Christopher Steele, the Foreigner Who Interfered in Our Election
He is one threat to democracy that the ruling class can overlook.
by George Neumayr
October 20, 2021, 11:44 PM
The supposed anxieties of the ruling class about “foreign interference” in the 2016 election never extended to the most obvious source of it, Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign to smear Donald Trump. Steele’s fables had a much greater impact on the race than anything Vladimir Putin might have done. The Democrats used a foreigner to play a dirty trick on their opponent, all the while posing as defenders of the purity of American democracy.
This shameless con continues. Steele is back, recycling his smears against Trump on ABC recently. The interview and the Hulu documentary about him, “Out of the Shadows: The Man Behind the Steele Dossier,” show that the ruling class is still treating him seriously, even after his thorough discrediting.
In the interview, he says that “the problems we identified back in 2016 haven’t gone away, and arguably have actually got worse,” as if the thrust of his report was correct. Never mind that even Robert Mueller rejected it, concluding that Steele’s collusion claims against Trump were meritless.
The “problem” in 2016 was Steele himself. The turmoil to American democracy came largely from him. He sparked an unfounded investigation against Trump that not only undermined his campaign but also hobbled his presidency. Yet Steele, with the media’s help, continues to portray himself as the victim, not the villain, in the story, as if the scandal wasn’t his false report but Trump’s response to it.
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