As federal investigators pore over the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, the dossier of ex-British spook Christopher Steele continues to loom large.

After Trump went through a series of bankruptcies, banks became reluctant to loan him money—a reality he has acknowledged in past interviews. As a result, the Trump Organization reportedly became increasingly reliant on foreign investors, notably Russian ones. As Donald Trump Jr. famously said in 2008, “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

The significance of such transactions is not lost on Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Since media outlets published the Steele dossier last January, Republican lawmakers and conservative pundits alike have sought to discredit it.
Steele, however, stands by his work.

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