We’ve always known that the FBI knew something about the notorious anti-Trump dossier funded by Fusion GPS. That’s because in April, The Hill confirmed that “[former] FBI Director James Comey has cited the dossier in some of his briefings with lawmakers in recent weeks as one of the information sources used by his bureau to bolster its probe.”
According to the Gateway Pundit, “Clinton campaign and DNC lawyer Marc Elias and his law firm Perkins Coie paid Fusion GPS to continue researching Trump after a Republican donor who originally funded the research pulled out in April 2016.”
And here’s the kicker: “The Comey FBI used the largely debunked Trump dossier, which alleged Russian ties to the President’s campaign associates, to convince a judge to grant them a FISA warrant, allowing them to secretly monitor Trump campaign official Carter Page.”
Now, as the new year is before us, so are new revelations detailing a connection between the FBI and dossier. According to the Daily Mail,
Claims have resurfaced that the FBI offered the British spy behind the ‘golden showers’ dirty dossier $50,000 to corroborate his claims about now-President Donald Trump.
‘I believe, just from examining the public sources, that the FBI offered Christopher Steele $50,000 if he could corroborate the dossier. He either couldn’t, didn’t, wouldn’t, and they didn’t pay him the money,’ news analyst Andrew Napolitano told Stuart Varney on Fox Business Monday.
Former MI6 agent Steele’s dossier claims the Russians possess compromising information that could be used to blackmail Trump, and alleges the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
Napolitano appears to be basing his claim on an April report from the New York Times, which cited two sources claiming that an FBI agent met Steele in Rome in October of 2016, just weeks before the presidential election.
The agent offered Steele $50,000 if he could get ‘solid corroboration of his reports’, which the FBI ultimately never paid out, the report said.
There’s more, including Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein refusing to admit if the FBI paid to verify the dossier during a recent congressional hearing.
It’s amazing, isn’t it, that as an FBI probe into supposed ties between the Trump campaign and Russia continues, the only villain revealed thus far has been the FBI themselves?
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