Fusion GPS Co-Founder: Washington Free Beacon Paid Firm for Oppo Research on Ted CruzFusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, in an interview with the House intelligence committee on November 14, admitted to doing work on Cruz in addition to Trump, while it was being paid by the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative media outlet backed by billionaire and hedge fund manager Paul Singer.
Simpson was asked during the interview by investigators if he or Fusion GPS had been retained to conduct research on any other 2016 presidential candidate.
“That question, in the way you phrased it, has refreshed by memory, and I was — I remember we did work on Ted Cruz. And I think it was part of the Beacon matter,†he said. He could not remember if they had looked into other candidates.
Singer backed Republican establishment candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), in the 2016 presidential election. Cruz, who came in second in the Republican primaries, was, like Trump, a non-establishment Republican candidate.
The Washington Free Beacon’s editor-in-chief, Matthew Continetti, is a former editor at the neo-conservative Weekly Standard, whose founder and current editor-at-large is Never-Trumper Bill Kristol. Continetti is also Kristol’s son-in-law.........
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/21/washington-free-beacon-also-paid-fusion-gps-conduct-opposition-research-ted-cruz/
