Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped pay for research that led to the 'golden showers' dossier on Donald Trump Trump tweeted on Saturday that the FBI and Justice Department should 'immediately release who paid for it' after Fusion GPS co-founder Peter Fritsch and partner Thomas Catan last week invoked the US Constitution's Fifth Amendment, which protects Americans against self-incrimination.Įlias is one of the nation's top Democratic campaign lawyers, and the report puts the funding source within the Clinton campaign, although it has previously been reported that Democrats funded the Dossier research that began with a GOP donor funding stream during the contested primaries. The revelations about funding of the infamous dossier, which laid out an array of alleged Russia business connections as well as the unproven and salacious material about Trump's alleged conduct in a Moscow hotel room, came days after the president pushed for the release of information about it. On Wednesday he blasted the Clinton campaign and the DNC for funding the infamous dirty dossier President Trump honored the eight winners of the National Minority Enterprise Development Week Awards Program during the Oval Office event. President Donald Trump enters the Oval Office for an event at the White House Octoin Washington, DC. Political Editor For and Emily Crane For and Regina F.
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The dossier made a series of salacious and discredited claims against Trump, including that he paid prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bedīy Geoff Earle, Deputy U.s.After the election the FBI agreed to pay Steele to continue gathering intelligence, but they reneged when he was identified.Elias had earlier 'vigorously' denied being involved in the Trump dossier, according to a New York Times reporter.Clinton's lawyer and his law firm Perkins Coie continued to fund the research until days before last year's election.President Donald Trump blasted the revelation, calling himself the 'victim'.Research firm then hired ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who wrote the dossier, to dig up the dirt on Trump.Campaign lawyer Marc Elias hired research firm Fusion GPS back in April 2016.Hillary Clinton 's campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped bankroll the research that resulted in the dossier on Donald Trump.'I'm the victim here', says Trump: President goes after Clinton after report the Democrats helped pay for Brit spy's 'dodgy sex dossier' until days before the election
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