This one goes way back, folks, but it’s extremely pertinent to what happened during the entirety of Donald Trump’s presidency and what continues to happen today. The infamous Trump-Russia dossier, assembled by phony evidence from Christopher Steele, the disgraced former British intelligence agent, originated as opposition research from the Clinton campaign. That part has been established quite some time ago. It wasn’t a legitimate piece of intelligence, it was political research based on rumors and lies meant to destroy Hillary Clinton’s political opposition.
The evidence contained in the dossier itself, such as stories about Trump hiring Russian call girls to urinate on a bed in a Moscow hotel room (the infamous “pee tape”), was completely made-up and never authenticated. That part didn’t matter, it wasn’t supposed to be authenticated or vetted, it was supposed to be used to prevent Donald Trump from winning the presidency in 2016. The FBI, through corrupt agents like James Comey and Andrew McCabe, used the dossier to obtain FISA warrants and spy on the Trump campaign. Again, all accepted and proven factual parts of this case.
Now, however, there’s a new development. Somewhere along the way, during one of the Congressional investigations, it was revealed that the Trump-Russia dossier did not come about magically, it was bought and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign by way of the corrupt Democrat-friendly law firm Perkins Coie.
The Federal Election Commission has finally caught up with the story, about six years too late, and fined the Democratic National Committee, co-conspirators, and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign for not disclosing funds that were laundered through Perkins Coie intended to pay for research leading to the Trump-Russia dossier:
Federal election regulators fined Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee earlier this month for not properly disclosing the money they spent on controversial opposition research that led to the infamous Trump-Russia dossier.
The DNC was fined $105,000 and the Clinton campaign was fined $8,000, according to a letter sent by the Federal Election Commission to a conservative group that requested an inquiry.
The dossier was compiled by retired British spy Christopher Steele. It contained unverified and salacious allegations about Donald Trump, including claims that his campaign colluded with the Kremlin to win the 2016 election. Trump’s campaign had numerous contacts with Russian agents, and embraced Russian help, but no one was ever formally accused of conspiring with Russia.
The money trail behind the Steele dossier has been a subject of intense political scrutiny for years. More than $1 million flowed from the Clinton campaign and DNC to the law firm Perkins Coie, which then hired the opposition research company Fusion GPS. That company later hired Steele and asked him to use his overseas contacts to dig up dirt about Trump’s ties to Russia.
The Clinton campaign’s relationship with Perkins Coie is as corrupt as they come. Can’t spend campaign money on something directly? No problem! Just pay your law firm and your law firm will then turn around and perform whatever unsavory task that needs to be performed on your behalf without directly using your money or your name.
The only thing the campaign reports is a payment to Perkins Coie for legal fees. They don’t report that Perkins Coie then takes the money and hires a company to dig up false claims about Donald Trump, assemble a dossier, and eventually turn it into FISA warrants to get wiretaps on Trump Tower.
Neither the Democratic National Committee nor the Clinton campaign denies what happened, they’re calling it a “silly” issue now that was “settled” ages ago:
The Clinton campaign and the DNC never conceded that they violated campaign finance laws, but they agreed to drop their pushback and accept the civil fines, according to the FEC letter.
A DNC spokesman told CNN Wednesday that it has “settled aging and silly” FEC complaints about 2016.
The only threat to democracy that happened in the past six years was former President Obama, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party, and the FBI colluding together on phony Russia dossier evidence to prevent Donald Trump’s 2016 victory or remove him after the fact. Both measures failed, Trump won and though they tried to impeach him, they failed twice.
Hillary Clinton is a corrupt swamp creature who doesn’t deserve to be within 10 feet of the White House. She paid for phony opposition research on Donald Trump which amounts to the definition of meddling in an election and trying to deceive voters.
In the end, Hillary’s FEC fine is more proof Trump was right about the Russian collusion hoax from the beginning.
