Fusion GPS speaks....sets record straight...wingnuts won’t like....
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The two founders of Fusion GPS wrote an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times’ Wednesday edition, largely blaming the Republican party for the embattled research firm’s swelling problems.
And they blamed President Donald Trump too.
But amid all their finger pointing and GOP-laced anger, the duo of Glenn R. Simpson and Peter Fritsch actually ratted out Sen. John McCain as the probable source who leaked the bogus Trump dossier.
In fact, the two Fusion GPS executives admitted they helped get the dossier into McCain’s hands and not Buzzfeed.
This is why investigators and prosecutors love it when suspects in a case offer a written statement or alibi, because so often key admissions are made that help boost the case against the suspects instead of exoneration.
Fusion GPS is no exception.
The Fusion GPS founders say they are proud of the research conducted by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele, even though virtually all of it is unfounded, unproven and fabricated. Simpson and Fritsch write:
Instead, we deferred to Mr. Steele, a trusted friend and intelligence professional with a long history of working with law enforcement. We did not speak to the F.B.I. and haven’t since.
After the election, Mr. Steele decided to share his intelligence with Senator John McCain via an emissary. We helped him do that. The goal was to alert the United States national security community to an attack on our country by a hostile foreign power. We did not, however, share the dossier with BuzzFeed, which to our dismay published it last January.
It doesn’t get much more damning than that for McCain. In fact, that is called getting thrown under a bus. Was it intentional? Quite likely, as Fusion GPS looks to offload some of the heavy heat it has been receiving from the White House and President Trump directly.
And while shocking on one level, that information actually dovetails with previous reporting by True Pundit.
An Oct. 9, 2017 article in True Pundit — nearly three months ago — detailed McCain’s involvement:
But now court documents and new source Intel raise suspicions that McCain may have chipped in financially with the FBI or privately funded the counterfeit research, either himself or through his shady foundation.
Regardless, the research firm of former spooks — Fusion GPS who commissioned the problematic report — could have been paid for the same report by the multiple entities:
- The FBI, through a black-budget fund as reported by True Pundit
- John McCain campaign coffers and connections
- McCain’s foundation: Arizona State University’s McCain Institute for International Leadership
- Hillary Clinton-backed campaign operatives who paid $1 million for the research
According to a court document (attached below) in a British lawsuit against the author of the Fusion GPS report, Christopher Steele, McCain along with a man named David Kramer were the first people to obtain the Trump dossier.
Kramer, a virtual mystery man before the election, previously worked for the State Department under Hillary Clinton. During the 2016 election, Kramer reportedly worked as senior director for Arizona State University’s McCain Institute for International Leadership.
McCain and Kramer shopped the damaging dossier to the U.S. media with hopes the press would jump on the opportunity to smear Trump. These included: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Yahoo News, the New Yorker and CNN and others. Only lowly liberal rag sheet Mother Jones took the poisoned bait and sprinted to publish portions of the dossier.
When the mainstream media balked, McCain shopped the dossier to Comey. According to True Pundit’s reporting, the FBI cut what now appears to be a side deal to further underwrite Steele’s unfounded research.
Did McCain augment the FBI’s payment to Steele with his own cash? Did McCain push or vouch for the FBI’s payment to Steele? Or Did McCain, through his campaign coffers or shady foundation, underwrite the research before DNC-backed entities also paid for it?
Or did all of this take place in an elaborate, much larger plot to discredit and unseat President Trump?
How was McCain the first person to obtain the falsified research if he didn’t in fact have a role in commissioning the dossier? It was provided to no other U.S. senator.
Other True Pundit articles dealing with McCain’s links to the Trump dossier include:
Oct. 9, 2017: New Evidence Shows McCain Helped Fund FBI Plot to Frame Trump; Backed Bogus Russian Trump Dossier
Sept. 14, 2017 FBI Paid $100K+ For Concocted Trump Dossier During Election; John McCain Helped Broker Classified Deal With Comey
Nov. 16, 2017 As Criminal Scandals Implicating McCain Unfold, ‘Declining’ Health Has Become an Off-Broadway Production
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That didn’t take long.
Hours after the New York Times dropped yet another thinly-sourced Trump Russia conspiracy collusion story, Wikileaks pounded the washed-up partisan newspaper with a heavy dose of journalistic reality
The kind that can leave a nasty scar.
today's libtard cnn followers...
That's the picture of RPJ I've had in my head for months.
Ha! 10 replies and I can’t see any of them! Usual suspects apparently as unhinged as the prez
Maybe you can ignore Congress and the FBI too. It will make the next couple months better for you.
Congress is apparently already doing its share of ignoring reality-at least Nunes’s intel Committee. FBI however, not so much
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They should release the transcripts of their hearings after this all wraps up.
Not one person is melting down. Every one is laughing at the article as the intended effect isn't what you think it is going to be.
You are one of the few who hasn't figured out that this whole thing has a script and it's being played out exactly as the Sitting Administration wants it to.
You are one of the few who hasn't figured out that this whole thing has a script and it's being played out exactly as the Sitting Administration wants it to.
The more they talk, the more they start walking over one another. I love it.
It's truly disturbing how a body of our govt, the House Intel committee, has manipulated the facts to suit their leader's agenda. Do any of these people have an ounce of character left? Or are you required to check it at the door when you join the GOP now? Protect Trump. That is all they care about. Where are the Howard Bakers of today?
You people realize, I hope, that RPJ, countrywrong, MWV and lefties everywhere are only going to become more violent as their disillusionment with the new normal grows. There rhetoric on here is trending that direction already.
You should send Congress a list of things they should be paying attention to.
I've never shilled for a civil war. What I have said is that your teams antics will likely lead to one in the end.
Brushy thinks the duck dynasty fringe is a majority, but then their manboy did tell them he won the popular vote so I'm sure they believe it like they believed Mitt would win! This the same country that elected Barrack twice, Trump isn't broadening any voting blocs that I can see.
My guy's residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC. Where's your candidate?
The House Intel Committee is manipulating facts? Hahahahhaha
We aren’t having to protect him. You all haven’t even gotten to the plate yet. Nothing in the Dossier was able to be proven and it’s the whole basis for the discussion. You’ve literally got nothing and are hoping Mueller can find something, anything, anywhere, about something so you all don’t look any sillier than you already do.
Nothing in the dossier has been proven? Nothing else you say can be taken seriously. You couldn't be more wrong or ill-informed ie ignorant. Turn off Fox News.
Oh, they proved Carter Page went to Russia but couldn’t confirm who he even met with.
"But when pressed to identify what in the salacious document the bureau had actually corroborated, the sources said, McCabe cited only the fact that Trump campaign adviser Carter Page had traveled to Moscow. Beyond that, investigators said, McCabe could not even say that the bureau had verified the dossier’s allegations about the specific meetings Page supposedly held in Moscow."
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I'd say his testimony under oath means more than anything you can drum up from your Iranian propaganda sources.