Christopher Steele was only paid $168,000 to compile the Russian dossier, despite claims from Donald Trump that it was as much as 12 million.

Courtesy of Reuters: 

A Washington research firm paid a former British spy's company $168,000 for work on a dossier outlining Russian financial and personal links to Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, the U.S. firm said in a statement on Wednesday. 

Although it was public knowledge that Fusion GPS paid for the work, the amount had not been disclosed. Fusion GPS hired former MI6 officer Christopher Steele to collect information about Trump and his advisers. 

Fusion GPS' statement said it had told Congress about how $168,000 was paid last year to Orbis Business Intelligence, Steele's company. The money paid to Orbis was taken from $1.02 million it received in fees and expenses from the Perkins Coie law firm, the statement said. 

The law firm represented the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, although initial research by Fusion into Trump and other Republican primary candidates was commissioned by a conservative website.

This is interesting because earlier Trump tweeted this:

Never seen such Republican ANGER & UNITY as I have concerning the lack of investigation on Clinton made Fake Dossier (now $12,000,000?),....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2017

So altogether the Democrats only paid Fusion GPS about 1.02 million, and only a fraction of that actually went to pay for this dossier.

Well that certainly helps to stick a pin in the idea that the Clinton campaign spent millions and millions to find dirt on Donald Trump.

Now I'm kind of interested in how much the Washington Free Beacon paid before the Democrats arrived on the scene?