborated, and out of context pot-stirring by Dem partisans riding the impeachment bandwagon — and recycled by lemmings masquerading as journalists.
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But supporters of Mr. Trump have seized on the dossier's uncorroborated accusations and political roots in the campaign as a way to try to discredit the special counsel's Russia inquiry.
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"I implore you all to refrain from speculating and making uncorroborated theories in relation to the plane crash before any official statements are made," he said according to a translation.
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Trump also spent much of 2016 spreading uncorroborated conspiracy theories about his opponents, however -- so his level of comfort now with the idea of political dirt maybe isn't surprising at all.
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Collins said in her floor speech that she was also worried about the potential impact on the future confirmation debates if Kavanaugh was rejected due to an uncorroborated sexual assault allegation.
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Trump addressed the special counsel spokesman's statement Friday night on Twitter, referencing how BuzzFeed had published a dossier in 2016 of uncorroborated intelligence compiled by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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The president has advanced the premise in sometimes sensational and uncorroborated ways, as when he accused Mr. Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower, an assertion dismissed by Mr. Trump's own Justice Department.
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Much of Cohen's testimony was uncorroborated and it's unclear how much of it is part of the sprawling investigation by the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
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Obama was irked and exasperated in response to his successor's uncorroborated wiretapping accusation, sources close to the former president tell CNN, though these sources say Obama's reaction stopped short of outright fury.
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" Trump said in a Twitter post that Kavanaugh had been subjected to "harsh and unfair treatment" and said "this great life cannot be ruined by mean & despicable Democrats and totally uncorroborated allegations.
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"This anonymously sourced and uncorroborated story is false, defamatory, and obviously intended to destroy this good man's career and family," Bolling's main lawyer Michael Bowe said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
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Many in the media believe CNN showed restraint by not printing the salacious details in the unconfirmed report, unlike Buzzfeed News, which has suffered blowback for publishing the uncorroborated allegations in full.
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Democrats tried every tactic in the book to delay and obstruct Kavanaugh's confirmation, finally dropping an uncorroborated sexual assault allegation into the process once it became clear Kavanaugh's confirmation was otherwise inevitable.
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In some African countries, including Chad and Uganda, officials cite uncorroborated security threats and fears that false results could be shared online as reasons for shutting down social media ahead of elections.
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The most salacious findings in the dossier, based on information collected from sources inside and outside the Kremlin by a Fusion GPS contractor, the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, remain uncorroborated.
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The company, however, is challenging the bureau's use of "open source" data, stating that they used "often anonymous, and uncorroborated media stories and other self-serving public statements" to reach its decision.
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The past two weeks have seen a surge in Republican enthusiasm -- as base voters are invigorated by the sense that Democrats are trying to smear a good man over wholly uncorroborated allegations.
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"The far left's willingness to seize on completely uncorroborated and unsubstantiated allegations during last year's confirmation process was a dark and embarrassing chapter for the Senate," the Kentucky Republican wrote on Twitter.
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The company, however, is challenging the bureau's use of "open source" data, stating that they used "often anonymous, and uncorroborated media stories and other self-serving public statements" to reach its decision.
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New versions of what happened that night and additional allegations in the Hammarskjold mystery, many of them uncorroborated, have continued to emerge, further complicating Mr. Othman's effort to sift fact from fiction.
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"Any time a case is based on the uncorroborated allegations with a person with a substantial motive to shift blame and accuse another is a case that's fraught with peril," he told VICE.
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"This 35-year-old, uncorroborated claim is the latest in a coordinated smear campaign by the Democrats designed to tear down a good man," White House spokesperson Kerri Kupec said in a statement.
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Only months into Trump's presidency, then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer cited in a briefing an uncorroborated report alleging British involvement in an attempt to wiretap Trump Tower during the 2016 election.
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On Tuesday, CNN reported that Trump had been briefed on a private intelligence dossier claiming that Russian intelligence services had compromising material on him, while BuzzFeed published the dossier and its uncorroborated findings.
