Hillary Clinton succeeded in convincing Democratic Party leaders in not accepting Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 presidential election by accusing him of colluding with Russia to steal the election from her. Now Clinton is trapped into her own trap. According to media reports, evidence continues to grow that it was Hillary Clinton who engaged in collusion with Russia while her presidential campaign was threatened by the FBI’s probe of her mishandling of classified information.
It has been known for some time that Hillary Clinton and her campaign and the Democratic National Committee had financed the bogus Steele dossier, which became the premise for an Obama FBI investigation of the Trump campaign that triggered a nearly two-year, US$45 million special counsel probe that dominated. But now, the arrest and indictment of the Russian citizen believed to be the dossier’s primary “sub-source” has given the saga a new wrinkle.
Some of the anti-Trump document’s most sensational and now debunked claims, including the infamous “pee tape”, came originally from a Hillary Clinton lieutenant, according to an indictment handed down by special counsel John Durham’s office.
The Clinton aide is communications consultant Charles Dolan Jr., who is identified in the indictment of Igor Danchenko as “PR Executive-1”.
Danchenko, who was born in Ukraine and has worked in the United States, is charged for concealing the fact that Dolan was one of his sources for the information he gave to former British spy Christopher Steele for the dossier.
The Clinton operative Dolan, meanwhile, has extensive ties to the Russian government, including relationships with “senior Russian Federation leadership”, the Danchenko indictment states.
Among them are President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary and staff.
Dolan, according to Durham, “spent much of his career interacting with Eurasian clients with a particular focus on Russia”.
He handled “global public relations for the Russian government and a state-owned energy company”. And he had a friendly relationship with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. and his deputies.
The indictment spells out Dolan’s role in creating the dossier.
He arranged for Danchenko to meet in Moscow with Russian officials and “sub-sources” who offered information that ended up in the document.
Dolan himself turned out to be the source of the allegation that Trump paid prostitutes to urinate on a bed in a Moscow hotel on which President Obama supposedly slept.
The Clinton operative stayed at the hotel and was given a tour by management, the indictment states.
Identified by Durham as “Organizer-1”, Dolan was told by a hotel staffer during a tour of the Presidential Suite that President Trump stayed there.
But, significantly, the “staff member did not mention any sexual or salacious activity”.
Danchenko specifically has been charged for falsely stating Dolan was not a source for “Trump’s stay and alleged activity in the Moscow hotel”.
He also is charged with fabricating the claim that the president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce informed him that Trump was involved in a well-developed “conspiracy of cooperation” with Putin’s regime. The conversation never took place, the indictment concludes.
