Posted on 07/02/2019 6:33:24 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
The former top lawyer for Hillary Clinton's failed presidential campaign who hired Fusion GPS to carry out controversial opposition research against then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016 is now working for a top 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful.
Marc Elias, who heads Perkins Coie's political law group, became general counsel for California Sen. Kamala Harris' presidential bid this year. Elias, who held the same position in Clinton's campaign, is named in two pending Federal Election Commission complaints and in a recent federal lawsuit alleging that the Clinton campaign broke campaign finance laws when it used Perkins Coie to hire Fusion GPS.
Fusion GPS went on to hire British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who compiled an unverified dossier allegedly based on sources close to the Kremlin which was disseminated to the media and used by the FBI to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants targeting former Trump campaign associate Carter Page. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is reviewing alleged FISA abuse related to the dossier and Attorney General William Barr launched his "investigation of the investigators" earlier this year. 00:00 00:51
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Clinton's former presidential campaign manager Robby Mook said in 2017 that he authorized Elias to hire an outside firm to dig up dirt on Trump's connections with Russia. "I asked our lawyer and I gave him a budget allocation to investigate this, particularly the international aspect," he said.
Mook said Elias was receiving information from Fusion GPS or directly from Steele himself about the research into Trump and Russia in 2016, and that Elias then periodically briefed the Clinton campaign about the findings.
"We were getting briefings that were put together by the law firm with information," Mook said. "I'm proud that we were able to assemble some of the research that has brought this to light."
"I’m just glad that it's coming out now and I'm glad that there was research there," Mook said.
Watchdog groups allege that Hillary for America purposely concealed the hiring of Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele by reporting all the payments that it made to Perkins Coie as "legal services" without mentioning opposition research. Perkins Coie was paid over $12 million between 2016 and 2017 for its work representing Clinton and the DNC. According to its co-founder Glenn Simpson, Fusion GPS was in turn paid $50,000 per month from Perkins Coie, and Christopher Steele was paid roughly $168,000 by Fusion GPS for his work.
Perkins Coie admitted in an October 2017 letter that it had hired Fusion GPS, claiming that "Fusion GPS approached Perkins Coie" in March 2016 with the knowledge that Perkins Coie was representing Clinton and the DNC, and that Perkins Coie then "engaged" Fusion GPS from April of that year until just prior to the November election "to perform a variety of research services during the 2016 election cycle."
Elias himself personally "retained Fusion GPS … to conduct the research" and did so "on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC," according to a report from the Washington Post.
Brian Fallon, the former national press secretary for the Clinton campaign, previously defended Elias. "Marc is known as one of the most skilled professionals in Democratic politics, in addition to being the party's top election lawyer," Fallon said in 2017. "I am damn glad he pursued this on behalf of our campaign and only regret more of this material was not verified in time for the voters to learn it before the election."
Elias is a fixture in Democratic politics. Aside from working for Harris, Clinton, and the DNC, Elias has said that he and his colleagues at Perkins Coie have represented the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Governors Association, various Democratic PACs, the pro-abortion EMILY's List, dozens of Democratic senators, and more than a hundred Democratic members of the House.
Neither the Harris campaign nor Elias responded to the Washington Examiner's request for comment.
Harris and Buttboy are that insipid Hugh Hewitts FAVS!! Both Dangerous for our country.s well being......actually ALL DEMOCRATS are dangerous for America!
Two tramps walk into a bar.......................................
“actually ALL DEMOCRATS are dangerous for America!”
Harris will win the nomination. She checks all the Dem boxes, and she’s angry and evil enough for the base.
IF President Trump doesn’t win re-election, we are screwed. IF the Dems get both chambers of Congress and the presidency, this country will be unrecognizable when they are finished.
I’m in my 60s. I just want 4 more years of President Trump, and progress, before American inevitably jumps into the toilet. It’s coming, I just want to be in a position to either withstand it, or leave.
My husband and I always say....WE,RE GLAD WE,RE OLD!!
Apparently, Horizontal Harris has been anointed by the “fixers”. She has a legacy of slave-holding in her family. She seems caustic and evil enough to want to try to carry on the family tradition . . . I’ll admit that is a bit unnerving.
Sorry I already heard it from Judge Smails who heard it from the bishop. It was a doozy, though.
When you stop to think about it, Sen. Harris is unqualified to hold that office because she is not a U.S. citizen. She is “... subject to a foreign jurisdiction” because her parents were NEVER U.S. citizens, and her parents’ countries of origin eschew birthright citizenship in favor of jus sanguinis like most of the world’s countries. Can Pence object to her taking her seat in the Senate on that basis?
Should President Trump start calling Kamala “The Slave Holder”?
Then media will have to tell the bewildered unwashed stupid American people what that means in her family background.