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There's a broader issue too: Even though we've learned a lot about the Trump team and Russia in recent months, the vast bulk of the Steele dossier's specific claims remain unverified and uncorroborated.
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The summit is basically a way for the Trump administration, yet again, to seize on the uncorroborated narrative that big tech and social media companies are engaged in some coordinated conspiracy against them.
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" Mr. McConnell mocked Democrats and warned that a vote against Judge Kavanaugh based on uncorroborated accusations would dangerously erode "the ideals of justice that have served our nation so well for so long.
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"The senators' inquiries are unrelated to an uncorroborated theory that Ukraine was also behind the hack of DNC servers," the senators said in their press release about the requests to Chalupa and Telizhenko.
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" White House spokesperson Kerri Kupec said in a statement, "This 35-year-old, uncorroborated claim is the latest in a coordinated smear campaign by the Democrats designed to tear down a good man.
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In other words, what this means is members of the deep state, that upper echelon that we talk about, Clinton sycophants, they were literally flooding the FBI with lies, unverified, uncorroborated anti-Trump material.
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"Senate Democrats and their allies are trying to destroy a man's personal and professional life on the basis of decades-old allegations that are unsubstantiated and uncorroborated," McConnell said on the Senate floor Monday.
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" Senate Judiciary Republicans: "It's disturbing that these uncorroborated allegations from more than 35 years ago, during high school, would surface on the eve of a committee vote after Democrats sat on them since July.
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Read: Kavanaugh's defense: It's a "frenzy" of "false and uncorroborated accusations" The president of the United States is in a Twitter battle with a lawyer representing two women who are going after his administration.
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According to the report, the US government decided to claim ownership of all creative works made inside the detention center due to uncorroborated suspicions that their potential sale would go to supporting terrorist activities.
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But police could take more care with the reputations of those who have yet to be charged, let alone proven guilty—especially in those cases where the allegation comes from a single, uncorroborated source.
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Alito said that faced with "an incredible and uncorroborated defense," English had warned his client -- months in advance -- that the only viable strategy was to admit guilt and concentrate on avoiding the death penalty.
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But he defended his decision to approve the application, which conservatives have insisted without evidence was uncorroborated and based primarily on opposition research paid for in part by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign.
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"It's disturbing that these uncorroborated allegations from more than 35 years ago, during high school, would surface on the eve of a committee vote after Democrats sat on them since July," the spokesman said.
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"There is no way any court would approve a warrant – any warrant, let alone one for surveillance on an American citizen – based on uncorroborated information," said this source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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So we will have to stay tuned to see if Manigault-Newman backs up her claims with more specifics, or becomes more involved in Mueller's probe — or if these vague claims will remain uncorroborated.
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" In a nod to Trump's complaints that some news organizations published the uncorroborated details, Ryan said: "I completely understand why he's frustrated that eight, nine days before his inauguration, this junk gets thrown out there.
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"Obviously I cannot comment on the reliability of what anonymous sources describe in a wholly uncorroborated intelligence intercept that the Washington Post has not seen and that has not been provided to me," she said.
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Cotton added BuzzFeed might have violated U.S. libel law by publishing uncorroborated accusations about Trump and Russia, contained in a 35-page dossier documenting one former British intelligence operative's research into Trump's ties to Russia.
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Former British spy Christopher Steele did this work for Fusion, and authored what became known as the Steele dossier, which contained salacious (and uncorroborated) political financial, and sexual allegations about Trump and his top associates.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday he will not withdraw his nominations because of "false and uncorroborated" sexual misconduct allegations against him.
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It's hard to imagine a situation in which a prosecutor would present the uncorroborated testimony of a cooperating witness and expect that to be accepted as proof beyond a reasonable doubt by a unanimous jury.
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Ford's allegation is not merely uncorroborated, it is refuted by the very people she says were there, including by a longtime friend of hers," he said on Thursday, punctuating his statement with an extra "refuted.
