Relating to his clients, his testimony provides new details about the Refused to answer some of the questions put to him, particularly those With Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS. Lengthy interview that the committee’s lawyers carried out, last August, The Judiciary Committee, responded by releasing a transcript of a Investigation, and, on Tuesday, Dianne Feinstein, the senior Democrat on This looked likeĪnother G.O.P. effort to undermine the credibility of the Russia Last week, in a letter to the Justiceĭepartment, Charles Grassley, the head of the committee, and LindseyĪsked the department to investigate Steele for possibly lying to the F.B.I.,īut they didn’t provide any evidence to back up the request. Have raised more questions about the dossier and the role it played in Supposed to be investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, In recent weeks, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who are Informed President-elect Trump about the contents of the dossier. And, last January, JamesĬomey, while he was still the F.B.I. Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager. Used the dossier to obtain secret warrants to tap the phone of Paul There have also been unconfirmed reports that the Bureau More research, but that agreement was cancelled after BuzzFeed published After the election,Īccording to the Washington Post, the Bureau agreed to pay Steele to do some took Steele’s work seriouslyĮnough to interview him before the 2016 election. However, we have also learned that the F.B.I. The one about the sex tape, haven’t been corroborated, and Trump hasĭescribed it as a “Crooked Hillary pile of garbage.” (In publishing the dossier,īuzzFeed noted that the allegations it contained were unverified and Some of the allegations in the dossier, including Washington-based intelligence firm Fusion GPS, which received fundingįrom the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s Steele dossier, including that it was commissioned by the In the past twelve months, we’ve learned a good deal more about the Trump for years, and that the Kremlin was holding incriminating materialĪbout Trump, including a sex tape from a Moscow hotel room. Government had been “cultivating, supporting, and assisting” Donald Who paid for it, Russia, the FBI or the Dems (or all)?" the president wrote.This week marks one year since BuzzFeed’s publication of the controversial “Russia dossier,” the document compiled by theįormer British spy Christopher Steele that claimed the Russian "Workers of firm involved with the discredited and Fake Dossier take the 5th. Two days earlier, he mused publicly on Twitter that Democrats may have funded the research. On Saturday, Trump tweeted that the Justice Department and FBI "should immediately release who paid for it."
Trump has branded the dossier - which contains salacious, and partially unconfirmed, political, financial and sexual allegations - as "fake news." The 35-page political research dossier, prepared by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, has become central to congressional probes into Russian interference in the 2016 US elections. That Republican's identity is not yet known.įusion GPS has asked that a federal judge to block a House Intelligence Committee request to gain access to the company's bank records, saying it would violate its constitutional rights. The payments continued until just days before the November 2016 election.Įven before that deal, Fusion GPS's research into Trump was funded by a rival in the Republican presidential primary election. In April 2016, lawyer Marc Elias, working on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Washington firm Fusion GPS to examine Trump's Russia links, according to the report. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped pay for research that went into a salacious dossier on Donald Trump's alleged campaign ties to Russia, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
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