The first coincidence to emerge from the dossier involved the June 9, 2016, meeting held at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner and a group of Russians.
Two of the Russians in the meeting — Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin — happened to be working at the time of that meeting with Glenn Simpson, the founder of the opposition research firm that commissioned the dossier.
Coincidence or set up, the proposed meeting was discussed among campaign advisors. They came to the conclusion on their own it was fine. The running joke since the 2012 campaign was the Obama administration portrayed fear of Russia as an antiquated Cold War notion. Anyone with sense knew that wasn't true. Why they ever agreed to this meeting, with these people, under those circumstances is bewildering.