The Steele Dossier
Christopher Steele, author of the infamous dossier that accused Donald Trump of colluding with Russia, claims that he “never worked for the Clinton campaign” and did “the right thing” by reporting his findings to the FBI.
IN FACT, Steele was paid with money from the Clinton campaign, and every accusation he made against Trump was scandalously false. Here are the facts straight from the Durham Report and the Horowitz Report:
- In the spring of 2016, a “U.S.-based international law firm” named Perkins Coie that was “acting as counsel to the Clinton campaign” hired a “U.S.-based investigative firm” named Fusion GPS to “conduct opposition research on Trump and his associates.”
- To carry out that research, Fusion GPS hired a British firm run by Christopher Steele, a “former intelligence official for the British government” who was actively working as a “long term paid” source for the FBI.
- Steele was fully aware of who he was working for and told an FBI agent in July 2016 that “his ultimate client was ‘senior Democrats’ supporting Clinton.”
- Using money from the DNC and Clinton campaign, Steele created a series of reports collectively known as the “Steele Dossier.”
- In these documents, Steele alleged “there was a well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between” the Trump campaign and “Russian leadership.”
- Steele fed his reports to the FBI, which used his “unvetted and unverified” allegations to obtain warrants to spy on Trump’s orbit.
- Steele failed to “produce corroboration for any of the reported allegations, even after being offered $1 million or more by the FBI for such corroboration.”
- “Despite protracted efforts,” the FBI “was not able to corroborate a single substantive allegation contained in the Steele Reports.”
- Steele also fed his reports to the media, which incessantly used them to smear Trump.
- Steele used subsources for his reports who had deep ties to the Russian government, were Democrat operatives and fans of Hillary Clinton, admittedly “fabricated” an allegation against Trump, invented a conversation that never happened, and used “rumor and speculation” to impugn Trump.
- Steele and his subsources gave materially conflicting stories about where they got their information.
- Steele and his primary subsource claimed that “they destroyed all notes reflecting the content of their meetings and communications.”
