1/ Leaving aside the fact that six witnesses have now sworn under penalty of perjury that they didn't tell Danchenko anything in the dossier, in some cases it's not even possible that they did.
theepochtimes.com/alleged-steele…
2/ Steele was tasked with writing the Alfa Bank story on September 11, 2016 (as he twice claimed under oath in London court proceedings) or in late July 2016 (which was his amended testimony when pressed on it in court).
3/ The trouble with the claim that Abyshev was the source for the Alfa Bank information is that Abyshev met Danchenko only once in 2016 and that was before Steele was tasked with anything to do with Alfa Bank.
4/ But because DOJ anti-Trump operative David Laufman gave Danchenko lots of time to get his story straight before his interview, Danchenko wiggled out.
Notice how he was careful to avoid telling the FBI about Abyshev and Alfa directly, instead talking about something unrelated.
5/ Laufman told the IG that he treated Danchenko with kid gloves (didn't even have to come down to the FBI) to facilitate validating Steele's info.
Instead, we now have every single "source" denying having provided any info at all.
When is Laufman going to be held to account?
6/ @carterwpage might be interested in this one. Danchenko claimed that the Page/Sechin info came from Lyundmila Podobedova.
Podobedova denies having given him any info in the dossier. She also attests that they never met between 2013 and 2019.
7/ Danchenko gave the FBI a supposed text message from Podobedova about the Page/Sechin meeting.
Did the FBI check the message's veracity? In what form was it given? Did Danchenko hand over his actual phone or nah? Does I.I.S. stand for Sechin or someone else?
8/ Danchenko told the FBI that he had no idea who Steele's client was, i.e. Fusion GPS.
But, according to Vorontsov, Danchenko claimed that he was *working* for Fusion GPS.
John Durham, are you there?
Note the word game: *end* client. Again, Danchenko left himself wiggle room. There wouldn't have been any wiggle room if he was brought in for questioning like they did to every single Trump person. Laufman needs to be held to account for giving Danchenko time to plan his story.
A bit later, Danchenko trips up when he doesn't use the term *end* client.
Durham has all this info. More so, unlike us, he has unredacted versions. Where is he?
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