Alleged Dossier Source Claims To Be ‘Totally Exonerated’ By Mueller Report, But Is He?

Sergei Millian, who has been identified in news reports as a major source for the Steele dossier, claimed to be ‘totally exonerated’ after the release of the Mueller report.

Millian accused Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson of waging a ‘smear campaign’ against him.

Despite the bold claim, the Mueller report said that Millian refused to meet with investigators.

Millian had repeated contacts with Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.

A Belorusian-American businessman who has been identified in press reports as a major source for the Steele Dossier is claiming to be “totally exonerated” following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. Despite the bold proclamation, Mueller’s lengthy report does not appear to vindicate Sergei Millian, the former chairman of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce.

Instead, Mueller says that Millian refused to meet with investigators probing possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia. Millian “remained out of the country since the inception of our investigation and declined to meet with members of the Office despite our repeated efforts to obtain an interview,” the report reads. Nevertheless, Millian used the release of the Mueller report, which found no Trump-Russia collusion, to take aim at the masterminds behind the dossier. “Now, as ‘Russiagate’ is over and feeling totally exonerated by the recent report, let the inquisitive minds find the truth about the ‘#Pissgate’ creators, a lovely couple, GS/CS, who organized the smear campaign against the #President, #Millian, the team or are they #untouchable?” Millian wrote on Twitter. Millian appeared to be referencing Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson and former British spy Christopher Steele.

The Wall Street Journal and ABC News identified Millian as a dossier source on Jan. 24, 2017, two weeks after BuzzFeed published the controversial document. According to those reports, Millian was the source for the salacious claim that the Russian government had compromising material on Donald Trump in the form of a video tape of the real estate mogul with prostitutes in Moscow in 2013. Steele characterized the source as a “close associate” of Trump’s who claimed to have been with Trump in Moscow when he was recorded. According to reporting on Millian, he unwittingly provided information to an associate of Steele’s who was reporting back to the ex-MI6 officer. Millian has denied being a source for the dossier. He has said in statements to The Daily Caller News Foundation that he was not with Trump in Moscow when the alleged blackmail tape was recorded. “It’s all garbage news,” he told TheDCNF last year. “Never happened,” Millian said, adding that he “was not in Moscow on that night.”

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