Christopher Steele Has No Regrets

We support our Publishers and Content Creators. You can view this story on their website by CLICKING HERE.

Christopher Steele is back and hawking a new book in which he promises fresh dirt on Donald Trump’s connections to Russia. The media has just enough sense of self-preservation that it is cautiously promoting him rather than going all out as they did for most of Trump’s term in office. Instead of just promoting his new scoops the Washington Post is also asking if he has any regrets about some of the never-proven allegations he made in the Steele Dossier. 

Given the general mockery of the sex tape claim and the fact that no proof of it has emerged in the seven years since the dossier was made public, I asked Steele whether he would include it if he were writing the original dossier today.

“Call me a stick in the mud,” he said via Zoom from his London offices, “but probably, yes.”…

“We know it happens. Anyone who knows Russia and Russian counterintelligence knows about honey traps and about the filming of things in hotel rooms and hookers, and all the rest of it is just part of — part of the scene in Russia,” he said. “And so the actual thing itself is entirely credible. The truth of it would have to be built up through … careful investigation, which is difficult now. It was slightly easier back then. And, as I say, we didn’t just take one source’s word for it. We interviewed other people that we felt might have knowledge of it.”

Including that claim in his dossier was reckless and stupid. His business partner and his wife both warned him not to do it. But doubling down on the same nonsense 8 years later crosses the line from reckless to pathetic. He should be embarrassed but, sadly for him, this is his career now. The pee tape that never existed is the thing he’ll be remembered for if he’s remembered at all. This book is all about leaning in to the conspiracy theories.

Steele claims that his intelligence network predicted Russia would inject a mix of true and false information about Joe Biden in the run-up to the 2020 election…

“On cue, a ‘late development’—the supposed anti-Biden kompromat, as our sources had foretold—landed on October 14, in the form of a front-page New York Post story with the headline ‘Biden Secret Emails,’ ” Steele writes. “The story was purportedly based on data obtained from the hard drive of a laptop the paper claimed had belonged to Hunter Biden.” 

Purportedly? Steele writes as if the provenance of the laptop and the information it contained has not since been confirmed by the FBI itself. 

The dossier is a laughingstock. The Hunter Biden laptop on the other hand was all real. Getting these two things backwards gives a clear idea of the kind of insight Steele has to offer in this new book. Even now his friends don’t get what he’s doing.

Steele’s friends, among themselves, lament his decision to write a book and once again subject himself to criticism from Trump allies and the glare of skeptical journalists, according to a friend who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.

I don’t think it’s that hard to understand. Steele is a famous resistance figure on the left. His only choice is to double down and embrace that legacy if he wants to profit from it, which he clearly does. If he only cared about the country he could have published the book on Substack. This is about making a buck. And to be fair, he is the left’s second most successful fantasist, right after Nikole Hannah-Jones claiming the Revolutionary Was was all about slavery. 

As for his fear of being sued again, that’s probably the best thing that could happen to him. It would make him relevant again. For all his bluster about warning the country about Trump, his bottom line would do a lot better if Trump won, ushering in Resistance 2, Electric Boogaloo. He would have four more years to peddle his wares to gullible progressives.