Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) paid a lawyer to employ Washington firm Fusion GPS to gather "opposition research" on Trump before the election, the Washington Post reports.įusion GPS then hired former MI6 spy Christopher Steele to investigate Trump's ties to Russia. The dossier is a series of memos compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele on supposed contacts between Russian officials and members of the Trump campaign. The FEC conciliation agreements were made public Wednesday after the Coolidge Reagan Foundation first shared a response letter from. The infamous dirt file that claimed Donald Trump hired prostitutes during a visit to Moscow was reportedly bankrolled by the Clinton campaign. The Washington Post first reported on Tuesday that the DNC and the Clinton campaign, through the law firm, helped fund the research that would become the controversial dossier. The Clinton campaign and the DNC will be forced to pay 8,000 and 105,000 respectively for mislabeling payments that ultimately went to Fusion GPS, the consulting firm that commissioned the. The DNC will pay 105,000 and the Clinton campaign 8,000. How could the media have believed this tripe? Reason: they were driven mad with hatred: Marc Elias brokered a deal between the Clinton camp, the Democratic National Committee and opposition research firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on the president while he was running for office.īut a pair of New York Times reporters said Tuesday night on Twitter that Elias and others involved had lied about their ties to the arrangement. The DNC also paid the firm $3.6 million in "legal and compliance consulting" fees from November 2015 onwards.Ī Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer who launched what would become known as the anti-Trump 'dirty dossier' denied involvement in the project for a year as reporters pressed him for information. WASHINGTON > Hillary Clintons presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped pay for political research into Donald Trump. Asked by Fox News to confirm that the FEC sent the memo, a. and the DNC paid the firm 3.6 million in legal and. As part of the agreements, the DNC agreed to pay a civil penalty of 105,000, and the Clinton campaign agreed to pay 8,000. But it's impossible to say how much of that related to research for the dossier, and how much related to other work. The dossier has become a lightning rod amid the intensifying investigations into the Trump campaign’s possible connections to Russia. Then Clinton's team lied about it, while journalists pushed this dossier for more 10 months.Īccording to campaign finance records obtained by The Washington Post, Clinton's campaign paid Perkins Coie $5.6 million in legal fees from June 2015 to December 2016. Hillary Clinton's team paid consultants Perkins Coie $5.6 million for a ludicrous dirt file on Donald Trump that tied him to Russia and included even claims that he paid prostitutes for golden showers.
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