w.r.t. the Steele Dossier, it was always from the beginning purported to be a "raw intelligence product", which is understood by everyone involved in that process to mean it is not 100% true -- the intelligence is weighted at different levels of confidence. Steele has said he believed his sources were credible, but he did not claim the dossier was 100% accurate. He weighed it at 50/50, and expected that investigators would use it as leads to verify information, not as proof in itself.
And on that point the FBI investigations didn't even start on the basis of the Steele Dossier; they started on the basis of an Australian diplomat, Alexander Downer, who during a meeting with top Trump campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos, became alarmed when Papadopoulos mentioned that the Russian government had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton and might release it to assist the Trump campaign. Downer alerted the Australian government, who informed the FBI. The Steele Dossier was immaterial the investigation's genesis.
So any claim that the dossier as a whole has been "debunked" is not remarkable. Of course parts of it have been debunked, because it wasn't even purported to be 100% true by the author himself. It's not surprising things in it were proven false.
Moreover that also doesn't mean everything in it was not true. The central claim of the dossier -- that Donald Trump and his campaign had extensive ties to Russia, and that Russia sought to influence the 2016 U.S. election in Trump’s favor -- were proven to be true by the Muller Report Vol I and II, and the Senate Select Intel Committee Report on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 Election, Vols I - VI.
> The current president of the US stole the election
Not a claim made in the dossier.
> and our biggest adversary has videos of him in compromising positions.
This hasn't been debunked. The claim in the dossier was that Russia has videos of Trump with prostitutes peeing on a bed Obama slept in, not peeing on Trump himself. The idea that it was golden showers is a figment of the internet. Whether or not the scenario where people peed on a bed Obama slept in happened as laid out in the dossier is still unverified, but not "debunked".
And on that point the FBI investigations didn't even start on the basis of the Steele Dossier; they started on the basis of an Australian diplomat, Alexander Downer, who during a meeting with top Trump campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos, became alarmed when Papadopoulos mentioned that the Russian government had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton and might release it to assist the Trump campaign. Downer alerted the Australian government, who informed the FBI. The Steele Dossier was immaterial the investigation's genesis.
So any claim that the dossier as a whole has been "debunked" is not remarkable. Of course parts of it have been debunked, because it wasn't even purported to be 100% true by the author himself. It's not surprising things in it were proven false.
Moreover that also doesn't mean everything in it was not true. The central claim of the dossier -- that Donald Trump and his campaign had extensive ties to Russia, and that Russia sought to influence the 2016 U.S. election in Trump’s favor -- were proven to be true by the Muller Report Vol I and II, and the Senate Select Intel Committee Report on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 Election, Vols I - VI.
> The current president of the US stole the election
Not a claim made in the dossier.
> and our biggest adversary has videos of him in compromising positions.
This hasn't been debunked. The claim in the dossier was that Russia has videos of Trump with prostitutes peeing on a bed Obama slept in, not peeing on Trump himself. The idea that it was golden showers is a figment of the internet. Whether or not the scenario where people peed on a bed Obama slept in happened as laid out in the dossier is still unverified, but not "debunked".