Clinton Campaign / DNC paid for Steele Dossier

anchovies said:
Pretty funny that now the conservatives actually think that the Clintons colluded with the Russians to produce a fake file on candidate Trump, why, couldn't anyone have done that are their own without any need for Russians?
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Did anyone say the DEMOCRATS had a "need for Russians" to make up fake stories, anchovies? :dunno:
 
Darth Omar said:
Knowing Trump, if he had something to fear we'd know it lol.

Until the recent revelations of democrat corruption regarding the Fake News Piss Dossier he's been quiet about anything to do with Russia or Mueller.
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Now we find that the Obama campaign paid the firm that hired Fusion GPS almost $1 million.


Since April of 2016, Obama's campaign organization has paid nearly a million dollars to the law firm that funneled money to Fusion GPS to compile a dossier of unverified allegations against Donald Trump.



http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/29/obamas-campaign-gave-972000-law-firm-funneled-money-fusion-gps/
 
God bless America said:
Now we find that the Obama campaign paid the firm that hired Fusion GPS almost $1 million.


Since April of 2016, Obama's campaign organization has paid nearly a million dollars to the law firm that funneled money to Fusion GPS to compile a dossier of unverified allegations against Donald Trump.



http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/29/obamas-campaign-gave-972000-law-firm-funneled-money-fusion-gps/
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Darth Omar said:
Knowing Trump, if he had something to fear we'd know it lol.

Until the recent revelations of democrat corruption regarding the Fake News Piss Dossier he's been quiet about anything to do with Russia or Mueller.
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Because you can't see past the shit on the tip of your nose, you don't realize that every NFL/Korea/healthcare distraction is BECAUSE he's shitting his pants, and he needs to change the narrative.

Look how he has you puppets making asses of yourselves using the terms you did in your post above?
 
Althea said:
Because you can't see past the shit on the tip of your nose, you don't realize that every NFL/Korea/healthcare distraction is BECAUSE he's shitting his pants, and he needs to change the narrative.

Look how he has you puppets making asses of yourselves using the terms you did in your post above?
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Why doesn't he fire Mueller if he's guilty?
 
Darth Omar said:
Why doesn't he fire Mueller if he's guilty?
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Trust me...he want's to. This might be the only thing that he's listening to his advisers about. He fired Comey. If he fired Mueller, the White House would be razed again. It's been a while since the last time it was burned to the ground.


That, and he plans to pardon himself
 
Althea said:
Trust me...he want's to. This might be the only thing that he's listening to his advisers about. He fired Comey. If he fired Mueller, the White House would be razed again. It's been a while since the last time it was burned to the ground.

That, and he plans to pardon himself
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The president can't pardon himself from impeachment.

I don't buy your wishful thinking. If Trump was guilty Mueller would be gone already. Trump is letting it play out---as if he knows something you don't.
 
Darth Omar said:
The president can't pardon himself from impeachment.

I don't buy your wishful thinking. If Trump was guilty Mueller would be gone already. Trump is letting it play out---as if he knows something you don't.
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You're conflating impeachment with other prosecutable offenses. That's why his toilet tweets are aimed at gullible people like yourself. If he keeps his base, House Republicans won't bring impeachment proceedings. He hasn't considered that he might lose the House in '18
 
Althea said:
You're conflating impeachment with other prosecutable offenses. That's why his toilet tweets are aimed at gullible people like yourself. If he keeps his base, House Republicans won't bring impeachment proceedings. He hasn't considered that he might lose the House in '18
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I'm not conflating anything.

The president isn't Flynn or Manafort. Trump can pardon either one of them [assuming there's an indictment that results in a conviction] but the president can't pardon himself.

If Trump is guilty, he needs to fire Mueller and hope he survives impeachment proceedings. It's his only way out.

Or maybe he isn't guilty of anything.
 
Darth Omar said:
I'm not conflating anything.

The president isn't Flynn or Manafort. Trump can pardon either one of them [assuming there's an indictment that results in a conviction] but the president can't pardon himself.

If Trump is guilty, he needs to fire Mueller and hope he survives impeachment proceedings. It's his only way out.

Or maybe he isn't guilty of anything.
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If he isn't guilty, why would he ask?

He might have insulated himself from collusion, but his kids surely didn't. But he's guilty of aiding and abetting Putin in money laundering in the U.S.. Manafort may very well sing, or trump may have promised him a pardon. In either case, he's still guilty. As is trump.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-mueller-special-counsel-russia-a7852181.html


Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the probe, according to one of those people. A second person said Trump’s lawyers have been discussing the president’s pardoning powers among themselves.
Trump’s legal team declined to comment on the issue. But one adviser said the president has simply expressed a curiosity in understanding the reach of his pardoning authority, as well as the limits of Mueller’s investigation.
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noise said:
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 firm in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Before that agreement, Fusion GPS’s research into Trump was funded by a still 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.


Fusion GPS gave Steele’s reports and other research documents to Elias, the people familiar with the matter said. It is unclear how or how much of that information was shared with the campaign and DNC, and who in those organizations was aware of the roles of Fusion GPS and Steele. One person close to the matter said the campaign and the DNC were not informed of Fusion GPS’s role by the law firm.

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 are included in an Oct. 24 letter sent by Perkins Coie to a lawyer representing Fusion GPS, telling the research firm that 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 that they would not disclose the dollar amounts paid to Fusion GPS, but said that 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.

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.

Some of Steele’s allegations began circulating in Washington in the summer of 2016 as the FBI launched its counterintelligence investigation into possible connections between Trump associates and the Kremlin. Around that time, Steele shared some of his findings with the FBI.

After the election, the FBI agreed to pay Steele to continue gathering intelligence about Trump and Russia, but the bureau pulled out of the arrangement after Steele was publicly identified in news reports.

The dossier was published by BuzzFeed News in January. Fusion GPS has said in court filings that it did not give BuzzFeed the document.

In early January, then-FBI Director James B. Comey presented a two-page summary of Steele’s dossier to President Barack Obama and President-elect Trump.

Congressional Republicans have tried to force Fusion GPS to identify the Democrat or group behind Steele’s work, but the firm has said that it would not do so, citing confidentiality agreements with its clients.

Last week, Fusion GPS executives invoked their constitutional right not to answer questions from the House Intelligence Committee. The firm’s founder, Glenn Simpson, had previously given a 10-hour interview to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Over objections from Democrats, the Republican leader of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (Calif.), subpoenaed Fusion GPS’s bank records to try to identify the mystery client.

Fusion GPS has been fighting the release of its bank records. A judge on Tuesday extended a deadline for Fusion GPS’s bank to respond to the subpoena until Friday while the company attempts to negotiate a resolution with Nunes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...b9_story.html?utm_term=.1569774179d7#comments
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This makes perfect sense.

Mueller needs to be redirected to fat ass, or he needs to be shut down. America doesn't have time for liberal red herrings.
 
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