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Michael D. Hall, a lawyer for New York & Atlantic, provided a statement from the railway denying the lawsuit's "unsubstantiated, uncorroborated, and unsupported allegations" and maintaining the company has followed all federal, state and local regulations.
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Leaving aside the low esteem that many Alabamians hold the national media in, no mainstream outlet is paying women for dirt on Mr. Moore, and no one is promising to publish half-baked uncorroborated allegations.
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"Your allegation appears to be based on an old, unsourced, uncorroborated rumor reported in the Hollywood Reporter," wrote Jennifer Bang, deputy assistant secretary for the office of legislative affairs for the Treasury Department on Wednesday.
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"Does anybody think it's any coincidence that on the eve of potentially my being elevated that that's when this uncorroborated smear comes out," he asked rhetorically in the rotunda of the state capitol on Monday.
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" But, in a nod to Trump's complaints that some news organizations published the uncorroborated details, Ryan said: "I completely understand why he's frustrated that eight, nine days before his inauguration, this junk gets thrown out there.
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You&aposve heard it before, the unverified, uncorroborated, phony dossier put together by a foreign national with funneled money through a law firm to an op research group paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
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It entered the news recently on the US side of the pond when White House press secretary Sean Spicer read an uncorroborated Fox News contributor's report that the Obama administration asked GCHQ to wiretap Trump Tower.
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The CNN anchor began by fact-checking Sean Spicer, the future White House press secretary, who, while opening Trump's first press conference in six months, suggested that both BuzzFeed and CNN had published the uncorroborated dossier.
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Trump had earlier Monday cited uncorroborated reports that Kurdish officials had released some of the 10,000 ISIS prisoners being held by the SDF, a notion that was immediately rejected by a member of his own administration.
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The government's internal guidance for watchlists specifies that nominations to the master watchlist need not be based on "concrete facts," and it permits placement on the master watchlist based on uncorroborated or even questionably reliable information.
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Koch said the plaintiffs made uncorroborated claims against the company as a means to obtain U.S. visas for crime victims who collaborate with U.S. authorities that would allow them to stay legally in the United States.
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"The government spokesman has urged for the Thai public to rely on official announcements for an update on situations, rather than uncorroborated information in social media circles," the ministry said, without referring to the king's health.
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"It's disturbing that these uncorroborated allegations from more than 35 years ago, during high school, would surface on the eve of a committee vote after democrats sat on them in July," Graham said in a statement.
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They were filed after Mr. Anam made an unusual public confession, expressing regret over articles that his newspaper, The Daily Star, published years ago on uncorroborated allegations of corruption against the current prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.
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The news organization noted that despite the fact that many allegations in the dossier remained uncorroborated, high-level government officials had come into possession of the dossier and briefed then-president-elect Trump on its contents.
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A map posted on the FBI website shows that most of the still uncorroborated murders were committed across the U.S. South, although one young woman was killed in northern Ohio and two others in Southern California.
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" Brafman said, "Like so many other women in this case who have already been exposed as liars, this latest completely uncorroborated allegation that is almost 20 years old will also be shown to be patently false.
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After Winer gave Steele the notes from Shearer, Steele wrote that he found it interesting and it tended to corroborate some of what he found, but he also noted that it was uncorroborated, the source said.
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Buzzfeed News published an explosive — and thus far uncorroborated — story last month that seemed to shed some light on why Cohen is facing prison time for lying to Congress: because President Donald Trump told him to.
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Let's have a look at them: First, they insist that the intelligence dossier compiled by British ex-spook Christopher Steele that's one basis for the F.B.I.'s own investigation has been discredited or is at best uncorroborated.
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U.S. intelligence chiefs briefed Donald Trump and top government leaders on uncorroborated reports compiled by a former British spy claiming Russia had collected damaging and salacious information about Trump and links between his campaign and the Kremlin.
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Authorities found no evidence regarding a specific but uncorroborated threat made by a caller who warned that a bomb would blow up on Tuesday at the Metro Red Line's Universal City station, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.
