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| Secret donors helped finance Trump dossier team research after election |
| 2018-05-02 |
| [FOX] The team of opposition researchers behind the infamous anti-Trump dossier embraced by the FBI were paid big bucks to continue trying to dig up dirt on Russian meddling in American politics ‐ even after the 2016 presidential election. That revelation, buried inside a 243-page report released by House Intelligence Committee Republicans last week, has sparked new speculation about the identities of the secretive donors who were funding the post-election project. According to the House Intelligence Committee report, Daniel J. Jones ‐ the president of the Penn Quarter Group and a former staffer for Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein ‐ "secured the services" of dossier author and former British spy Christopher Steele "to continue exposing Russian interference" after the election. It also hired an associate of Steele’s and the opposition research firm Fusion GPS. That report doesn’t list the donors. But Jones told the FBI that the Penn Quarter Group was being funded by seven to 10 wealthy donors, primarily in New York and California, who provided approximately $50 million to the firm, it said. Fusion and Steele originally teamed up during the 2016 campaign to compile a dossier of salacious and unverified allegations about Trump's connections to Russia, paid for by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign through law firm Perkins Coie. The dossier allegedly was used by the DOJ and FBI to obtain surveillance warrants to spy on a member of the Trump team. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 I wouldn't put it past Trump to start a Trump investigation firm and collect their cash! |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-05-02 09:59 |
| #2 Yep - it was made up and the donors got nothing of value. Sweet! If these were Republican donors, all of their names would be on billboards throughout the country by now. Since they're all Dems, it'll take a little longer for someone to spill the beans. I'll enjoy this, if only for the sheer embarrassment factor. I'm going with the obvious first pick here - Tom Steyer. He's already demonstrated Trump Derangement Syndrome and has shown atrocious political judgment before when it comes to allocating $ for anti-Trump activity. Throw in a few names from Steyer's other rich friends, and there's part of your mystery list. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-05-02 08:59 |
| #1 You couldn't make this $hit up. Oh, wait a minute, it was made up. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-05-02 08:37 |