Posted on 01/03/2018 11:24:09 AM PST by Starman417
On yesterday's America's Newsroom on Fox, Sandra Smith had a segment in which Rich Lowry and democrat Ben Kissel were discussing the new Papadopoulos canard the NY Times is trying to sell as the spark for the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign.
Near the end of the segment Kissel reverted to parroting the claim that the GOP had paid for part of the Trump dossier.
That is completely false. One more time for you democrats:
Oct. 2015: It was reported late Friday that the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by GOP mega-donor Paul Singer, hired Fusion GPS to investigate Trump. Free Beacons editor said Friday that the research was standard opposition research and that it was not tied to the dossier work that would follow several months later. It is not clear what, if anything, Singer knew about Free Beacons hiring of Fusion. The hedge fund manager was Florida Sen. Marco Rubios biggest backer.Please note: Carter Page, Carter Page, Carter Page. No George Papadopoulos. Andy McCarthy:Feb. 20, 2016: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush drops from the Republican primary.
March: Fusion GPS approached Perkins Coie, the law firm for the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee. Perkins Coie general counsel revealed this week that Fusion offered to continue Trump opposition research it had started while working for a Republican candidate.
March 15: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio drops from the Republican primary after losing to Trump in his home state.
April: Perkins Coie, using money from the Clinton campaign and DNC, hires Fusion GPS. Marc Elias, a Perkins Coie partner and general counsel for both the campaign and DNC, would serve as the bagman.
That month, Federal Election Commission records show that the Clinton campaign paid Perkins Coie a total of $150,000 for legal services. The DNC paid the firm around $107,000. It is unclear how much of that went to Fusion GPS. Both the campaign and DNC would pay Perkins Coie hundreds of thousands more dollars throughout the campaign.
May: Free Beacon ends its contract with Fusion.
June: Fusion GPS hires former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and his London-based firm, Orbis Business Intelligence, to investigate Trumps ties to Russia. Steele discloses this in court filings earlier this year as part of a lawsuit he faces over the dossier. Steele said he worked for Fusion GPS from June through November.
June 20: Steele writes first memo of the dossier. It alleges that Trump used prostitutes during a visit to Moscow in 2013 and that the Kremlin was blackmailing him with the evidence. The memo also alleges that the Trump campaign was engaged in a well-orchestrated collusion campaign with Russian operatives.
July 5: Steele provides his research to an FBI contact, The New York Times has reported. The documents made their way to FBI counterintelligence chief Peter Strzock two weeks later.
July: Chatter began appearing on social media referring to damning information about Trumps ties to Russia. Republican strategist Rick Wilson told The New York Times back in January, after the dossier was published, that he was first asked about the document by a reporter in July.
July 26: A Wall Street Journal reporter contacts Carter Page, a Trump campaign adviser, about allegations made about him in the dossier. Page disclosed that detail last month in a lawsuit he filed against the parent company of Yahoo! News, which republished claims from the dossier last September.
Late July: The FBI opens a counterintelligence investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
Aug. 25: Then-CIA Director John Brennan briefs then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid about possible links between Trump associates and Russian operatives. According to The New York Times, officials in the meeting said that Brennan indicated that unnamed advisers to Mr. Trump might be working with the Russians to interfere in the election.
September: The FBI obtained a surveillance warrant from a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Carter Page. The application for the warrant reportedly cited the dossier as evidence.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Maybe they should mention that they were working for the Russians simultaneously, and simultaneously in bed with DNC and Obama’s Justice Department. That the Russian lawyer who tried to ensnare Trump Jr was Fusion GPS.
The straw is McCain.
Will you bloody pimps quit excerpting your own material?
Who told you that you ought to get paid for your opinions?
If the fake Russian “Trump Dossier” was true they would have waited until November 1 to reveal it.
I think the Russian Lawyer woman who wanted to meet with Trump Jr was a setup and she saw he brought people with him so she reverted to the side story (something about child adoption)
If he was alone thy would have photographed him and her and blasted it all over the news as an ‘affair’.
He was smart to do that.
The headlines would have been all over and I can see it now:
“Mystery Russian Agent in Secret Hotel Tryst with Trump Jr” complete with photos of her from her salacious past in various stages of undress.
These people are evil
I think the Russian Lawyer woman who wanted to meet with Trump Jr was a setup and she saw he brought people with him so she reverted to the side story (something about child adoption)
If he was alone thy would have photographed him and her and blasted it all over the news as an ‘affair’.
He was smart to do that.
The headlines would have been all over and I can see it now:
“Mystery Russian Agent in Secret Hotel Tryst with Trump Jr” complete with photos of her from her salacious past in various stages of undress.
These people are evil
The Steele Dossier -- which isn't "the Trump Dossier" thank you very much -- was paid for by Hillary for Prez and the DNC. Period. Thanks Starman417.
“...stop claiming that the GOP partially paid for the Trump dossier...”
What? They’re expecting Progressive Democrats not to be the scu&bags they are?
Progressive Democrats are supposed to be revolutionary, subversive scu&bags who consider the American Constitution a document that infringes on their revolution.
If they stop being subversive and scummy, they will no longer be Progressive Democrats, but thoughtful Americans who honor the Constitution and not an international, left-wing revolution.
IMHO
I am sure not telling the truth really bothers the ‘RAT party and mainstream media....NOT!
I am sure not telling the truth really bothers the ‘RAT party and mainstream media....NOT!
Good article; thanks for posting. Ignore the self-appointed blog police. He’s still po’d from when they took away his safety patrol sash.
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