Journalists that the IG report show we can't trust: Jane Mayer edition

For years and up to just before the IG report came out Jane Mayer has been telling us that Steele and Fusion GPS were wonderful and that the Steele dossier was the gold standard.

But now we know that the FBI knew that it was a hoax. When the FBI talked to Steele's principal sub source that source said it was all bogus.

Before that the FBI knew that the dossier included errors like the fact contrary to a key story in the dossier there is no Russian Consulate in Miami.  Similarly the FBI knew that it couldn't verify any of the claims in the dossier.

Mayer ignored the fact that Steele, a British citizen, hated Trump and didn't want him to be elected and the fact that Fusion GPS, the company that hired Steele, also worked for a Russian oligarch.

Mayer's willingness to shill for lies or her abject inability to see the truth led her to write just last month:

"Despite the fact that the fabled pee tape has never surfaced and Trump immediately denied its existence, Simpson and Fritsch write that Steele remains confident that his reports are neither a fabrication nor the “hoax” of Trump’s denunciations. Trump’s defenders have claimed that Steele fell prey to Russian disinformation, and, therefore, it is he, not Trump, who has been a useful idiot for the Russians. But Steele tells the authors, “These people simply have no idea what they’re talking about.” He emphasizes that his network of sources “is tried and tested” and has “been proven up in many other matters.” He adds, “I’ve spent my entire adult life working with Russian disinformation. It’s an incredibly complex subject that is at the very core of my training and my professional mission.”

Clearly either she's a willing mouthpiece for antiTrump lies or she's an incompetent journalist who doesn't bother to research what's she's writing.

PowerLine Blog has a series on the details of Mayer's errors if you're interested.

Just one more example of why you should never ever trust what the #FakeNews media writes; they hate you and are willing to lie to you so that their candidates get elected.