The notorious dossier on Trump that Republicans want to discredit may well have been credible enough in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s eyes to get at least one person killed.
By Amy Knight
The dossier on Donald Trump compiled by former British intelligence operative Christopher Steele—which
made headlines for its salacious, unconfirmed passage about Trump and
hookers performing for him in a Moscow hotel room—has been denounced by
the president’s people as fake news, of course.
But the document
was a mixed collection of information and allegations far more precise
than the rumors about compromising sexual activities, and some of what's
in it may have unnerved not only Trump, but the Kremlin, where hunting
down leaks can take a fatal turn.
During his recently released August 2017 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Glenn Simpson was asked about sources for the sensational dossier,
which Simpson’s firm, Fusion GPS, commissioned. Responding for him,
Simpson’s lawyer, Joshua Levy, blurted out a surprising warning:
“Somebody’s already been killed as a result of the publication of this
dossier.”
In his subsequent November testimony to the House
Intelligence Committee, which was made available last Thursday, Simpson
denied knowing specific cases of people being killed because of the
dossier, but he then noted cryptically that “people literally risked
their lives to tell us some of this stuff.”
In fact, there is
evidence that at least one Russian was murdered because of Steele’s
revelations: Gen. Oleg Erovinkin of Russia’s State Security Service
(FSB). On the morning of Dec. 26, 2016, Erovinkin, age 61, was found
dead in his car in central Moscow. Life News, known to be a Kremlin
mouthpiece, first claimed on its website that Erovinkin had been
“killed,” but then quickly changed its story, saying simply that
Erovinkin had “died.” FSB investigators were called immediately to the
death scene, and news outlets soon reported that Erovinkin had succumbed
to a heart attack. There was no more official Russian mention of him.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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