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The [[Trump–Russia dossier]]<ref name="Vogel_Haberman_10/27/2017">{{cite news | first=Kenneth P. | last=Vogel | first2=Maggie | last2=Haberman | title=Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier | date=October 27, 2017 | website=The New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/politics/trump-dossier-paul-singer.html }}</ref> is a [[Private intelligence agency|private intelligence]] [[wikt:dossier|dossier]] of 17 memos that were consecutively written from June to December 2016<ref name="Shane_Confessore_Rosenberg_1/11/2017">{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-intelligence.html| title=How a Sensational, Unverified Dossier Became a Crisis for Donald Trump | first=Scott | last=Shane | first2=Nicholas | last2=Confessore | first3=Matthew | last3=Rosenberg | date=January 11, 2017 | work=The New York Times | accessdate=January 17, 2017}}</ref> by former [[Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] intelligence officer [[Christopher Steele]]. The memos allege that Russia has been cultivating a relationship with [[Donald Trump]] for decades, that the [[Kremlin]] favored Trump in the U.S. presidential election, and [[Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections|took various actions during the 2016 election]] to promote his candidacy and oppose [[Hillary Clinton]]'s. The document claims that several of Trump's associates, in particular [[campaign manager]] [[Paul Manafort]], Trump's personal attorney [[Michael D. Cohen (lawyer)|Michael D. Cohen]], and Trump foreign policy advisor [[Carter Page]], worked with Russian contacts to promote Trump's candidacy. Alleged activities include planning the [[Democratic National Committee cyber attacks|hack]] of [[Democratic National Committee]] emails and their [[2016 Democratic National Committee email leak|subsequent leaking]], arranging coverups and cash payments, and promising favorable policies toward Russia if Trump was elected. The document also claims that Russian operators possessed [[Kompromat|compromising information]] about Trump which could make him subject to blackmail.

Trump and Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]] have repeatedly denied the allegations,<ref name="Breuninger_1/13/2018">{{cite web | last=Breuninger | first=Kevin | title=Fusion GPS testimony on infamous dossier shines new light on Trump's perilous financial ties | website=CNBC | date=January 13, 2018 | url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/13/trump-dossier-testimony-financial-ties.html | access-date=January 18, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Stefansky_11/11/2017">{{cite web | last=Stefansky | first=Emma | title=Trump: I Believe Putin "Means It" When He Denies Election Meddling | website=Vanity Fair | date=November 11, 2017 | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-believes-putin | access-date=January 25, 2018}}</ref> as have Manafort<ref name="Borger_10/7/2017"/> and Cohen.<ref name="Harding_5/10/2017"/><ref name="Borger_4/28/2017"/><ref name="Cormier_5/5/2017"/>

The dossier contains multiple allegations, some of which have been confirmed, while others have yet to be proved or disproved.<ref name="Beavers_12/27/2017">{{cite news | last= Beavers | first= Olivia | title= House Intel panel subpoenas McCain associate over Trump dossier | date=December 27, 2017 | accessdate=January 10, 2018 | newspaper=The Hill | url= http://thehill.com/homenews/house/366614-house-intel-panel-subpoenas-mccain-associate-over-trump-dossier | quote= Certain parts of the dossier have either been confirmed or proven false, while other parts of the memo compilation remain unverified.}}</ref><ref name="Lee_12/26/2017">{{cite news| last= Lee | first=Michelle Ye Hee | title= Trump slams FBI, Obamacare in post-Christmas tweets | date=December 26, 2017 | accessdate=January 11, 2018 | newspaper=The Washington Post | url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-slams-fbi-obamacare-in-post-christmas-tweets/2017/12/26/6f77f684-ea4c-11e7-9f92-10a2203f6c8d_story.html | quote= Officials have said some of the information it contains has been corroborated, but other parts – including the most salacious claims about Trump's behavior – remain unverified.}}</ref> Some claims may require access to classified information for verification.<ref name="Berke_6/8/2017">{{cite web | last=Berke | first=Jeremy | title=Comey's cryptic answer about the infamous Trump dossier makes it look likely it could be verified | website=Business Insider | date=June 8, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/comey-steele-trump-russia-dossier-will-be-verified-2017-6 | access-date=January 23, 2018}}</ref> The media, [[United States Intelligence Community|intelligence community]], as well as most experts have treated the dossier with caution, while Trump himself denounced the report as "[[fake news]]". In February 2017, some details related to conversations between foreign nationals were independently verified.<ref name="Sciutto_2/10/2017">{{cite web |last1=Sciutto |first1=Jim |authorlink1= Jim Sciutto |last2=Perez |first2=Evan |url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/10/politics/russia-dossier-update/index.html |title=US investigators corroborate some aspects of the Russia dossier |date=February 10, 2017 |website=[[CNN]] |accessdate=February 10, 2017}}</ref> {{As of|December 2017}}, the dossier is "uncorroborated but not disproved".<ref name="Keneally_12/26/2017">{{cite news| last= Keneally | first= Meghan | title= Trump slams 'bogus' Russian dossier and says the FBI is 'tainted' | date=December 26, 2017 | accessdate=January 11, 2018 | website= ABC News | url= http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-slams-bogus-russian-dossier-fbi-tainted/story?id=51995098 | quote= The dossier is uncorroborated but not disproved.}}</ref><ref name="Prokop_12/28/2017">{{cite web | last=Prokop | first=Andrew | title=What we learned about Trump, Russia, and collusion in 2017 | website=Vox | date=December 28, 2017 | url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/28/16735412/trump-russia-news-investigation-2017 | access-date=February 21, 2018 | quote=Yet as 2017 winds down, there is still no clear answer to the central question at the heart of the probe: Did Trump’s team collude with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign?...[T]here are the darker possibilities of the sort alleged in the salacious and mostly uncorroborated Steele dossier. }}</ref>

