Posted on 10/27/2017 4:44:58 PM PDT by maggief
The Washington Free Beacon, funded by GOP mega-donor Paul Singer was reportedly the original funder of Fusion GPS’ research project that attempted to dig up dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump — a project that would later be funded by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
The Washington Examiner reported Friday that lawyers for the Free Beacon — a plucky conservative outlet based in the nation’s capital — funded the project from fall 2015 to spring 2016, when it pulled its funding.
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The Free Beacon is funded in large part by the New York hedge fund billionaire and major GOP donor Paul Singer, the New York Times reported.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/politics/trump-dossier-paul-singer.html?_r=0
WASHINGTON — The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, was the first to hire the firm that conducted opposition research on Donald J. Trump — including a salacious dossier describing ties between Mr. Trump and the Russian government — website representatives told the House Intelligence Committee on Friday.
According to people briefed on the conversation, the website hired the firm, Fusion GPS, in October 2015 to unearth damaging information about several Republican presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump. But The Free Beacon told the firm to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.
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Mr. Singer initially supported Senator Marco Rubio’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. But after Mr. Rubio dropped out of the race, Mr. Singer spearheaded an effort to block Mr. Trump from winning the presidential nomination, drawing Mr. Trump’s ire.
As well as contributing to private initiatives, Singer also actively seeks to persuade other Republicans to support gay marriage.[11][111] He has joined other Wall Street executives in support of LGBT equality and stated that same-sex marriage promotes “family stability” and that in a time when “the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed,” the fact that gay couples want to marry “is kind of a lovely thing and a cool thing and a wonderful thing.”[112][113]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_(businessman)#Political_activity
“During the 2016 Presidential election campaign Singer supported Marco Rubio”
But they are saying they didn’t fund the dossier info.
Does anyone know when Fusion GPS retained Christopher Steele?
I’m predicting a fall-off of threads posted here from the WFB in the future.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/politics/trump-dossier-paul-singer.html?_r=0
WASHINGTON — The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, was the first to hire the firm that conducted opposition research on Donald J. Trump — including a salacious dossier describing ties between Mr. Trump and the Russian government — website representatives told the House Intelligence Committee on Friday.
According to people briefed on the conversation, the website hired the firm, Fusion GPS, in October 2015 to unearth damaging information about several Republican presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump. But The Free Beacon told the firm to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.
In April 2016, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee also retained Fusion GPS to research any possible connections between Mr. Trump, his businesses, his campaign team and Russia. Working for them, Fusion GPS retained a respected former British spy named Christopher Steele.
IIRC...someone on FNC said, tonight, that it was right after the GOPer pulled out and that was when, ONLY THEN, that Fushion contacted Steele.
Yep just deleted them from Favoites.
It will be interesting to see Steele's contract with Fusion and the contacts between WFB/Fusion and Clinton/DNC/Fusion.
Definitely a Cheap Labor Express operation.
I called it earlier this week....Marco Rubio. Singer is his backer.
Unreal.
NeverTrumpers selling their souls to get Communist Democrats elected..NEVER EVER forget that..they are WORSE than Democrats because at least Democrats tell us what they want to turn America into..NeverTrumpers..AKA Progressive Republicans, LIE about their agenda
I was convinced it was Juan McCain, well I’ll be, it wasn’t him..lil Marco Rubio’s lil buddy gay supporter Paul Singer
Since he is a big LGBT supporter, and married once that no one seems to know when that marriage was performed, but divorced in 1996 and has never remarried, one has to wonder if he himself is a member of that community. Apparently his son Andrew is a homosexual. Is he just following in his father’s lifestyle?
Paul singer you know I’m not even going to bother to comment but calls it’s always like this
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