The 'Trump Dossier' is clearly the work of a clever fabricator. The real question is how much influence in originating and shaping the whole hacking scandal has it had?
That the so-called "dossier" on Donald Trump, which Buzzfeed has published in full, is largely the inventions of a single individual is easily established by reading its contents.
The author of the dossier - a former British intelligence agent who now claims to run his own 'intelligence gathering' network - claims to have inside knowledge of private discussions in the Kremlin and of the contents of confidential FSB files. He claims to have been provided this information by a number of high placed Russian insiders. Were all this true one would have to conclude that the Russian government - historically one of the world's most secretive - leaks like a sieve.
That idea is frankly preposterous, and I doubt that there is anyone who is genuinely familiar with the way the Russian government operates who believes it.
In fact the dossier bears all the hallmarks of invention: the multiple sources whose identities are not revealed, the sex orgies the occurrence of which can neither be confirmed nor easily refuted, the extraordinary amount of circumstantial detail intended to suggest that the author is genuinely well-informed and to make the narrative feel plausible, the weaving into the narrative of actual events (Sergey Ivanov's resignation in August), the contradictions as the author struggles to reconcile the narrative with developing events (in July it is Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov who is frightened of being sacked as he is blamed by Sergey Ivanov for the Clinton leaks scandal; in August it is Sergey Ivanov who is instead sacked as he is blamed by Putin for the scandal), the factual errors (eg. the misspelling of the name of Alfa Bank) etc.
Comment: Deep State neocons have declared war on Trump