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‘It’s not a fabrication’: Six times the firm behind the infamous dossier contradicted Trump’s claims

The following article by Amber Phillips was posted on the Washington Post website January 9, 2018:

Glenn R. Simpson, former Wall Street Journal journalist and a founder of the research firm Fusion GPS, arrives to appear before a closed House Intelligence Committee hearing in November. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

It’s not made up. It wasn’t politically motivated. And it did not set out with the intention to smear Donald Trump.

That’s what the co-founder of a research firm, Fusion GPS, told Congress about a dossier his firm produced during the presidential campaign. Glenn Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee for 10 hours in August about research that was originally started by a conservative news site, and that Hillary Clinton’s campaign paid for to continue. Ultimately, the dossier claimed that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia, something Trump has vigorously denied but also something neither special counsel Robert S. Mueller III nor Congress has ruled out. Continue reading “‘It’s not a fabrication’: Six times the firm behind the infamous dossier contradicted Trump’s claims”

Feud over Trump dossier intensifies with release of interview transcript

The following article by Devlin Barrett and Tom Hamburger was posted on the Washington Post website January 10, 2018:

Glenn R. Simpson, former Wall Street Journal journalist and a founder of the research firm Fusion GPS, arrives to appear before a closed House Intelligence Committee hearing in November. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

The political battle over the FBI and its investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election intensified Tuesday with the release of an interview with the head of the firm behind a dossier of allegations against then-candidate Donald Trump.

The transcript of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn R. Simpson’s interview with the Senate Judiciary Committee was released by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), the panel’s senior Democrat, over the objections of Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa). Continue reading “Feud over Trump dossier intensifies with release of interview transcript”

Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier

The following article by Kenneth P. Vogel and Maggie Haberman was posted on the New York Times website October 27, 2017:

Paul Singer in June at an event for investors in New York. Credit Misha Friedman/Bloomberg

WASHINGTON — The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, first hired the research firm that months later produced for Democrats the salacious dossier describing ties between Donald J. Trump and the Russian government, the website said on Friday.

The Free Beacon, funded in large part by the New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, hired the firm, Fusion GPS, in 2015 to unearth damaging information about several Republican presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump. But The Free Beacon told the firm to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee had begun paying Fusion GPS in April for research that eventually became the basis for the dossier. Continue reading “Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier”

Republicans Ignore Their Financing Of Trump Dossier

The following article by Jason Le Miere of Newsweek was posted on the National Memo website October 26, 2017:

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Shortly after a report emerged Tuesday evening claiming that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee in part funded a dossier containing explosive allegations about President Donald Trump’s links to Russia, the Republican National Committee trumpeted the story in outrage.

There was just one problem with the version of the Washington Post storythat the RNC reposted on its website: a line stating that prior to the Clinton campaign picking up the tab, the research was “funded by an unknown Republican during the GOP primary” was notably absent. Continue reading “Republicans Ignore Their Financing Of Trump Dossier”

What the Trump dossier says — and what it doesn’t

The following article by Philip Bump was posted on the Washington Post website October 25, 2017:

The Washington Post’s Adam Entous looks at the role that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee played in funding the research that led to a dossier containing allegations about President Trump’s links to Russia. (Video: Bastien Inzaurralde, Patrick Martin/Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

There are three reasons the “Trump dossier” has been elevated as one of the central points of consideration in the public investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign.

The first is that it involves the characters and language of a John Le Carré novel: a former British intelligence officer communing with shadowy Muscovites identified only by letters and detailing secret meetings in exotic places, hidden payments and illegal agreements to seize the American presidency. Continue reading “What the Trump dossier says — and what it doesn’t”