The Democratic Party-financed dossier, once celebrated by liberal
Washington politicians and journalists, is officially debunked, according
to a review of special counsel Robert Mueller�s 448-page investigative
report.

Dossier creator Christopher Steele, who was paid with money from the
Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, leveled at
least a dozen Russian election conspiracy charges against President Trump
and associates.

Virtually all his information came from Kremlin intelligence, according to
the dossier. Mrs. Clinton�s operatives spread the document to the Justice
Department, the FBI and news outlets.

A Washington Times review shows that not one of his conspiracy charges 0-
for-12 was proved true and most were outright rejected by Mr. Mueller. The
Mueller report also puts to rest four other non-dossier conspiracy charges
tied to Mr. Trump.

�Goodbye Russia hoax,� tweeted Rep. Devin Nunes of California. His
Republican majority on the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence said in its report, released a year ago, that it had found no
collusion.

Mr. Steele, who produced one of the most influential and erroneous
opposition research papers in U.S. political history, is mentioned only in
passing by Mr. Mueller. Outside the report narrative, his name doesn�t
appear in an appendix glossary of more than 170 Trump-Russia figures.

The word �dossier� shows up only once in the lightly redacted report and
is not used by Mr. Mueller but is a quote from Mr. Trump.

Two years ago, the dossier was recited freely. Rep. Adam B. Schiff,
California Democrat and now chairman of the House intelligence committee,
was a prominent fan. He vouched for Mr. Steele and named names as he
listed the former British intelligence officer�s felony charges against
Mr. Trump. His committee colleagues attempted to find witnesses to confirm
Mr. Steele�s tale of Mr. Trump frolicking with prostitutes in Moscow.

Schiff colleague Rep. Eric Swalwell, California Democrat, recently
defended the dossier by asking what part had been disproved. He calls Mr.
Trump a �Russian agent.�

Mr. Mueller provides no evidence that Mr. Trump is a Kremlin agent.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, has said she didn�t know of
any dossier charge that had been disproved.

By early 2017, the FBI relied on the dossier for at least one 12-month
wiretap on a Trump associate. FBI Director James B. Comey took dossier
material directly to President-elect Trump. Before that, on Jan. 5, 2017,
President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden were briefed by
Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper. Mr. Clapper and Mr.
Comey were among the intelligence leaders who attached the dossier to the
official report on Russian computer hacking.

Journalists cited Mr. Steele in stories and books. BuzzFeed posted the
entire 17-memo document. Mr. Steele worked with Glenn R. Simpson, co-
founder of Fusion GPS, to spread the anti-Trump material inside the FBI to
its counterintelligence branch investigating Mr. Trump.

Mr. Nunes said they were peddling a �hoax� and possibly a deliberate
disinformation campaign by the Kremlin against the president.

Here are 12 of Mr. Steele�s 2016 conspiracy charges, as compared with
Mueller findings.

Mr. Steele: There was an �extensive conspiracy between Trump campaign team
and Kremlin� and a �well developed conspiracy of cooperation between them
and Russian leadership.�

Mr. Mueller: Not true. �The investigation did not establish that members
of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government
in its election interference activities,� he wrote.

Mr. Steele: Mr. Trump and his team set up a hacking operation in the U.S.
Mr. Trump funded hacking teams overseas along with Russian President
Vladimir Putin.

Mr. Mueller: Not true. The Mueller investigation found no such illegal
activities.

Mr. Steele: The supposed U.S. hacking operation was funded by the Russian
Embassy in Washington. It skimmed cash off pension payments to emigres.
The Trump team was involved.

Mr. Mueller: No such evidence was presented.

Mr. Steele: Former campaign manager Paul Manafort and volunteer adviser
Carter Page worked as a team to liaison with the Kremlin on election
interference.

Mr. Mueller: Not true. �The investigation did not establish that Page
coordinated with the Russian government in its efforts to interfere with
the 2016 presidential election,� the report said.

For Manafort, the Mueller report cited his sharing of internal polling
with his longtime employee in Ukraine, Konstantin Kilimnik, whom the FBI
believes is tied to Russian intelligence.

