Steele Dossier: The Lie Told Around the World, Again
Christopher Steele’s bogus smear of Donald Trump served its purposes and it continues to.
by Debra J. Saunders
October 23, 2021, 10:04 PM
When you think about it, the phony claim that, in 2013, former President Donald Trump cavorted with prostitutes in the Moscow Ritz-Carlton who urinated in front of him on a bed once used by former President Barack Obama and his wife was genius.
After all, who could make this stuff up? The “dossier” in which it first appeared, written by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, was unsuccessfully shopped to the press corps during the 2016 presidential campaign. The “perverted sexual acts” allegation, commonly referred to as the “pee tape,” was both specific and salacious — a combination that must have been painful for Beltway journalists to resist.
Yet at the time, they did resist. Reporters wouldn’t touch the story in 2016 because they could not corroborate the dirt.
Five years later, alas, it limps on.
Monday, Hulu aired “Out of the Shadows: The Man Behind the Steele Dossier,” a show that features ABC’s George Stephanopoulos’ exclusive sit-down with Steele.
There was and is no evidence to back up the damning claim that the Kremlin had the goods to blackmail Trump. Former New York Times reporter Barry Meier says as much on camera, when he said of the story, “It never got any traction because no one could nail anything in it down.”
Days before Trump took the oath of office, BuzzFeed published the “dossier,” which was used to poison the White House well as Trump entered office.
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