Trump Organization Paid Russian Hackers According To British Spy’s Dossier
New evidence surfaces that confirms Trump team colluded with and paid Russian hackers.
The extent of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government may be more significant than previously thought. According to a new report in The Guardian, the British government was given extensive records of the Trump connections to Russia from Christopher Steele.
Christopher Steel is the former MI6 agent who wrote the now infamous dossier connecting Donald Trump’s campaign to the Russian intervention in the 2016 election.
According to The Guardian report, “It was not previously known that the UK intelligence services had also received the dossier but Steele confirmed in a court filing earlier this month that he handed a memorandum compiled in December to a ‘senior UK government national security official acting in his official capacity, on a confidential basis in hard copy form.'”
The memo claims that representatives of Donald Trump traveled to Prague in August or September of 2016 for “secret discussions with Kremlin representatives and associated operators/hackers”, about how to pay hackers secretly for penetrating Democratic party computer systems and “contingency plans for covering up operations”.
Hackers then transmitted viruses to plant bugs on computers of the Democratic party leadership in order to steal data.
And according to the report, “The hackers were paid by the Trump organization, but were under the control of Vladimir Putin’s presidential administration.”
The Guardian report also notes that court documents reveal that Steele continued to receive “unsolicited intelligence” about the connections between Trump and Russia, which he used to create a second memo that was handed over to a Senior British official.
Another interesting note in the story is that the two memos were handed to Senator John McCain who passed them to FBI Director James Comey.
You can read the full report here.
