Ari Fleischer Calls for MSNBC Host to Be Prosecuted in Amusing Case of Mistaken Identity
Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer called for MSNBC host Michael Steele to be prosecuted for compiling the Steele dossier, which was actually the handiwork of retired British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
The Steele dossier was the infamous collection of raw intelligence about Donald Trump gathered by the ex-spy. That opposition research was funded first by the conservative Washington Free Beacon and then by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. It contained all manner of salacious claims about Trump and the Russians possibly having kompromat on him.
On Friday, a judge in Manhattan ordered Trump to pay $354 million after Trump and his Trump Organization were found liable for defrauding banks and insurance companies.
Appearing on The Story moments after the ruling came down, Fleischer pivoted to Thursday’s federal indictment of Alexander Smirnov, a former FBI informant who the Department of Justice alleges lied to the FBI about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden illicitly receiving $5 million each from a Ukrainian energy company.
Fleischer then said that Michael Steele should be prosecuted over the dossier:
If a source lied to the FBI like that, I have no problem with prosecuting that person. But then why hasn’t Michael Steele – the author of the Steele dossier – been prosecuted? This again, is the two sides of justice. And it keeps seeming that if you’re out to get Donald Trump, you get the green carpet. You can do whatever you want. Just walk right down and attack Donald Trump.
But on the other side, these prosecutors – especially in blue areas of America – are waiting to pounce, and the press pounces along with them and paints a very sympathetic portrait. So, why was that source indicted, and Michael Steele is celebrated by the left? That’s the problem I have with justice in America since Donald Trump came to office and the Democrats have broken the norms.
Clearly, Fleischer meant Christopher Steele, who was not prosecuted because, unlike Smirnov, Steele was never alleged to have lied to the FBI. In fact, the former spy made clear from the outset that he had not verified the claims in his dossier.
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