Christopher Steele's Story

              As the months and years passed....one by one....came the books about Trump and Russia. Comey would tell his story....and McCabe....and the Mueller probe came out in detail....and Crossfire Hurricane...and on and on. The latest book was released three days ago by none other than Christopher Steele himself....the author....(his company actually)....of the famous Steele Dossier. It has a $32.50 list price but Barnes & Noble has a 20% off sticker on it. 
              So here is a quick synopsis of Steele's account of what happened. He was a 22 year veteran of the British intelligence community...fairly high up the ladder....with his expertise on Russia....and sharing information regularly with the FBI. So he left the....Crown Service....and opened up his own intelligence company....(this was not unusual)....where he and his partner would be contracted primarily to provide hard to get information to corporations on why their business ventures were being stymied. And if politicians needed their work....they did that also.
              So they wound investigating Trump's business dealings with Russians but came across something that as former government intelligence people worried them considerably. Steel doesn't even mention Trump until the second part of a three part book....as he gives his life story....and coming up the ranks.
             They came across intelligence where it was obvious that Putin was trying to help Trump win....and they came upon more information that made it look like Trump might be preparing to help Putin after elected. It didn't help that Steele had been one of those in the intelligence community that was warning that Putin was up to no good. 
             So Steele tried every way he knew to get the FBI and the State Department to at least consider the information that Steel's intelligence gathering company came up with....and he tried the same thing with British intelligence which he had once been a part of. It was all supposed to be for your eyes only....according to the author....just info to consider....but it exploded upon the international scene.
              This was never a hoax. This is not deep state. How the Democrats handled all of this....(does anyone really expect them to do anything right or for the right reason?)....and how the FBI may have mismanaged and screwed everything up.....and how the Republican Party then turned Trump into a persecuted hero....all of this is separate from the original situation where an American billionaire was also prime kompromat material....and as it turns out....who became president and then acted like he was a kompromat graduate.
              The only purpose of a book like this is that we now know who Putin really is. In Steele's opinion....given at the end of the book....Putin doesn't really care who wins this election....although he will still help Trump if he can....for if Trump wins Putin at least gets a big part of the Ukraine....and NATO and the EU continue to get weaker....and if the Democrats win....America's internal strife will tear it apart.
              I empathised with Christopher Steele as I read through the book over how he has been portrayed....but didn't warm up to him as a great and wise intelligence operative. I disagreed with a lot of his interpretations on world affairs....but the book demystified in a way the Steele Dossier....while adding even more mystery as to the relationship between Trump and Putin.