Mueller has failed to prosecute Steele and Clinton for their Russian interference in the election and subsequent attempts to disrupt

Rowan Scarborough:
President Trump’s frustration last week over special counsel Robert Mueller not investigating the Democrats’ links to Russia election meddling is aimed at Christopher Steele, the British ex-spy who compiled and imported the unverified dossier.

“The only ‘Collusion’ is that of the Democrats with Russia and many others,” he tweeted Nov. 15.

Mr. Steele is a paid Democratic Party operative who spread among Washington power elites pre-Election Day Trump gossip originating from Moscow.

Mr. Mueller has made a theme of enforcing the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), which requires people working on behalf of foreigners to register with the Justice Department or face criminal liability. He also has charged Russian nationals with fraud against the U.S. by interfering in the 2016 election.
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Some conservatives disagree with Mr. Mueller brushing aside Mr. Steele’s actions. They make the case that Mr. Steele not only influenced the 2016 election but also infected the entire political system with unsubstantiated felony charges against Trump people that remain publicly unverified today.

Mr. Steele was paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party via its law firm and the investigative firm Fusion GPS. An FBI document says he continued to investigate Mr. Trump well after the election, financed by rich Democratic donors.

“In theory, everything Mueller is investigating the Russians for could be applied to the whole Fusion GPS/Clinton campaign/DNC operation,” said Tom Fitton, who directs Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog that specializes in suing for government records.

“The dossier was intended to impact the election. That is why Clinton operatives, Fusion GPS and Steele leaked info about it before the election,” Mr. Fitton said. “And, ironically, as Steele supposedly used Russia intel sources for the dossier, it arguably is another way in which the Russians sought to interfere with our elections.”

To conservatives like Mr. Fitton, the Mueller narrative against Concord is similar to actions of Mr. Steele and his Orbis Business Intelligence firm in London.
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What did Mr. Steele, as a foreigner, do to influence the election?

For one, his stated purpose was to destroy Mr. Trump. He told that to then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, according to Mr. Ohr’s briefing to the FBI.

Second, he compiled charges against Trump associates based on information from Kremlin figures. They were various unnamed intelligence and government officials who could qualify as “principals” under FARA.

Third, Mr. Steele brought his conspiracy theories to the U.S. in the fall of 2016 with the express intent to influence the election. Under Fusion GPS’ guidance, he provided his allegations to a who’s who of Washington news bureaus.

Two of them, Yahoo News and Mother Jones magazine, published before Election Day his charges of a vast Russia-Trump conspiracy. The Clinton campaign, which was being briefed on the dossier, used the allegation to attack Mr. Trump. Then-Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid also cited dossier charges in a letter to the FBI that was published in The New York Times.
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That Mueller has failed to act against Steele and Clinton is more evidence that he and his team of Democrat supporting lawyers are engaged in a partisan hit job on the opposition and not to going after the foreigners who had the most impact on the election and events subsequent to it.

Indeed, the Russian stuff he indicted people for was of little consequence in the election according to the Justice Department at the time of the indictments.  However, the Steele crap has been used to roil Washington since its inception.

John Solomon reports that new information questions Steele's work on Russia.  At around the same time, he was selling his Russian collusion hoax he also reported that Putin was losing his grip on power in another report.  That obviously was not the case either.  Since this report was the opposite of what the US intelligence officials were reporting it raises a serious question as to why they believed the material he wrote for Hillary and Fusion GPS.

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