=== Cultivation, conspiracy, and cooperation ===

* '''Allegation''': That "the Russian authorities had been cultivating and supporting US Republican presidential candidate, Donald TRUMP for at least 5 years" and that "the TRUMP operation was both supported and directed by Russian President Vladimir PUTIN."<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017">{{cite web | last=Withnall | first=Adam | last2=Sengupta | first2=Kim | title=The 10 key Donald Trump allegations from the classified Russia memos | website=The Independent | date=January 12, 2017 | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-russia-10-allegations-dossier-kremlin-michael-cohen-sex-claims-intelligence-reports-a7522056.html | access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017">{{cite web | last=Sumter | first=Kyler | title=The five most interesting claims in the Donald Trump dossier | website=The Week UK | date=November 16, 2017 | url=http://www.theweek.co.uk/89760/the-five-most-interesting-claims-in-the-donald-trump-dossier | access-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Harding_11/15/2017">{{cite web | last=Harding | first=Luke | title=How Trump walked into Putin's web | website=The Guardian | date=November 15, 2017 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/15/how-trump-walked-into-putins-web-luke | access-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Price_12/21/2017">{{cite web | last=Price | first=Greg | date=December 21, 2017 | title=What's True in the Trump 'Golden Shower' Dossier? Salacious Report Dogged President Throughout 2017 | website=Newsweek | url=http://www.newsweek.com/trump-golden-shower-dossier-russia-755831 | access-date=December 24, 2017 }}</ref> (Dossier, p. 1)

* '''Allegation''': That "[s]o far TRUMP has declined various sweetener real estate business deals offered him in Russia in order to further the Kremlin’s cultivation of him. However he and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals."<ref name="Borger_1/11/2017">{{cite web | last=Borger | first=Julian | title=John McCain passes dossier alleging secret Trump-Russia contacts to FBI | website=The Guardian | date=January 11, 2017 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/10/fbi-chief-given-dossier-by-john-mccain-alleging-secret-trump-russia-contacts | access-date=February 26, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Bertrand_1/10/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=Trump briefed on unverified claims that Russian operatives have compromising information on him | website=Business Insider | date=January 10, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/russians-say-they-have-compromising-information-on-trump-2017-1 | access-date=February 26, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Corn_10/31/2016">{{cite web | last=Corn | first=David | date=October 31, 2016 | title=A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump | website=Mother Jones | url=http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump/ | access-date=December 24, 2017 }}</ref><ref name="Drum_1/11/2017">{{cite web | last=Drum | first=Kevin | date=January 11, 2017 | title=US Intelligence: Evidence of Trump-Russia Ties Might Be Credible | website=Mother Jones | url=https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/01/us-intelligence-evidence-trump-russia-ties-might-be-credible/ | accessdate=February 25, 2017 }}</ref> (Dossier, p. 1)

