A Christopher Steele, a director of London-based private intelligence company, Orbis, purportedly prepared the dossier under contract to both Republican and Democratic adversaries of then-candidate Trump. Trump is right: The Orbis dossier is fake news. The author of the Orbis report has one more advantage: He knew that what he was writing was unverifiable. One of the few verifiable facts in the Orbis report is the key role played by Trump’s “personal lawyer” Michael Cohen. After reading the Orbis report I got the queasy feeling that it may have influenced intelligence community’s unclassified report.

Source: Forbes January 13, 2017 05:04 UTC