Dossier Has Not Been Proven False, Some of It Has Been Proven Accurate
The Russian dossier is back in the news. Remember the document that was written by a former British MI6 intelligence officer that alleges Trump has been compromised by the Russians for years and they have damning evidence they could use to blackmail him?
On Tuesday The Washington Post reported what was already common knowledge: The DNC and the Clinton campaign paid for some of the research that was included in the dossier.
Every campaign does opposition research. This is not news.
Trump and Republicans are insisting the dossier is fake but several points of it have been verified as accurate. The rest remain to be verified. It does not appear any portion of the dossier has been officially disproven. Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team have interviewed Christopher Steele, the former intelligence officer who wrote the dossier. Mueller’s team reportedly is using the dossier to help guide their investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia.
Wednesday morning Trump tweeted what he says is a quote from Fox News, that he is a “victim” of the dossier, which is nonsense.
On January 10, minutes after CNN published a report revealing the existence of the Russian dossier, Buzzfeed published the actual Russian dossier.
In late October Mother Jones first reported on existence of memos which comprise the Russian dossier. Here’s what Mother Jones says is included in just the first memo:
“Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years. Aim, endorsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and divisions in western alliance.†It maintained that Trump “and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals.†It claimed that Russian intelligence had “compromised†Trump during his visits to Moscow and could “blackmail him.†It also reported that Russian intelligence had compiled a dossier on Hillary Clinton based on “bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls.â€
The dossier also includes salacious allegations of sex acts purportedly orchestrated and witnessed by Trump, aka the “pee tape,” which is how some news outlets now describe the entire dossier.
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