Ivanka Trump had a ‘personal relationship’ with dossier author Christopher Steele for YEARS

Ivanka Trump and Christopher Steele had a longstanding friendship that started a decade before the former British spy authored the infamous dossier, a new report revealed Monday.

Revelations of their relationship came to light as investigators with the Justice Department’s Inspector General’s office were looking into allegations of potential political bias at the genesis of the Russia investigation.

The inspector general’s report, which was released Monday, references Steele and Trump’s meetings and correspondence over the years.

But Steele cited his past cordial relationship with Trump as reason to show that he is not biased against the Trump family, as thought by Republicans after the released of his dossier.

‘If anything he was ‘favorably predisposed’ towards the Trump family before he began his research,’ the IG report reads, inciting a phrase Steele used to describe his view of the Trumps.

The relationship is shocking to those who feel Steele created the dossier as a bias document against Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential elections. Steele says his friendship with Ivanka should prove the he is actually ‘favorably predisposed’ to the Trumps

Steele told investigators he met with ‘a Trump family member at Trump Tower and ‘been friendly’ with [the family member] for some years.’

He mentioned that he gifted the individual a ‘family tartan,’ and said any suggestion that he was biased against the Trumps was ‘ridiculous.’

A tartan is a patterned cloth usually with criss-crossed bands in multiple colors – and historically each clan or family in Scotland would have a particular tartan pattern associated with them and would be worn in their kilts. 

Although the report does not include the name of the individual, ABC News revealed that the individual is Ivanka, who Steele met at a dinner party in 2007.

Steele and the president’s eldest daughter began their correspondence following their meeting, talking about working together in the future, a source indicated.

Emails between the two individuals indicated they stayed in touch over email for several years. In on they emails the two talked about meeting up near Trump Tower and in another 2008 exchange they discussed going out for dinner together in New York City, a few blocks away from the tower.

At the time of those email chains, Trump was working as the executive vice president of the Trump Organization and she and Steele discussed a range of services his company could offer Trump’s foreign real estate projects.

The two, however, never worked together.

Steele authored a 2016 dossier alleging links between the Trump campaign and Russia, which ultimately led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate the claims.

The dossier also detailed embarrassing incidents involving Donald Trump before he took office.

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his report Monday, which revealed that Steele and a member of the Trump family had a years-long relationship

In one instance, it alleges that Trump ‘hated’ then-President Barack Obama so much that when he stayed in the presidential suite of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Moscow in 2013 he paid ‘a number of prostitutes to perform a ‘golden showers’ show in front of him’ to defile the bed used by the Obamas on their visit to Russia.

The alleged incident is reportedly videotaped.

Critics of Steele, mainly Republicans, argue that the former MI6 officer who founded the London-based intelligence firm Orbis was biased against Trump and set out to produce a negative report on the then-presidential candidate.

Steele was hired by Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm, in 2016 to look into then-candidate Trump and his potential ties to Russia.

Trump has called the dossier ‘phony’ and depicted Steele as a ‘dopey’ ‘failed spy.’

On Twitter he referred to the former intelligence official as ‘Steele of fraudulent Dossier fame,’ and claims he is ‘tied’ to Hillary Clinton – his 2016 Democratic rival.

DOJ officials traveled to London to interview Steele in June.