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Rachel Maddow and Malcolm Nance have been talking about the Steele dossier today. The Trump apologists keep going there as well: They continually remind us that the thing was compiled as oppo research -- as though the magic words "oppo research" automatically discredits everything in the document.

Excuse me, but isn't opp research of value only if the uncovered dirt is true?

And forgive me for being logical, but isn't oppo research useful only if it is released before the election?

And pardon my penchant for consistency, but how can the Trumpers argue that oppo research is a bad thing when Christopher Steele does it but a fine thing when Donald Trump Jr. does it?

So please explain to me: How can anyone hope to discredit THAT dossier by calling it "oppo research"?

I haven't seen the Maddow segment yet; I will soon. If curiosity compels you to re-read the thing-in-itself, remember: This humble blog was your only first-day source for a full OCR scan of the entire Steele Dossier. No, it's not letter-perfect; I wasn't using the world's best software. But it's still very readable, and can even be converted into audio via text-to-speech (if you're into that sort of thing).

Here it is.

And here is the Palmer Report's summary of what we learned from Maddow:

Glenn Simpson from Fusion GPS testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in what ended up being ten hours of closed hearings on Monday. The upshot is that the company firmly stands behind the research in the Trump-Russia dossier. Now the public has begun calling for transcripts of the testimony to be released. Simpson has said he has no problem with his testimony being released. Senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican Chair of that committee, was asked about it during a town hall tonight.

Rachel Maddow ended up airing the relevant portion of that town hall during her MSNBC show. Grassley affirmed that he’ll have the committee vote on whether to release the transcripts, and he stated that barring any hang-ups, he doesn’t see any reason why he won’t vote “yes” himself. The committee has eleven Republicans and nine Democrats, so it would only take Grassley and one other Republican voting “yes” (along with all of the Democrats) for the transcripts to be released.

That sounds jolly. Of course, the Republicans were hoping to use Simpson's testimony as a weapon against Hillary Clinton. If the testimony provided anything useful along those lines, we would have heard all about it by now.

Not many minutes ago, the Washington Examiner published a story which gives me the impression that Grassley really will release the transcript.

Elsewhere...

Not much of a crowd. Daily Kos published a couple of pics of the crowd for Trump's rally. Do these images accurately depict the scene? If so -- WOW.

That's it? That's it? During the speech itself, Trump indicated that he was speaking to a multitude, and he even asked the "fire marshal" to squeeze in a few more!

This is why we've never gotten over Trump's lies about his inauguration crowd: What gives us the heebie-jeebies is not the paucity of that audience but the man's psychotic need to believe that he is loved. It would have been so easy for Trump to get past the issue in one day by making a simple, civilized statement. Something like this:

"Many of the people who attend inaugurations come from the DC area. I didn't win this part of the country. I recognize that the burden is on me to earn their respect. With humility in my heart, I plan to do just that during the next four years."

Boom. Problem solved. The media would have loved words like that. Instead, Trump forced poor Sean Spicer to issue a ludicrous statement that the 2017 inauguration crowd was the largest ever.

And now the Trumpers are pretending that the Phoenix event was better-attended than the last three Super Bowls put together. Good Lord, this man's ego problems would be hilarious if the situation were not so frightening.

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