Trump rails against Russia investigation and Russian Facebook ads
President Trump  vented about the infamous Steele dossier and Facebook on Saturday.
 He  called for the release of information about who had financed the dossier  which has been verified in part by the FBI and the Senate Intelligence Committee  but also contains several unverified and salacious allegations.
 Trump  was also frustrated over the attention being paid to Facebook over  its  involvement in Russia's disinformation and trolling campaign during the 2016 election.
 President Donald Trump  unleashed  his  frustration over the ongoing Russia investigation in several tweets Saturday afternoon.
Addressing the dossier compiled by the former British spy Christopher Steele  which alleges several ties between the  Trump  campaign and Russian officials   Trump  tweeted  "Officials behind the now discredited 'Dossier' plead the Fifth. Justice Department and/or FBI should immediately release who paid for it."
It was the second time in as many days that  Trump  had called for the release of information about those who had financed the dossier  which was produced by the opposition-research firm  Fusion GPS. On Thursday  the day after Fusion officials appeared before the House Intelligence Committee in a closed-door session after being subpoenaed by chairman Devin Nunes   Trump  tweeted  "Workers of firm involved with the discredited and Fake Dossier take the 5th. Who paid for it  Russia  the FBI or the Dems (or all)?"
The explosive dossier has not been verified in whole  but it is currently being used as a "roadmap" by the FBI as it conducts its own investigation into whether the  Trump  campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the 2016 race in  his  favor. The FBI also reportedly agreed to pay Steele in October 2016 to continue doing work that might help the bureau's Russia investigation. Special counsel Robert Mueller interviewed Steele  the document's author  during the summer  and the Senate Intelligence Committee also announced earlier this month that it had been working "backwards" to verify the dossier.
 Trump  also vented about the attention being paid to Facebook and other social media platforms after  it  emerged last month that Russian trolls capitalized on social media  and Facebook in particular  to sow discord during the election and spread pro-Trump propaganda.
"Keep hearing about 'tiny' amount of money spent on Facebook ads  " Trump  tweeted on Saturday. "What about the billions of dollars of Fake News on CNN  ABC  NBC & CBS?"
 He  added: "Crooked Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of millions of dollars more on Presidential Election than I did. Facebook was on her side  not mine!"
Former Russian troll Max told independent Russian news outlet Dozhd that the Internet Research Agency consisted of a "Russian desk" and a "foreign desk." The Russian desk  which was primarily made up of bots and trolls  used fake social-media accounts to flood the internet with pro-Trump agitprop and made-up news throughout the US presidential campaign  especially in the days leading up to the November election.
[TGT] vented about the infamous Steele dossier and Facebook on Saturday.
  [TGT]   called for the release of information about who had financed the dossier  which has been verified in part by the FBI and the Senate Intelligence Committee  but also contains several unverified and salacious allegations.
  [TGT] was also frustrated over the attention being paid to Facebook over   [TGT]   involvement in Russia's disinformation and trolling campaign during the 2016 election.
  [TGT] unleashed   [TGT]   frustration over the ongoing Russia investigation in several tweets Saturday afternoon.
Addressing the dossier compiled by the former British spy Christopher Steele  which alleges several ties between the   [TGT]   campaign and Russian officials    [TGT]   tweeted  "Officials behind the now discredited 'Dossier' plead the Fifth. Justice Department and/or FBI should immediately release who paid for it."
It was the second time in as many days that   [TGT] had called for the release of information about those who had financed the dossier  which was produced by the opposition-research firm  Fusion GPS. On Thursday  the day after Fusion officials appeared before the House Intelligence Committee in a closed-door session after being subpoenaed by chairman Devin Nunes    [TGT]   tweeted  "Workers of firm involved with the discredited and Fake Dossier take the 5th. Who paid for it  Russia  the FBI or the Dems (or all)?"
The explosive dossier has not been verified in whole  but it is currently being used as a "roadmap" by the FBI as it conducts its own investigation into whether the   [TGT] campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the 2016 race in  his  favor. The FBI also reportedly agreed to pay Steele in October 2016 to continue doing work that might help the bureau's Russia investigation. Special counsel Robert Mueller interviewed Steele  the document's author  during the summer  and the Senate Intelligence Committee also announced earlier this month that it had been working "backwards" to verify the dossier.
  [TGT] also vented about the attention being paid to Facebook and other social media platforms after   [TGT]   emerged last month that Russian trolls capitalized on social media  and Facebook in particular  to sow discord during the election and spread pro-Trump propaganda.
"Keep hearing about 'tiny' amount of money spent on Facebook ads   [TGT] tweeted on Saturday. "What about the billions of dollars of Fake News on CNN  ABC  NBC & CBS?"
 He  added: "Crooked Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of millions of dollars more on Presidential Election than I did. Facebook was on her side  not mine!"
Former Russian troll Max told independent Russian news outlet Dozhd that the Internet Research Agency consisted of a "Russian desk" and a "foreign desk." The Russian desk  which was primarily made up of bots and trolls  used fake social-media accounts to flood the internet with pro-Trump agitprop and made-up news throughout the US presidential campaign  especially in the days leading up to the November election.