Hillary and THE dossier

Well well, something Trump can complain about and for good reason. It is now claimed the infamous dossier by Christopher Steele, ex-MI6 officer, which came up with all that salacious stuff about what the president, before he was president, got up to in a Moscow hotel, was partly paid for by the Clinton campaign. I wonder if that is true. But it has given Trump a breather from all the nasty stuff building up within the Republican Party about his suitability to be sitting in the White House. We're going to get a flow of Trump tweets denouncing Hillary whether the story in the Washington Post is accurate or not. The dossier was always highly controversial and disputable. No one really believes that Trump allowed or asked for prostitutes to pee on him as he lay on the bed in his hotel room during a business trip to the Russian capital. The so-called golden shower moment is a bit of fantasy. I think. What seems really strange about the story claiming Hillary and co paid for the dossier is that when the Steele report was originally leaked, it was stated quite clearly that the research carried out by the former MI6 officer had been funded by an unnamed senior Republican!! So who was it, Hillary or a Republican? Trump of course leapt at the suggestion that it was Hillary. Why wouldn't he? After all, despite having the mighty US intelligence community at his disposal, he gets most of his Tweet ideas from newspapers or television. It's rather paradoxical, isn't it? He accuses the media of producing fake news except when it suits his purposes. I recall that bizarre occasion when a retired American judge claimed on Fox News that the director of Britain's GCHQ intelligence-gathering centre had resigned in protest at the use of GCHQ's eavesdropping capabilities to spy on Trump Tower, at the behest of President Obama. It was total nonsense but Trump and his then White House spokesman Sean Spicer made a great fuss about the abuse of power by Obama. Trump believed Fox. But Fox, or at least the retired judge, got it wrong. Now whether Hillary funded the Steele dossier or not, Trump has once again seized on it. The only thought I have is that if someone wanted to dig up dirt on Trump to spoil his presidential hopes, does it not make more sense for it to be the Democrats rather than the Republicans who would want such information? Just a thought!