SPOOKED!

Ex-British spy Christopher Steele RUNS AWAY from questions on his discredited 'dodgy dossier' which wrongly accused Trump of collusion with Russia in 2016 US election

By Paul Thompson

Daily Mail
March 26, 2019

The former British spy who wrote the 'dodgy dossier' which claimed Donald Trump colluded with Russia to fix the election went on the run today after being tracked down by Mail Online.

Christopher Steele bolted from his local railway station when asked to comment on the now discredited dossier that helped spark a two-year investigation into the US President.

This weekend Trump was exonerated of conspiring with the Russians to rig the election in the race for the White House following a probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

But when asked if he had any comment, Steele - who published the notorious dossier to discredit Trump by claiming among other outlandish things that Trump paid prostitutes to urinate on him in a Moscow hotel room - looked stunned today and said: 'I have nothing to say to you.'

The ex-MI6 agent was standing in a queue with other commuters at a Surrey railway station when he was approached by MailOnline.

Looking shocked that his cover was blown he suddenly clasped a small briefcase to his chest, pushed through a line of other commuters queuing to buy a ticket and dashed out of the entrance.

He ran towards a car driven by his wife that just two minutes earlier had dropped him off at the station for his commute to his London office.

Steele waved frantically to attract his wife's attention as he ran towards the car and jumped into the passenger seat.

He stared rigidly ahead as his wife Katherine drove him the short distance back to his home.

It is the first time Steele has been seen since Trump was cleared of any collusion with the Russians over his 2016 election victory.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller exonerated Trump of conspiring with the Russians to win the Presidency - a claim long held by many of his opponents.

Steele, who runs a private intelligence firm, had supplied a dossier to an outside company used by Hillary Clinton's election committee.

It contained unverified information that Trump was vulnerable to blackmail from Russia and had engaged with 'golden showers' with prostitutes during a 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant.

Leaked details of the dossier were seized upon by Trump's detractors as evidence that Russia's President Vladamir Putin had interfered in the election.

As well as supplying the dossier to the Clinton campaign Steele also handed it over to American and British intelligence agencies as he was worried about the national security implications.

With Trump in the clear Republicans are now turning their attention on those who put Trump in the firing line and triggered the investigation.

Senator Lindsey Graham has vowed to get answers on the origins of the Steele dossier and hinted the ex-spy could be summoned to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

As Chairman of the Committee, Graham has outlined a list of investigations he plans to start in the wake of the findings from special counsel Robert Mueller's report.

He said he wanted to find out how Steele was hired to do the research job and how much money he received from Democrats to do it.

He said he would also like to bring Steele before his committee to testify.

'I'd like for him to come if he would,' Graham said.

Since being named as the author of the dossier Steele has kept a low profile and has shunned all media requests for interview.

After a career with MI6 that included working at the British Embassy in Moscow Steele left in 2009 to set up his own company Orbis Business Inteligence with another former spy.

It was this company that was hired to write the dossier into alleged Trump-Russia activities.