I saw the 4chan’s anon’s twitter last night before it got shut down. He is supposedly from the UK, claimed he made up this story using almost word for word some Indonesian political scandal he saw on redit a couple of years ago. Sent it out to a lot of dupes on the left, media, nevertrumpers including Rick Wilson. He had older tweets where he was trolling Rick Wilson. Clearly he liked screwing with Wilson from his older tweets.
There are screen shots of an older 4chan thread where this anon 4chan poster talks about concocting this story and sending it out to people, and he mentioned Wilson in particular.
The two page dossier was then attached to/added to the other Russian ties to Trump stuff the “intelligence” agencies and collected.
Did the UK former intelligence guy Steel get sent a copy too? IDK but my guess? yes. He did not originate anything. The media using him as cover like ‘see we had reason to think it was real because the source is...’
The Steel guy is known apparently for being political, and that means the 4chan anon, who is also from the UK, could have trolled him as well. We’ll never know.
Sooo ... While some publications are crediting Steele as the author of the dossier - he merely lifted the hooker story from 4Chan and included it in his “report” - and now he’s in hiding.
I think this story might be starting to make sense.