Steele Dossier Warned it May Be China, Not Russia
Business Insider
February 11, 2017
The timeline of Trump's ties with Russia lines up with allegations of conspiracy and misconduct
One of the dossier's sources, "Source E," told a compatriot in July 2016 that the "conspiracy of cooperation” between Russia and Trump involved hacking prominent Democrats. The hacking campaign "depended on key people in the US Russian émigré community for its success," the dossier states.
The Kremlin recruited "hundreds of agents" both in Russia and in the US who were either "consciously cooperating with the FSB or whose personal and professional IT systems had been compromised," the dossier says, citing "a number of Russian figures with a detailed knowledge of national cyber crime."
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In return for this effort, the dossier says, Putin wanted information from Trump on Russian oligarchs living in the US, Source E said. The same source is quoted in the dossier as saying the Trump campaign was "relatively relaxed" about the attention on Trump's reported ties to Russia "because it deflected media and the Democrats' attention away from Trump's business dealings in China."
"Unlike in Russia, these [dealings] were substantial and involved the payment of large bribes and kickbacks which, were they to become public, would be potentially very damaging to their campaign."
Just a thought. I hope he doesn't get excited watching the public burn through their attention span on something he squeaks by with, knowing there are bigger fish to fry.
