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28 Aug: Sputnik News: Ukrainian Consultant Reveals Steele Sought Bogus Stories for Trump Dossier
Radio Sputnik’s Lee Stranahan spoke previously with Ukrainian political consultant and former diplomat Andrii Telizhenko about his connections to a Democratic National Committee (DNC) operative named Alexandra Chalupa who also worked for clients in Ukrainian politics. Chalupa told Politico in January 2017 that beginning in 2015, she pulled on a network of sources she’d established in Kiev and Washington to try and turn up dirt on Trump, once his star began to rise in the Republican primary campaign...
Those talks led to other revelations by Telizhenko about further shady business between paid Ukrainian researchers and the DNC. Telizhenko disclosed this information to Stranahan in an interview; the recording of that interview was played on-air during Radio Sputnik’s Fault Lines program Monday by Stranahan, who cohosts the show with Garland Nixon...
“The information I got was around a couple months ago here in Kiev, and it wasn’t like I was looking for it, it just got into my hands, from people who are working on the Steele Dossier through Orbis,” Telizhenko told Stranahan. Orbis is Steele’s London-based investigative firm. “They were Ukrainian political consultants who are working with some of the NGOs of [George] Soros, and they were hired through Orbis to write disinformation. They didn’t know at that time it was going to be for the Steele Dossier or for some dossier; they were giving some disinformation on Trump and on connections with Russia and collusion and they used that to write false evidence, false statements, and report it to Orbis.”...
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201808281067517362-Steele-Sought-Bogus-Stories-Dossier/