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Allegations that Trump was somehow compromised by Russia were first broached by the controversial Steele dossier, a raw intelligence document assembled by a former British spy that was interspersed with lurid and largely uncorroborated accusations against the president.
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"The People are pleased the jury was able to see through the defendant's uncorroborated claims of domestic violence and find her guilty of premeditated murder," Ventura County Senior Deputy District Attorney Rameen Minoui tells PEOPLE in an email.
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"The government spokesman has urged for the Thai public to rely on official announcements for an update on situations, rather than uncorroborated information in social media circles," it said in a statement, without referring to the king's health.
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"These uncorroborated accusations have been unequivocally and repeatedly rejected by Judge Kavanaugh, and neither the Judiciary Committee nor the FBI could locate any third parties who can attest to any of the allegations," Grassley said on Thursday morning.
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Two women have accused him of relatively recent abuse, claiming medical records, video proof, contemporaneous witnesses and a restraining order, and yet there is silence from the same Democrats condemning the wholly uncorroborated tales of a teenaged Kavanaugh.
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Under pressure from the military junta in 2007, Mr. Anam published a series of uncorroborated claims that led to the arrest and 11-month unlawful detention of Sheikh Hasina, then the opposition leader and currently the prime minister.
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NEW YORK, Sept 13 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit against Fox News Network by the parents of Seth Rich, a former Democratic aide whose 2016 murder sparked an array of uncorroborated conspiracy theories.
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The focus by Democrats -- and the media -- on uncorroborated allegations made about Kavanaugh's behavior in high school and college have convinced many Republicans this is nothing more than an attempt to smear a good man for partisan gain.
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They say, without evidence, that it was uncorroborated and based almost exclusively on a piece of opposition research paid for in part by the Clinton campaign — something that Democrats who have seen the underlying application say isn't true.
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"CNN guest compares convicted serial rapist Bill Cosby, who faced an actual trial and was found guilty, to Brett Kavanaugh who faces uncorroborated allegations from high school," tweeted Jason Howerton, the director of engagement at Conservative Review TV network.
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Which makes it entirely reasonable to wait to see whether Mueller vindicates the various uncorroborated scoops about a conspiracy hatched in Prague or the Ecuadorean Embassy, rather than trying to impeach Trump for, say, his private griping about NATO.
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But no matter what the media ecosystem does to stop uncorroborated conspiracies and false information, they will continue to live on as long as there are people eager to spread it and viewers and readers eager to believe it.
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Justin Fairfax would have succeeded him — but a college professor has accused Fairfax of sexually assaulting her in 2004, an accusation that the Washington Post appeared to find credible if uncorroborated when she contacted them about it in 2017.
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We&aposll explain all of this, just as we have been reporting the bulk of the FISA warrant we now know for sure was based on the unverified uncorroborated phony bought and paid for Russian lie dossier of Hillary Clinton.
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Read: Kavanaugh's defense: It's a "frenzy" of "false and uncorroborated accusations" "Avenatti is a third rate lawyer who is good at making false accusations, like he did on me and like he is now doing on Judge Brett Kavanaugh," Trump tweeted.
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"Obviously I cannot comment on the reliability of what anonymous sources describe in a wholly uncorroborated intelligence intercept that the Washington Post has not seen and that has not been provided to me," a Justice Department spokeswoman told the Post.
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His downfall was fueled by a laundry list of serious, but uncorroborated, allegations from nearly two dozen current and former colleagues that ultimately came together in a memo released by Senate Democrats with, according to sources, the tacit approval of Republicans.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Heavy security at subway stations in Los Angeles greeted commuters on Tuesday as federal and local authorities investigated a specific but uncorroborated threat to detonate a bomb at the Metro Red Line's Universal City station.
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Russian meddling in the 22014 election While Trump and his supporters have seized on the most salacious, uncorroborated claims to discredit the dossier as a "pile of garbage," much of Steele's memos focused on Russia's role interfering in the 2016 election.
