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   campaign team and Kremlin” and a “well developed conspiracy of   
   cooperation between them and Russian leadership.”   
      
   Mr. Mueller: Not true. “The investigation did not establish that   
   members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the   
   Russian government in its election interference activities,” he   
   wrote.   
      
   Mr. Steele: Mr. Trump and his team set up a hacking operation in   
   the U.S. Mr. Trump funded hacking teams overseas along with   
   Russian President Vladimir Putin.   
      
   Mr. Mueller: Not true. The Mueller investigation found no such   
   illegal activities.   
      
   Mr. Steele: The supposed U.S. hacking operation was funded by   
   the Russian Embassy in Washington. It skimmed cash off pension   
   payments to emigres. The Trump team was involved.   
      
   Mr. Mueller: No such evidence was presented.   
      
   Mr. Steele: Former campaign manager Paul Manafort and volunteer   
   adviser Carter Page worked as a team to liaison with the Kremlin   
   on election interference.   
      
   Mr. Mueller: Not true. “The investigation did not establish that   
   Page coordinated with the Russian government in its efforts to   
   interfere with the 2016 presidential election,” the report said.   
      
   For Manafort, the Mueller report cited his sharing of internal   
   polling with his longtime employee in Ukraine, Konstantin   
   Kilimnik, whom the FBI believes is tied to Russian intelligence.   
      
   “The Office did not identify evidence of a connection between   
   Manafort’s sharing polling data and Russia’s interference in the   
   election, which had already been reported by U.S. media outlets   
   at the time of the August 2 meeting. The investigation did not   
   establish that Manafort otherwise coordinated with the Russian   
   government on its election-interference efforts,” the report   
   states.   
      
   Mr. Steele: The Trump campaign received a regular flow of anti-   
   Democratic Party intelligence from the Kremlin.   
      
   Mr. Mueller: Not true.   
      
   Mr. Steele: Mr. Trump exchanged information with Russian   
   intelligence for eight years.   
      
   Mr. Mueller: Not true.   
      
   Mr. Steele: Mr. Trump knew of and supported WikiLeaks’ alliance   
   with Moscow, which fed stolen Democratic Party emails to the   
   anti-secrecy group. It released them in huge batches during the   
   campaign.   
      
   Mr. Mueller: Weeks before the election, evidence pointed to the   
   Kremlin as the hacker. There is no evidence that Mr. Trump   
   supported the illegal activity.   
      
   Mr. Steele: The Kremlin told Mr. Trump it had incriminating   
   evidence on him but would not use it.   
      
   Mr. Mueller: No evidence of conspiracy.   
      
   Mr. Steele: Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen secretly   
   traveled to Prague in August 2016 to meet with Putin cronies to   
   devise a cover-up of the conspiracy and pay off hackers. This is   
   one of Mr. Steele’s most sensational charges.   
      
   Mr. Mueller: Not true. “Cohen had never traveled to Prague and   
   was not concerned about those allegations, which he believed   
   were provably false,” the special counsel wrote.   
      
   Mr. Steele: Carter Page, while on a public trip to Moscow in   
   July 2016 to deliver a commencement speech, met with two   
   powerful Putin associates. Mr. Page agreed to a huge bribe in   
   exchange for lifting U.S. economic sanctions on Russian   
   businesses and figures.   
      
   Mr. Mueller: Investigators couldn’t determine everything Mr.   
   Page, an energy investor, did during the trip. Mr. Page   
   repeatedly has denied the Steele tale. He wasn’t charged. Mr.   
   Mueller cleared him of any election conspiracy.   
      
   Mr. Steele: Russian intelligence has material on Mr. Trump’s sex   
   escapades in The Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow during the 2013   
   Miss Universe Pageant, which he co-owned with NBCUniversal.   
      