* '''Allegation''': That there was a "well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between [the Trump campaign] and the Russian leadership" to defeat "Democratic presidential candidate Hillary CLINTON", and that there was a "Kremlin campaign to aid TRUMP and damage CLINTON".<ref name="Bertrand_2/11/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=The timeline of Trump's ties with Russia lines up with allegations of conspiracy and misconduct | website=Business Insider | date=February 11, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-russia-ties-michael-flynn-dossier-2017-2 | access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Yglesias_Prokop_1/5/2018">{{cite web | last1=Yglesias | first1=Matthew | last2=Prokop | first2=Andrew | title=The Steele dossier on Trump and Russia, explained | website=Vox | date=February 2, 2018 | url=https://www.vox.com/2018/1/5/16845704/steele-dossier-russia-trump | access-date=January 15, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Borger_10/7/2017">{{cite web | last=Borger | first=Julian | title=The Trump-Russia dossier: why its findings grow more significant by the day | website=The Guardian | date=October 7, 2017 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/07/trump-russia-steele-dossier-moscow | access-date=December 28, 2017}}</ref> (Dossier, pp. 7, 13)

* '''Allegation''': That "in terms of established operational liaison between the TRUMP team and the Kremlin, the emigre confirmed that an intelligence exchange had been running between them for at least 8 years. Within this context PUTIN's priority requirement had been for intelligence on the activities, business and otherwise, in the US of leading Russian oligarchs and their families. TRUMP and his associates duly had obtained and supplied the Kremlin with this information."<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Wood_3/30/2017">{{cite web | last=Wood | first=Paul | title=Trump Russia dossier key claim 'verified' | website=BBC News | date=March 30, 2017 | url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39435786 | access-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Weindling_1/11/2017">{{cite web | last=Weindling | first=Jacob | title=The 31 Most Explosive Allegations against Trump from the Leaked Intelligence Document | website=Paste Magazine | date=January 11, 2017 | url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/01/the-31-most-explosive-allegations-against-trump-fr.html | access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref> (Dossier, p. 11)

* '''Allegation''': That "there was a fair amount of anger and resentment within the Republican candidate's team at what was perceived by PUTIN as going beyond the objective of weakening CLINTON and bolstering TRUMP, by attempting to exploit the situation to undermine the US government and democratic system more generally."<ref name="Weindling_1/11/2017"/><ref name="Paul_1/18/2017">{{cite web | last=Paul | first=David | title=Golden Shower or No, Donald Trump Looks to be a Gift Beyond Vladimir Putin's Wildest Dreams | website=The Huffington Post | date=January 18, 2017 | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/golden-shower-or-no-donald-trump-looks-to-be-a-gift_us_587d45c7e4b0a7ab06ed2c32 | access-date=February 28, 2018}}</ref> (Dossier, p. 17)

=== Key roles of Manafort, Cohen, and Page ===

* '''Allegation''': That "the Republican candidate's campaign manager, Paul MANAFORT" had "managed" the "well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between [the Trump campaign] and the Russian leadership",<ref name="Bertrand_2/11/2017"/> and that he used "foreign policy advisor, Carter PAGE, and others as intermediaries".<ref name="Bertrand_1/15/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=Explosive memos suggest that a Trump-Russia quid pro quo was at the heart of the GOP's dramatic shift on Ukraine | website=Business Insider | date=January 15, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-gop-policy-ukraine-wikileaks-dnc-2017-1 | access-date=January 20, 2018}}</ref> (Dossier, p. 7)

* '''Allegation''': That Trump's [[foreign policy]] adviser, [[Carter Page]], served as an intermediary for Manafort<ref name="Bertrand_1/15/2017"/> and had "conceived and promoted" the idea of [[2016 Democratic National Committee email leak|leaking]] the [[Democratic National Committee cyber attacks|stolen DNC emails]] to [[WikiLeaks]] during the [[2016 Democratic National Convention]].<ref name="Yglesias_Prokop_1/5/2018"/> (Dossier, p. 7, 17)

