How anybody ever believed any of it is hard to imagine.īut believe it they did, including the FBI. Yet somehow, this provided the basis for allegations of a deep conspiracy at the heart of the American political system. Anonymous phone calls are hardly reliable sources. But even if it had been true, it wouldn’t have been much better. Again, the claim to have received information from a high-placed source was false. Danchenko told the FBI that his source was an anonymous telephone call from someone whom he believed was “Chamber President-1,” identified as Sergei Millian, the head of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce.īut as the FBI discovered, Danchenko never spoke to Millian at all. The dossier made hay with claims of a “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. Read more Why is disgraced MI6 author of the dodgy Trump-Russia dossier involved in a controversial group seeking harsh Covid restrictions?įabrication once again. For instance, Danchenko wrote in the dossier that Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort had been fired due to infighting in the Republican camp, citing Dolan as having told him that he learned this from a meeting with a “GOP insider.” But Dolan then told the FBI that in reality he “fabricated the fact of the meeting in his communications with Danchenko.” It reveals that Dolan didn’t possess any great insider information. It’s not the only blow the document deals to the Russiagate story. The manager and staff member are thus identified as the persons mentioned in the Steele dossier as “Source E” and “Source F,” who supposedly revealed the existence of the infamous videotape.īut that’s not all – the indictment says that although a hotel staff member did tell Dolan and Organizer-1 that Trump had stayed in the presidential suite, “according to both Organizer-1 and PR Executive-1, the staff member did not mention any sexual or salacious activity.” In short, the story of the “pee-pee tape” is a fabrication, pure and simple. The FBI document describes how Dolan and someone known as “Organizer-1” arranged a conference in Moscow at the hotel in question, in preparation for which they met the hotel manager and a member of staff and received a tour of the building, including the presidential suite. Also on rt.com How indictment of ‘Steele dossier’ source may unravel entire Trump-Russia narrative This becomes clear in the parts of the indictment dealing with the famous “pee-pee tape” – an alleged video-recording of Trump cavorting with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel while they urinated on the bed in the presidential suite. I am working on a related project against Trump.” Clearly, this wasn’t a piece of neutral research, but a hatchet job for which any old rumour would do.īut if rumour wasn’t available, fabrication would do fine too. Danchenko was quite clear about his purpose, telling Dolan that he wanted to hear “Any thought, rumour, allegation. The irony!ĭanchenko’s relationship with Dolan exposes a lot about where the claims in the Steele dossier came from. PR Executive-1 served as a lead consultant during that project and frequently interacted with senior Russian Federation leadership.” It turns out that it wasn’t the Republicans but the Democrats who were chummy with the Russians. For as the indictment says, Dolan was employed “to handle public relations for the Russian government and a state-owned energy company. The corrupt circularity of it is quite extraordinary.Įven stranger, the source of the claims that Trump was too close to the Russians was somebody who was very close to them himself. And it’s here that things begin to get truly interesting.Īs the charge sheet states, during his career Dolan has served as “chairman of a national Democratic political organization,” “state chairman of President Clinton’s 19 presidential campaigns,” and “an adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.” And so it turns out that the allegations that Trump was a Russian agent hinged on a report commissioned by the Democratic Party, which relied heavily on information provided by somebody who was once an official in that party.
What the indictment reveals for the first time is that Danchenko in turn made use of the services of somebody referred to as “PR Executive-1,” who has been identified by the press as one Chuck Dolan. Read more DOJ says federal agents arrested analyst involved in anti-Trump ‘Steele Dossier’
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