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"Spreading the fake and totally discredited Dossier 'is unfortunately a very dark stain against John McCain,'" he tweeted, referring to McCain's decision in December 2016 to turn the dossier containing salacious (and largely uncorroborated) intel about Trump over to the FBI.
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Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee went so far as to release a salacious and uncorroborated letter from Dennis Ketterer, a man who claimed that Ms. Swetnick once told him she enjoyed group sex and that she had psychological problems.
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In fairness, it was uncorroborated by the CIA, [but when assembling a narrative] that would be my first window of time to indicate, this is probably when the various terrorist groups started to get together to carry out this mission.
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In a letter sent to Flipkart employees, which was seen by Reuters, Bansal did not give details of the nature of the accusations, but said he strongly denied them and that they were uncorroborated after an investigation completed by an independent law firm.
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HANNITY: Then how do you lie to a FISA judge, Andy, not once, but four times unverified and uncorroborated against the law and against FBI protocol, four times using bought and paid for political op research from an outsider of foreign national.
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Though much of Steele's information remained uncorroborated, the FBI nonetheless took the extraordinary step in October 21625 of seeking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to monitor Carter Page during the final days of the election, based mostly on Steele's dossier.
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At the time, pressure was building inside the DOJ and the FBI to find smoking-gun evidence against Trump in the Russia case because the Steele dossier — upon which the early surveillance warrants were based — was turning out to be an uncorroborated mess.
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Never before — until 2016 — had the apparatus of a U.S. presidential candidate managed to sic the weight of the FBI and U.S. intelligence community on a rival nominee during an election, and by using a foreign-fed, uncorroborated political opposition research document.
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"You should not be sent to jail based simply the word, an uncorroborated word, of a single individual especially when it is possible to verify that medically and physically and there were no ability to do so," Bevin said in the interview.
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" Kavanaugh was even more forceful in pushing back on Monday, writing in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee that the latest allegation to surface is "false and uncorroborated," and referring to the allegations he now faces as "smears, pure and simple.
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Without her present and lacking any questioning of her witnesses, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) ultimately found Ramirez's allegation to be uncorroborated, and almost all Senate Republicans — joined by Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia — voted to confirm Kavanaugh.
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This reaction, brought on by uncorroborated social media posts from Snell's own mother and school teacher that Snell was unarmed and shot in the back, spread like wildfire on social media and permeated the physical protests in the streets of Los Angeles.
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Weber's tweet comes after Acosta demanded he be allowed to ask Trump a question after the president-elect slammed CNN for running a report stating he had been briefed on information in an unverified, uncorroborated dossier claiming the Russian government had compromising information on him.
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In response to a question on a televised talk show, Mr. Anam expressed regret for a decision he made in 2007, when the country was led by a military-backed caretaker government, to publish uncorroborated allegations provided to the newspaper by military intelligence officials.
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"At the time of the initial [surveillance] application, all of the Steele dossier's specific claims about Page — including that he met with Igor Sechin and Igor Diveykin in Moscow in July 2016 — were uncorroborated by any independent source, and they remain unconfirmed," the Republicans said.
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Washington (CNN)White House press secretary Sean Spicer flatly denied Friday that the White House apologized to the British government after citing an uncorroborated Fox News report to allege that a UK intelligence agency spied on President Donald Trump at the behest of former President Barack Obama.
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There is also no evidence that the work Fusion did for Prevezon Holdings and the Russians was related to the Trump "dossier," which was crafted by a former MI-6 agent named Christopher Steele and made various sordid and still uncorroborated allegations about President Donald Trump.
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The evidence for that "bias" is that Mr Steele grew increasingly anxious about the prospect of a Trump presidency as he worked his Russian sources and heard tales (some of them lurid and uncorroborated) about how Russians might think they had compromising information on the property tycoon.
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"The American people ... insist that vague, unsubstantiated, and uncorroborated allegations of 30-plus-year-old misconduct — where all the supposed witnesses either totally deny it or can't confirm it — is nowhere near grounds to nullify someone's career or destroy their good name," McConnell said in floor remarks.