* '''Allegation''': That Trump's personal lawyer, [[Michael D. Cohen (lawyer)|Michael Cohen]], played a "key role" in the Trump–Russia relationship<ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017"/> by arranging [[cover-up]]s and "deniable cash payments",<ref name="Harding_5/10/2017"/><ref name="Borger_4/28/2017"/> and that his role had grown following Manafort's departure from the campaign.<ref name="Sipher_9/11/2017">{{cite web | last=Sipher | first=John | title=A lot of the Steele dossier has since been corroborated. | website=Slate Magazine | date=September 11, 2017 | url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/09/a_lot_of_the_steele_dossier_has_since_been_corroborated.html | access-date=February 17, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Yglesias_Prokop_1/5/2018"/> (Dossier, pp. 18, 32, 34-35)

* '''Allegation''': That "COHEN now was heavily engaged in a cover up and damage limitation operation in the attempt to prevent the full details of TRUMP’s relationship with Russia being exposed."<ref name="Yglesias_Prokop_1/5/2018"/><ref name="Weindling_1/11/2017"/><ref name="Manne_2/18/2017"">{{cite web | last=Manne | first=Robert | title=So, just what is the deal with Trump and Russia | website=The Australian | date=February 18, 2017 | url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/so-just-what-is-the-deal-with-trump-and-russia/news-story/96b19d2f4e65acb4b9577ad62e32c1e1 | access-date=February 28, 2018}}</ref> (Dossier, p. 32)

* '''Allegation''': That Carter Page was instrumental in making a deal for Trump of a 19% stake (ca. $11 billion) in [[Rosneft]] oil company in exchange for Trump lifting the anti-Russian [[International sanctions during the Ukrainian crisis|sanctions]] after his election.<ref name="Bertrand_2/11/2017"/><ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Bertrand_11/6/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=Carter Page's testimony is filled with bombshells - and supports key portions of the Steele dossier | website=Business Insider | date=November 6, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-congressional-testimony-transcript-steele-dossier-2017-11 | access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Raju_Herb_Polantz_11/7/2017">{{cite web | last=Raju | first=Manu | last2=Herb | first2=Jeremy | last3=Polantz | first3=Katelyn | title=Carter Page reveals new contacts with Trump campaign, Russians | website=CNN | date=November 7, 2017 | url=https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/06/politics/carter-page-testimony-released/index.html | access-date=February 9, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Tracy_11/7/2017">{{cite web | last=Tracy | first=Abigail | date=November 7, 2017 | title=Is Carter Page Digging the Trump Administration's Grave? Three things the former campaign adviser revealed to Congress that should scare the White House. | website=Vanity Fair | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/carter-page-hearing-donald-trump-russia | access-date=December 29, 2017 }}</ref> (Dossier, pp. 31-32)

=== Kremlin pro-Trump and anti-Clinton ===

* '''Allegation''': That "PUTIN motivated by fear and hatred of Hillary CLINTON".<ref name="Bertrand_1/15/2017"/> (Dossier, p. 7)

* '''Allegation''': That "TRUMP was viewed as divisive in disrupting the whole US political system; anti-Establishment; and a pragmatist with whom they could do business. As the TRUMP support operation had gained momentum, control of it had passed from the MFA to the FSB and then into the presidential administration where it remained, a reflection of its growing significance over time. There was still a view in the Kremlin that TRUMP would continue as a (divisive) political force even if he lost the presidency and may run for and be elected to another public office."<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/> (Dossier, p. 29)

=== Kompromat and blackmail: Trump ===

* '''Allegation''': That [[kompromat]] exists on Trump in the form of blackmailable<ref name="Bertrand_11/10/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=Trump's bodyguard's testimony raises new questions about the most salacious allegations in the dossier | website=Business Insider | date=November 10, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/house-intelligence-asks-trump-bodyguard-about-moscow-prostitutes-allegation-2017-11 | access-date=January 14, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Blum_3/30/2017">{{cite web | last=Blum | first=Howard | title=How Ex-Spy Christopher Steele Compiled His Explosive Trump-Russia Dossier | website=Vanity Fair | date=March 30, 2017 | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/how-the-explosive-russian-dossier-was-compiled-christopher-steele | access-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref> acts of paying [[Bribery|bribe]]s and engaging in "perverted sexual acts" in Russia.<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017"/><ref name="Harding_11/15/2017"/><ref name="Yglesias_Prokop_1/5/2018"/><ref name="Sipher_9/6/2017"/><ref name="Whitaker_11/11/2017">{{cite web | last=Whitaker | first=Morgan | title=Trump's bodyguard's testimony raises new questions about salacious allegations in the Russia dossier | website=AOL.com | date=November 11, 2017 | url=https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/11/11/trumps-bodyguards-testimony-raises-new-questions-about-the-most-salacious-allegations-in-the-dossier/23274380/ | access-date=January 15, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Harding_1/11/2017">{{cite web | last=Harding | first=Luke | title=What we know – and what's true – about the Trump-Russia dossier | website=The Guardian | date=January 11, 2017 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/11/trump-russia-dossier-explainer-details | access-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref> (Dossier, pp. 1-2, 8, 11, 27)

