The very idea of Trump-Russia collusion a provocation?

Two rather trustworthy authors on Russia said this about the dossier.

Maybe I'm just uninformed about recent developments (these articles are from January), but this could go the way of the faked Clinton evidence and Comey fiasco and there is a disturbing possibility that this entire case is a misdirection!

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The recently released report that asserts that Russian president Vladimir Putin has been “cultivating assisting and supporting Trump” for years and that the Russians have compromising information (kompromat) on him is, I believe, a deliberate Russian provocation. Trump has denounced the report as “fake news” and has even cited Russian denials of the report in his defense. His opponents suggest that the report is credible and are demanding an investigation of the allegations. In both cases, however, the report is accepted as the product of a private investigation that may or may not have been honest rather than what I believe it to be — a carefully constructed attempt to disrupt American political life for years to come.

From Forbes

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This story makes no sense. In 2011, when the courtship purportedly begins, Trump was a TV personality and beauty pageant impresario. Neither in the U.S. or Russia would anyone of authority anticipate that Trump would one day become the presidential candidate of a major U.S. political party, making him the target of Russian intelligence.

via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/2qTYbJE