Sean Hannity charged that Steele's dossier was "Claptrap" filled with "Russian lies" that were intended to poison "Our own intelligence and law-enforcement network" against Trump.
Nobody had alleged that Trump knew of any fifa crimes, but Steele soon came across Trump Tower again.
In the reports Steele had collected, the names of the sources were omitted, but they were described as "a former top-level Russian intelligence officer still active inside the Kremlin," a "Member of the staff at the hotel," a "Female staffer at the hotel when Trump had stayed there," and "a close associate of Trump who had organized and managed his recent trips to Moscow."
Steele also felt a duty to get the information to the F.B.I. Although Trump has tweeted that the dossier was "All cooked up by Hillary Clinton," Steele approached the Bureau on his own.
Steele's dossier had highlighted the Agalarov family's connection with Trump.
Ten months before the Times reported on the Trump Tower meeting, exposing the role of the Agalarov family's emissary in setting it up, one of Steele's memos had suggested that an "Azeri business associate of Trump, Araz agalarov, will know the details" of "Bribes" and "Sexual activities" that Trump had allegedly engaged in while visiting St. Petersburg.
Steele's memos describe two other Trump advisers as sympathetic to Russia: Paul Manafort, then the campaign manager, and Michael Flynn, an adviser whom Trump later appointed his national-security adviser.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top-stories
Nobody had alleged that Trump knew of any fifa crimes, but Steele soon came across Trump Tower again.
In the reports Steele had collected, the names of the sources were omitted, but they were described as "a former top-level Russian intelligence officer still active inside the Kremlin," a "Member of the staff at the hotel," a "Female staffer at the hotel when Trump had stayed there," and "a close associate of Trump who had organized and managed his recent trips to Moscow."
Steele also felt a duty to get the information to the F.B.I. Although Trump has tweeted that the dossier was "All cooked up by Hillary Clinton," Steele approached the Bureau on his own.
Steele's dossier had highlighted the Agalarov family's connection with Trump.
Ten months before the Times reported on the Trump Tower meeting, exposing the role of the Agalarov family's emissary in setting it up, one of Steele's memos had suggested that an "Azeri business associate of Trump, Araz agalarov, will know the details" of "Bribes" and "Sexual activities" that Trump had allegedly engaged in while visiting St. Petersburg.
Steele's memos describe two other Trump advisers as sympathetic to Russia: Paul Manafort, then the campaign manager, and Michael Flynn, an adviser whom Trump later appointed his national-security adviser.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top-stories
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