Ed Klein: Hillary Clinton personally authorized her campaign chairman, John Podesta, to launch the controversial Donald Trump-Russian dossier project, according to a senior Clinton campaign strategist who worked for Hillary in both her 2008 and 2016 presidential bids.
Hillary approved Podestas decision to pay for the dossier by funneling campaign funds through Marc Elias, the strategist said, referring to the lawyer who represented both the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
The dossier was delivered to the Clinton campaign by [the opposition research firm] Fusion GPS in the summer of 2016, and Hillary read it and was thrilled by its salacious content, the strategist continued.
She bragged about it so openly that many of the people in her Brooklyn campaign headquarters were aware of the existence of the dossier. Hillary referred to it as her secret weapon that would blow Trump out of the water.
With Hillarys knowledge and approval, top-ranking people on her campaign staff, including campaign manager Robby Mook, communications director Jennifer Palmieri, and press secretary Brian Fallon, leaked the dossier to friendly journalists and members of Congress.
They leaked the story that Trump secretly agreed with the Russians that, if elected, he would not interfere with the Russian takeover of eastern section of Ukraine, and that he promised Putin he would end oil sanctions, the source said.
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Who later leaked Jared Kushner's federal disclosure of the meeting? That's a felony in & of itself ;)