When asked why Russia has never released said tape, Steele said: "Well, it hasn't needed to be released. While the tape itself has never been revealed, Steele said he thinks it “probably does (exist), but I wouldn't put 100% certainty on it.”
Steele met with an unnamed individual in a European city who claimed video existed of prostitutes entering a Ritz-Carlton hotel room in Moscow with Trump in 2013, and urinating on the bed in what Stephanopolous referred to as the “pee tape.” One item of much debate was the inclusion of Russian-based “kompromat,” or blackmail, on Trump. "I stand by the work we did, the sources that we had and the professionalism which we applied to it,” Steele maintained. The legitimacy of what emerged from Steele’s investigation is still subject to debate, and much of the information remains unverified.
“One was what the Russians were doing in terms of potential interference in the campaign, and two, what the links were between Trump and the Trump campaign and Russia,” Steele said of his investigation. Steele was asked to compile two sets of information, he told ABC News’ George Stephanopolous. The investigation was funded, in part, by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. In early 2016, Steele was approached by Glenn Simpson, a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal who went on to found Fusion GPS, a Washington, D.C.-based intelligence firm specializing in political and business research. When asked why he decided to publicly speak out on his investigation for the first time, Steele said he was not convinced that the problems he identified have gone away.Steele’s reports ultimately contributed to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into collusion between Trump and Russia, which in 2019 concluded there was no evidence of a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.While the legitimacy of what emerged from Steele’s investigation is still subject to debate, Steele said in part, "I stand by the work we did, the sources that we had and the professionalism which we applied to it".Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence official and author of a 2016 dossier that contained salacious information on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, spoke out in his first televised interview since the contents of the dossier were made public.The indictment says the FBI could have better judged the veracity of the Steele dossier had it known that a Democratic operative who volunteered for Clinton was the source of much of the dossier’s information.ĭanchenko’s lawyers argued Thursday that all the charges should be dismissed because Danchenko’s answers to the FBI were technically true, if not necessarily illuminating. The indictment alleges Danchenko lied about the credibility of his sources when in reality his primary source was actually a Democratic operative named Charles Dolan with ties to Trump’s opponent in the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton. The dossier famously suggested that Russians had compromising information on Trump regarding salacious sexual activity he allegedly engaged in at a Moscow hotel. He’s accused of lying to the FBI about how he obtained the information that ultimately made its way into the “Steele dossier,” a report that purported to detail connections between Trump and Russian intelligence and helped fuel a full-fledged FBI investigation called “Crossfire Hurricane” in the months leading up to the 2016 election. District Court in Alexandria to dismiss all five charges against him. Lawyers for Igor Danchenko asked a judge Thursday in U.S. (AP) - A judge is allowing prosecutors to move forward with their criminal case against an analyst who provided key details for a flawed dossier on ex-President Donald Trump, although the judge called his decision “an extremely close call.”
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