A longtime Democratic operative testified he fabricated the sourcing behind a claim about Trump’s 2016 campaign that ended up in British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited dossier.
Charles Dolan, an ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton who spent many years doing work with Russian officials and businesses, testified Thursday about his business relationship with Igor Danchenko — the main source for Steele’s anti-Trump dossier. Danchenko has been charged with five false statements, including one related to allegedly concealing from the FBI his August 2016 email exchange with Dolan about information that Danchenko then passed along to Steele and which ended up in the dossier.
Dolan testified Thursday that he had not actually talked to any Republican friend about the information he sent to Danchenko. “I actually got it off of cable news,” Dolan said. He later added that “I was trying to throw him a bone because he was helping me.” Danchenko, who had been introduced to Dolan through future Trump National Security Council member and Ukraine impeachment star witness Fiona Hill, was working with Dolan to help prepare for an October 2016 conference in Moscow, but was separately working for Steele’s company, Orbis Business Intelligence, in the production of the dossier.
Dolan testified Thursday that he called Danchenko the day the dossier was published because he was"curious to see if he knew where this came from."
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