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DNC and Hillary campaign fined thousands for 'Steele dossier' stunt
WND ^ | March 2022 | Bob Unruh

Posted on 03/30/2022 5:12:18 PM PDT by Conservat1

Agreements with FEC call for payments of $105,000, $8,000

We now know that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign for president in 2016 misled the federal government about funding that infamous and thoroughly debunked "Steele dossier" that made wild and unsubstantiated allegations about then-candidate Donald Trump. It's because they've agreed to pay fines of $105,000, and $8,000, respectively, for those actions that broke federal law.

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To: Conservat1

Recall how the FEC trampled Dnesh D’Sousa for his alleged $20K donations they deemed improper. Under threat to do worse to him, he plead guilty and suffered a $30K fine, 5 years probation, and months of community service.

Here there are no limits on the DNC nor on Clinton, and the FEC threatened nobody this time. Kid gloves it seems. Or wet noodles perhaps.

The double standards are rife.

Does any foresee justice forthcoming within our system anytime soon?

Please convince me.


21 posted on 03/30/2022 5:30:15 PM PDT by Avoiding_Sulla (You can't tell where we're going if you don't know where we've been)
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To: Rebelbase
She can pay that off with stolen UNICEF pennies.

She doesn't have to pay anything. The fine is to her campaign, so it will be paid with leftover money from donations. It could be $8,000,000 and it would be meaningless to her.

22 posted on 03/30/2022 5:33:46 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: Conservat1

Cost of doing business.


23 posted on 03/30/2022 5:34:31 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Conservat1
Those numbers are merely pocket lint for those people.
Should have been millions of dollars plus jail time.

24 posted on 03/30/2022 5:35:34 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: poinq

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This is what they’d like to do with Hunter, but there are those Laptops he lost.

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25 posted on 03/30/2022 5:35:52 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Cornpop was a bad dude)
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To: ETCM
This isn’t even a slap on the wrist. It’s a “don’t do that again” with a wink and a grin.

Sounds like they got away with it. They WILL do it again.

26 posted on 03/30/2022 5:40:35 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of a USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Conservat1
Thousands?

There's that much loose change in the waiting room couch.

27 posted on 03/30/2022 5:44:54 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Conservat1

$40 million to Cankles’ lawyers. They should give it back.


28 posted on 03/30/2022 5:52:20 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Conservat1

Another Judgment is coming, which won’t be laughed off.


29 posted on 03/30/2022 5:54:19 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Mark17

Had Hillary won, it would all have been confirmed as Trump colluding, and he might be sitting in a prison cell for daring to challenge her Heinous.

They will do it again, and if they are more careful we will never find out.


30 posted on 03/30/2022 5:57:13 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: SaveFerris

That’s like an outstanding parking ticket.


31 posted on 03/30/2022 5:58:18 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Conservat1

They probably found this much spare change in the cushions on their respective couches.


32 posted on 03/30/2022 5:59:22 PM PDT by glorgau
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The money trail behind the Steele dossier has been a subject of intense political scrutiny for years. More than $1 million flowed from the Clinton campaign and DNC to the law firm Perkins Coie, which then hired the opposition research company Fusion GPS. That company later hired Steele and asked him to use his overseas contacts to dig up dirt about Trump’s ties to Russia.

Steele has maintained that his research was unverified, required further investigation and was not meant for public disclosure. But his memos were leaked in January 2017, weeks before Trump took office. Over the years, a series of investigations and lawsuits have discredited many of Steele’s central allegations about collusion and exposed the unreliability of Steele’s sourcing.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/clinton-dnc-steele-dossier-fusion-gps/index.html


33 posted on 03/30/2022 6:08:37 PM PDT by deport
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To: Conservat1

Does that give Trump “standing” for a slander lawsuit?


34 posted on 03/30/2022 6:11:29 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: refermech

Probably the only damages that Trump could show in a civil suit would be that it cost him the election. Proving that Hillary’s conspiracy did that would be difficult. Lots evidence, but try getting a federal judge to recognize it and then not have some appellate judge toss it. Still, Trump has to keep the pressure on.


35 posted on 03/30/2022 6:23:01 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Conservat1

Dozens of class action lawsuis brought by groups from industry, individuals in each state, and by political candidates, etc., could well destroy the DNC for defrauding America’s.


36 posted on 03/30/2022 6:25:37 PM PDT by Jumper ( )
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To: Conservat1

If she pays even a $0.01 cent fine, it’s an admission of
guilt.

I wonder what the value would be, if Trump sued her for what
she bought and paid for, and pushed off on the American
public for over four years.

His and the nation’s losses could be staggering.

I think all Clinton Foundation funds and Bill’s future salary
should just about cover it.


37 posted on 03/30/2022 6:30:05 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: SaveFerris

Slap? How about a shake. What difference does it make.


38 posted on 03/30/2022 6:31:55 PM PDT by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative )
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To: DoughtyOne

Oops, I forgot all savings and bank accounts, plus the
liquidation of all properties.


39 posted on 03/30/2022 6:32:02 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Conservat1
Another fine that the Clintons won't directly pay.

-PJ

40 posted on 03/30/2022 6:38:41 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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