For at least the past five years, Russian intelligence had been secretly cultivating Trump. “Former top Russian intelligence officer claims FSB has compromised TRUMP through his activities in Moscow sufficiently to be able to blackmail him. On the eve of the most consequential US election for generations, one of the two candidates was compromised, Steele’s sources claimed. According to Steele’s sources, associates of Trump had held a series of clandestine meetings in central Europe, Moscow and elsewhere with Russian spies. According to friends, he assessed that his work on the Trump dossier was 70-90% accurate.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2017 16:18 UTC