Posted on 10/27/2017 8:14:40 PM PDT by boycott
Lawyers for the conservative publication Washington Free Beacon informed the House Intelligence Committee Friday that the organization was the original funder for the anti-Trump opposition research project with Fusion GPS.
The Free Beacon funded the project from the fall of 2015 through the spring of 2016, whereupon it withdrew funding and the project was picked up by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
The original arrangement between the Free Beacon and Fusion GPS involved opposition research into multiple Republican candidates, not just front-runner Donald Trump.
Sources close to the Free Beacon stress that the project, when the Free Beacon funded it, had nothing to do with Russia and did not involve Christopher Steele, the former British spy who gathered anti-Trump dirt in Russia. Steele was retained by Fusion GPS when the project was funded by Democrats, and not in its initial phase, when the Free Beacon was involved.
The Free Beacon was founded in 2012. Its founders included Michael Goldfarb, who has moved back and forth between conservative journalism, politics, and activism. The Free Beacon was originally part of a 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organization called the Center for American Freedom, but in 2014 became a for-profit organization. It has never revealed its ownership.
Conservative billionaire Paul Singer, a major funder of the Free Beacon, strongly opposed Trump at the time of the opposition research project.
The Center for American Freedom's original board of directors included William Kristol, the former editor of the Weekly Standard, a sister publication of the Washington Examiner and where both Goldfarb and Free Beacon editor Matthew Continetti worked. Kristol is one of the nation's most prominent "Never Trump" activists and during the Republican primary campaign worked to recruit a candidate to challenge Trump for the GOP nomination.
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“was involved” .... I should have said.
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If Bill Kristol is involved, so is the Cheap Labor Express, he is their stooge.
Sorry. I missed it.
If Bill Kristol is involved, so is the Cheap Labor Express, he is their stooge.
I have a very strong dislike for the scumbag.
Where does Egg McMuffin and Milt Romney fit in here?
The lesson of Watergate was “follow the money”.
Do that here and you find that Washington Free Beacon’s money stopped before the dossier came into existance. So the significance of WFB outint itself is that the dossier (which involved collusion with Russians) was totally paid for by Hillary and the DNC.
Since that poster has been here 4 years longer than you, he probably knows about the sidebar.
True. The dossier was paid for by Hillary and the DNC.
The Washington Free Beacon made a statement justifying their investigation. I wonder what other candidates they investigated? I wonder how unbiased they were.
The WFB released this statement on explaining their work in 2016 because they know the Fusion GPS bank records to be released to Congress on Monday will show payments from the WFB. They’re trying to get ahead of this story.
Yep. Here’s their statement.
27 Oct: Gateway Pundit: Jim Hoft: GOP Donor Behind Fusion GPS Trump Oppo Research is top Paul Ryan donor
Political operative Roger Stone said Thursday, as reported on The Gateway Pundit, that Paul Singer was the conservative billionaire behind the “Trump Dossier.”
Singer reportedly donated $2.5 million to the Marco Rubio campaign.
Paul Singer is also a top Paul Ryan donor.
Singer has donated millions to Paul Ryan over the years.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/10/gop-donor-behind-fusion-gps-trump-oppo-research-top-paul-ryan-donor/
Paul Singer is a long time open borders supporter. His two other big issues are support for Israel and support for gay marriage. Singer is a crook who made his money by extortion.
I bet this RINO donor donates a lot to the GOP Senate PAC too. He may as well give his money to the democrats.
This story is interesting but it pales in comparison to the more important story of Chris Steele, the dossier, the Russians, the DNC and the FBI.
So Kristol started this, then coordinated and handed it over to Clinton and DNC. Sweet.
Washington Free Beacon Editor-In-Chief Matthew Continetti is married to Bill Kristol’s daughter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti
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