The first of Steele’s 16 “pre-election reports” is submitted to Fusion GPS on June 20, 2016, and alleges that Russia has been cultivating Trump for five years and has compromising material from the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow.
Glenn Simpson testifies to the Senate Judiciary Committee on August 22, 2017, and describes Steele’s first pre-election report to be useless and not believable.
Even though a number of Americans still believe the “Golden Showers” video exists, in Glenn Simpson’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on August 22, 2017, he claims the report is useless and not believable. Yet it remains a part of the overall dossier. (Transcript of Glenn Simpson Testimony, 8/22/2017)