John Podesta Told Lawmakers Payment for Steele dossier was Split 50-50 Between DNC and Campaign

[mystery-ak]

John Podesta Told Lawmakers Payment for Steele dossier was Split 50-50 Between DNC and Campaign

Posted at 8:32 am on May 10, 2020 by Elizabeth Vaughn

On October 24, 2017, it was disclosed that the DNC and the Clinton campaign had paid Fusion GPS through the Perkins Coie law firm to create the dossier. This disclosure was made by the firm’s general counsel in the letter below.

On October 26, 2017, CNN reported “three sources familiar with the matter” had told them that in private discussions with congressional investigators, both 2016 Clinton campaign manager John Podesta and former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz had “denied any knowledge about an arrangement to pay for opposition research on President Donald Trump.”

One of the sources told CNN, “The interviews happened before this week’s disclosure that the Clinton campaign and DNC paid for the research. Senate investigators may seek to further question the two top Democrats and dig deeper on the origins of the so-called Trump dossier.”

Even CNN found it “crazy” that the campaign’s manager and the chairwoman of the DNC denied knowing about this transaction.

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https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/05/10/john-podesta-tells-lawmakers-payment-arrangements-for-the-steele-dossier/

[andy58-in-nh]

If it were not for the fact that the American news media were nearly unanimous in their support for the goals of this effort - discrediting and/or removing Donald Trump from office - it would already be the greatest political scandal in our history.

The largest political party in the U.S., by way of legal and financial intermediaries, employed its resources to create a false narrative about a candidate for the opposition party, which was then duly leaked to the news media by Federal government employees, while already-politicized and corrupt Federal investigative agencies used these phony documents to obtain warrants to spy on American citizens and launch Congressional investigations into the fake scandal that the Democrats themselves created, aided and abetted.

Watergate pales by comparison.

[PeteS in CA]

IOW, there was Hillary-Russia Collusion and DNC-Russia Collusion. I think this has been known, generally, but this testimony gave proportions.