Posted on 11/07/2017 9:17:14 AM PST by mojito
The co-founder of Fusion GPS, the firm behind the unverified Trump dossier, met with a Russian lawyer before and after a key meeting she had last year with Trump’s son, Fox News has learned. The contacts shed new light on how closely tied the firm was to Russian interests, at a time when it was financing research to discredit then-candidate Donald Trump.
The opposition research firm has faced renewed scrutiny after litigation revealed that the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign paid for that research. Congressional Republicans have since questioned whether that politically financed research contributed to the FBI’s investigation of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign – making Fusion’s 2016 contacts with Russian interests all the more relevant.
Veselnitskaya met with Trump Jr. in June, 2016, ostensibly to discuss sanctions against Russia The June 2016 Trump Tower meeting involving Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya occurred during a critical period. At that time, Fox News has learned that bank records show Fusion GPS was paid by a law firm for work on behalf of a Kremlin-linked oligarch while paying a former British spy Christopher Steele to dig up dirt on Trump through his Russian contacts.
But hours before the Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016, Fusion co-founder and ex-Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson was with Veselnitskaya in a Manhattan federal courtroom, a confidential source told Fox News. Court records reviewed by Fox News, email correspondence and published reports corroborate the pair’s presence together. The source told Fox News they also were together after the Trump Tower meeting.
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Could you please fix my headline? I pasted it in and left off the “F” of “Fusion.”
Many freepers called this....
The brain is a funny thing....It will automatically fill in the blank if a word, letter, phrase is repeated enough.
Set up.
Yep. The give away is the Russian “lawyer” that Junior met with came out of the woodwork yesterday to undermine him in the media. Obvious FSB disinfo op here.
That official was Trump himself! IIIMMMPPPPEEEAAACCCHH!
Talk about collusion...Fusion Collusion. This organization is essentially a sewer pipe running between the DNC/Hillary (Trump dossier), the Media (paid by Fusion to cover Trump/Russia collusion), and Russian Operatives (generating dirt to be fed into the sewer pipe in the form of allegations in the dossier). Side branches of this sewer pipe were accessed by the FBI (Comey used the dossier to get a FISA warrant), DOJ (complicit in all of the above), and who knows who else.
This needs to be brought fully and completely out into the light.
Yep. Set up for sure.
Glenn Simpson was with Veselnitskaya in a Manhattan federal courtroom.........
for what?
Indeed. That was pretty obvious at the time and many of here said then.
If this is true, the special counsel has to know it, and if mueller knows it that the real collusion was between democrats and russians to entrap Trump, but is still pursuing Trump and not the real colluders, then that means we have a rogue power within out government operating outside the framework of checks-and-balances... at best... and more easily described as a political coup d’etat.
They also need to look into the role Juan McCain played in that whole scenario, as well..
So it looks like she was working for or with GPS. A lot of us here on FR thought the meeting was a set up all along. However I did not know Fusion GPS was behind it. Tick tock, tick tock.
So it looks like she was working for or with GPS.
She was working on behalf of the Russian government. Putinist Russia often uses Oligarchs as cut outs for deniability. They did the same in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Russians who attacked Crimean parliament at gun point “worked” for an Russian oligarch. The line between FSB and private companies is very blurry.
“and who knows who else”
Don’t forget the Bushes and RNC!
Perhaps so whatever they were planning could be kept confidential under “attorney-client privilege”? The Clintons are well acquainted with preemptively using that strategy, for example, when the people tasked with handling the illegal “wiping” of the email server were all Hillary’s lawyers.
Very interesting.
This is really sounding like Fusion GPS is more of a firm designed to put their prey in compromising situations so that they can use the scenes to promote their product, which is to make darn sure they find dirt on the prey. They make sure to smear the mud on before they take the pictures.
I’m hoping they go out of business and even to jail over the slime they crawl around in.
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