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Russiagate Update – Clinton campaign, DNC paid for research that led to Russia dossier

Tuesday, 24 October 2017, 19:23 BFH Uncategorized 42

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 Now we know that the Democrats and the Clinton campaign PAID FOR Russian interference in the US Presidential election.  This is beyond scandalous!!!!

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The dossier has become a lightning rod amid the intensifying investigations into the Trump campaign’s possible connections to Russia. Some congressional Republican leaders have spent months trying to discredit Fusion GPS and Steele, and tried to determine the identity of the Democrat or organization that paid for it.

Trump tweeted as recently as Saturday that the Justice Department and FBI should “immediately release who paid for it.”

Elias and Fusion GPS declined to comment on the arrangement. Spokespersons for the Clinton campaign and the DNC had no immediate comment.

Some of the details about Fusion GPS’s work are included in a Oct. 24 letter sent by Perkins Coie to a lawyer representing Fusion GPS telling the research firm it was released from a client confidentiality obligation. The letter was prompted by a legal fight over a subpoena for Fusion GPS’s bank records.

People involved in the matter said they would not disclose the dollar-amounts paid to Fusion GPS, but said the campaign and the DNC shared the cost.

Steele previously worked in Russia for British intelligence. The dossier is a compilation of reports he prepared for Fusion. The dossier alleged that the Russian government collected compromising information about Trump and the Kremlin was engaged in an active effort to assist his campaign for president.

Trump has adamantly denied the allegations in the dossier and has dismissed the FBI probe as a witch hunt.

Fusion GPS’s work researching Trump began during the Republican presidential primaries when the GOP donor paid for the firm to investigate the real estate tycoon’s background.

Fusion GPS did not start off looking at Trump’s Russia ties, but quickly realized that those relationships were extensive, according to the people familiar with the matter.

When the Republican donor stopped paying for the research, Elias, acting on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC, agreed to pay for the work to continue.

The Democrats paid for research, including by Fusion GPS, because of concerns that little was known about Trump and his business interests, according to the people familiar with the matter.

These people said it is standard practice for political campaigns to use law firms to hire outside researchers in order to ensure their work is protected by attorney-client and work product privileges.

The Clinton campaign paid Perkins Coie $5.6 million in legal fees from June 2015 to December 2016, according to campaign finance records, and the DNC paid the firm $3.6 million in “legal and compliance consulting’’ since Nov. 2015 — though it’s impossible to tell from the filings how much of that work was for other legal matters and how much of it related to Fusion GPS.

At no point, these people said, did the Clinton campaign or the DNC direct Steele’s activities. They described him as a Fusion GPS subcontractor.

42 Comments on Russiagate Update – Clinton campaign, DNC paid for research that led to Russia dossier

  3. Well, just like the photo of Obama, in Muslim ceremonial dress the Clintons released on the internet in 2008.
    WHY would anyone doubt that they were responsible for that Dossier?

  6. I can’t tell if the Clinton’s are either a crime syndicate or spies or both. They started Obama birther movement (whether it is true or not is part of the agitation aspect) and now this BS dossier crap.

    They seem to profit handsomely from agitating and polarizing different groups.

  9. Dems accusation of GOP wrong-doing more often than not mirror-images actual Dem wrong-doing. I wonder if the Dems realize by spinning the Niger incident as “Trump’s Benghazi” they are admitting Clinton’s culpability.

  10. I caught a little of Mark Levin on the way home and according to the story he tells there is still a significant republican that has yet to be named in this. Now this is pure speculation, but maybe it is Jeff Sessions, and he has been a mole right from day one. At least that would explain his inaction in the face of a mountain of evidence.

  11. Libtards don’t think this is any big deal if you read the WaPo comments…they are focusing on this sentence, “Fusion GPS did not start off looking at Trump’s Russia ties, but quickly realized that those relationships were extensive, according to the people familiar with the matter.”

    They are dismissing the whole thing and spin it to fit their reality that this means that Trump did conspire with the Russians…and OppO research is what a patriotic candidate is supposed to do! Yay Hillary!!!

    Barf.

  12. “but maybe it is Jeff Sessions”

    Na, after watching this guy for a while and listening to him testify in front of Congress I think the guys just dumb as a post. I bet it’s some one like Lindsay Graham.

  13. No, there’s that last missing puzzle piece. I want the Bush/McCain connection named. We know Hilary and DNC fingerprints were on this, now finger the Rs.

    BTW Tucker just had a mind blowing open. Seems maybe Manafort is a double agent, heavy ties to Podestas. My theory is Putin already owned Hillary and Manafort was sent to the Trump campaign just in case Hillary didn’t win.

    We’re no longer the USA. We’re a hybrid with Russia, China and country xyz, the highest bidder.