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"Obviously, I cannot comment on the reliability of what anonymous sources describe in a wholly uncorroborated intelligence intercept that the Washington Post has not seen and that has not been provided to me," Sarah Isgur Flores, a spokeswoman for Sessions, said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
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But everybody that signed off on that warrant signed off on unverified, uncorroborated Russian lies that were literally designed to really steal an election after they rigged an investigation into what is irrefutable crimes incontrovertible evidence of obstruction and violation of the Patriot Act by Hillary.
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But it is their visceral fear of immigrants and raw anger about changes in cultural mores — encapsulated by what they called Democrats' rush to believe uncorroborated allegations of sexual assault by Justice Kavanaugh — that appear to be driving the intensity of their support for the president.
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"Obviously we're deeply concerned that the jury may have utterly ignored the judge's daily admonitions against reviewing the unprecedented press in the case," said defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman, who also noted concern that jurors may have seen "prejudicial, uncorroborated and inadmissible allegations" about Chapo during the trial.
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" After Ford spoke out on Sunday, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee defended Kavanaugh's integrity and said it was "disturbing that these uncorroborated allegations from more than 35 years ago, during high school, would surface on the eve of a committee vote after Democrats sat on them since July.
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Then you lead to the phony dossier, then you lead to a spy in the campaign, then you lead to the FISA courts being lied to for an entire year with unverified, uncorroborated and they never -- by omission they lied by not telling the Hillary paid for it.
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" BANKING RECORDS BROADEN COHEN INVESTIGATION WaPo : "The Treasury Department's inspector general is expanding a probe into leaks of confidential reports about suspicious banking activity by Michael Cohen , President Trump's former personal attorney, to include an uncorroborated allegation that some of those reports were mysteriously absent from a government database.
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Statement from Kaspersky Lab: "DHS failed to provide Kaspersky Lab with adequate due process and relied primarily on subjective, non-technical public sources like uncorroborated and often anonymously sourced media reports and rumors in issuing and finalizing the Directive," the company's CEO Eugene Kaspersky wrote in an open letter.
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And the rest are likely to have come from the FBI itself, which clearly dispatched informers, agents and other operatives to gather evidence to bulk up the uncorroborated Steele dossier, so agents could get a FISA warrant in October 2016 to spy on Page, the Trump campaign adviser.
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And when Judge Kavanaugh came before the committee to forcefully deny the allegations, one of the themes of his tearful rant was that Dr. Blasey's account threatened to turn him into one of those once-powerful men cut down by an accusation from the past, uncorroborated by eyewitnesses.
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Mr. Trump derided Mr. McCain, the Republican nominee for president in 2008, for sharing with the F.B.I. a copy of a salacious and uncorroborated dossier on the Trump campaign's dealings with Russia, though Mr. Trump falsely claimed Mr. McCain had shared it with the agency before the election.
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Wallace made his comments in an interview CNN during US President Donald Trump's official visit to the UK. Trump and his allies have in the past claimed, originally citing an uncorroborated account from Fox News, that Britain tapped phones in Trump Tower at the request of then-President Barack Obama.
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" In a statement on Sunday, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee again defended Kavanaugh's integrity, and said that it was "disturbing that these uncorroborated allegations from more than 35 years ago, during high school, would surface on the eve of a committee vote after Democrats sat on them since July.
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An American website that pumped out uncorroborated articles about Canadian politics during the federal election campaign was allowed to promote its content via paid ads on Facebook despite the fact that its articles have been repeatedly deemed false by news organizations, including by one of Facebook's own fact-checking partners.
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Now, two years and millions of dollars later, we know the core evidence that drove the collusion investigation was a piece of uncorroborated political opposition research written by a Trump-hating British ex-spy whose employer was paid by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party to harm Trump's election prospects.
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The information — anonymous, uncorroborated hearsay, much of which appears to be bogus — was injected into our government's foreign intelligence databank through the FBI, the Justice Department, and the State Department (and I believe, when the dust finally settles, we will learn that other intelligence agencies had a hand in the debacle).
