They tried to have his name scrubbed, that’s why it took months to get the announcement that there’s nothing in it. Presumably, he was so integral to the entire operation that scrubbing any mention of Trump would effectively scrub the entire document—this is the result

I suppose you also believe that RT isn’t Russian state propaganda either, for the same reasons.

“But that’s not the same!” ok

The source is American propaganda https://about.rferl.org/faq/isnt-rfe-rl-funded-by-the-cia/

Sure, it’s not “literally” funded by the CIA, but it is “literally” funded by the US federal government