The Daily Caller:
Suddenly it’s the Democrats who have a serious Russia problem.
Democratic fingerprints are all over a growing number of Russia-related scandals, including payments to Fusion GPS for its Russian-sourced Trump dossier, lobbying on behalf of Russia’s largest bank to lift economic sanctions, former President Barack Obama’s administration’s approval of the sale of Uranium One to Russia, and giving twenty percent of America’s uranium reserves to Moscow.
Republican Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Chuck Grassley of Iowa have called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to look into the mounting scandals tying Democrats to Russia.
“The bottom line is very simple, says former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation. “The Russian connection now is owned by the Democratic Party.”
What are the Democratic ties to Russia?
Fusion GPS
In 2016 the Hillary for America presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) paid at least $168,000 to Fusion GPS, a political opposition research for the salacious Trump-Russia dossier.
If a federal court rules in favor of the House of Representatives that is seeking Fusion GPS bank records, the full amount paid to the firm for the dossier could be revealed to be greater than originally believed.
The funds to Fusion GPS were secretly paid through the Perkins Coie law firm, a Democratic law firm. Both former Obama White House counsel Robert Bauer and Marc Elias head up the “political law” section of the firm.
It was Elias who collected the funds from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC and made the secret payments to Fusion GPS.
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center on Oct. 25 filed a formal complaint before the Federal Election Commission charging the Clinton campaign “violated campaign finance law” by failing to accurately disclose the payments for the dossier.
The legal center claimed the campaign and the DNC were paying their law firm for “legal expenses,” when in fact they were covertly paying for the “dirt” contained in the Trump dossier. Hillary for America paid at least $12.4 million to Perkins Coie for legal expenses, according to The New York Times, and the DNC forked over $5.4 million to the law firm.
“The stated purposes of the disbursements to Perkins Coie did not reflect the ‘actual purpose’ of how the disbursement was intended in hiring Fusion GPS,” the complaint charges.
The author of the dossier was former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele, who recruited and paid unnamed Russian sources, many reportedly with ties to the Russian intelligence services and to the Kremlin. Steele had to work with these agents, whose motives and credibility are unknown.
The unverified charges were designed to embarrass and humiliate President Donald Trump. Paying for information undercuts the credibility of any opposition research, because people are monetarily incentivized to make claims.
“I would never consider my information as reliable if I paid for it,” said an American businessman with decades of experience in Russia. “And if they did pay for it, they would come back next week and say, ‘you know what, I have more information for you,’” he told TheDCNF in an interview.
“And it would not be uncommon for them to say ‘I want to introduce you to somebody else. He has more information, but you’ll have to pay him as well,’” the businessman said.
Either Fusion GPS or the Clinton camp could have disseminated the fake dossier to the six liberal news organizations that received it, however, it’s interesting that neither of them felt confident enough to publish them.
BuzzFeed published the dossier last January, but added the disclaimer, “The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.”
“From my personal standpoint and my thorough review of this document, I have deemed it a complete and total fabricated fraud,” Col. James Waurishuk (Ret.), a 30-year veteran who worked for the CIA’s Asymmetric Warfare Task Force, said in an interview with TheDCNF.
Oh, nothing to see here. The real evidence is that Trump was running for President, he could talk, Russians that could also talk existed, so there DEFINITELY was collusion. Don’t be looking into what the Democrats were doing…. PLEASE!!!
But Trump shook hands with Putin, they were dressed like twins and stuff at APEC Trumps Shirt didnt hang on him like it was on a cheap wire hanger. Only 250 billion for American workers. That doofus clown didnt bow to anyone and the fish got 2 scoops. Wheres FAs 1 year tribute to the POTUS? Maybe I missed it during the downtime.
Nice try, but Trump blew this out of the water today with his tendresse for the ex-KGB boss, taking his word that the Russians made no attempt to affect the 2016 election.
But the floppy crowd will pivot like a russian ballerina and accept the treasonous behaviour.
@PhillipMarlowe: So, do you whiny liberals, all butt-hurt due to losing an election due to having the WORST candidate in human history, fear Trump starting a nuclear war or creating dialogue with antagonistic, aggressive world leaders? Or, most likely, do you idiots simply not know WHAT you want and simply scream at the sky instead?
@Bill… Deplorable Me: DepoBill, you have a toddler’s fixation on people’s anuses and body functions.
Yesterday, Trump took the word of a KGB chief over the words of the intelligence agencies of America.
You can name call, wallow in bodily fluids ’til The Lord come back to Earth, but you can’t change the fact that our president is a dotard, a fool, a useful idiot. (who can’t even remember the name of a soldier in a call to his widow.)
Someone has their hands in the russian cookie jar and its not Trump
Yes treasonous behavior you’d think he released 161 known terrorists from Gitmo gave 150 billion to a country that chants DEATH TO AMERICA sooooo treasonous.
@PhillipMarlowe:
Speaking of anuses…. perhaps you should see his ACTUAL quote and the ELABORATION for the benefit of the weak minded (like YOU).
Again, you prefer to wallow in liberal lies instead of trusting facts. But, that’s what liberals do, isn’t it, Phlippin Moron?