The MAGAts always spin and gaslight. Was Hillary unethical? Yes. Does that mean Donald Trump is innocent? Only a fucking MAGA moron believes he is.
The Steele dossier has always been misunderstood
At heart is confusion over exactly what the Steele dossier actually is. To shed light on that, let us first describe the process that typically surfaces the type of information found in the Steele dossier and how it is used....
...In the case of Donald Trump, a firm called Fusion GPS was paid — at first by Republicans and then later by Democratic operatives — to do a deep background check on Donald Trump. The Steele dossier was just raw intelligence based on rumors about Trump. At the time of the investigation, it would have certainly made sense to find out everything possible about Trump and his Russian ties — there was certainly enough smoke around this topic....
...Donald Trump had a long history related to Russia in 2015 when Fusion GPS was commissioned, dating back to the 1980s when the Russians supposedly first targeted Trump as someone potentially useful to them. As reported by the founders of Fusion GPS in their book “A Crime in Progress,” their public records research was extremely concerning. It showed, for instance, Trump’s ties to Russians who he might have helped to launder money through property deals. It made sense to do source inquiries considering what public records showed, the subject’s international profile and the high stakes of the investigation....
...If we were running this investigation in 2015 about whether to support Trump’s candidacy or if we were briefing a business client on entering a relationship with Trump, we would have advised extreme caution. That advice would have been based on the totality of our investigation, not solely on information sourced by a subcontractor, no matter how reputable or connected that person was. We still think that would have been good advice.
Not sure what you're getting at. Trump or companies run by Trump have received around $98 million from Russians. At the very least, there is that. Also, when dealing with any sort of espionage, by its very nature, certainty is elusive. And if you say something that somebody doesn't want said, it could very well turn out to be fatal. And Putin has had many people eliminated. My biggest support for The Steels Dossier is the old saying, "If it looks like a duck, walks like a dick, quacks like a duck, chances are, its a duck!" In that respect, Trump is certainly a duck. He supports Putin. All the nasty shit Trump is doing to the U.S. are almost certainly things that an enemy like Putin would like to see happen.