* '''Allegation''': That Trump "hated"<ref name="Smothers_1/10/2017">{{cite web | last=Smothers | first=Hannah | title=Detailed Reports Allege President-Elect Donald Trump Hired Prostitutes to Pee on a Hotel Bed | website=Cosmopolitan | date=January 10, 2017 | url=http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a8584701/reports-allege-trump-hired-prostitutes-golden-showers/ | access-date=January 20, 2018 | quote= According to Source D, where s/he had been present, TRUMP's (perverted) conduct in Moscow included hiring the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where he knew President and Mrs OBAMA (whom he hated) had stayed on one of their official trips to Russia, and defiling the bed where they had slept by employing a number of prostitutes to perform a 'golden showers' (urination) show in front of him. }}</ref> [[Barack Obama|Obama]] so much that he hired the [[Presidential suite]] of the [[The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company|Ritz-Carlton Hotel]] in Moscow and had prostitutes perform a "[[Urolagnia|golden showers]]" show in front of him<ref name="Price_12/21/2017"/><ref name="Stein_1/10/2017">{{cite web | last=Stein | first=Jeff | title=Trump, Russian spies and the infamous 'golden shower memos' | website=Newsweek | date=January 10, 2017 | url=http://www.newsweek.com/trump-russian-spies-infamous-golden-shower-memos-541315 | access-date=January 21, 2018}}</ref> in order to defile the bed used by President and Mrs. Obama on a previous visit. This is alleged to have happened in 2013. The alleged incident was reportedly secretly [[surveillance|filmed and recorded]] by the [[Federal Security Service|FSB]]<ref name="Sipher_9/6/2017"/> for potential blackmail.<ref name="Parfitt_1/12/2017">{{cite web | last=Parfitt | first=Tom | title=Putin spies ‘taped Trump sex game with prostitutes’ | website=The Sunday Times | date=January 12, 2017 | url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/putin-spies-taped-trump-sex-game-with-prostitutes-lmk85vncx | access-date=January 21, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Timmons_1/10/2017">{{cite web | last=Timmons | first=Heather | title=What you need to know about the Donald Trump “golden showers” intelligence report | website=Quartz | date=January 10, 2017 | url=https://qz.com/882677/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-donald-trump-golden-showers-intelligence-report-claimed-by-the-russians/ | access-date=March 1, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Bertrand_11/10/2017"/><ref name="Price_12/21/2017"/><ref name="Price_7/20/2017">{{cite web | last=Price | first=Greg | date=July 20, 2017 | title=Trump: Comey Used 'Golden Shower' Dossier As Leverage | website=Newsweek | url=http://www.newsweek.com/golden-shower-gate-trump-dossier-comey-639600 | accessdate=February 28, 2018 }}</ref><ref name="Yglesias_Prokop_1/5/2018"/> (Dossier, p. 2)

* '''Allegation''': That "TRUMP’s unorthodox behavior in Russia over the years had provided the authorities there with enough embarrassing material on the now Republican presidential candidate to be able to blackmail him if they so wished."<ref name="Zappone_1/11/2017">{{cite web | last=Zappone | first=Chris | title=Russia planned to cultivate and compromise Donald Trump, according to leaked memos | website=The Sydney Morning Herald | date=January 11, 2017 | url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/donald-trump-shown-claims-of-russian-efforts-to-compromise-him-cnn-20170111-gtp8qy.html | access-date=February 27, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Stein_1/10/2017"/><ref name="Sipher_9/6/2017">{{cite web | last=Sipher | first=John | title=What exactly does the Steele dirty Russian dossier on Trump contain? | website=Newsweek | date=September 6, 2017 | url=http://www.newsweek.com/what-exactly-does-steele-dirty-russian-pee-tape-dossier-trump-contain-660327 | access-date=January 20, 2018}}</ref><ref name="NZ_Herald_1/11/2017">{{cite web | title=Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal information about Donald Trump | website=NZ Herald | date=January 11, 2017 | url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11780387 | access-date=February 27, 2018}}</ref> (Dossier, p. 2)

