Igor Danchenko is being charged with five counts of lying to the FBi. But honestly, he didn’t just lie to the FBI, he fabricated conversations and facts out of thin air.
Here’s the short version:
The indictment alleges that Danchenko knowingly lied about conversations with “sub-sources” that in fact never happened, or came from somewhere else.
Some of the false information in the Steele dossier that came from Danchenko was later used to obtain a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Danchenko was arrested and taken into custody on Thursday, according to the Justice Department.
Here’s more…
Bombshell stuff. Igor Danchenko received info from a Democratic PR executive that he then passed along to Chris Steele. He withheld that from the FBI. Danchenko also lied about receiving a phone call from Sergei Millian. pic.twitter.com/sFwHkCuiNb
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) November 4, 2021
Christopher Steele primary subsource Igor Danchenko indictment:
He "fabricated" the allegation that he was given info by @SergeiMillian via phone.
He lied about sources – one being a Democrat party operative/PR exec. pic.twitter.com/GZjqi3y2tj
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) November 4, 2021
Unreal. Danchenko lied to the FBI in June 2017, and the FBI knew it, but he's only just now being charged. pic.twitter.com/l5zO7QYdk1
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) November 4, 2021
One of the other Danchenko/Steele Russian "sources" –
Was expecting to be rewarded w/ a job in the Hillary Clinton State Department.
This is worse than we imagined. pic.twitter.com/zUw3Z8I599
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) November 4, 2021
Fiona Hill introduced Danchenko to Chris Steele as well as to this PR executive pic.twitter.com/PYYUBo97hy
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) November 4, 2021
So it turns out that Hillary-linked operatives had way more connections to the Russian government than Trump did pic.twitter.com/UCN75NwsM0
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) November 4, 2021
Here’s the full indictment for you to read: