True. I doubt he will admit it was a con job, but seems like a few have figured it out. Natalia Veselnitskaya (Russian lawyer at Don Jr meeting) who was working with Fusion GPS states pretty emphatically,
Natalia Veselnitskaya provided the titillating assessment to The Associated Press in Moscow, where she also said Mr. Simpsonâs most famous product, the anti-Trump dossier, is âabsolute nonsense.â
âShe insisted that Glenn Simpson, whose firm Fusion GPS was hired to compile the dossier and who was questioned by the House Intelligence Committee in January, had been âframed,â â the AP story says.
She doesnât say who exactly set up Glenn Simpson, but my guess would be Oleg Deripaska, who apparently was supposedly using Steele for some purpose or another and is supposed to be one of the anonymous sources for the dossier.
Bruce Ohr (DOJ guy) was in contact with Steele and would later try and enlist Oleg Deripaska to testify against Trump.
Itâs my guess the Russians got wind of Hillaryâs insurance policy very early on, my guess mid March 2016 and fed Steele or sorts of junk for shits and giggles. As speculation why, Steele was a pain in the ass to the Russians, he just had put together a report on Russian meddling in the EU with help from his Russian secret sources, what better time to spring a canary trap and feed all sorts of differing information on Trump and see what ends up in Steeleâs dossier.
edit/ on your point about he was just researching Russia involvement, the same article notes.
In a previous court filing in a second case in April-May 2017, Mr. Steele said his job was to find links between Trump associates and Moscow.
Hired by Fusion in June 2016, he wrote a 17-memo dossier alleging a âextensive conspiracyâ between the two, which two years later hasnât been proven publicly by special counsel Robert Mueller or Congress.