In August 2018, I laid out six specific false claims made in the dossier that would have led Democrats or the FBI to take action counter to their own interests: Russians hadn't had success hacking targets like Hillary Russians were planning to leak dated FSB intercepts rather than recent stolen emails Misattribution of both what the social media campaign included and who did it, blaming Webzilla rather than Internet Research Agency
He's one of scores of lawyers the Trump administration has named in executive actions, joining a list that includes big law firms and attorneys who worked for people Trump considers his opponents. There's no shortage of reasons why Donald Trump would hate Elias and want to shut him down: Elias has for decades represented high-profile Democrats, including the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, and prominent liberal groups, including the Democratic National Committee.
Ratcliffe stated that there could be criminal prosecution of several high profile Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, James Comey, and John Brennan.