'Dossier' author Chris Steele met Ivanka Trump years before Russia scandal, source says
Source: ABC
Nearly a decade before the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trumps daughter Ivanka met a British intelligence officer who ran the Russia desk -- and when the agent left his covert service and moved into private practice in 2010, she stayed in touch, ABC News has learned.
The two exchanged emails but never worked together, and the man, Christopher Steele, would one day re-emerge in a most unexpected way, taking a central role in the Russia scandal that consumed the early years of her fathers presidency, according to a source familiar with their past contacts.
Steele gained notoriety as the investigator who ignited a firestorm by authoring the highly controversial 2016 dossier alleging links between the Trump Campaign and Russia, and embarrassing incidents involving Trump before he took office. Critics of Steele have argued that the former intelligence officer was biased against Trump and was inclined to produce a negative report on the presidential candidate excoriating Steele on social media and elsewhere.
In 2007, Ivanka Trump met Steele at a dinner and they began corresponding about the possibility of future work together, the source said. The following year, the two exchanged emails about meeting up near Trump Tower, according to several emails seen by ABC News. They suggest Ivanka Trump and Steele stayed in touch via emails over the next several years. In one 2008 exchange they discussed dining together in New York at a restaurant just blocks from Trump Tower.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dossier-author-chris-steele-met-ivanka-trump-years/story?id=67597270
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)underpants
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Pachamama
(16,875 posts)lark
(23,003 posts)Wish I could be there as a fly on the wall when he gets the news.
getagrip_already
(14,250 posts)A lot of people are saying it was more than business. A LOT of people......
Perseus
(4,341 posts)Imagine, "Christopher Steel and Ivanka trump were involved in a secret romance for years."
May put him into a frenzy and start eating more McDonalds burgers.
When you think about the McDonalds diet trump seems to have. How sad, someone who claims to be so rich being reduced to meals at McDonalds, maybe he can't afford something better and doesn't understand that we, the tax payers, are paying for his meals?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)We pay for State dinners and strictly official meals. We do pay for the White House chefs if they prepare the meals. First family pays for quite a bit out of their own money.
https://www.robertreeveslaw.com/blog/president-pay-groceries/
gab13by13
(20,867 posts)for honing in on his squeeze? Just a friendly squeeze now.
packman
(16,296 posts)Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,571 posts)...it'd have been laughed out of the city.
This reality is just getting absurd.
Midnight Writer
(21,548 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)My thought as well.
getagrip_already
(14,250 posts)the evil villain seductress from the other side?
She was sleeping with the enemy? She was never innocent btw. her dad saw to that.
oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)Wonder what HE says?
BamaRefugee
(3,476 posts)torius
(1,652 posts)joost5
(421 posts)he probably is wondering which country (Iran maybe?) to get into a war with as a distraction for all of this... similar to how abusers will kick a puppy to displace their anger. Lawd help us all.
Captain Zero
(6,715 posts)In her Rolodex. And hoping she doesn't know they ARE secret Agents. this type of stuff is why she is a security risk
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)demmiblue
(36,751 posts)FakeNoose
(32,356 posts)This doesn't surprise me at all, and it probably happens all the time. It doesn't mean that any information changed hands, it just means that Mr. Steele cultivates contacts wherever he can. Maybe it pays off later, maybe it doesn't.