Remember this part of the Steele Dossier? pg. 11, Detail paragraph 3. Unwitting agent, says who?!? [View all]
I'll qualify this by saying while much of the raw intel in the dossier seems to be accurate, some may not.
However, it rankles me to hear "unwitting asset" so much on the cable news in the last days when referring to dotard.
I believe he started out as unwitting years ago, but over time became either a "witting asset" or a full on agent of Russia. I lean towards a compromised witting asset, well before he announced his candidacy.
Back to the Dossier section I referred to above:
"3. However in terms of established operational liaison between the TRUMP team and the Kremlin, the emigre confirmed that an intelligence exchange had been running between them for at least 8 years. (my bold) Within this context, PUTIN's priority requirement had been for intelligence on the activities , business and otherwise, in the US of leading Russian oligarchs and their families. TRUMP and his associates duly had obtained and supplied the Kremlin with this information."