have been discredited too many times for you to be afforded a platform here to repeatedly and incessantly spew your misrepresentation and unworthy maligning of Mueller.
The most salacious claims in the dossier are still unverified. But many of the allegations that form the bulk of the memos have held up over time. Those include the claim that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and the claim that there were contacts between Trump's team and Russia.
This notably includes Steele's claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw an effort to interfere in the 2016 election. It also includes allegations of secret contacts between Trump's team and the Russians during the campaign. https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/16/politics/steele-information-dossier/index.html ---
Tearex, A (so far) complete timeline of the investigation into Trump and Russia
.. to yours ..
"You have done nothing to explain how these FBI events happened prior to the bar room tip off. So, it is your stance that the investigation was started because of the bar room meeting with Downer? Why was the FBI involved with spying on Papa before the meeting with Downer?"
The Papadopoulos-Downer meet took place in May 2016. The tip-off re that chat came from the Australian government some time later.
What happened when Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos sat down with Australian diplomat Alexander Downer By political editor Andrew Probyn and political reporter Matthew Doran Updated 23 Sep 2018, 1:54pm [...] The Americans weren't informed immediately about what Papadopoulos had said to Downer, but when it became known that the FBI suspected a Russian hack of Clinton emails, the information was shared with the Five Eyes intelligence partner. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-22/george-papadopoulos-alexander-downer-meeting-what-happened/10286868
No, in the one you replied to it was clearly not my stance that the probe started with that meeting. Clearly the article you referred to mentioned 2013,
EARLY 2013: Carter Page, who years later would become an unpaid adviser to Trump’s campaign, shares information and research with a Russian national whom the FBI later accuses of being a Kremlin spy. According to the FBI, the spy is secretly recorded in April 2013 talking with another accused spy about efforts to “recruit” Page “as an intelligence source.” (Page cooperated with the investigation. He has since said his communications were innocent and has denied relaying any sensitive or private information to the accused spy.) https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=148614235