HOLY SHIT! The Gateway Pundit reports that former Trump Administration something and shitty right wing children’s book author Kash Patel revealed in a Truth Social post last week that then-Speaker of the House Paul Ryan received a copy of the Steele Dossier – aka the “Pee Tape” oppo research – back in 2016 and didn’t tell anyone about it. Patel’s post linked to a clip of his appearance on soon-to-be-imprisoned white nationalist alcoholic Steve Bannon’s “War Room” show.
“Remember in 2016, let’s rewind the tape. Russia collusion, Russia collusion, Russia collusion. Then Speaker Paul Ryan enlisted me and Devin Nunez [sic] to investigate the Russia collusion,” Patel said per a transcript by the Gateway Pundit where they misspelled the name of Trump Media and Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes. “Nobody knew what the Steele dossier was in 2016. They had already gone to the federal court and unlawfully surveilled Donald Trump with it. But we didn’t find out until after we completed our investigation in 2018, was that the speaker, Paul Ryan, who charged us with investigating Russiagate, was the first guy to ever get a copy of the Steele dossier in 2016.”
“He never told us. He still never admitted it. It finally was admitted in a British court where Christopher Steele was being sued. Just think about it, Steve. We could have asked, Where did you get it? Who did you get it from? How was it paid for? All of these secrets could have come out under this man’s very investigation, but he rigged it from the beginning,” Patel continued ranting.
WOW! That’s just as explosive as the Gateway Pundit promised in a headline that says in part “Kash Patel Drops a Bomb” when you omit a shit ton of context like both the far right propaganda site and their source did. At no point is it mentioned what actual case Patel is talking about when he says this was “admitted in a British court where Christopher Steele was being sued” but we would have to assume it was either a 2017 libel complaint filed by Russian tech oligarch Aleksej Gubarev, who was named in the dossier, or the one Trump himself filed in 2023. Thing is it doesn’t really matter which one since both were eventually tossed – Gubarev’s in 2020 and Trump’s in February of this year.
Which means this information is at the very least nearly five months old. Probably significantly older than that since it’s more likely to have come out during a discovery in Gubarev’s lawsuit than Trump’s. God forbid the Gateway Pundit adds those details at the bottom or simply levels with their shitbag readers by saying this isn’t new information – even by saying “REMINDER: PAUL RYAN GOT A COPY OF THE STEELE DOSSIER IN 2016 AND KEPT IT PRIVATE” – and acknowledging this is all just part of the freakout over Ryan shit-talking Trump in some interview last week and then Trump blaming the spineless worm of a former speaker-turned-Fox News board member somehow for a “rigged” poll the propaganda network put out showing Biden with a slight lead over the fat fuck.