* '''Allegation''': That "Russians apparently have promised not to use 'kompromat' they hold on TRUMP as leverage, given high levels of voluntary co-operation forthcoming from his team."<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Bertrand_1/10/2017"/><ref name="Harding_Collusion"/> (Dossier, p. 11)

* '''Allegation''': That Trump had explored the real estate sectors in St Petersburg and Moscow, "but in the end TRUMP had had to settle for the use of extensive sexual services there from local prostitutes rather than business success".<ref name="Bertrand_11/10/2017"/><ref name="Parfitt_1/12/2017"/> (Dossier, p. 8) That "TRUMP had visited St Petersburg on several occasions in the past and had been interested in doing business deals there involving real estate....[T]hat TRUMP had paid bribes there to further his interests but very discreetly and only through affiliated companies, making it very hard to prove.... [T]hat TRUMP had participated in sex parties in the city too, but that all direct witnesses to this recently had been 'silenced' i.e. bribed or coerced to disappear."<ref name="Bertrand_11/10/2017"/><ref name="Parfitt_1/12/2017"/> (Dossier, p. 27)

* '''Allegation''': That Trump's "team were relatively relaxed about" "the negative media publicity surrounding alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election campaign in support of Trump" "because it deflected media and the Democrats' attention away from Trump's business dealings in China and other emerging markets. Unlike in Russia, these were substantial and involved the payment of large bribes and kickbacks which, were they to become public, would be potentially very damaging to their campaign."<ref name="LeTourneau_2/17/2017">{{cite web | last=LeTourneau | first=Nancy | title=Trump is configuring a dangerous web of foreign interests | website=Washington Monthly | date=February 17, 2017 | url=https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/02/17/beyond-russia-trumps-business-ties-in-china-raise-questions/ | access-date=February 17, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Bertrand_2/11/2017"/><ref name="NPR.org_11/21/2017">{{cite web | title=Journalist Investigating Trump And Russia Says 'Full Picture Is One Of Collusion' | website=NPR.org | date=November 21, 2017 | url=https://www.npr.org/2017/11/21/565654507/journalist-investigating-trump-and-russia-says-full-picture-is-one-of-collusion | access-date=February 17, 2018}}</ref> (Dossier, p. 8)

=== Kompromat: Clinton ===

* '''Allegation''': That Putin ordered the keeping of a secret dossier on Hillary Clinton with content dating back to the time of the [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|Clinton presidency]] and comprised mainly of [[Eavesdropping|eavesdropped]] conversations, some from [[Covert listening device|bugging devices]] and others from [[Telephone tapping|phone intercepts]]. That it did not contain "details/evidence of unorthodox or embarrassing behavior", but focused more on "things she had said which contradicted her current positions on various issues". That it had been collated by the FSB<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Corn_10/31/2016"/> and was managed by [[Dmitry Peskov]], Putin's [[press secretary]].<ref name="Sipher_9/6/2017"/><ref name="Levine_1/12/2018">{{cite web | last=Levine | first=Mike | title=FBI vets: What many are missing about the infamous 'dossier' amid Russia probe | website=ABC News | date=January 12, 2018 | url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-vets-missing-infamous-dossier-amid-russia-probe/story?id=52309501 | access-date=February 26, 2018 | quote=Dossier: }}</ref> (Dossier, pp. 1, 3)

