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Fusion GPS Founder: FBI May Have Paid Expenses for Anti-Trump Dossier Author
www.breitbart.com ^ | 01/19/2018 | by Aaron Klein

Posted on 01/19/2018 9:36:41 AM PST by Red Badger

TEL AVIV — Glenn R. Simpson, the co-founder of the controversial opposition research firm Fusion GPS, stated in testimony it “makes sense” to him that the FBI paid for a trip to Rome by the former British spy who was contracted by Simpson’s company to produce the largely discredited 35-page anti-Trump dossier.

Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent, to do the work cited in the anti-Trump dossier. Last July, Steele reportedly traveled to Rome, where he met with an FBI contact to supply the agency with the anti-Trump dossier and other information he found during the course of his anti-Trump work.

Steele’s dossier reportedly served as some of the basis for the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and unsubstantiated claims of coordination with Russia.

In August 22 testimony released last week and reviewed in full by Breitbart News, Simpson stated that Steele’s outreach to the FBI was “something that Chris took on on his own.”

Simpson stated that as far as he knew Fusion GPS did not fund Steele’s trip to Rome to meet with the FBI. He said he believes that the trip expenses may have been reimbursed by the FBI.

“I don’t think we did,” Simpson stated, referring to whether Fusion GPS paid for Steele’s travel to Rome to meet with the FBI. “I have no information that we paid for it.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201707; 201708; 20170822; christophersteele; coup; dossier; fbi; fusion; fusiongps; glennsimpson; goldenshowersdossier; gps; italy; mi6; robertmueller; rome; simpson; steele; steeledossier; trumpdossier
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1 posted on 01/19/2018 9:36:41 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

I’m going to need a lot more popcorn.


2 posted on 01/19/2018 9:40:42 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: Red Badger

#ReleaseTheDocuments


3 posted on 01/19/2018 9:41:08 AM PST by TheRightGuy (I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
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To: Red Badger

The Roar of Republicans being Mute on this is DEAFENING. Where are the C********?


4 posted on 01/19/2018 9:43:09 AM PST by heights
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5 posted on 01/19/2018 9:43:48 AM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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6 posted on 01/19/2018 9:44:10 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: Diogenesis

Time for another mass casualty incident.


7 posted on 01/19/2018 9:45:59 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Red Badger

This is probably the lie Steele told that Grassley referred for prosecution.


8 posted on 01/19/2018 9:46:28 AM PST by lodi90
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To: Red Badger

Oh my.
My, my, my.

If true, this is illegal.
People should be going to jail.


9 posted on 01/19/2018 9:46:30 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: tennmountainman

A FBI finance officer had to sign off on this. It would have to be fairly illegal and some superior probably had to send them an email or document ordering them to do it. So, you just need to find the account involved, the finance officer and have them come in for an interrogation. They’ve probably got all the documentation lined up in a folder and ready to hand off.


10 posted on 01/19/2018 9:49:58 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: heights
The Roar of Republicans being Mute on this is DEAFENING. Where are the C********?

Many if not most of them are hopelessly compromised too.

11 posted on 01/19/2018 9:50:50 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Red Badger

Melt the phone lines!

Call (202) 224-3121 house switchboard. If you don’t know who your rep is, no worries, they will help you find it and then transfer to their office.

“I want the 4 page memo from the House Intelligence Committee released yesterday to be declassified and released to the public now!” is what to say.

On twitter, type this and tweet (it will auto complete if you click it):
#ReleaseTheMemo


12 posted on 01/19/2018 9:53:32 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (SEDITION! Obama DOJ colluded to try overthrow the President!)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

Alternatively

https://www.house.gov/

Remember if you will, the Free Republic home page has links to everybody that matters in the country

http://www.freerepublic.com/home.htm


13 posted on 01/19/2018 9:56:56 AM PST by Thibodeaux (2018 is looking good)
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To: Menehune56

“The Roar of Republicans being Mute on this is DEAFENING. Where are the C********?
Many if not most of them are hopelessly compromised too.”

I think they , just like Democrats, are perfectly willing to take down Trump, if it means getting cash from Globalist interest. They are as much Dems as Dems.


14 posted on 01/19/2018 9:56:58 AM PST by heights
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To: Red Badger
Each day as more is revealed. The more valid and outstanding is Travis McGee's jpg, which told us what was happening in the DOJ/FBI before all of these emerging reports.

Weeks ago Travis Mcgee started posting the Smug shots of the seditionist thugs in the DOJ/FBI shown below.


15 posted on 01/19/2018 9:57:24 AM PST by Grampa Dave (America had regime change 20 Jan 2017! ISIS collapsed! Are Iran/Our media, the DNC/FBI/DOJ/CIA next?)
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To: heights

That is just foolish.

The Republicans are in the process of springing the trap that will destroy the Democrats. Total destruction is a process to be implemented slowly over time to insure every scrap is destroyed

The democrats know it and are currently in deep panic mode


16 posted on 01/19/2018 9:59:36 AM PST by Thibodeaux (2018 is looking good)
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To: Diogenesis

bkmk


17 posted on 01/19/2018 10:00:51 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Steely Tom

bkmk


18 posted on 01/19/2018 10:01:05 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Red Badger

This was overt TREASON . It needs to be prosecuted as such.


19 posted on 01/19/2018 10:02:48 AM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: Red Badger

Obama’s FBI


20 posted on 01/19/2018 10:11:59 AM PST by butlerweave
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