Lauren C. Moye, FISM News
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A Democrat operative admitted under oath that he fabricated information about the Donald Trump campaign team when speaking to Russian analyst Igor Danchenko, which was then used to attack Trump as part of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
Charles Dolan Jr. a Democratic-linked public relations executive and former aid to Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign run, admitted that he was the source of some information found in the infamous but mostly debunked Steele Dossier while under oath yesterday during Danchenko’s trial.
The section now known to come from Dolan involves supposed insider information about Paul Manafort’s resignation as chairman from the Trump campaign. British ex-spy Christopher Steele attributed the accusation to “an American political figure associated with Donald Trump” in the compilation of anti-Trump accusations.
That’s because Dolan originally told Danchenko that he “had drinks with a GOP friend who knows the players.”
However, Dolan fabricated the GOP friend and conversation.
Under testimony on Thursday, he admitted the information came from a cable news talk show.
“I thought I’d embellish a bit,” Dolan said, implying he wanted to return a favor to Danchenko.
“You actually didn’t have any inside information, did you?” asked prosecutor Michael Keilty.
“No,” Dolan said.
As part of his time on the stand, Dolan read his emails to Danchenko. These emails were then compared to information included in the Steele dossier.
The comparison showed that Dolan’s emails had been rewritten before being forwarded to Steele. The file reads that the supposed GOP insider “said it was true that the Ukraine corruption revelations had played a part” in the Trump campaign manager’s resignation, but also that “several senior players close to Trump had wanted Manafort out, primarily to loosen his control on strategy and policy formulation.”
Corey Lewandowski, Manafort’s predecessor whose bitter rivalry for the chairman position was well documented at the time, was named specifically in this segment.
The emails imply that personal vendettas against Manafort, rather than pro-Russian ties, were a major factor in his resignation.
Manafort ultimately accepted a plea deal in September 2018 admitting, among other crimes, to illegal foreign lobbying during the years he worked for pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians. Manafort was sentenced to 73 months by a D.C. judge and 47 months by a Virginia judge, to be served concurrently. However, he received a Trump presidential pardon in 2020.
Danchenko, through expert witness FBI Special Agent Kevin Helson, denied knowing that information provided to Steele would end up in a salacious compilation of accusations against Trump. He became aware of this when BuzzFeed published the unfinished file in January 2017.
The Russian analyst is on trial for five counts of making false statements to the FBI as part of John Durham’s special probe into the Trump-Russian collusion hoax.
It’s been revealed that the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Convention hired Steele to compile his dossier. Meanwhile, Helson estimated that 80% of the raw intelligence and up to 50% of the analysis in the dossier came directly from Danchenko.
This latest bombshell revelation shows, once again, how much of the information in the file was unverified before being added. However, the FBI used information in the dossier to obtain a warrant to conduct surveillance on the Trump campaign and the White House.
Just three days ago, one analyst testified in Danchenko’s trial that the FBI offered Steele $1 million in October 2021 to prove allegations contained in the file. Funds were never dispersed because the ex-spy could not submit evidence.
Durham was appointed as Special Counselor by former U.S. Attorney General William Barr to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax in December 2020.