The U.K. Daily Mail posted an article yesterday (and updated it today) about the FBI offering Christopher Steele (the author of the Trump dossier) $50,000 if he could verify the charges in the dossier. As far as investigators can tell, he was never able to do that and collect the money.<\/p>\n
The article reports:<\/p>\n
“I believe, just from examining the public sources, that the FBI offered Christopher Steele $50,000 if he could corroborate the dossier. He either couldn’t, didn’t, wouldn’t, and they didn’t pay him the money,’ news analyst Andrew Napolitano<\/a> told Stuart Varney<\/a> on\u00a0Fox Business<\/a>\u00a0Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n Former MI6 agent Steele’s dossier claims the Russians possess compromising information that could be used to blackmail Trump, and alleges the Trump campaign<\/a> colluded with Russia<\/a> during the 2016 election.<\/strong><\/p>\n Napolitano appears to be basing his claim on an April report from the New York Times<\/a>, which cited two sources claiming that an FBI agent<\/a> met Steele in Rome in October of 2016, just weeks before the presidential election.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The agent offered Steele $50,000 if he could get ‘solid corroboration of his reports’, which the FBI ultimately never paid out, the report said.<\/strong><\/p>\n Last week, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein refused to tell the House Judiciary Committee<\/a> whether the FBI had paid or offered to pay for the dossier.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is further proof that we need to remove the top few layers of personnel at the FBI.<\/p>\n The U.K. Daily Mail posted an article yesterday (and updated it today) about the FBI offering Christopher Steele (the author of the Trump dossier) $50,000 if he could verify the charges in the dossier. As far as investigators can tell, … Continue reading