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

[UglyCasanova]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.b517a9434d5b

The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about President Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.

Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.

After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to those people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the company in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Before that agreement, Fusion GPS’s research into Trump was funded by an unknown Republican client during the GOP primary.

The Clinton campaign and the DNC, through the law firm, continued to fund Fusion GPS’s research through the end of October 2016, days before Election Day.

 

[UglyCasanova]

 

[Paratus]

I feel like this has been common knowledge for months?

 

[brandonbull]

Not a shocker. I guess the DNC finger pointing is about to start.

 

[Jhhnn]

Well, I mean, if democrats paid for it then it must not be true, right? Not a word of it!

 

[UNCjigga]

If Trump is as stupid as I think he is, then he just got the cover he needs to fire Mueller.

 

[Jhhnn]

If Trump is as stupid as I think he is, then he just got the cover he needs to fire Mueller.

How's that?

 

[Paratus]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...ortedly_paid_for_salacious_trump_dossier.html


Yup months.

What's funny is the dossie was originally paid for by one of Trumps republican opponents. Who we still don't know.

 

[UglyCasanova]

The FBI’s Political Meddling
Mueller is the wrong sleuth when his ex-agency is so tangled up with Russia.

http://archive.is/adz7m

 

[ivwshane]

Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the company in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Before that agreement, Fusion GPS’s research into Trump was funded by an unknown Republican client during the GOP primary.

Misleading title by the OP? I think so.

 

[UberNeuman]

lol. Opposition parties pay for research into the other parties weaknesses. Film at 11!

 

[Jhhnn]

The FBI’s Political Meddling
Mueller is the wrong sleuth when his ex-agency is so tangled up with Russia.

http://archive.is/adz7m

So the thread topic is just a segue into your usual rant about Mueller who had nothing to do with the dossier until somebody gave it to him?

Cuz the FBI is tangled up with Russia in some undefined way?

 

[UglyCasanova]

I guess WaPo has a misleading title also since that’s the title of their article.

 

[ivwshane]

I guess WaPo has a misleading title also since that’s the title of their article.

Yes.

 

[brandonbull]

Well, I mean, if democrats paid for it then it must not be true, right? Not a word of it!

Remember the lawyer Trump Jr "colluded" with? She has a relationship with Fusion GPS.

 

[ivwshane]

Remember the lawyer Trump Jr "colluded" with? She has a relationship with Fusion GPS.

Your tired Republican talking point is tired.

Fusion GPS has said that it was working for the law firm BakerHostetler, which was representing Prevezon, a Russian holding company based in Cyprus, in its defense against Justice Department allegations that Prevezon laundered money stolen in the fraud Magnitsky uncovered. Veselnitskaya was Prevezon's lawyer. Fusion GPS started working on the case in 2013 and the case settled in May with no admission of guilt by Prevezon.

Fusion GPS told me its work on the Prevezon case had nothing to do with the 2016 presidential election and they were not involved in the outreach to the Trump campaign.

I continue to be amazed by the amount of bullshit you idiot righties fall for that can easily be disproved.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ho-met-donald-trump-jr-and-the-trump-dossier/

 

[Jhhnn]

I guess WaPo has a misleading title also since that’s the title of their article.

Nobody is denying that the DNC paid for the research to finish after Trump's primary opponents initiated it.

OTOH, Mueller & the FBI had nothing to do with it until they received it.

 

[HomerJS]

I guess WaPo has a misleading title also since that’s the title of their article.

Yes, the title is partially incorrect. Republicans paid for the research. They stopped paying when Trump got the nomination. Dems picked up the payments thereafter. Check other sources and then you should correct.

Correct title would be GOP and Dems paid for..........

 

[emperus]

The FBI has substantiated a large part of the Dossier. It should speak volumes that the FBI wanted to hire Steele, who helped write it.

 

[FIVR]

If Trump is as stupid as I think he is, then he just got the cover he needs to fire Mueller.

Why would he do that? Mueller is doing a great job of investigating DNC lobbyists for Trump.

 

[fskimospy]

I guess WaPo has a misleading title also since that’s the title of their article.

Is there any time in your entire thread where you are going to say what it is you think happened?

 

[outriding]

So i have 2 questions..

1) does this make the dossier fake
2) is there a peepee tape

 

[zinfamous]

Oh wow. A political campaign funded opposition research that actually got results! This is fucking evil, I tell you.

 

[zinfamous]

Not a shocker. I guess the DNC finger pointing is about to start.

I can see it now:

"You did your job!"

"No sir, you did your job!"

"Hey ma'am, don't you tell me that, you did your job!"
etc. etc.

Holy shit you guys really have nothing to hang on to. How does it feel, owning the failure that is the Trump Banana Republicans?

 

[Zorba]

@UglyCasanova I am know I am supposed to outraged, but not really sure why. Can you please get my a fresh copy of the talking points?