They call us Nazis, KKK and white supremacists-—none of which are true of us.
This is how the DNC screwed Bernie Sanders, by allowing Clinton to funnel all supposedly state-level neutral fundraising directly into the Clinton accounts.
-PJ
“What is shocking to me is that I had never heard the grassroots media source on blogtalkradio.com until last week when it was referenced by The Ulsterman Report (UR) and the “Washington and Wall Street Insider” conspiracies it has been covering for some time. (I believe one of the hosts on Freedomizer Radio which UR referenced in their article was on this show, but strange to me I had only just TRIED blogtalkradio a week before.)
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UPDATE: Many URLS no longer work such as the Washington Insider explanation of Dem operative being killed. Please use the Wayback Machine to find this information. That link can still be found on archive here:
For those who have not been following this, UR’s Washington Insider described how long time Democratic Operative Kam Kuwata (who set up the 2008 Denver Democratic convention and ran Hillary’s West Coast campaign) was found inexplicably murdered after he informed some other Democrats of Obama being carried into a room, weird chanting and suddenly emerging as if he was a new man only moments later. (I know – it sounds preposterous but read the COMMENTS in the above linked article and trace the evidence yourself.) Kuwata was Diane Feinstein’s aide and longtime friend. The timeline is much stranger and happens this way:
Tony West – an attorney at the law firm defending Barack Obama’s birth certificate matters raises $65 Million for Barack Obama’s election. His sister-in-law Kamala Harris is the District Attorney for San Francisco.
Kam Kuwata tells others (likely Sen. Feinstein) of weird Obama stuff he saw at the convention.
Obama elected with huge illegal campaign (25% of what he raises) coming through a SINGLE California bank) much from Tony West. Rumors swirl of up to $300 Million in undeclared campaign contributions are not reported or those donors.
Feinstein’s aide and Kuwata’s business partner BOTH indicted and sent to prison by soon to be Dem Governor Cuomo of NY.
Kuwata works against CA Attorney General Kamala Harris to put in a CA AG who can investigate Obama campaign donations.
A few months later highly active Kuwata found 2 weeks dead in his apartment.
The same month Tony West is appointed as Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division reporting to Eric Holder at the Department of (so called) Justice.
At Kuwata’s memorial, Feinstein very strangely “scooped” the President with the news of Osama Bin Laden death by 1 hour.
Feinstein and intelligence knew of OBL location since January. Some wonder if this was a warning to Obama.
DOJ does not investigate Kuwata’s death.
A month later, former CA Obama Committee chairwoman embezzles millions in funds from Feinstein’s campaign and others including Obama’s CA funds. This CRITICALLY impairs Feinstein’s reelection hopes.
Feinstein charged with ethics violations.
Kamala Harris found to be in pocket of public sector unions scuttling initiative on their behalf.
Kamala Harris named Co-Chairwoman of the Obama Campaign.
CA AG Kamala Harris and the NY AG replacing Gov Cuomo refuse to follow the law on failed mortgages, threatening the FDIC and creating a $25 Billion Mortgage settlement that:
Gives 70% of the money to government programs
Penalizes stockholders, brokers who never admitted guilt in due process
Allows the REAL perpetrators of the mortgage crisis (both public and private) to skate without ANY prosecution.
(Very good explanation here.)
It also gives her a slush fund of over $1 Billion to preside over.
Tony West is appointed ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL of the United States under Eric Holder.
American Bar Association Journal reports Kamala Harris be considered as next Supreme Court Justice replacing Ruth Bader Ginsberg.”
http://www.politijim.com/2012/03/did-obama-assassinate-clinton-delegates.html
Would want to toss that around a table of really smart people before I did it. It’s gonna get some blowback.
I think I would keep my powder dry. Would not launch that missile until:
(1) she wins the nomination,if she does (I think she will), AND
(2) she is legitimately leading him.
Don’t use the “nuke” unless you have to.
ethics and politics don’t mix. This lawyer should be shunned by all honest pols.
Same here. I think things are too far gone and not even Trump can fix it, even with another four years. BUT, I’d also like more time to prepare for the inevitable.
I’m 53 and started a family late. Got two teenagers, one with autism. Every time I think about their future, I get nauseous.
I moved from the East Coast - FL, to rural MO and am trying to get this place set up to be as self sufficient as possible.
Hopefully it will be a long time before they come out here and steel our livestock to feed the masses. Most everyone around here grows a garden or has at one time.
“Hopefully it will be a long time before they come out here and steel our livestock to feed the masses. Most everyone around here grows a garden or has at one time.”
You’ll have some time. First, they’ll go after the likes of me... middle class, worked hard, saved, positioned myself for retirement. How is it “fair” that an old white guy saved money?!
Once they grind people like me to the nub, you’re next.
Ok
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