  16. “Fusion GPS did not start off looking at Trump’s Russia ties, but quickly realized that those relationships were extensive, according to the people familiar with the matter.”

    Of course they’re going to say that. Other wise they’d have to admit they were paid to zero in only on Trump and Russia in the first place. She would know about Russians since she and her rapist hubby have been dealing with them on the side.

  17. We know Hillary and Bill sold our uranium with help from the rest of Obama’s boobs, yet they will never be punished.
    So I think most are not surprised they’re behind this along with some unknown Republican, yet it won’t matter as they will face no consequences.

    We’ll be subjected to several dog and pony shows on the hill and yet nothing will ever happen to anyone. Same old song and dance, laws are only meant for the little people.

  18. Here’s the kicker……. DNC opposition research / character assassination materials were used as the basis to obtain a fisa warrant by the aboma administration to spy on the Republican candidate…

  19. Here’s the kicker…… So, DNC opposition research / character assassination materials were used as the basis to obtain a fisa warrant by the aboma administration to spy on the Republican candidate…

  21. “Fusion GPS did not start off looking at Trump’s Russia ties, but quickly realized that those relationships were extensive, according to the people familiar with the matter.”

    So, a year and a half later, where are those extensive relationships? Where are the Trump Towers in Russia? Where are the Russian Trump golf courses? Where are the millions?

    The only Russian money went to the Clintons and I’m certain EVERYBODY in Congress, the FBI and DOJ knew about it but that’s something gentlemen in the club overlook concerning other gentlemen in the club.

  22. To sum up;
    Hillary paid Steele to go get ‘dirt’ on Trump from the Kremlin, which were a bunch of idiotic lies, then she had it floated under the FBI’s nose [probably through McCain] so it would look like they had to investigate Trump and then 0bama turned around and had Trump wire tapped. In the meantime, hillary and the DNC were doing the colluding with Russia to wreck an election, not Trump. And I guarantee the KGB is ROTFL at all of this, even though Putin has close ties to Hillary.

    So now I understand why Comey was afraid to have hillary investigated. Because if he started a real investigation, he was afraid she’d let it leak that the FBI had a phony dossier which then 0bama jumped on to have Trump and his team wiretapped under false pretenses. So Comey had to keep quiet to protect himself, the doj and 0bama.
    But Comey was too stupid to understand that no matter who won the election, he’d be fired.

  23. Long story short, if Comey could have stopped this shit once the lie got to the FBI and burned everyone. If Comey was a decent, honest person, and truly cared about the law, none of this would be happening.

  25. The more I think about it and it coming from the Washington Post, there is something much worse that they don’t want known.
    These Fusion folks don’t want their bank records released and an Obama appointed judge just gave them an extension.

    Tucker reporting Manafort worked for the Podesta group.

  26. Yeah I read he worked for the Podesta group a long while ago. I think it was something minor, not a full time investment sort of thing. Politicians are just a bunch of inbred rats, aren’t they?

  29. This tangled Russian web is getting more entangled. According to Dimmie guest on Tucker: the uranium deal was done to get Russia to agree to the Iran nuclear deal. What a great deal They had to bribe Putin with 20% of our uranium and then deliver $400 M in cash in the dead of night to Iran to get them to agree. Talk about stupid! I see this whole thing as one big sinister Obama plot against Netanyahu and Israel. Just one man’s opinion.

  31. No surprise the Golden Showers dossier that sounded absurd was paid for and produced by a bunch of demented liberals. I remember Trump having to address that garbage and tell everyone he was a germaphobe. They truly are sick, insane people that should not only be investigated but jailed and banned from holding any public office.

  33. This dossier is part of the Russia uranium deal. In return for the Dems securing the OK for the Russians to buy the uranium, they asked the Russians to supply the dirty dossier on Trump. Steele couldn’t “find” anything on Trump until, magically, the dossier turns up. The link to the Awans is still missing, but you know they’re tied into it.

    The Russians didn’t already have the dossier, they invented it on commission.

    This is my theory, and I’m sticking to it.

  35. If it was about the Uranium deal then that means even the guy investigating and the guy who appointed him were in on it.
    Hell even the rapists in Hollywood couldn’t come up with a script like this.

  36. I thought the FBI was involved in the payment–does this news sweep that story aside?
    The heat was increasing to disband the ” Big Trump Investigation” because all the investigators are crooked–does this news (also the fishy news that Podesta is being looked into) sweep that story aside?
    Also why now? Vegas?

  42. DNC has released a statement.

    “Tom Perez and the new leadership of the DNC were not involved in the decision-making regarding Fusion GPS, nor were they aware that Perkins Coie was working with the organization,
    But let’s be clear, there is a serious federal investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia and the American public deserves to know what happened.”

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/10/dnc-panics-denies-involvement-trump-russia-dossier-awkward-press-release/

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