The Steele Dossier was payed for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC. None of the information in it had been proven and what has been researched has been proven false:
There was a "clandestine meeting" between Trumps lawyer, Michael Cohen and a Russian spy in August of 2016. (False)
Proving things false isn't how the law works in the US. The Dossier made a bunch of claims with no evidence to back it up. It was then used by the FBI to obtain FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign.
That's illegal.
Everyone who has their names on the documents signing off on it are in deep shit, which is why the dnc and the media are clinging onto the lies. If they admit it was made up, then a bunch of people in Obamas administration, including Obama, become criminals.
The Dossier was deliberately leaked to the press because they knew people are too stupid to verify things and would just believe it. Take what happened to the maga hat kid as an example. Fortunately for him, that was easy to disprove. The Dossier isn't as easy and people aren't as motivated to search for it on their own so the lies are still circulating.
Public opinion doesn't mean shit to the law, especially when the court is clean. They can spread all the lies on the TV they want and trick as many fools as they can into believing them. It's not going to matter. They're all screwed.