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Trump To DOJ And FBI: Say Who Paid For Dossier
dailycaller.com ^ | Chuck Ross

Posted on 10/22/2017 5:18:50 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

President Trump called on the Department of Justice and FBI to reveal who paid opposition research firm Fusion GPS to produce the infamous anti-Trump dossier of research compiled last year by former British spy Christopher Steele.

“Officials behind the now discredited ‘Dossier’ plead the Fifth,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday. “Justice Department and/or FBI should immediately release who paid for it.”

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Officials behind the now discredited "Dossier" plead the Fifth. Justice Department and/or FBI should immediately release who paid for it.
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Trump was referring to Fusion co-founders’ Peter Fritsch and Thomas Catan pleading the Fifth during interviews with the House Intelligence Committee earlier this week.

The committee has recently ramped up its efforts to investigate the dossier. In addition to the subpoena for Fusion’s co-founders, the panel earlier this month subpoenaed Fusion’s bank, TD Bank, for records that would disclose the identities of its clients.

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KEYWORDS: doj; dossier; election; fbi; fusiongps; trump; trumpdossier; trumprussia; trumptweet
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To: x1stcav
I'm confused.

President Trump usually tosses a few left jabs to draw the leftard's attention and ire, and then he clocks them with a right hook.

21 posted on 10/22/2017 5:40:45 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: RoosterRedux
Why did McCain take it to the FBI? Why not the CIA since it was via an overseas operation?

Why did Comey submit it as an attachment instead of on its own merit? Ahhhhhhh....because no one knew its validity. In other words, he was sneaky....just like releasing info through a friend.

22 posted on 10/22/2017 5:42:01 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Flick Lives

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Nothing like covering the bets.


23 posted on 10/22/2017 5:42:18 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: aynrandfreak

Mmmmmmm....waterboarding Steele......great idea.

Brilliant thinking.


24 posted on 10/22/2017 5:44:19 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Alberta's Child

Do you think we’re still in his calm before the storm until who paid for it is revealed with evidence? When FusionGPS’ bank records are released, which they’re fighting?


25 posted on 10/22/2017 5:47:49 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: Guenevere

The Control-LEFT media may be mute, but the covfefe bull horn will be blasting away before the Sunday morning talk shows.

It will be hard to get the needle on the spinning platter.


26 posted on 10/22/2017 5:49:22 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: RoosterRedux

Trump re McCain: “When I fight back, it won’t be pretty.”

McCain is in this up to his eyeballs, whether he paid for it or not. We’ve heard that he specifically dispatched one of his staff on a transatlantic flight to pick up the dossier and hand carry it back.

But—I’m not sure what the benefit to us is. There will be no punishment of sick, dying “war hero” McCain. He can just go Democrat and suck up praise and attention for “joining the Resistance.”


27 posted on 10/22/2017 5:49:33 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (White is the new Black.)
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To: rbg81

Perhaps, an uncle of Jeb.


28 posted on 10/22/2017 5:50:05 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: RoosterRedux

1) Twitter consistently - make that constantly - underreports the likes and retweets for Trump tweets. Whatever you think of Twitter as a platform they are meticulous in updating stats for tweets from the likes of Lena Dunham. Similarly, they do nothing to filter out the obvious and pervasive bot activity that pumps NYT rubbish into top ten trends.

2) This is not a criticism of Trump but an exhortation. Like Superboy, he does not yet understand the number and scope of his powers - in large part because the Deep State won’t tell him or help him. I respect the fact that he respects official channels and due process but observing Marquess of Queensbury rules in DC will only get you kicked in the goolies.

He needs to start twisting each and every arm he sees, including Sessions and those ostensibly on his side.


29 posted on 10/22/2017 5:51:34 AM PDT by relictele
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To: MNDude

Because, again, you act like you don’t understand the LEGAL/ETHICAL separation of DOJ from the exec.

Bannon perfectly got this. Although DOJ ORGANIZATIONALLY ansses to the Prez, operationally, ethically it is independent. This is what the Founders wanted —where an independent DOJ would even go after a crooked Prez-—as Njxon’s, Clinton’s and Obama’s would NOT do.

You cannot have a truly ethical DOJ and have it be the police arm of one man. It us the nation’s police.

As such, Sessions must build cases he can win, whatever that requires.


30 posted on 10/22/2017 6:20:43 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: RoosterRedux

It’s got to be McCain. He was th one that thm took the dossier to the FBI and that is documented.


31 posted on 10/22/2017 6:28:16 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (If GOP won House, Senate and Presidency...why are the Democrats still in charge?)
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To: rrrod

It would be halarious if it turned out that Karl Rove’s RINO consultant group commissioned it. I’d like to see Karl do a little whiteboard explanation of THAT expense.


32 posted on 10/22/2017 6:29:10 AM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“We’ve heard that he specifically dispatched one of his staff on a transatlantic flight to pick up the dossier...”

How did McCain know where to send for it?


33 posted on 10/22/2017 6:33:12 AM PDT by odawg
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To: RoosterRedux

And how exactly did McCain come into possession of the dossier? This needs to be explained to the American people.


34 posted on 10/22/2017 6:33:42 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: House Atreides
I’d like to see Karl do a little whiteboard explanation of THAT expense

Happy to help:


35 posted on 10/22/2017 6:39:19 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like)
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To: MNDude

He is in the habit of “giving them a chance to do the right thing” and upping the pressure over a period of time so they can disgrace themselves or show they are trying to get out of the swamp. I imagine there are pressures being brought to bear that are under the RADAR for the time being.


36 posted on 10/22/2017 6:43:41 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb

Unfortunately there are still MANY, MANY swamp dwellers that need to be “outed”.


37 posted on 10/22/2017 6:56:46 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: odawg

He was part of the conspiracy. Whether he paid for it himself is of less importance than the fact that he was part of the effort to generate and obtain it. I’d say, the more people involved, the bigger and more interesting the conspiracy.


38 posted on 10/22/2017 6:58:58 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (White is the new Black.)
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To: RoosterRedux

You plead the fifth to avoid testifying against yourself about your crimes.

Not to keep something secret.

What crimes are there?


39 posted on 10/22/2017 6:59:21 AM PDT by Mr. K (NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF)
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To: Truth29

Absolutely — no question about it. Fat chance this will change — not even after the 2018 elections.


40 posted on 10/22/2017 7:01:56 AM PDT by happytrumper
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