Two agents talked to him for around 12 hours in a posh London hotel amid fears his office was bugged.
Full story with @rmendick here: telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/2…
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He dubbed it a “witch hunt” being led by “very bad and conflicted people”. (Mr Trump had already tried to remove Mueller by this point.)
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They were both counter-intelligence officers. Steele knew one of them from previous work according to friends.
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A friend of Steele said: “This is London not Moscow. There’s a 10 per cent chance that it is bugged but that’s still 10 per cent.”
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Why London? Steele had feared for his life during trips to Washington before the 2016 election, according to friends. He’s understood not to have been back since.
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UK Government’s willingness to allow the interview suggest they took a more serious view of Steele’s allegations than Trump.
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