More fake news.
Related....
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/02/fusion-gps-steele-dossier-trump-russia-320236
(So you don’t have to click on Polutico....but, so you’ll know what these leftists are up to....)
Fusion GPS to Congress: Release our testimony
The founders of Fusion GPS took to the pages of the New York Times to push back against Republicans who have attacked the firm over a dossier related to the Trump Russia investigation — and to urge that their testimony be released.
“We are happy to correct the record. In fact, we already have,” wrote Glenn R. Simpson and Peter Fritsch in an op-ed published Tuesday under the headline “The Republicans’ Fake Investigations.”
During the 2016 campaign, Fusion GPS, a research firm, compiled what came to be known as the Steele dossier, a collection of intelligence reports assessing Donald Trump’s connections to Russia.
The report was written by a former British intelligence officer named Christopher Steele. It has come under fire from some Trump backers, not only because of the inclusion of some as-yet-unproved salacious material but also because they see it as some sort of dubious trigger to the whole Trump Russia investigation.
In their op-ed, Simpson and Fritsch urged Congress to release their testimony: “Republicans have refused to release full transcripts of our firm’s testimony, even as they selectively leak details to media outlets on the far right. It’s time to share what our company told investigators.”
As far as it being the origin of the Russia probe, Simpson and Fritsch wrote that the dossier’s importance has been overstated.
“We don’t believe the Steele dossier was the trigger for the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling,” wrote Simpson and Fritsch. “As we told the Senate Judiciary Committee in August, our sources said the dossier was taken so seriously because it corroborated reports the bureau had received from other sources, including one inside the Trump camp.”
The duo wrote that their testimony gave Congress all the ammo it needed to debunk conspiracy theories.
“Three congressional committees have heard over 21 hours of testimony from our firm, Fusion GPS. In those sessions, we toppled the far right’s conspiracy theories and explained how The Washington Free Beacon and the Clinton campaign — the Republican and Democratic funders of our Trump research — separately came to hire us in the first place.”
The op-ed also detailed the origins of the Steele dossier, a report that Simpson and Fritsch said they stood behind.
“We’re extremely proud of our work to highlight Mr. Trump’s Russia ties. To have done so is our right under the First Amendment,” they wrote.
None of this being under oath, the value of this writing is minuscule.
And they contradict the Dems and the media saying that they didn’t trigger any investigation.
Free Beacon funded Fusion. Beacon headed by Matthew Continetti, Rino married to daughter of William Kristol.
What a farce.
This is where to help Trump... Russia spread the Russian hooker pee-pee story, even though that would have helped Hillary.
The retarded intelligence community treason has blown up in their face. It makes no sense because it was all a lie.
Doesn’t matter what they think.
Fakie fakie. One would have to have believe in unicorns and skittles rainbows to believe them.
No surprise here, but of note: the Fusion GPS conspirators plead their case to the New York Times, yet have no real evidence of anything to support their claims. Much like the dossier itself.
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This is part of a furious and coordinated effort to downplay the significance of the dossier, now that it has been uncovered as the nexus of a conspiracy between the Clinton campaign, Fusion and the FBI to derail the Trump campaign and the Trump presidency with fraudulent allegations of treasonous acts in league with a foreign power.
The memo has clearly gone out to “friendly media” that they are to spin the NY Slimes story from this weekend in hope of creating a distraction - Chuck Ross at MSNBC had a particularly dissimulating, dishonest example earlier today (link NOT provided).
These people are scum and they are afraid of what is coming in the next few hours.
Lying propagandists — these bastards need to be demolished publicly, legally, and every way possible.
So Simpson is saying that he hid the fact that from the Clinton campaign that their oppo research on Trump was secretly being passed on to the FBI as legit foreign intelligence? Oh my. Glenn, please keep digging.
Oh, and the Clinton’s didn’t KNOW that they in fact were “colluding” with Russians because super spy Steele didn’t know who he was working for!
Sure, I’ll buy that for a dollar!
Fusion GPS is a company you pay to dig up dirt, and if necessary, invent dirt. Depending on the payment.
How would these two guys know what triggered the witch hunt?
They are trying to protect their deep staters, “We don’t believe the Steele dossier was the trigger for the F.B.I.’s investigation into Russian meddling”
never mind the chocolate crumbs smeared on their faces, they weren’t in the cookie jar. No, not at all.
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