The Steele dossier alleged that the Russians possessed kompromat on Trump which could be used to blackmail him, and that the Kremlin had promised him that the kompromat would not be used as long as he continued his cooperation with them.&lt;ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"&gt;&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref name="Bertrand_1/10/2017"&gt;&lt;/ref&gt; Trump's actions at the Helsinki summit in 2018 "led many to conclude that Steele's report was more accurate than not... Trump sided with the Russians over the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Moscow had waged an all-out attack on the 2016 election... The joint news conference.. cemented fears among some that Trump was in Putin's pocket and prompted bipartisan backlash."&lt;ref name="Bertrand_9/30/2019"&gt;&lt;/ref&gt;