Dossier still unproved
Byron York piece https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1108858889947283457
Years later, Trump dossier still frustrates verification efforts
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>But what if Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller has corroborated the dossier's incendiary allegations? He seems to have explored every accusation of a Trump-Russia conspiracy, so it's possible he has found the proof that eluded earlier investigators. But if Mueller has found corroboration, he has not used it in the indictments of Manafort, Cohen, Page, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, and others. Given Mueller's penchant for so-called "speaking" indictments — indictments with detailed descriptions of events that go beyond what is legally necessary to present charges — it seems unlikely that there could be earth-shaking evidence that did not find its way into the indictments of key Trump-Russia players. But maybe Mueller has something. It is never safe to predict what the special counsel has, because no one outside his office knows what that is.
>Despite the paucity of evidence, it is not unusual to hear the nation's most prestigious journalists and commentators claim that the dossier is accurate. They will say that the dossier has been proved "broadly" or "basically" or "largely" true. They will say that the dossier's main point is that Russia tried to interfere with the 2016 election, and that has proved accurate. Of course, Russia did try to interfere with the 2016 election, but that is not the dossier's main point. Its main point is that the Trump campaign and Russia conspired to interfere with the election.
>That, of course, has not been proved, at least not yet. This July will mark three years since Steele first showed part of the dossier to the FBI. Since then, the dossier has roiled the Trump-Russia affair and been the subject of an intense research effort by those who, if they had confirmed damaging information, would use it against the president and his associates. So far, the long-sought corroboration just hasn't come.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/years-later-trump-dossier-still-frustrates-verification-efforts