The book, part score-settling memoir and part global threat analysis, at times reads like a Steele Dossier 2.0. He says he uncovered the new tidbits while working for unnamed wealthy individuals in the 2020 campaign cycle and other stuff he dug up while working for corporate clients after Trump was defeated in 2020 by Joe Biden.

Umm, sooo…this supposedly new oppo research is...four years old. And at no time was this searing information ever thought to be so gripping and trenchant that Steele would come forward with the details...until today. This is already shaping up to be about as substantial as his 1.0 beta version of his namesake dossier, and he undersells things even further. //

This is hardly a selling point. In fact, it is the polar opposite. Mueller had established that there was no link between Trump’s campaign and Putin, even as the investigator strained mightily to make any kind of tie possible and tossed out dozens of ineffectual indictments (mostly at Russian figures who would never see the light of a courtroom) ...