   Mr. Mueller: His report contains no evidence. Rumored tapes of   
   the encounter with prostitutes are “fake,” Giorgi Rtskhiladze, a   
   U.S.-based businessman, told the FBI. Mr. Rtskhiladze was an   
   early player in the Trump Organization’s 2015-16 bid to build a   
   Moscow hotel.   
      
   Mr. Steele: Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev, owner of web-   
   hosting service firm XBT, hacked Democratic Party computers   
   under pressure from Russian intelligence. Mr. Gubarev   
   categorically denies the charge and has sued Mr. Steele in   
   London.   
      
   Mr. Mueller: His report depicts Russian military intelligence   
   officers as the lone hackers, working out of boiler rooms at a   
   Moscow headquarters. There is no mention of Mr. Gubarev.   
      
   Other conspiracies   
      
   At least four other prominent Russia conspiracies are not   
   supported by the Mueller report.   
      
   ? Both Slate news website and most recently The New Yorker gave   
   credence to cyberdata interpretations that suggested a dedicated   
   computer server existed between Trump Tower and Alfa Bank in   
   Moscow. It is Russia’s largest commercial bank, run by oligarchs   
   close to Mr. Putin.   
      
   The FBI investigated the charge, pushed by Fusion GPS, Mrs.   
   Clinton’s opposition researcher and the firm that handled Mr.   
   Steele. The Mueller report contains no evidence of such a server.   
      
   Petr Aven, who runs the bank, tried to make contact with the   
   Trump transition team after meeting with Mr. Putin. The report   
   section on Mr. Aven doesn’t mention a computer server.   
      
   ? BuzzFeed reported that Mr. Trump explicitly ordered Cohen to   
   lie to Congress about the timeline of the aborted Moscow hotel   
   deal. Mr. Mueller shot down the report at the time. The Mueller   
   report quotes Cohen as saying the president told him to   
   cooperate with lawmakers.   
      
   ? The Republican National Convention platform was changed to   
   weaken language on giving military aid to Ukraine, which had   
   been invaded by Russia. (Trump people say the plank was   
   strengthened, not weakened, via a compromise.) The Mueller   
   report said there was no Russian involvement in the drafting of   
   the plank.   
      
   ? The Guardian newspaper reported that Manafort visited   
   WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange three times in 2016 in London.   
   The Mueller report concluded that Manafort didn’t collude in   
   Russian interference. During his debriefing by the Mueller team,   
   Manafort wasn’t asked about the Guardian report, The Washington   
   Times has reported.   
      
   The Times sent queries to Mr. Steele’s business as well as to   
   Fusion GPS’s attorney and a spokesman for Mr. Schiff. None   
   replied.   
      
   Mr. Schiff has opened a Russia probe that follows many of the   
   investigative trails promoted by Mr. Simpson and Fusion GPS   
   supposed money laundering and Kremlin influence.   
      
   Mr. Schiff rejects the idea that no collusion occurred. He cites   
   Donald Trump Jr.’s June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer to   
   get dirt on Mrs. Clinton as an example.   
      
   Mr. Schiff’s newly hired chief investigator is a former federal   
   prosecutor who as recently as December tweeted that the entire   
   dossier is true.   
      
   Mr. Nunes said in a statement that the Mueller report’s   
   disclosure of the special counsel’s tasking order indicates that   
   the Steele dossier was used by the FBI to open the investigation   
   into Mr. Page.   
      
   It was Mr. Nunes, through subpoenas, who forced the Democrats to   
   disclose their role in the dossier’s creation.   
      
   “The Mueller report ignored a wide range of abuses committed   
   during the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign,” Mr. Nunes   
   said. “And now, with the revelation that the Special Counsel was   
   authorized at the outset to investigate Carter Page for   
   allegedly colluding with Russians to hack the election, it’s   
   clear that false allegations from the Steele dossier played a   
   major role not only in the FISA warrant application on Page, but   
   in the appointment of the Special Counsel as well.   
      
   “The biggest takeaway from the entire Russia hoax is that our   
      
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