>>511232720The Mueller investigation was NOT launched because of the Steele Dossier.
The investigation began after Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat (in 2016) that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton. When WikiLeaks published stolen emails, Australia alerted the U.S.
That tip — not the Steele Dossier — triggered the FBI's “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, which predated Mueller's appointment.
The Steele Dossier was not fabricated by Hillary Clinton.
While her campaign indirectly funded it, Steele was not told who the end client was and operated independently.
Many claims in the dossier were never verified; some were found to be false or speculative, but others aligned with known Russian interference tactics.
The DOJ’s Horowitz Report (2019) criticized the FBI’s use of the dossier but did not find it to be the foundation of the Russia probe.
The Mueller investigation was not discredited.
It resulted in 34 indictments, 7 guilty pleas, and detailed extensive Russian interference, even if it did not charge Trump with conspiracy.