Steele ADMITTED to working on Project Charlemagne BEFORE taking the Fusion GPS assignment.
It was the same narrative.
They just extended it to cover Trump.
My guess is they had already done a bunch of behind-the-scenes setup to support this narrative.
Like setting up the Occhieneros.
So it was most expedient just to add Trump/Clinton to the mix.
It's why they went to Italy for this.
That's where the prior effort was based.
Mifsud was probably working on it too.