=== DNC email hack and leaks ===

* '''Allegation''': That Russia was responsible for the [[Democratic National Committee cyber attacks|DNC email hacks]]<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Bertrand_11/17/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=Kushner received emails from Sergei Millian - an alleged dossier source who was in touch with George Papadopoulos | website=Business Insider | date=November 17, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-emails-sergei-millian-dossier-papadopoulous-russia-2017-11 | access-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Blum_3/30/2017"/> and the recent appearance of the stolen [[2016 Democratic National Committee email leak|DNC e-mails on WikiLeaks]],<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Harding_Collusion">{{cite book | last=Harding |first=Luke | title=Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win | publisher=Vintage | year=2017 | isbn=978-0525562511}}</ref> and that the reason for using WikiLeaks was "[[plausible deniability]]".<ref name="Bertrand_10/6/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=Mueller reportedly interviewed the author of the Trump-Russia dossier - here's what it alleges, and how it aligned with reality | website=Business Insider | date=October 6, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/christopher-steele-trump-dossier-russia-timeline-2017-10 | access-date=January 18, 2018}}</ref> (Dossier, pp. 7-8)

* '''Allegation''': That "the operation had been conducted with the full knowledge and support of TRUMP and senior members of his campaign team."<ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017"/><ref name="Bertrand_10/6/2017"/> (Dossier, p. 8)

* '''Allegation''': That Trump's foreign policy adviser [[Carter Page]] had "conceived and promoted" the idea of "leaking the DNC e-mails to WikiLeaks during the Democratic Convention" "to swing supporters of Bernie SANDERS away from Hillary CLINTON and across to TRUMP."<ref name="Yglesias_Prokop_1/5/2018"/><ref name="LeTourneau_1/13/2017">{{cite web | last=LeTourneau | first=Nancy | title=How Trump and the Russians sowed discord on the left | website=Washington Monthly | date=January 13, 2017 | url=https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/01/13/trump-and-russians-sowed-discord-on-the-left/ | access-date=February 27, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Garossino_1/14/2017">{{cite web | last=Garossino | first=Sandy | title=TRUMP'S ILL-GOTTEN VICTORY: Intel dossier says Putin helped Sanders, Stein | website=National Observer | date=January 14, 2017 | url=https://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/01/14/opinion/trumps-ill-begotten-victory-intel-dossier-says-putin-helped-sanders-stein | access-date=February 27, 2018}}</ref> (Dossier, p. 17)

* '''Allegation''': That the hacking of the DNC servers was performed by Romanian hackers ultimately controlled by Putin and paid by both Trump and Putin.<ref name="Harding_5/10/2017">{{cite web | last=Harding | first=Luke | title=What do we know about alleged links between Trump and Russia? | website=The Guardian | date=May 10, 2017 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/10/qa-what-we-know-about-alleged-links-between-trump-and-russia | access-date=December 26, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Borger_4/28/2017">{{cite web |last=Borger | first=Julian | title=UK was given details of alleged contacts between Trump campaign and Moscow | website=The Guardian | date=April 28, 2017 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/28/trump-russia-intelligence-uk-government-m16-kremlin | access-date=December 26, 2017}}</ref> (Dossier, pp. 34-35)

* '''Allegation''': That Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, had a secret meeting with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016,<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Cormier_5/5/2017">{{cite web | last=Cormier | first=Anthony | title=This Is The Inside Of Trump's Lawyer's Passport | website=BuzzFeed | date=May 5, 2017 | url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier/trumps-lawyer-showed-you-the-cover-of-his-passport-heres | access-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Gray_1/10/2017">{{cite web | last=Gray | first=Rosie | title=Michael Cohen: 'It Is Fake News Meant to Malign Mr. Trump' | website=The Atlantic | date=January 10, 2017 | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/michael-cohen-it-is-fake-news-meant-to-malign-mr-trump/512762/ | access-date=December 24, 2017 | quote= I'm telling you emphatically that I've not been to Prague, I've never been to Czech [Republic], I've not been to Russia. }}</ref> where he arranged "deniable cash payments" to the hackers and sought "to cover up all traces of the hacking operation",<ref name="Harding_5/10/2017"/><ref name="Borger_4/28/2017"/> as well as "cover up ties between Trump and Russia, including Manafort's involvement in Ukraine".<ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017"/> (Dossier, pp. 18, 34-35)

=== Kickbacks and ''quid pro quo'' agreements ===

* '''Allegation''': That former Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych]], who had requested Russian military intervention in Ukraine before he fled to Russia in 2014, told Putin he had been making supposedly untraceable<ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017"/> "[[Kickback (bribery)|kick-back]] payments" to Paul Manafort, who was Trump's campaign manager at the time.<ref name="Bertrand_10/6/2017"/> (Dossier, p. 20)

