Posted on 10/30/2017 4:49:23 PM PDT by Starman417
The Trump-Russian collusion story is one big pile of manure. That actually was never in doubt but each day it appears more and more likely that the "dirty dossier" is a part of a larger conspiracy to stop Trump.
So we're clear- The Washington Free Beacon engaged Fusion GPS to do opposition research on Trump. That's it. They had nothing to do with the dossier.
Chuck Ross has provided us with a timeline:
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 Beacon’s 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 Beacon’s hiring of Fusion. The hedge fund manager was Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s biggest backer.Here is Matthew Continetti's statement about this:
Since its launch in February of 2012, the Washington Free Beacon has retained third party firms to conduct research on many individuals and institutions of interest to us and our readers. In that capacity, during the 2016 election cycle we retained Fusion GPS to provide research on multiple candidates in the Republican presidential primary, just as we retained other firms to assist in our research into Hillary Clinton. All of the work that Fusion GPS provided to the Free Beacon was based on public sources, and none of the work product that the Free Beacon received appears in the Steele dossier. The Free Beacon had no knowledge of or connection to the Steele dossier, did not pay for the dossier, and never had contact with, knowledge of, or provided payment for any work performed by Christopher Steele. Nor did we have any knowledge of the relationship between Fusion GPS and the Democratic National Committee, Perkins Coie, and the Clinton campaign.Then after Jeb Bush dropped out Fusion GPS approached the Clinton campaign:
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.In May of 2016 The Free Beacon severed ties with Fusion GPS.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.
There was no dossier at this time. Then..
June: Fusion GPS hires former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and his London-based firm, Orbis Business Intelligence, to investigate Trump’s 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.Steele put the dossier together. The information in the dossier was fed to Steele by "Russian officials":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.
Mr. Steele makes clear that his unproven charges came almost exclusively from sources linked to the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He identified his sources as “a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure,” a former “top level Russian intelligence officer active inside the Kremlin,” a “senior Kremlin official” and a “senior Russian government official.”If the Russians were seeking to help Trump get elected, why the hell would they feed Steele information damaging to Trump? Does anyone in his or her right mind think Putin was unaware of this?
It was about this time that a FISA warrant was sought to spy on Trump:
We know that that effort began some time in the late Spring or early Summer of 2016 because an application was made to the FISC in June/July. That application mentioned Trump by name–and was rejected. Why FISA? Because a Title III “wiretap” would have required an actual investigation based on a violation of a real US criminal law and a quite high and specific standard in the application for a court order.That application was made by the FBI.
It was refused, but the obama administration was desperate to spy on Trump. Thus, the dossier:
But in the anti-Trump conspiracy that’s exactly what was needed: FISA coverage, “wiretaps.” There was no time to do the painstaking research on Trump and his associates–they needed FISA and they needed it NOW. They’d already been turned down at least once. The NSA info was essentially useless, because what they really wanted was to get conversations between Trump and his associates here in the US–all USPERs–not international conversations (those were either lacking or harmless). Yes, NSA probably scoops up internal US communications of USPERs, too, but to use it without a FI and without a FISA order would be illegal. Therefore, the “dossier.”The dossier was the vehicle for obama to spy on Trump, but he couldn't do it directly. Trump's personal communications would be picked up as "incidental collection."
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Just freaking waterboard that dindu Obama- see what he says
Trump needs to fire Sessions and appoint a real conncervative who is not afraid of doing their job. All Sessions is concerned about is pot smokers.
“Just freaking waterboard that dindu Obama- see what he says”
The POS coward would squeal like a pig if he even saw the water.
It wont be long now before all the Trolls in TwitterVille will all be crying.
Boo Hoo.
Hope all the Witches flying monkeys get a double portion of defeat and despair.
I relish it. : )
They left GOPe out of the title.
this guy will end up dead....too easy to turn...
I suspect they will take Trump down eventually.
Evil always trounces good.
“Trump needs to fire Sessions and appoint a real conncervative who is not afraid of doing their job.”
Judge Jeneane!
The f-n Senate will not confirm and will use tricks to remain Session so Trump cannot do a recess appointment. Jeffy boy screwed Trump but good.
I want to know if Free Beacon received any monies for the research done for them, assuming that research was passed on to the DNC and Hillary, and I want to see the report that Free Beacon got from Fusion at the end of their research. I want to know if anything the Free Beacon paid for ended up in the dossier and their report would show that.
They didn't in the body of the report.
But referred to them as "a conservative group!!"
Fake/BS news!
“It was about this time that a FISA warrant was sought to spy on Trump”
The O’muslim regime was using the various alphabet groups to intimidate and spy the American people since they were sworn-in in 2009. No doubt in my mind they were surveilling Trump when he made his first run in 2011. Especially when he made that muslim POS release ‘his’ fraudulent birth certificate.
All of the FISA warrants, dossier paper trials, etc. were a lame attempt to cover their asses in case Hillary went down.
“Trump needs to fire Sessions and appoint a real conncervative who is not afraid of doing their job. All Sessions is concerned about is pot smokers.”
And basketball coaches. We may wind up hating this guy more than we already do.
I concur. These vermin that have grown accustomed to the limelight, their highbrow society, the ubiquitous black tie events. The hubris of their existence is a spectacle to behold.
For them, the prospect of prison is something they only ever imagined for the little men of the world, the pissants they scoff at in passing each day.
Bring them all down!
"Larger Conspiracy" is a euphemism for TREASON !
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