The British are involved in all this. The MI6 spy who wrote the dossier is garnering some support from the UK intelligence community, but the government is keeping totally schtum, despite a British Ambassador to Moscow being implicated.

In the US, the intelligence services are taking the allegations seriously. Reading widely across the media (who have sat on this for months), it seems that the Russians had plenty of contact with Trump and his inner circle over the past 5-8 years, and he reported back on the activities of some oligarchs to Moscow (er, think about that). There is a feeling the Russians have something on him, hence is lack of criticism of Putin despite the fact the Russians hacked the US.

Amazing.