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Primary source for Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier identified

By Jerry Dunleavy, Daniel Chaitin
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Primary source for Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier identified

The primary source in former British spy Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier has now been publicly identified.

A lawyer for Igor Danchenko, a 42-year-old Russian-trained lawyer who was born in Ukraine, confirmed to the New York Times that his client is the source after a blog, titled I Found the Primary Subsource, identified him, after which social media and RT, the Kremlin-sponsored news organization, promoted the findings.

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