Here’s How Much The Clinton Campaign And DNC Paid For The Trump Dossier

[stjames1_53]

Here's How much Clinton Campaign and the DNC Paid for the Trump Dossier
Chuck Ross

The Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee paid just over $1 million for the infamous Trump dossier, the opposition research firm behind the salacious document said on Wednesday. Fusion GPS, the Washington, D.C.-based firm, made the disclosures to the House Intelligence Committee last week, according to Reuters.
Fusion, founded by three former Wall Street Journal reporters, also disclosed that of the $1.02 million it received from Democrats, the firm paid the author of the dossier, Christopher Steele, $168,000 for his work on the document.
Steele, a former British intelligence officer, was hired by Fusion GPS last June. His 35-page dossier, chock full of allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government, has been used by the FBI as part of its investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election.

The payments to Fusion GPS for the dossier were made by Perkins Coie, the law firm that represents the Clinton campaign and DNC. Perkins Coie partner Marc Elias, who served as general counsel for both entities, was the bagman for the project, The Washington Post reported last week. Perkins Coie acknowledged its role in the dossier last week, as the House Intelligence Committee ramped up pressure on Fusion GPS’s bank to release the firm’s bank records.Fusion was first hired to investigate Trump in Oct. 2015 by The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by billionaire megadonor Paul Singer. Singer was a vigorous critic of Trump. He backed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign.The Free Beacon, which disclosed its involvement with Fusion to the House panel on Friday, says that its research did not make its way into the dossier. The site asked Fusion to end its research of Trump in May 2016, just after the real estate mogul won the Indiana primaries.
The Daily Caller was told by knowledgeable sources that The Free Beacon continued paying Fusion as part of other research until January, when BuzzFeed News published Steele’s dossier.
Singer’s camp denied any involvement with Fusion over the summer, when asked by The DC whether the billionaire had hired the firm to investigate Trump. An email sent to Singer was forwarded to his spokesman, who vehemently denied any connection to Fusion.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/01/he...trump-dossier/

and yet in spite of this evidence, they maintain their innocence by ignorance...

[barb012]

You would think that Singer and the Clinton's would have been open about their activities with the dossier on Trump. The dossier is centered around if Trump took the bite to get a hold of Clinton's emails from Russia. The emails that Clinton managed to destroy many of them which doesn't make her look like a victim but may have provided proof with her dealings with Russia. It appears no one is connecting these dots as there is a big risk to the Democratic party as a whole in future elections.

[stjames1_53]

You would think that Singer and the Clinton's would have been open about their activities with the dossier on Trump. The dossier is centered around if Trump took the bite to get a hold of Clinton's emails from Russia. The emails that Clinton managed to destroy many of them which doesn't make her look like a victim but may have provided proof with her dealings with Russia. It appears no one is connecting these dots as there is a big risk to the Democratic party as a whole in future elections.

....and very damaging to msm.....

[barb012]

I am sure that the Clinton's thoroughly investigated the contents of that dossier and obviously found nothing to prevent Trump from getting elected. Mueller's investigation is an attempt to protect all the department's reputation involved in this that did not do their job correctly before Trump got elected.

Russia's collusion with ads is entirely Facebook's fault for not following protocol of our rules on foreign ads. This has nothing to do with Trump so what is left is whether he got any of those Clinton emails from sources in Russia which there is no proof that this happened. I would like to see those emails.

[Grokmaster]

More of the blatant criminality of the sleazocrat hypocrites...

[barb012]

I cannot believe that Hillary was so powerful to allow her to have her own private sever in her basement home where all of her emails, government business and private use where she could delete those emails at will would allow this when she became Secretary of State. She should have been forced to use the government server for all emails related to her job as this is the only way to monitor their activities. It is a disgrace why everyone ignored this and it is even worst when Clinton deleted over 30,000 emails claiming they were personal emails which government officials accepted this poor excuse.

The fact that the government makes this rules on government employees but with no legal consequences if they are broken is unacceptable to the public. Clinton knew better than to delete those emails if she was actually innocent on all accusations made against her. If she had shared all those emails, perhaps she would have had a better shot at getting elected if her claim of no illegal activity was true.

[Grokmaster]

I cannot believe that Hillary was so powerful to allow her to have her own private sever in her basement home where all of her emails, government business and private use where she could delete those emails at will would allow this when she became Secretary of State. She should have been forced to use the government server for all emails related to her job as this is the only way to monitor their activities. It is a disgrace why everyone ignored this and it is even worst when Clinton deleted over 30,000 emails claiming they were personal emails which government officials accepted this poor excuse.

The fact that the government makes this rules on government employees but with no legal consequences if they are broken is unacceptable to the public. Clinton knew better than to delete those emails if she was actually innocent on all accusations made against her. If she had shared all those emails, perhaps she would have had a better shot at getting elected if her claim of no illegal activity was true.

The corruption of the DNC knows no nadir, and continues, with the thousands of Deep State operatives they have imbedded the Federal government with....even Mueller's investigation LEAKS CLASSIFIED DATA LIKE A SIEVE....

Now, they actually try to claim that paying a law firm MILLIONS, to pay a FOREIGN SPY, the PAY THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT, for damaging data on now-Pres.Trump is just "regular opposition research", while a Russian lawyer CALLING JARED KUSCHNER, and SEEKING HIM OUT, instead of vice ersa, to allegedly provide damaging information on Hillary Clinton, is a "CRIME"...

Hypocrisy AND double standard bullcrap is their bread and butter....

[Common Sense]

So?

Are people aware that the dossier was initially commissioned by conservatives and then picked up by the Clinton campaign?

There is nothing illegal about digging up dirt on your political rival.

I know people have been told this is some huge thing...but it's not. Some are clearly easily influenced when they read sources that tell them what they want to hear.

[stjames1_53]

So?

Are people aware that the dossier was initially commissioned by conservatives and then picked up by the Clinton campaign?

There is nothing illegal about digging up dirt on your political rival.

I know people have been told this is some huge thing...but it's not. Some are clearly easily influenced when they read sources that tell them what they want to hear.

So, what was factual in the alleged dossier? Why wasn't it use initially instead of waiting for his win? Why did the DNC pick it up, after the fact that they paid millions for useless information then try to hide the fact that they paid for it?
speculate: Why did Podesto run from his duties when Mueller started digging into his activities?

[Grokmaster]

So?

Are people aware that the dossier was initially commissioned by conservatives and then picked up by the Clinton campaign?

There is nothing illegal about digging up dirt on your political rival.

I know people have been told this is some huge thing...but it's not. Some are clearly easily influenced when they read sources that tell them what they want to hear.

More bull$#@!. It was commission be the Washington Free Beacon , who then abandoned it; the FOREIGN SPY and PAID RUSSIAN CONTACTS are the DNC's/ HILLARY CAMPAIGN, and the DNC's/HILLARY'S CAMPAIGN ALONE.


Nice try...