Thread by @Monaheart1229

More from @lawfareblog This piece, from Dec, offers an appropriate re-glance at the #SteeleDossier After last night's revelations we can look at it with perhaps a new & different mind-set. Worthy read. #SaturdayMotivation #TrumpRussia
lawfareblog.com/steele-dossier…

2-"Most significantly, the dossier reports a “well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between [Trump and his associates] and the Russian leadership,” including an “intelligence exchange [that] had been running between them for at least 8 years.”

3-"There has been significant investigative reporting about connections between Trump, his associates & Kremlin-affiliated individuals..Trump acknowledged that the purpose of a June 16 meeting between his son, & a Kremlin-connected lawyer was to obtain “dirt” on Hillary Clinton."

4-Excerpt from the Dossier: "the Russian regime had been behind the recent leak of embarrassing email messages, emanating from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), to the Wikileaks platform. The reason for using Wikileaks was "plausible deniability" and the operation had

5-"been conducted with the full knowledge and support of Trump and senior members of his campaign team." The indictment of 12 officers of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) corroborates these allegations from Steele’s sources. In particular, the

6-'[OSC] indictment alleges: '3. Starting in at least March 2016, the Conspirators used a variety of means to hack the email accounts of volunteers and employees of the U.S. presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton (the “Clinton Campaign”), including the email account of the

7-"Clinton Campaign’s chairman. 4. By in or around April 2016, the Conspirators also hacked into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (“DCCC”) and the Democratic National Committee (“DNC”). The Conspirators covertly monitored the computers of

8-"dozens of DCCC and DNC employees, implanted hundreds of files containing malicious computer code (“malware”), and stole emails and other documents from the DCCC and DNC. 5. By in or around April 2016, the Conspirators began to plan the release of materials stolen from the

9-"Clinton Campaign, DCCC, and DNC. 6. Beginning in or around June 2016, the Conspirators staged and released tens of thousands of the stolen emails and documents. They did so using fictitious online personas, including “DCLeaks” and “Guccifer 2.0.” 7. The Conspirators also used

10-"the Guccifer 2.0 persona to release additional stolen documents through a website maintained by an organization ([Wikileaks]), that had previously posted documents stolen from U.S. persons, entities, and the U.S. government. The Conspirators continued their U.S.

11-"election-interference operations through in or around November 2016.' The indictment further alleges: 'On or about August 15, 2016, the Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, wrote to a person who was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign of

12-"Donald J. Trump, “thank u for writing back … do you find anyt[h]ing interesting in the docs I posted?” On or about August 17, 2016, the Conspirators added, “please tell me if I can help u anyhow … it would be a great pleasure to me.” On or about September 9, 2016, the

13-"Conspirators, again posing as Guccifer 2.0 referred to a stolen DCCC document posted online and asked the person, “what do u think of the info on the turnout model for the democrats entire presidential campaign.” The person responded, “[p]retty standard.”

14-"Trump advisor Roger Stone publicly acknowledged that he had communicated with Guccifer 2.0 and was likely the unnamed individual to whom the indictment refers." And it goes on. This is very interesting considering what dropped last night.

15-From an email bet Goldstein and Trump, Jr. and released by Trump, Jr :"The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with [Aras Agalarov, an Azerbaijani-Russian billionaire property-developer] this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official

16-"documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father. This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump –

17-"helped along by Aras and Emin [Agalarov]." This, my friends, is why Jr is expecting an indictment. "Donald Trump Jr. responded, "… [I]f it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer." Aras Agalarov is connected, in the dossier, to Trump’s interest in Russian

18-"real estate: "Two well-placed sources based in St. Petersburg … knew Trump had visited St. Petersburg on several occasions in the past and had been interested in doing business deals there involving real estate. The local business/political elite figure reported that Trump

19-"had paid bribes there to further his interests but very discreetly and only through affiliated companies, making it very hard to prove..The two St. Petersburg figures cited believe an Azeri business figure, Araz Agalarov (with offices in Baku and London) had been closely

20-" involved with Trump in Russia and would know most of the details of what the Republican presidential candidate had got up to there." The evidence HAS been there, but don't beat yourselves up, it's also why Trump overwhelms us with deliberative chaos every single day.

21-"And, it's why we have things like the Mueller investigation..and it's why Trump beats up the FBI and Justice also on a daily basis.

22-"...On Cohen’s substantial role in a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin related to the election, the dossier states:"[A] Kremlin insider highlighted the importance of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, in the ongoing

23-"secret liaison relationship between the New York tycoon’s campaign and the Russian leadership. Cohen’s role had grown following the departure of Paul Manafort as Trump’s campaign manager in August 2016. Prior to that Manafort had led for the Trump side.” ..

24-"According to the Kremlin insider, 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."

25-"..Paul Manafort makes a few appearances in the dossier, including those described above. One report from July 2016 says: Speaking in confidence to a compatriot in late July 2016, Source E, an ethnic Russian close associate of Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump,

26-"admitted that there was a well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between them and the Russian leadership. This was managed on the Trump side by the Republican candidate’s campaign manager,

27-"Paul Manafort, who was using foreign policy advisor, Carter Page, and others as intermediaries..Elsewhere, Steele reports that former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych “confided in Putin that he did authorize and order substantial kick-back payments to Manafort as alleged

28-"but sought to reassure him that there was no documentary trail left behind which could provide clear evidence of this.” The official record supports this second allegation: Manafort’s work for, and bankrolling by, Yanukovych is at the core of the criminal charges against him—

29-"conduct he has admitted." You just have to read this piece from beginning to end, it puts all of the puzzle pieces together..and they fit exactly right. This is most definitive.