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It would mean that Trump was never told of the warning Flynn's team received, and that the FBI and DOJ continued to rely on Steele's uncorroborated allegations for many months as they renewed the FISA warrant at least two more times and named Mueller as special prosecutor to investigate Russia collusion.
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An unmistakable effort to push the Russia investigation closer to Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's inner circle with uncorroborated tales.
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Much of the other information attributed to Simpson that December day, according to Ohr's notes, involved admittedly uncorroborated allegations — such as claims that a computer server in a Russian-owned bank was secretly transmitting messages to the Trump campaign, or that the NRA was secretly taking money from a Russian official.
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The reports of the gas attack were uncorroborated, he said, asserting that it's a strange coincidence that the attack is said to have occurred just before 29 nations were set to meet in Paris to discuss ways of preserving evidence of chemical weapons attacks and holding those behind them responsible.
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They will use a 35 year old uncorroborated, single sourced, 35 year old claim of a woman who first made the accusation in 2012 after Kavanaugh's name had circulated in the press as a possible Supreme Court pick for Romney in order to protect the right to kill girls in utero.
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The appeal documents filed by Lahem following November's death sentence pointed out that Fayadh's conviction had ignored the fact that he suffers from a mental illness and that the original allegations levied against him were uncorroborated and had been made by a man who'd gotten into a dispute with Fayadh in a café.
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And Comey admitted much of the dossier remained uncorroborated more than six months later when he was fired by President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE.
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What Kaspersky is saying: "The continued actions by the U.S. government against Kaspersky Lab lack sufficient basis, have been taken without any evidence of wrongdoing by the company, and rely upon subjective, non-technical public sources, such as uncorroborated and often anonymously sourced media reports and rumors," Kaspersky Lab told Axios in a statement.
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Read more " Emily Jashinsky in The Federalist: "[T]he question for fair-minded senators now boils down to this: Does an unprovable and uncorroborated allegation that Kavanaugh did a terrible thing as a teenager — conduct that stands in contrast to what we know about his character today — disqualify him from sitting on the Supreme Court?
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Three Republican chairmen -- Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham of South Carolina -- have sent letters in recent months seeking information and interviews related to the Bidens, the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma and uncorroborated allegations about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 US election.
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And to the best of Rod&aposs knowledge, the basis of the 2016 FISA warrant/warrants against the Trump campaign associate, we now know the following: it was unverified, it was uncorroborated as Rot Rosenstein said it must be, it was untrue, it was a document full of Russia lies and they all signed off on it.
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I worked to find the nuggets of useful information in flawed research, like sociology professor Eugene Kanin's 1994 study, which was based on uncorroborated judgments of police officers as to whether a report was true or false, as well as government studies intended for other purposes, which sometimes dealt with cases of false rape accusation in a sidebar.
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If you are going to hit them for giving an uncorroborated dossier to the FISA court, I&aposm not sure it&aposs fair to also say that they shouldn&apost be allowed to do the things you are supposed to do to verify and corroborate things, which is to use informants and that sort of thing.
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Though uncorroborated by any evidence, Howard's version of events seemed correct to police and prosecutors, enough to pursue a case to trial and force a local businessman and civic activist to consider, for almost a year, the possibility that he would be taken away from his family and placed in prison for the rest of his life.
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In Argentina and India, where thinly sourced and uncorroborated reports have spread suggesting Momo led to actual suicides last year, the "game" is said to have proliferated on WhatsApp, a messaging app used widely by both children and adults in those countries, and which, in India, has been credibly implicated in mob murders inspired by viral accusations and misinformation.
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Dr. Ford's allegation is not merely uncorroborated, it is refuted by the very people she says were there including by a longtime friend of hers, refuted Third, Dr. Ford has said that this event occurred at a house near Columbia Country Club, which is at the corner of Connecticut Avenue and East-West highway in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti on Wednesday defended his organization's decision to publish a document with uncorroborated allegations about President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE and Russia.
