Posted on 04/28/2020 1:56:19 PM PDT by Mount Athos
According to an exclusive report from the Daily Caller, lawyers representing the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign provided dossier author Christopher Steele with information about alleged secret communications between the Trump Organization and Russian Alfa Bank. Steele admitted to this undisclosed meeting in a British court during March 17 and 18 hearings.
A lawyer for Perkins Coie, Michael Sussmann, made a since debunked tip to Steele, accusing the founders of Alfa Bank of having “illicit” ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. This chain of events created the September 14, 2016, memo which publicized the alleged ties.
Steele was in court for a defamation lawsuit filed against him by the Alfa Bank founders.
According to the transcript obtained by Daily Caller, one week after Steele wrote the September 14 memo, he met with Sussmann’s colleague Marc Elias.
Steele said in his testimony that Sussmann told him about the suspicious ties between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank. Steele’s testimony reveals how the DNC and Clinton campaign lawyers played a large role in the Trump Organization investigation and how lawyers with overt political ties helped create the Russian collusion narrative.
Elias, the Clinton campaign’s general counsel, hired Fusion GPS to investigate Donald Trump. Fusion GPS then hired Steele to investigate Trump’s alleged ties to the Russian government. Steele produced a total of 17 memos claiming Trump was in cahoots with the Kremlin to alter the results of the 2016 presidential election.
In his March 17 testimony, Steele said Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson instructed him, after the Sussmann meeting, to write a report about Alfa Bank. It was previously unknown whether Steele was tasked with investigating Alfa Bank, or if he investigated under his own jurisdiction.
“I was given the instruction sometime after that meeting with Mr. Simpson,” Steele said.
The allegations against Alfa Bank, written by Steele, claim the bank was communicating with the Trump Organization and both sides had incriminating information about the other. Steele’s memo claimed a team of computer experts studied communication traffic and determined Alfa Bank and the Trump organization were in communication, but Alfa Bank strongly disagreed with Steele’s allegation.
Nearly all of Steele’s findings have been debunked since the publication of Steele’s infamous dossier. On December 9, the Justice Department inspector general, Michael Horowitz, released a report that concluded the Steele dossier was an unverified document. Yet, it was the primary source of information used to launch an FBI investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016. The IG report also debunked Sussmann’s theory that Alfa Bank had ties to Putin.
“The FBI investigated whether there were cyber links between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, but had concluded by early February 2017 that there were no such links,” the IG report reads.
The owners of Alfa Bank sued Steele in both the United States and the U.K. over his September 14 memo. Steele was asked to testify in the U.K., however a Washington DC judge dismissed the defamation suit in the United States.
Lock! Her! Up!
lock ‘em all up
No! Who could have seen this coming? /s
Collusion with a foreigner.
What difference does any of this make now anyway!
Alfa vs. Steele in the USA: “In his decision to toss the case “with prejudice”—that is, permanently—Judge Anthony C. Epstein of the Washington, D.C., Superior Court concluded that the author of the dossier, the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, acted “in furtherance of the right of advocacy on issues of public interest” when he decided to brief reporters on the dossier’s findings in the summer of 2016. Steele’s conduct is therefore protected by “anti-SLAPP” statutes, according to the judge, which aim to halt lawsuits brought to chill the exercise of constitutionally protected free speech.”
Just one meeting?
So this explains the Democratic party fetish with Trump’s tax returns. They have tried in both State and Federal courts to get their hands on Trump’s taxes, even using providing tax returns as a basis for being allowed on a presidential primary ballot.
They are searching for that magic Russian connection. Now it is Alpha bank.
At least we all now know what is behind this.
The article says the alfa bank allegation is bunk.
The IG report also debunked Sussmann’s theory that Alfa Bank had ties to Putin.
“The FBI investigated whether there were cyber links between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, but had concluded by early February 2017 that there were no such links,” the IG report reads.
How can outright fabrications be in the public interest. The juge needs to be removed for cause.
Has truth stopped any of the Democratic Party attacks on Trump or been a defense against their slander?
They hate Trump so everything evil said against him, must be true, they just need to find or make up supporting evidence.
I’m sure you did Chris.
Everything is on the table now you asshat!
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