In new affidavits filed in a Washington, D.C., court late on June 21, sub-sources for Igor Danchenko—the “primary sub-source” in Christopher Steele’s dossier on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign—deny having provided any information contained in the dossier. Danchenko had previously told the FBI that he obtained the information that was published in the dossier by “word of mouth and hearsay” from a network of sub-sources in Russia. The affidavits were filed as a part of a long-running defamation lawsuit by the owners of Russia’s Alfa Bank against Fusion GPS, the company that tasked Steele with compiling the dossier. Steele’s dossier contained allegations that the owners of Alfa Bank “were on very good terms” with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as allegations of other connections between them. In response to these allegations, the owners of Alfa Bank—Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, and German Khan—filed their defamation suit against Fusion GPS and …