I won't comment on the events in Helsinki. That is a foreign policy matter, off-topic for the blog and ultra vires for CJLF.

On topic, you seem to agree that the timing was arranged to have an influence on foreign policy rather than for legitimate domestic law enforcement reasons. If true, anyone at DOJ who did that should be fired.

Trump is Russia's dupe,
or the Clinton Campaign and the DNC colluded with Russia?
Russia has kompromat on Trump,
or "Before and after Steele was terminated as an FBI source, he:

“maintained contact with [the Democrat] DOJ via then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, a senior DOJ official who worked closely with Dep. Attorneys General *Sally) Yates and later (Rod) Rosenstein."
["Steele said he ‘was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president,'”]

Do you, fuzzy1, remember Bruce "Ohr, Who worked on Drug Strategy, Lost His Main Title & the FISA Memo Says He Was a Steele Contact Within DOJ"

"And as it happened, at the exact same time that Trump hired Manafort, Fusion GPS was in negotiations with Perkins Coie, the law firm representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, to see if there was interest in the firm continuing
the opposition research on the Trump campaign they had started for the
Washington Free Beacon...

"A Democratic consultant and Ukrainian-American activist named Alexandra Chalupa, told the Clinton campaign about Manafort’s work for Yanukovich.
“I flagged for the DNC the significance of his hire,” Chalupa told CNN in
July of this year.

"In June, three months after being hired by the lawyers for the Clinton campaign and the DNC, Simpson brought on Steele ...— Simpson must have thought
Steele’s name at a minimum would be useful in marketing whatever his firm
pulled together. Reportedly, Steele had a good relationship with the FBI,
and journalists love spies who spill secrets."

"A Tablet investigation using public sources to trace the evolution of the now-famous dossier suggests that central elements of the Russiagate scandal emerged not from the British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s top-secret “sources” in the Russian government—which are unlikely to exist separate from Russian
government control—but from a series of stories that Fusion GPS co-founder
Glenn Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby co-wrote for The Wall Street Journal
well before Fusion GPS existed ...

"Last week’s revelation that Simpson hired Nellie Ohr, the wife of ranking [Obama] Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, to work on the dossier certainly supports Jacoby’s implicit contention that Steele’s role in compiling the dossier has been exaggerated. Ohr is a Stanford Ph.D. whose expertise is Russia, and she
appears to be fluent in the language... [who] spoke Russian and wrote
well enough to publish in academic journals...

"That Fusion GPS had apparently little on Russia,
never mind on Trump’s dealings in Russia,
is partly a reflection of the sorry state
of U.S. government expertise..."

https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/251897/obama-steele-dossier-russiagate
https://heavy.com/news/2017/12/bruce-ohr-dossier-fusion-gps-trump-demoted/