Posted on 10/26/2017 7:49:25 AM PDT by mandaladon
Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton was unaware of the now-infamous dossier of allegations about Donald Trump and Russia prior to Buzzfeed's publishing of the document earlier this year, a source familiar with the matter has told CNN.
Clinton was disappointed that the research from the document was not made public before she lost the 2016 election, the source said.
The New York Times first reported on Wednesday that Clinton didn't know about the dossier until it was published, citing two associates who discussed the matter with her.
The news comes a day after the law firm representing the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee acknowledged it helped fund opposition research on President Donald Trump that ultimately resulted in the dossier.
CNN reported Tuesday that a source familiar with the matter said the law firm retained the intelligence firm Fusion GPS and entered "into an engagement for research services that began in April 2016 and concluded before the election in early November."
CNN has previously reported that the Fusion efforts researching Trump were first funded by Republican foes of Trump, and Democrats began paying the research firm later on, after Trump became the presumptive nominee. The identity of the Republican client or clients has not yet been publicly revealed.
Clinton is not the only high-profile Democrat to deny knowledge of the document before it was published. The Clinton campaign's national press secretary, Brian Fallon, tweeted Tuesday about the reported tie between the campaign and the dossier.
"I regret I didn't know about Christopher Steele's hiring pre-election," he tweeted, referring to the former British intelligence agent who authored the dossier. "If I had, I would have volunteered to go to Europe and try to help him."
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So “What Happened” might be followed by a sequel.
She knew nothing about the dossier her campaign de facto generated that lead to said serious investigation into the Trump campaign.
All lies. Of course she knew. $10 million spent on this scurrilous document and she didn’t know? Nonsense.
Hillary can’t even deny the story. She has to make up two anon sources. When will this BS stop!
Well, there you go. I guess it's settled.
You mean "What *Really* Happened"? Yah,sure....pigs are flying past my front window as I type!
Its her MO. She did the same thing in 1992. Hired a law firm to go after the bimbos. They send six to nine million dollars and nobody knew about. She is going senile.
This was all debunked and fully litigated before it even happened, so just move on and impeach Trump, OK?
It will stop only when these various criminals and traitors are in prison or exiled. So...maybe never .
I love the spoof that Rush used to do based on the classic Broadway song "Try To Remember".I wouldn't be surprised if he played it today.I'll bet that it's on youtube...I'm gonna check.
I predicted this would be her reaction early this week. She paid for it but didn’t know anything about it.
“But let’s be clear, there is a serious federal investigation into the Clinton campaign’s ties to Russia, and the American public deserves to know what happened,” the statement will read.
Democrats & the DNC is full of their own landmines
CNN: Apologist for the Clinton Crime Family. Their familiar “nothing to see here, move on.”
Notice the source was familiar with the matter -- familiar -- not involved or associated. Geez, 60% of the entire country is "familiar with this matter".
So perhaps Madam Cleo was the source familiar here.
Dims are asking the same question. I firmly believe this whole mess is an effort to rid politics of the clintons once and for all. No doubt Dims are eager to get rid of these scums.
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