Edward Klein is the former editor in chief of the New York Times Magazine and the author of numerous bestsellers including his fourth book on the Clintons, Guilty as Sin, in 2016. His latest book is All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump was released on October 30, 2017

Hillary Clinton is in secret negotiations with Christopher Steele, the author of the infamous Russian dossier, to purchase a second report that allegedly contains salacious new charges against President Trump, according to several sources with personal knowledge of the transaction.

The talks with Steele, a former British spy, are being carried out by Hillary's former campaign aides, who do not hide their bitterness over the shocking loss of the White House to Donald Trump, these sources say.

'Hillary's people have been secretly in touch with Steele and are close to making a deal with him on opposition research that he claims has newly surfaced from his Russian sources,' says a longtime Clinton adviser.

'Steele didn't release this information before now because it wasn't available to him when he put together his first dossier,' the adviser continued.

As I reported in my new book, All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump, the first 35-page Steele dossier 'contained sensational charges that the Russian Federal Security Service had 'kompromat,' or compromising information, on Trump that could be used to blackmail him.

Hillary Clinton's former campaign aides are in talks with Christopher Steele, the author of the 'damning' Russian dossier on Donald Trump which was later discredited

According to that now discredited dossier, Trump had sex with Russian prostitutes when he visited Moscow.'

I included a long excerpt from the first dossier in All Out War.

All the publicity generated by the release of the first dossier and the dubious claims of a $12 million payment have reportedly brought shady characters in Russia out of the woodwork. They are said to be looking for a big pay day.

'There are many wealthy people in the anti-Trump 'resistance' who are more than willing to put up whatever money is necessary to get this new information,' said a member of Hillary's inner circle.

Christopher Steele, a former British spy, compiled a dossier on Donald Trump that alleged the president had sex with Russian prostitutes when he visited Moscow

Hillary has informed Bill Clinton that once she acquires the second dossier, she intends to release it to friendly members of the media.

'She's convinced that Trump made business deals with Russians with ties to the Kremlin in return for a promise to offer the Russians favorable trade conditions,' according to a source who was privy to her conversation with her husband.

'There are also claims in this second dossier that Trump had romantic involvements with Russian women over the years who are connected to the Kremlin's spy apparatus,' this source went on.

'Hillary has said that she'll do whatever it takes to make sure Trump's 'illegitimate presidency', as she constantly refers to it among friends and campaign associates, ends in ashes.

'She says that there are many additional pages of intelligence on Trump and his ties with the Russians. As soon as the negotiations with Steele are complete and she gets the [second] dossier, she's going to double down and release all the new material.'

Hillary personally authorized her campaign chairman, John Podesta, to launch the first controversial Russian dossier, according to a senior Clinton campaign strategist who worked for Hillary in both her 2008 and 2016 presidential bids.

Hillary approved Podesta's decision to pay for the dossier by funneling campaign funds through Marc Elias, the Perkins Coie attorney who represented both the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

'She is completely unrepentant about financing the first Russian dossier, despite it's being widely discredited,' said the campaign strategist.

All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump was released on October 30, 2017

According to multiple sources in the Clinton political orbit, Hillary still believes that the most outlandish charges in the original dossier are true, including that Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin.

'This second deal with Christopher Steele isn't going through Marc Elias and Perkins Coie,' said a Clinton source. 'Perkins Coie got badly burned with the first dossier, and they don't want any part of the second one,' the source added.

A close legal adviser to Bill Clinton adds: 'Bill is horrified about all this. He thinks this will blow up in Hillary's face once the charges in the second dossier are proven to be as false as the charges in the first dossier. He's also worried that she may be called to testify under oath before a congressional committee how she got the new dossier.

'But Hillary is adamant,' the adviser continued, 'and her aides, including Huma Abedin, are egging her on. They tell her that whatever it takes to undo the Trump agenda is justified, and Hillary subscribes to that theory.'