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Fusion GPS tried to tie Trump to Clinton’s pedophile pal Epstein as part of smear campaign
The Washington Times ^ | December 10, 2017 | Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 12/10/2017 3:41:45 PM PST by jazusamo

Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm whose Democrat-financed Russia dossier fueled an FBI investigation into Donald Trump, pitched other stories about the Republican presidential candidate to Washington reporters, including an attempt to tie him to a convicted pedophile who was once buddies with former President Bill Clinton.

Journalist sources told The Washington Times that Fusion founder Glenn Simpson pushed the idea of a close relationship between Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting sex from an underage girl.

The Trump-Epstein link appears purely social, far short of Mr. Clinton’s 20-plus plane rides on Epstein’s “Lolita Express” private jet around the globe in the early 2000s.

Ken Silverstein, the reporter who ultimately wrote an Epstein-Trump report, confirmed to The Times that Fusion had sourced the story. Mr. Silverstein, founder and editor of WashingtonBabylon.com who wrote the story for Vice.com, defended Mr. Simpson as a solid source of information that must first be confirmed.

For years, Fusion GPS has been an influential hidden hand in Washington, with entree into the city’s most powerful news bureaus.

Behind the scenes, the private intelligence firm run by former Wall Street Journal reporters was particularly active last year working to defeat Mr. Trump. Fusion leader Mr. Simpson, who railed against sleazy opposition research as a reporter, harbored a strong desire to bring down the builder of hotels with, well, opposition research.

Fusion representatives met with New York Times reporters during the Democratic National Convention in July 2016.

Ironically, it appears The Times was the first to out Fusion on Jan. 11 as the source of the scandalous dossier that BuzzFeed posted the previous day. BuzzFeed did the posting without identifying Fusion or dossier writer Christopher Steele, a former British spy.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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Long...Good piece by Rowan Scarborough on phony dossier and attempts to smear President Trump by connecting him to pedophile Jeff Epstein.
1 posted on 12/10/2017 3:41:45 PM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

The Left always accuses their opponents of what they are doing themselves.


2 posted on 12/10/2017 3:43:10 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: jazusamo

I remember that.


3 posted on 12/10/2017 3:43:38 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: jazusamo

Glen Simpson should go into hiding and change his name.


4 posted on 12/10/2017 3:43:39 PM PST by Rapscallion (Politics just makes us hate each other. It's un-christian and un-American)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Passes all around for Clinton.


5 posted on 12/10/2017 3:44:45 PM PST by Boardwalk
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To: ClearCase_guy

Bill Clinton was an island sponsor and visited more than twice.


6 posted on 12/10/2017 3:44:59 PM PST by Rapscallion (Politics just makes us hate each other. It's un-christian and un-American)
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MAGA!

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7 posted on 12/10/2017 4:16:59 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks jazusamo.

8 posted on 12/10/2017 5:03:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: jazusamo

Truly amazing how this whole narrative stitches together.....


9 posted on 12/10/2017 5:20:40 PM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: jazusamo

Bttt.

5.56mm


10 posted on 12/10/2017 5:23:11 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: jazusamo

Hillary diddled underaged girls too.


11 posted on 12/10/2017 5:30:28 PM PST by isthisnickcool (Say what you will about The Donald, but he has all the right enemies.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Weird...


12 posted on 12/10/2017 7:46:48 PM PST by GOPJ (Liberal elite women trading sex for pomotions is abuse of decent traditional women.)
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To: jazusamo

Fusion slime


13 posted on 12/10/2017 8:40:07 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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Pretty incredible.  So Fusion GPS has an extensive portfolio of false dossiers to offer? Would love to be a fly on the wall as their salesmen makes his pitch:
14 posted on 12/11/2017 6:09:34 AM PST by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: Rapscallion; poconopundit
Epstein was going to jail.....he was trying to get a better deal by bragging about all his do-goodisms.

Epstein told the court he helped Bill Clinton organize the Clinton Foundation.

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Another angle....Clinton went to Pedo Island frequently....but I say sex was not the reason.

Clinton was looking for offshore banks to stash hundreds of millions of dollars in secret accounts.

When L/E examined Epstein's books, they found Clinton and his buddy Doug Band listed with 23 phone numbers and email addies.

L/E recognizes multiple communications as evidence of money-laundering and tax evasion.

15 posted on 12/11/2017 7:46:44 AM PST by Liz (One side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesnt know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

Well now, perhaps we can speculate a little.

Did Epstein own a bank domiciled on his private island that laundered money here and there to and from the Clinton foundation?

If not, he should have.


16 posted on 12/11/2017 7:50:15 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: jazusamo

17 posted on 12/11/2017 3:38:26 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: poconopundit

Bump for professionallly done brochure selling Fusion GPS.


18 posted on 07/07/2019 1:40:55 PM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and our forests.)
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To: Liz

A different take on Epstein being part of money laundering op.


19 posted on 07/07/2019 1:43:02 PM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and our forests.)
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To: The Westerner

Thanks, The Westerner. MAGA.


20 posted on 07/07/2019 2:50:59 PM PDT by poconopundit
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