�The Office did not identify evidence of a connection between Manafort�s
sharing polling data and Russia�s interference in the election, which had
already been reported by U.S. media outlets at the time of the August 2
meeting. The investigation did not establish that Manafort otherwise
coordinated with the Russian government on its election-interference
efforts,� the report states.

Mr. Steele: The Trump campaign received a regular flow of anti-Democratic
Party intelligence from the Kremlin.

Mr. Mueller: Not true.

Mr. Steele: Mr. Trump exchanged information with Russian intelligence for
eight years.

Mr. Mueller: Not true.

Mr. Steele: Mr. Trump knew of and supported WikiLeaks� alliance with
Moscow, which fed stolen Democratic Party emails to the anti-secrecy
group. It released them in huge batches during the campaign.

Mr. Mueller: Weeks before the election, evidence pointed to the Kremlin as
the hacker. There is no evidence that Mr. Trump supported the illegal
activity.

Mr. Steele: The Kremlin told Mr. Trump it had incriminating evidence on
him but would not use it.

Mr. Mueller: No evidence of conspiracy.

Mr. Steele: Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen secretly traveled to
Prague in August 2016 to meet with Putin cronies to devise a cover-up of
the conspiracy and pay off hackers. This is one of Mr. Steele�s most
sensational charges.

Mr. Mueller: Not true. �Cohen had never traveled to Prague and was not
concerned about those allegations, which he believed were provably false,�
the special counsel wrote.

Mr. Steele: Carter Page, while on a public trip to Moscow in July 2016 to
deliver a commencement speech, met with two powerful Putin associates. Mr.
Page agreed to a huge bribe in exchange for lifting U.S. economic
sanctions on Russian businesses and figures.

Mr. Mueller: Investigators couldn�t determine everything Mr. Page, an
energy investor, did during the trip. Mr. Page repeatedly has denied the
Steele tale. He wasn�t charged. Mr. Mueller cleared him of any election
conspiracy.

Mr. Steele: Russian intelligence has material on Mr. Trump�s sex escapades
in The Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow during the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant,
which he co-owned with NBCUniversal.

Mr. Mueller: His report contains no evidence. Rumored tapes of the
encounter with prostitutes are �fake,� Giorgi Rtskhiladze, a U.S.-based
businessman, told the FBI. Mr. Rtskhiladze was an early player in the
Trump Organization�s 2015-16 bid to build a Moscow hotel.

Mr. Steele: Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev, owner of web-hosting
service firm XBT, hacked Democratic Party computers under pressure from
Russian intelligence. Mr. Gubarev categorically denies the charge and has
sued Mr. Steele in London.

Mr. Mueller: His report depicts Russian military intelligence officers as
the lone hackers, working out of boiler rooms at a Moscow headquarters.
There is no mention of Mr. Gubarev.

Other conspiracies

At least four other prominent Russia conspiracies are not supported by the
Mueller report.

? Both Slate news website and most recently The New Yorker gave credence
to cyberdata interpretations that suggested a dedicated computer server
existed between Trump Tower and Alfa Bank in Moscow. It is Russia�s
largest commercial bank, run by oligarchs close to Mr. Putin.

The FBI investigated the charge, pushed by Fusion GPS, Mrs. Clinton�s
opposition researcher and the firm that handled Mr. Steele. The Mueller
report contains no evidence of such a server.

Petr Aven, who runs the bank, tried to make contact with the Trump
transition team after meeting with Mr. Putin. The report section on Mr.
Aven doesn�t mention a computer server.

? BuzzFeed reported that Mr. Trump explicitly ordered Cohen to lie to
Congress about the timeline of the aborted Moscow hotel deal. Mr. Mueller
shot down the report at the time. The Mueller report quotes Cohen as
saying the president told him to cooperate with lawmakers.

? The Republican National Convention platform was changed to weaken
language on giving military aid to Ukraine, which had been invaded by
Russia. (Trump people say the plank was strengthened, not weakened, via a
compromise.) The Mueller report said there was no Russian involvement in
the drafting of the plank.

? The Guardian newspaper reported that Manafort visited WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange three times in 2016 in London. The Mueller report concluded
that Manafort didn�t collude in Russian interference. During his
debriefing by the Mueller team, Manafort wasn�t asked about the Guardian
report, The Washington Times has reported.