A Thread for the Mueller Investigation Results and Outcomes (Part 1)

[Snowboarder_Bo]

@Fotheringay-Phipps

But that’s how these things work. The dossier was shopped around to various media entities before the election. Happens that none of them chose to publish it at that time. But it was certainly being used in a manner which would have influenced the election had it been successful.

Cite for the part I bolded, please?

Also, what do you mean “shopped around”? What does the word “shopped” mean in this context, exactly?