Hans von Spakovsky: Pee Dossier Motivated by Steele’s Fear Trump Presidency Would ‘Ruin’ His Business

Mansour stated, “So he had a vested interest in getting rid of Donald Trump, and if that meant assembling a dossier full of rumors, scuttlebutt, and stuff he just makes up out of cloth, okay, let’s do it. I mean, is that really what this boils down to? [Christopher Steele] was like, ‘Yeah, this is my gig. I can’t have this dude get elected. He’s bad for business.’ This was the thing that we’ve been obsessing about for three years, now?”

Von Spakovsky concurred, “Yeah. I mean, look, [Christopher Steele] was pretty darn successful in severely damaging the first couple of years of the Trump administration. By the way, it’s not just that his business would have been cut off, but in fact, when the FBI actually started checking on Steele, they interviewed some people who had professional dealings with him before that, and they said that [Christopher Steele] had, quote, ‘poor judgment,’ and he pursued people with political risk but no intelligence value, and yet that, again, was not passed onto the FISA court.”

Mansour invited von Spakovsky’s comments on the origins of the FBI’s suveillance of Trump’s presidential campaign.

“Well, I think in some ways, at the start, they were manipulated by the opposition presidential candidate’s campaign,” recalled von Spakovsky. “Remember, it was the Clinton campaign that hired Fusion GPS. It was Fusion GPS that hired Christopher Steele and told him to put together this political opposition research, and he puts together this totally phony report with all these crazy claims and then they feed it to the FBI, [which] takes it seriously.”