WJ: Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page has filed a defamation suit against the Democratic National Committee and its law firm for the Steele dossier.
Page filed the suit in federal court in Oklahoma and named not only the DNC, but also its law firm, Perkins Coie, and two of its partners, Marc Elias and Michael Sussmann, The Daily Caller News Foundation reported.
Perkins Coie also represented Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and they were hired by Fusion GPS, an opposition research group that investigated Donald Trump’s possible involvement with Russia.
Fusion GPS, which was started by three former Wall Street Journal reporters, hired former British spy Christopher Steele to conduct the investigation as part of a $1 million project.
The result of that investigation was a dossier that alleged ties between the Kremlin and President Donald Trump’s campaign, asserting that the Kremlin was blackmailing then-candidate Trump, among other things.
That document also claims that Page attended secret meetings with Kremlin officials and worked with Russia to influence the 2016 election, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Page has persistently denied that claim and told CNN’s Jake Tapper in July that he has “never been an agent of a foreign power by any stretch of the imagination.”
According to Oklahoma City’s CBS News 9, Page’s suit cited “death threats” following the release of the dossier, which forced him to move for his own safety.
“My decision to pursue this action in the (Western District of Oklahoma) … is part of the extraordinary efforts I have had to continue taking to remain safe,” Page wrote. more here
This will provide more political theatrics for the press but will drag on forever. I hope he wins by costing them millions and exposing their sleazy tactics but I don’t hold out much hope.
The head of the snake is still untouched.
Another casualty of the lefts war for power, anything goes.
Many years ago I became familiar with “DNC” as medical shorthand for “Dilation and Curettage (or Curettment)*”.
Even today when I see “DNC” that’s what I immediately think of. Seems somehow oddly appropriate, though.
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* – Look it up.
D&C= dusting and cleaning