Article title shoulda read, "Things every non-lib out there already knew."

Clintons in another scandal. Hold my beer while I find my shocked face.

Clinton campaign, DNC helped fund research that led to salacious Trump dossier | Fox News

The controversial dossier containing salacious allegations about President Donald Trump and his possible connections to Russia, including coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, resulted from funding by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee to the firm Fusion GPS, a source familiar with the situation confirmed to Fox News.

Fusion GPS was retained by Marc E. Elias, an attorney representing the DNC and the Clinton campaign, The Washington Post first reported Tuesday. Fusion GPS then reportedly hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to write the now-infamous dossier.

Steele had ties both to the U.S. intelligence community and the FBI.

Prior to the firm being retained in April 2016 by Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, Fusion GPS’s research had been subsidized by an unidentified Republican during the GOP primary.

But the Clinton campaign – and the DNC – saw the research through, funding the firm through the end of October 2016, just days before Trump defeated Clinton in the general election, according to The Post's reporting.

Steele’s findings and other research were then submitted to Elias via Fusion GPS, The Post reported. The method and the amount of the information that was provided to the campaign and the DNC wasn't immediately clear. It also wasn’t known who in those organizations knew about the roles of both Steele and Fusion GPS.

Following Trump’s victory, The Post reported, the FBI arranged to pay Steele to proceed with intelligence gathering about both Trump and Russia. That deal was later nixed after the former intelligence officer was identified in news reports.

Perkins Coie was paid $5.6 million in legal fees by the Clinton campaign in a time period ranging from June 2015 to December 2016, The Post reported, citing campaign finance records. The DNC also paid the firm $3.6 million for “legal and compliance consulting” going back to November 2015.

Sources told The Post that neither the Clinton campaign or the DNC specifically directed Steele’s work, labeling the intelligence officer simply as a Fusion GPS subcontractor.

Fusion GPS has recently been in the spotlight of congressional Republicans as they've tried to get the firm to reveal those who supported Steele’s work.

Fusion GPS has refused to do so, citing client confidentiality agreements.

Officials with the firm have also invoked their right to refuse to answer questions from the House Intelligence Committee. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., subsequently subpoenaed the firm’s bank records in order to identify the client who subsidized the dossier.

Meanwhile, Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS founder, already gave a 10-hour interview to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The report on the dossier's funding come just days after the president tweeted about the controversial file. "Officials behind the now discredited 'Dossier' plead the Fifth," Trump tweeted on Oct 21. "Justice Department and/or FBI should immediately release who paid for it."

“Tom Perez and the new leadership of the DNC were not involved in any decision-making regarding Fusion GPS, nor were they aware that Perkins Coie was working with the organization," DNC Communications Director Xochitl Hinojosa said in a statement following the report's publication.

"But let’s be clear, there is a serious federal investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, and the American public deserves to know what happened.”

First published by Buzzfeed in January, the dossier contained a series of controversial financial and sexual allegations about Trump.

Fox News' Catherine Herridge and Ashley Koerber contributed to this report.[/quote]

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From what I hear it is illegal to use Tax dollars to smear a political opponent.

But maybe it's only illegal for Republicans.

I'm sure the lefties here will not have a problem with it. Hell, they didn't care that the DNC rigged the primaries,
so why would they care about this

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"I am the chosen one."

-Donald

Yeah I didn't think you would care, you didn't care about Bernie either I'm sure.

I don't like Clinton at all. I was just making fun of Trumpsters protecting Trump.

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"I am the chosen one."

-Donald

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They researched it but did not use it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soA_...yE5DoXqygKr0-6

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On a more positive note, people still can't order dialysis w/o a referral.

"Let's get ready to play stooooooopiiiiiiiiiiid!!!!!!!!!!" /michaelbuffervoice

Debbie and Pantsuit don't do a lot to squash dumb women stereotypes.

DNC, Wasserman Schultz say they were unaware of dossier payments | TheHill

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they paid for the research but didn't use it

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On a more positive note, people still can't order dialysis w/o a referral.

It's the very same dossier that that the FBI presented to BOTH Obama and Trump...

It's irrelevant whether or not they used it THEMSELVES...They paid for the document that ended up in the hands of the FBI...AND the media (How convenient)...

Also, the Clinton Campaign OUTRIGHT LIED for almost a year saying they did NOT pay anyone for it...

Also again, both the Clinton Campaign and the DNC have been CAUGHT not putting "opposition research" on their FEC filings...They had a Clinton Campaign lawyer act as a go-between and then paid HIM using the justification of "Legal Services"...And a lawsuit has been filed by the Campaign Legal Center...

FEC Complaint: Hillary for America & DNC Failure to Disclose

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"You get the respect that you give" - cnredd

So I take it that you are all for allowing our law enforcement agencies to spend millions of dollars and waste thousands of hours investigating the President based on a known lie just because YOU don't like him?

What about exposing the truth makes you believe that anyone on the right is crying? For someone that claims to be independent, you sure to put out a good number of posts attacking conservatives and defending progressives.

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine

A lie doesn't become truth, a wrong doesn't become right, and Evil doesn't become good, just because it is accepted by the majority. - Booker T Washington