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Canceled
- Hillary Clinton 's campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped bankroll the research that resulted in the dossier on Donald Trump
- Campaign lawyer Marc Elias hired research firm Fusion GPS back in April 2016
- Research firm then hired ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who wrote the dossier, to dig up the dirt on Trump
- Clinton's lawyer and his law firm Perkins Coie continued to fund the research until days before last year's election
- Elias had earlier 'vigorously' denied being involved in the Trump dossier, according to a New York Times reporter
- The dossier made a series of salacious and discredited claims against Trump, including that he paid prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed
Clinton's campaign lawyer Marc Elias hired research firm Fusion GPS back in April 2016 to look into allegations of Trump's ties to Russia, according to the Washington Post.
Fusion GPS, the Washington-based research firm, then hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to dig up the unconfirmed dirt on Trump. Clinton's lawyer and his law firm Perkins Coie continued to fund the research until October 2016 - just days before the presidential election.
The research was previously funded by an unknown anti-Trump Republican donor during the primary, but Clinton's campaign then paid for it to be finished. Sources would not confirm how much was paid to Fusion GPS, but said the campaign and DNC shared the cost.

