12 October 2020
On February 8, 2018, at 10:22 p.m., Donald J. Trump opened his Twitter app and name-checked a private detective. "Steele of fraudulent Dossier fame," the president wrote. "All tied into Crooked Hillary."
It was a remarkable occurrence: an American head of state publicly acknowledging the work of a private eye, in this case a former British spy named Christopher Steele.