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"This politically driven document fails to answer serious concerns raised by the Majority's memorandum about the use of partisan opposition research from one candidate, loaded with uncorroborated allegations, as a basis to ask a court to approve surveillance of a former associate of another candidate, at the height of a presidential campaign," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.
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The work product Strzok created to justify the collusion probe now has been shown to be inferior: A Clinton-hired contractor produced multiple documents accusing Trump of wrongdoing during the election; each was routed to the FBI through a different source or was used to seed news articles with similar allegations that further built an uncorroborated public narrative of Trump-Russia collusion.
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The Clinton campaign paid a former spy and used Russian lies to lie to the American people, steal an election, get a warrant to spy on Americans using an unverified, uncorroborated Hillary Clinton bought and paid for political document nobody told the FISA court judges ever in the original application, subsequent applications and disseminated what was false, untrue propaganda, disinformation to rig an election, a presidential election?
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The politically-explosive revelation that Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's campaign and the Democratic Party paid for some of the research that produced an uncorroborated election-year dossier connecting President Trump to Russia may have broken campaign laws.
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A job interview for the nominee that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE chose to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy is contingent upon an uncorroborated allegation of a crime.
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They knowingly used a dossier funded by Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's campaign — which contained uncorroborated allegations — to persuade the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to issue a warrant to monitor Trump campaign adviser Carter Page (no relation to Lisa Page).
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The evidence they had gathered was deemed so weak that their boss, then-FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien Comey6900 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2628 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE, was forced to admit to Congress after being fired by Trump that the core allegation remained substantially uncorroborated.
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That Trump was nervous about sensitive information leaking from the meeting is not going to calm the nerves of anyone who believes the US intelligence community's conclusion about election meddling, but Trump has shown no indication that the allegations of meddling or the uncorroborated idea, teased by former FBI Director James Comey, of the Russians having "dirt" on him would temper his desire to show warmth to Putin.
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The version of the Page warrants made available publicly is heavily redacted, but what has been revealed shows the probable cause showing was rife with problems — uncorroborated sources; the FBI permitted to "speculate" and offer its "beliefs" about its main informant, rather than being pressed by the court to question him; news media stories offered as evidence, and relied on for 11 months even though the FBI had plenty of time to do independent investigation.
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Now, yes, right, just like there&aposs truth in that phony, unverified, uncorroborated, debunked dossier that the Clinton campaign used to smear then candidate Donald Trump, the same Russian lies that were used before the election as the foundation for the Mueller witch hunt and the op research used to mislead a FISA court on four, not one, but four separate occasions, four judges, so the government literally could spy on an opposition party candidate and Trump campaign associate.
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That's the firm used by the DNC and Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's campaign to secretly pay research firm Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence operative, to compile a dossier of uncorroborated raw intelligence alleging Trump and Moscow were colluding to hijack the presidential election.
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Exhibit A today is BuzzFeed's decision to do what every other publication was arguably wise enough not to do: publish in full a two-page dossier on President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE that was based on uncorroborated, unverified work via third-party intelligence.
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What the media omitted, however, was that the same firm also represented (in 2202-2628) Orbis Business Intelligence and Christopher Steele, the British intelligence operative whose uncorroborated political opposition research document, paid for by Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 28500 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE and the Democratic Party and known as "the dossier," was essential to the origins of the Russia collusion probe.
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That's what Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 2023 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE's machine did in 2016, eventually getting the FBI to bite on an uncorroborated narrative that Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and Russia were trying to hijack the presidential election.
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Already in the new year, we've seen some horrific mistakes that all seem to play into Team Trump's point around constant negativity as it pertains to this administration: The Washington Post exclusive on the Vermont power grid being hacked by the Russians (false); the release of an entire unverified and uncorroborated dossier on Trump by BuzzFeed (never verified or corroborated); the New York Times' exclusive on Rick Perry not knowing what the job of energy secretary entailed (false); Trump moved a bust of Martin Luther King out of the Oval Office on the day he moved into the White House (false).
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