Were Christopher Steele and Ivanka Trump a Thing?

[RandySF]

The most titillating detail in the IG report, it turns out, is that Christopher Steele, the erstwhile British super-spy and the author of the “dossier” that bears his name, had a “personal” relationship with a member of the Trump family. Julia Macfarlane at ABC News confirmed that said family member was—mirabile dictu—the president’s favorite daughter:

In 2007, Ivanka Trump met Steele at a dinner and they began corresponding about the possibility of future work together, the source said. The following year, the two exchanged emails about meeting up near Trump Tower, according to several emails seen by ABC News. And the two did meet at Trump Tower according to the source. The inspector general’s report mentions a meeting with a “Trump family member” there. They suggest Ivanka Trump and Steele stayed in touch via emails over the next several years. In one 2008 exchange they discussed dining together in New York at a restaurant just blocks from Trump Tower.

“[D]ining together in New York at a restaurant just blocks from Trump Tower” sounds suspiciously like “going out on a date.”

Parkhomenko might be right to still not believe this rumor—or rumour, I suppose—because it’s probably all smoke and no fire (although the smoke is sultry and the fire is hot). Most likely, Steele, who in 2008 was about to launch his own business in the private sector, was working a deep-pocketed potential client and nothing more.

On the other hand…I mean, it’s certainly possible. Consider: At the time, Steele’s life was in flux. He was 44 years old, in what would be his last year at MI6. His wife Laura, with whom he had two children, was terminally ill. A year later he was a widower, and had left the spy game to form his own company, Orbis. Would he have enjoyed the flirtations of a young American beauty (the above photo is from 2009, before Ivanka went Kremlin Barbie and began speaking like post-Ray of Light Madonna) at such a tumultuous time in his life? Put it this way: he’d have rather dined with her than, say, Eric.



https://gregolear.substack.com/p/be-steele-my-beating-heart?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMTM1MDIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE5NjczOSwiXyI6InIzaVRLIiwiaWF0IjoxNTc2NTkzMTI0LCJleHAiOjE1NzY1OTY3MjQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yMDY5NSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.mq-NMBOg1jpZiBsQAuAahW13hc166gwkehBaoGEXNzs

[Mike 03]

1. Well I know that Ivanka's "a thing."

Because, as Catbyte would say, she's the daughter of "that Thing."

Hat tip to Catbyte

[duforsure]

2. Waiting to hear a reporter ask trump

If he was aware of their relationship, and why her emails should now be exposed showing her involvement, and was he working for her too?

[Me.]

3. Kushner Dumped Her?

was Steele her rebound and revenge? And was the report his?

[NewJeffCT]

4. I can't read the link right now

but, if her daddy can be a serial cheater, no reason why Ivanka can't do the same?

[Me.]

7. Well She Wasn't Married UNtil 2 Years Later

and Kushner had dumped her so she was a free agent. Considering he dumped her, his family didn't like her and he's so totally creepy, why did she marry him?

[hedda_foil]

8. She was a shiksa.

[Me.]

9. So Was His Brother's Wife

Also converted

[octoberlib]

5. There were quite a few Russian mobsters living in Trump Tower at the time.

I wonder if Steele was cultivating her for information.

[Ilsa]

11. That's an interesting possibility.

I wonder how much info Steele was able to glean from her and whatever he could access from apartments in TT.

[Hav]

6. Most likely no

As the Fusion GPS founders recently suggested, they think they were rather acquaintances than anything more.
And the fact that his wife was terminally ill makes it less likely for me. I'd hope that if accusations of him betraying his dying wife are made, they'd better be substantiated.
But it was brought up to counter the claim that Steele was an extremely biased anti-Trumper.

[GoCubsGo]

10. I seem to recall that she and Chelsea Clinton were once pals, too.

This is probably more of the same, rather than some romantic thing.