FBI Offered One Million To Substantiate Charges Against Trump

An FBI officer testified Tuesday that the FBI offered ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele one million to substantiate lurid charges in his dossier about Donald Trump and members of his 2016 campaign, but he was unable to do so. FBI supervisory counterintelligence analyst Brian Auten testified as the first witness in the prosecution of Igor Danchenko, a Russian national who acted as the primary source for Steele’s anti-Trump dossier and faces five charges of lying to the FBI. Auten stated that he and a group of FBI agents traveled to the United Kingdom in early October 2021 to meet with Steele regarding the dossier. During questioning by Special Counsel John Durham on Tuesday, Auten stated that the FBI promised Steele $1 million if he could substantiate charges in the dossier during those encounters. Steele, according to Auten, was unable to do so.-- More...