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The Trump–Russia dossier is a private intelligence dossier of 17 memos that were consecutively written from June to December 2016 by former MI6 intelligence officer Christopher Steele. The memos allege that Russia has been cultivating a relationship with Donald Trump for decades, that the Kremlin favored Trump in the U.S. presidential election, and took various actions during the 2016 election to promote his candidacy and oppose Hillary Clinton's. The document claims that several of Trump's associates, in particular campaign manager Paul Manafort, Trump's personal attorney Michael D. Cohen, and Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Page, worked with Russian contacts to promote Trump's candidacy. Alleged activities include planning the hack of Democratic National Committee emails and their subsequent leaking, arranging coverups and cash payments, and promising favorable policies toward Russia if Trump was elected. The document also claims that Russian operators possessed compromising information about Trump which could make him subject to blackmail.

Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have repeatedly denied the allegations, as have Manafort and Cohen.

The dossier contains multiple allegations, some of which have been confirmed, while others have yet to be proved or disproved. Some claims may require access to classified information for verification. The media, intelligence community, as well as most experts have treated the dossier with caution, while Trump himself denounced the report as "fake news". In February 2017, some details related to conversations between foreign nationals were independently verified. As of December 2017, the dossier is "uncorroborated but not disproved".

Cultivation, conspiracy, and cooperation

  • Allegation: That "the Russian authorities had been cultivating and supporting US Republican presidential candidate, Donald TRUMP for at least 5 years" and that "the TRUMP operation was both supported and directed by Russian President Vladimir PUTIN." (Dossier, p. 1)
  • Allegation: That an "established operational liaison between the TRUMP team and the Kremlin... an intelligence exchange had been running between them for at least eight years. Within this context PUTIN's priority requirement had been for intelligence on the activities, business and otherwise, in the US of leading Russian oligarchs and their families. TRUMP and his associates duly had obtained and supplied the Kremlin with this information." (Dossier, p. 11)
  • Allegation: That there was a "well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between and the Russian leadership" to defeat "Democratic presidential candidate Hillary CLINTON", and that there was a "Kremlin campaign to aid TRUMP and damage CLINTON". (Dossier, pp. 7, 13)

Key roles of Manafort, Cohen, and Page

  • Allegation: That "the Republican candidate's campaign manager, Paul MANAFORT" had "managed" the "well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between and the Russian leadership", and that he used "foreign policy advisor, Carter PAGE, and others as intermediaries". (Dossier, p. 7)
  • Allegation: That Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, played a critical role in the Trump–Russia relationship by arranging cover-ups and deniable cash payments. (Dossier, pp. 18, 34-35)
  • Allegation: That Carter Page was instrumental in making a deal for Trump of a 19% stake (ca. $11 billion) in Rosneft oil company in exchange for Trump lifting sanctions after his election. (Dossier, pp. 31-32)

Why Kremlin backed Trump and opposed Clinton

  • Allegation: That "TRUMP was viewed as divisive in disrupting the whole US political system; anti-Establishment; and a pragmatist with whom they could do business. As the TRUMP support operation had gained momentum, control of it had passed from the MFA to the FSB and then into the presidential administration where it remained, a reflection of its growing significance over time. There was still a view in the Kremlin that TRUMP would continue as a (divisive) political force even if he lost the presidency and may run for and be elected to another public office." (Dossier, p. 29)
  • Allegation: That "PUTIN motivated by fear and hatred of Hillary CLINTON". (Dossier, p. 7)

Kompromat on Trump and Clinton

  • Allegation: That Putin ordered the keeping of a secret dossier on Hillary Clinton. That it dated back to the time of the Clinton presidency and was comprised mainly of eavesdropped conversations, some from bugging devices and others from phone intercepts. That it did not contain "details/evidence of unorthodox or embarrassing behavior", but focused more on "things she had said which contradicted her current positions on various issues". That it had been collated by the FSB and was managed by Dmitry Peskov, Putin's press secretary. (Dossier, p. 3)

Blackmailable behavior by Trump

  • Allegation: That Trump was compromised with the blackmailable acts of paying bribes and engaging in "perverted sexual acts" in Russia. (Dossier, p. 1)
  • Allegation: That "our separate sources also described 'unorthodox' and embarrassing behavior by Trump over the years" that could be used for blackmail. (Dossier, p. 2)
  • Allegation: That Trump had explored the real estate sectors in St Petersburg and Moscow, "but in the end TRUMP had had to settle for the use of extensive sexual services there from local prostitutes rather than business success". (Dossier, p. 8)

Activated blackmail threat

  • Allegation: That the Kremlin has enough "embarrassing material" (kompromat) on Trump "to be able to blackmail him if they so wished", but it has "promised not to use 'kompromat'...as leverage, given high levels of voluntary co-operation forthcoming from his team". (Dossier, pp. 2, 11)

DNC email hack

See also: Democratic National Committee cyber attacks and 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak
  • Allegation: That "the operation had been conducted with the full knowledge and support of TRUMP and senior members of his campaign team." (Dossier, p. 8)
  • Allegation: That Russia was responsible for the DNC email hacks and the recent appearance of the stolen DNC e-mails on WikiLeaks. That the reason for using WikiLeaks was "plausible deniability". (Dossier, pp. 7-8)
  • Allegation: That Trump's foreign policy adviser Carter Page had "conceived and promoted" the idea that the DNC emails to WikiLeaks should be leaked during the Democratic convention, "to swing supporters of Bernie SANDERS away from Hillary CLINTON and across to TRUMP." (Dossier, p. 17)
  • Allegation: That the hacking of the DNC servers was performed by Romanian hackers ultimately controlled by Putin and paid by both Trump and Putin. (Dossier, pp. 34-35)
  • Allegation: That Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, had a secret meeting with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016, where he arranged "deniable cash payments" to the hackers and sought "to cover up all traces of the hacking operation", as well as "cover up ties between Trump and Russia, including Manafort's involvement in Ukraine". (Dossier, pp. 18, 34-35)

Kickbacks and quid pro quo agreements

  • Allegation: That former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who had requested Russian military intervention in Ukraine before he fled to Russia in 2014, told Putin he had been making supposedly untraceable "kick-back payments" to Paul Manafort, who was Trump's campaign manager at the time. (Dossier, p. 20)
  • Allegation: That in return for Russia's leaking the stolen documents to WikiLeaks, "the TRUMP team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue and to raise US/NATO defense commitments in the Baltics and Eastern Europe to deflect attention away from Ukraine, a priority for PUTIN who needed to cauterise the subject." (Dossier, pp. 7-8)
  • Allegation: That Carter Page was instrumental in making a deal for Trump of a 19% privatized stake (ca. $11 billion) in Rosneft oil company in exchange for Trump lifting the sanctions imposed on Russia after his election. It is also alleged that Page confirmed, on Trump's "full authority", that this was Trump's intent. (Dossier, pp. 31-32)

Russian spy involved in election operation

  • Allegation: That a "leading Russian diplomat, Mikhail KULAGIN, had been withdrawn from Washington at short notice because Moscow feared his heavy involvement in the US presidential election operation… would be exposed in the media there." (Dossier, p. 23)

See also

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