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"The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools," Trump said on New Year's day.Further, the US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley accused Pakistan of playing "a double game for years" and said President Trump will withhold $225 million in aid to the country.
"They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!"
Comment: As Mueller's investigation proceeds, and it becomes clearer and clearer that there was absolutely no Russian collusion, it's inevitable that many of those who previously believed the Steele dossier - simply by force of informational inertia - will start to see that it was a whole lot of nothing from the very beginning. As that realization dawns, the question becomes: Then how did it go so far? And that's where the real scandal is. It seems that many just assumed that the document had been properly vetted, while others cynically used the document for nefarious purposes while fully aware that it was fraudulent. That a document amounting to littler more than bad fan fiction was used as justification for spying on American citizens, trying to take down the elected president, and the waste of millions of dollars on a subsequent investigation tied to the core fictional plot points, is really bad.