Hillary Clinton Defends Her Campaign's Funding of 'Steele Dossier' on Trump

Yahoo Finance ^ | Nov. 2, 2017 | Natasha Bach

[Hadean]

Hillary Clinton is telling her side of the story of the now-infamous Donald Trump dossier.

The former presidential candidate spoke to Trevor Noah on The Daily Show on Wednesday, days after news emerged that her campaign and the Democratic National Committee had helped pay for the dossier, a document that describes salacious ties between the Trump camp and the Russian government.

In her conversation with Noah, Clinton defended her involement, making a point to distinguish between her campaign’s funding of the research and the alleged efforts of the Trump campaign “to influence the election” with the help of the Russians. She explained that while her campaign ultimately funded some of the research, it was initially backed by a Republican donor during the Republican primary.

Indeed, The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news outlet funded in part by GOP donor Paul Singer, disclosed late last week that during the 2016 presidential primary it retained research firm Fusion GPS—which would later produce the dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele—to dig up information about then-candidate Trump.

When Trump received the Republican Party’s nomination, however, it ceased funding the research. (The Beacon maintains that none of the work it funded ended up in the dossier.) Clinton explained to Noah that it was at that point that her campaign became involved, after Fusion GPS approached her campaign lawyer, Marc Elias, about the effort.

While Clinton defended Elias’ decision to support the research, she pointed out that her campaign chose not to publicize it before the election. At the same time, she expressed frustration about the nondisclosure of other information about Trump: that the FBI was investigating the Trump campaign’s connections with Russia.

“From my perspective, it didn’t come out before the election … and the American people didn’t even know the FBI was investigating the Trump campaign for connections with Russia starting in 2016,” Clinton said. “Voters should have had that information,” she

said. “That’s something that may have influenced some people.”

[Genoa]

Confession time! Must be a plea deal coming.

[neverevergiveup]

Hillary, the only way you can be impressive with the rest of your life is to become compassionate and charitable and spend the rest of your life helping others. If you continue to perseverate on your own narcissistic fantasies, you will waste whatever time God will allow you.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Let’s see:

First, GPS fights like hell to keep secret their clients.

Then, it becomes clear that the DNC is involved.

And, then that the DNC has used a law firm to screen and hide its involvement, masking foreign agent contact designed to influence an election as “legal fees.”

Then, the DNC’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz says she had no idea that these payments were made.

Now, Donna Brazile reveals that Hillary completely controlled the DNC, funded it (and also illegally drained contributions for state candidates into her own campaign fund), and was aware of all expenditures.

Hillary, backs up a bit, and admits to opposition research, but says that’s normal and different from the sort of collusion Trump carried on.

And, now Hillary says that she didn’t know of the dossier’s content until quite late, but that the FBI was investigating Manafort and Trump since 2014 (but not the Podestas), so it’s a different path.

Finally, that scum McCain is involved in the mix with Comey.

There’s more to come. And we’re supposed to believe that Trump is in league with the Russians. Maybe we should believe Trump paid for Russia’s Facebook ads in rubles?

[Mr. K]

It’s not really ‘research’ if you’re just making stuff up, now its it?

[TigersEye]

I thought she didn’t know anything about it!?! LOL

This lying beotch pulls the same routine every time a new accusation comes up. Somebody around here has a list of the phases she goes through. They’ve got her BS down to a science.

[Parley Baer]

Now she has gone from not knowing anything about it to defending it. That is a big move.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[catnipman]

based on the donna brazile’s politico article today, hillary literally BOUGHT the DNC almost two years ago, so every since then hillary and the DNC have been one and the same, which means that when one says “the DNC and the Hillary campaign” funded Fusion GPS to compile the fake Trump dossier, that’s exactly the same thing as saying hillary funded Fusion GPS to compile the fake Trump dossier.