A discredited political work originally put together as opposition research by the Clinton campaign and Democratic party as arranged by “democracy” lawyer Marc Elias., with significant backing and early work by Glenn Simpson, which was funneled to the Obama FBI and used to justify illegal surveillance on candidate and President Donald Trump. On Jan 10, 2016, ten days before Trump’s inauguration, Obama DNI James Clapper leaked the phony dossier to CNN and BuzzFeed. The dossier is named after former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, who was paid $168k by Hillary Clinton (info withheld from FISA court) and the Democrats for smears and by the Obama DOJ to perpetrate a fraud upon the FISA court, the media, and American people. Obama approved declassification and widespread dissemination of the made-up dossier. Steele had been terminated as an informant for lying to the FBI about his contacts with the media. More at Conservapedia…
In July 2020, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) accused the far-left-leaning Brookings Institution think tank led by Strobe Talbot and its leadership in disseminating the discredited anti-Trump dossier, defending its credibility and possibly even being involved in its very creation. Speaking with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo, Nunes highlighted how a court case in London involving Christopher Steele — the former MI6 agent who created the debunked Russia-Trump dossier — exposed direct links between Steele and the leadership of the Brookings Institution, and the possible creation of the dossier between Steele and the Brookings Institution leadership.
Nunes cited text messages between Steele and Strobe Talbott, then president of Brookings, leading him to question “what on earth was the president of Brookings doing texting back and forth to Steele, why was he accepting the dossier?” .1 The New York Times, after years of pushing the garbage Steele dossier, finally admitted the peepee tape and more “have never materialized or have been proved false.”
Special Counsel John Durham revealed part of the story behind the infamous “pee tape” allegation on 11/4/2021, deep in his indictment against Russian-born, U.S.-based researched Igor Danchenko, a primary source for Christopher Steele’s “dossier.”
The “dossier” was used as the basis for claims that then-candidate Donald Trump had engaged in “Russia collusion.” And its most salacious accusation — which many Democrats believed — was that Trump had hired prostitutes on a visit to Moscow to urinate on a bed in the presidential suite of a hotel where he had been told that President Barack Obama had once slept.
The search for the “pee tape” consumed the media; impeachment investigator Daniel S. Goldman once claimed, falsely, it existed.
But Durham’s investigation turned up the back story.
The indictment relates that in June 2016, a person referred to as “PR Executive-1” — now confirmed to be communications executive and Clinton associate Charles Dolan Jr. — and “Organizer-1” visited Russia to plan an October 2016 conference, where they would meet with senior Russian officials and even visit the Kremlin itself. Dolan stayed at the Moscow hotel in question; Danchenko was in Moscow but did not stay at the same hotel.
The indictment relates (paragraph numbers removed):
Certain of the information in the June 20,2016 Company Report [i.e. the Steele “dossier”] reflected facts that PR Executive-1 and Organizer-1 also learned during the June 2016 Planning Trip to Moscow.
For example, and as alleged above, during the June 2016 Planning Trip, both PR Executive-1 and Organizer-1 stayed at the Moscow Hotel. While at the Moscow Hotel, PR Executive-1 and Organizer-1 (i) received a tour of the Moscow Hotel’s Presidential Suite (ii) met with the general manager (“General Manager-1”) and other staff of the Moscow Hotel, and (iii) attended meetings – to include with DANCHENKO – at various Russian government ministries. Further, PR Executive-1 had lunch with DANCHENKO during the June 2016 Planning Trip.
According to Organizer-1, during the aforementioned tour of the Presidential Suite, a Moscow Hotel staff member told the participants, including PR Executive-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.
A story of “salacious activity” nevertheless made it into Steele’s “dossier,” via Danchenko.
The rest of the indictment reveals Dolan’s extensive Russian contacts, and Danchenko’s use of those sources, at least one of whom openly hoped Hillary Clinton would win the election.1
Hillary Clinton Hired FusionGPS through Various Fronts, for the Phony Steele Dossier that would be Used in the Russian Collusion Hoax