* '''Allegation''': That in return for Russia's [[2016 Democratic National Committee email leak|leaking the stolen documents to WikiLeaks]], "the TRUMP team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue and to raise US/NATO defense commitments in the Baltics and Eastern Europe to deflect attention away from Ukraine, a priority for PUTIN who needed to cauterise the subject."<ref name="Bertrand_1/15/2017"/><ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017"/><ref name="Bertrand_10/6/2017"/> (Dossier, pp. 7-8)

* '''Allegation''': That [[Igor Sechin]] offered Carter Page a deal for Trump of a 19% [[Privatization|privatized]] stake (ca. $11 billion) in [[Rosneft]] oil company in exchange for Trump lifting the anti-Russian [[International sanctions during the Ukrainian crisis|sanctions]] after his election.<ref name="Bertrand_11/6/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=Carter Page's testimony is filled with bombshells - and supports key portions of the Steele dossier | website=Business Insider | date=November 6, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-congressional-testimony-transcript-steele-dossier-2017-11 | access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Weindling_1/11/2017"/> It is also alleged that Page confirmed, on Trump's "full authority", that this was Trump's intent.<ref name="Dossier_Rosneft">Dossier: "Rosneft President was so keen to lift personal and corporate western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered PAGE/TRUMP’s associates the brokerage of up to a 19 per cent (privatised) stake in Rosneft in return. PAGE had expressed interest and confirmed that were TRUMP elected US president, then sanctions on Russia would be lifted....[A]lthough PAGE had not stated it explicitly to SECHIN, he had clearly implied that in terms of his comment on TRUMP’s intention to lift Russian sanctions if elected president, he was speaking with the Republican candidate’s full authority."</ref><ref name="Bertrand_2/11/2017"/><ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Bertrand_1/27/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=Memos: CEO of Russia's state oil company offered Trump adviser, allies a cut of huge deal if sanctions were lifted | website=Business Insider | date=January 27, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor-sechin-dossier-2017-1 | access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Tracy_11/7/2017"/><ref name="Roazen_2/21/2017">{{cite web | last=Roazen | first=Ben | title=What Else Does the Donald Trump–Russia Dossier Tell Us? | website=GQ | date=February 21, 2017 | url=https://www.gq.com/story/trump-russia-dossier-matryoshka | access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Raju_Herb_Polantz_11/7/2017"/> (Dossier, pp. 31-32)

=== Russian spy withdrawn ===

* '''Allegation''': That a "leading Russian diplomat, Mikhail KULAGIN, had been withdrawn from Washington at short notice because Moscow feared his heavy involvement in the US presidential election operation… would be exposed in the media there."<ref name="Wood_3/30/2017"/><ref name="Drum_3/30/2017">{{cite web | last=Drum | first=Kevin | date=March 30, 2017 | title=The Trump "Dossier" Is Looking More Credible All the Time | website=Mother Jones | url=https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/03/dossier-looking-more-credible-all-time/9/ | accessdate=February 23, 2018 }}</ref><ref name="LeTourneau_3/8/2017">{{cite web | last=LeTourneau | first=Nancy | title=The Steele Dossier Is Increasingly Being Corroborated | website=Washington Monthly | date=March 8, 2017 | url=https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/03/08/the-steele-dossier-is-increasingly-being-corroborated/ | access-date=February 23, 2018}}</ref> (Dossier, p. 23)

== See also ==

* [[Cyberwarfare by Russia]]

* [[Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations]]

* [[Foreign electoral intervention]]

* [[Links between Trump associates and Russian officials]]

* [[Russian espionage in the United States]]

* [[Special Counsel investigation (2017–present)]]

* ''[[The Plot to Hack America]]''

* [[Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections]]

* ''[[Trump: The Kremlin Candidate?]]''

== References ==

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== Further reading ==

* {{cite journal|last= Harding |first= Luke |authorlink= Luke Harding |title= The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow |date= 2017-11-19 |type= an excerpt of his book ''Collusion'' |journal= [[Politico Magazine]] |url= https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842}}

* {{cite book|last= Harding |first= Luke |title= Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win |date= 2017-11-16 |publisher= [[Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group]] |isbn= 978-0525520931 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=YjQ9DwAAQBAJ }}

== External links ==

* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/steele-timeline/ Timeline: The making of the Christopher Steele Trump-Russia dossier], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', February 6, 2018

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