Why of course since you are too lazy to read the link!
In her notes, State Department official Kathleen Kavalec also referred to the two Russians — former Russian foreign intelligence chief Vyacheslav Trubnikov and Putin aide Vladislav Surkov — as “sources.”
The references to Trubnikov and Surkov, which have not previously been reported, are not definitive proof that either were sources for Steele’s dossier or that they were involved in an effort to collect blackmail material on Trump.
But
the notes are significant because they are the first government documents that show Steele discussing potential sources for the information in his dossier, which the former MI6 officer provided to the FBI.
What this demonstrates for the first time is that the dirt in the dossier came from high ranking Russian officials. Interestingly, Trubnikov is linked to Stefan Halper. Steele poured it on to Kavalec:Kavalec’s notes said Steele claimed Trump was “filmed engaged in compromising activities” with Russian prostitutes in 2013, but that “the Russians have not needed to use the ‘kompromat’ on [Trump] as he was already in cooperation.”
Steele, who operates a private intelligence firm in London, told Kavalec that Putin and some of his top advisers were running the Trump operation.
“Presidential Advisor Vladislov Surkov and Vyasheslov Trubnikov (former head of Russian External Intelligence Service — SVR) are also involved,” wrote Kavalec, who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian issues.
Steele swallowed whole the load of nonsense fed to him by the Russians because he hated Trump and uninterested in facts:
Former CIA Station Chief Dan Hoffman has argured that the Russians recognized that Steele was an easy mark because of his hatred of Donald Trump
“They never stop,” Hoffman said of Russian intelligence operatives. “There’s no such thing as a former intelligence officer. The guy is going to be reporting back to the SVR or Putin.”
Hoffman has been a leading proponent of one theory about the dossier that has gained traction in the wake of the special counsel’s report. The former CIA officer has argued Steele likely fell victim to a Russian disinformation campaign.
A growing number of experts in Russian intelligence operations have embraced the theory, and
Attorney General William Barr testified to Congress on May 1 that he is concerned about the prospect and is looking into it.
There is a very good article from Hoffman
here, in which he states that the ultimate goal of the Kremlin was to undermine faith in the US electoral system. In that, Putin succeeded beyond his wildest dreams with democrats acting as his useful idiots. This is an
FA post from a year ago February:The Russian government had a strategic goal to “sow discord in the U.S. political system, including the 2016 presidential election” the
indictment reads. The indictment also revealed activity pursued by the Russians to organize political rallies, building partisan social media audiences across the political spectrum, and funding political stunts.
According to Mueller, the Russian government created a sub agency known as the “translator project” which was “focused on the U.S. population and conducted operations on social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube” adding that the strategic goal of interfering in the 2016 US election was developed all the way back in May 2014.
The stated goal within the department was to spread “distrust towards candidates at the political system in general.”
Like I said, they succeeded beyond anything they were hoping for, thanks to democrats who still bitterly cling to the false Russian narrative. We now know that all of the salacious dirt thrown at Trump was
propaganda and there was no collusion.
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