It's well known that Hillary had her law firm pay Fusion GPS which in turn paid British ex-spy Christopher Steele to dig up dirt on Trump from Russian sources.
Even though that report was a key aspect of the entire two year long collusion controversy Mueller showed no interest in it other than to basically say it was all unverified and in some cases clearly wrong.
Given that Mueller's mandate was supposedly to investigate Russian interference in our election one would think that a bunch of dirt from high level Russian sources about one candidate would be worth investigating.
Mueller probably avoided it because if he had investigated he knew he would have found that Hillary was colluding with Putin, albeit unknowingly.
Steele's cover had been blown years ago and he himself couldn't, and didn't, travel to Russia. Instead he reached out to a long list of Russian sources he claims to have. Supposedly those sources provided second and third hand accounts of bad things Trump had done.
The problem is how likely is it that after his cover was blown that the Russian secret police didn't find out who he'd been talking to and put the fear of Putin into them? Further when approached by Steele how likely is it that those sources report it to Russian intelligence? Remember enemies of Putin often die so aiding Steele could have been very dangerous.
On the other hand it makes a lot of sense for Putin to use Steele as a channel to disrupt the US election. Remember that the same intelligence agencies that said that Putin favored Trump told us the Soviet Union was doing fine and that Iraq had WMDs.
But even if Putin favored Trump he'd want to weaken Trump if Trump won which the Steele dossier would do.
While Mueller investigated Trump Jr. meeting with a Russian lawyer about dirt on Hillary Mueller assiduously avoided looking into Hillary paying Russians for dirt on Trump.
One reason could be that Mueller was really just targeting Trump and didn't really care about collusion.
The other reason is that while Mueller is partisan he's not stupid. It's likely he realizes that Steele getting all this fake news out of Russia without Putin knowing about it would be highly unlikely so that if he investigated it he'd likely find that Hillary had either knowingly or unknowingly colluded with Putin.
This has always been the big hypocrisy in the whole collusion narrative; the same people who said that Trump Jr meeting with a Russian but not getting any dirt on Hillary was treasonous said that Hillary paying Russians for dirt on Trump was find.
It should be clear by now that if the Steele dossier was actually sourced in Russia that it was most likely a Russian disinformation activity.
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