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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Thu Nov 2, 2017, 12:51 PM Nov 2017

Former MI6 Officer Steele Was Paid $168,000 For Dossier, Fusion GPS Says

Source: Talking Points Memo

By MATT SHUHAM Published NOVEMBER 2, 2017 11:24 AM

Former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele’s company was paid $168,000 for its work creating a dossier on Donald Trump, Reuters reported Thursday.

Citing a statement from the research firm that paid Steele’s company, Fusion GPS, Reuters reported that the money paid to Steele was part of $1.02 million in fees Fusion GPS had received from Perkins Coie, a law firm representing the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Prior to Democrats hiring Fusion GPS for research, conservatives funded the firm’s work: Editors of the conservative news site Washington Free Beacon admitted Saturday that the outlet first contracted Fusion GPS to research Trump during the 2016 Republican presidential primary. “We do not apologize for our methods,” they wrote. “The First Amendment guarantees our right to engage in news-gathering as we see fit.”

Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, however, have focused on Democrats’ work funding the research firm. On Sunday, Trump baselessly claimed the dossier cost $12 million.

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Former MI6 Officer Steele Was Paid $168,000 For Dossier, Fusion GPS Says (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2017 OP

If it helps bring these people down, that amount will be a huge bargain! NT Bleacher Creature Nov 2017 #1

I read that BEFORE the dems Scarsdale Nov 2017 #3

1. Who paid does not matter. 2. Receiving info is not collusion. Quid pro quo is collusion. Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2017 #2

$168,000? PatSeg Nov 2017 #4

Only 168k for ALL that work? . Trump spends 3 times that on ONE DAY of vacation. Sunlei Nov 2017 #5

Worth every penny Jim Dandy Nov 2017 #6

Well. That is less than the initiation fee for Mar-a-Lago. Freethinker65 Nov 2017 #7

If WSJ, NYT, WP, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC had hired 1 reporter to focus on Trump's Russia ties, Justice Nov 2017 #8

Money well spent. nt canetoad Nov 2017 #9

The Dotard tweeting Fake News ($12,000,000). yallerdawg Nov 2017 #10

Yeah Donnie, I'm sure your little cult of Faux-Bots and Dittoheads are massively outraged ... mr_lebowski Nov 2017 #11

Bleacher Creature

(11,257 posts)

1. If it helps bring these people down, that amount will be a huge bargain! NT

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 12:58 PM

Nov 2017

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)

3. I read that BEFORE the dems

Reply to Bleacher Creature (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 01:07 PM

Nov 2017

took it on, a copy was sent to McCain and others in the gop. THEY were very interested, but did not want to involve themselves in case it angered the "leaders" McConnell and Ryan.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,002 posts)

2. 1. Who paid does not matter. 2. Receiving info is not collusion. Quid pro quo is collusion.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 01:07 PM

Nov 2017

What tRump did was not simply receiving info. It was coordinating an extensive disruptive interferential campaign by a foreign adversary against a US citizen and US party in a US election.

Trump's quid pro quo may have been providing analytic data (possibly from Cambridge Analytica), receiving advance knowledge of emails, lifting or not enforcing sanctions against Russia, possible money laundering for Russians, possible participation in the Rosneft $8 billion stock sale deal plus brokering thereof by Carter Page, and possible erasure of debts owed to Russian oligarchs.

Plus part of tRump's quid pro quo may have been acquiescing to blackmail by filing to run in the first place.

PatSeg

(47,496 posts)

4. $168,000?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 01:13 PM

Nov 2017

Give or take 11 million. The man takes hyperbole to a new level.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

5. Only 168k for ALL that work? . Trump spends 3 times that on ONE DAY of vacation.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 01:13 PM

Nov 2017

Jim Dandy

(358 posts)

6. Worth every penny

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Thu Nov 2, 2017, 01:29 PM

Nov 2017

Freethinker65

(10,023 posts)

7. Well. That is less than the initiation fee for Mar-a-Lago.

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Thu Nov 2, 2017, 01:40 PM

Nov 2017

Justice

(7,188 posts)

8. If WSJ, NYT, WP, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC had hired 1 reporter to focus on Trump's Russia ties,

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 01:57 PM

Nov 2017

Would have paid more than $168,000. This is peanuts.

canetoad

(17,167 posts)

9. Money well spent. nt

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 01:58 PM

Nov 2017

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

10. The Dotard tweeting Fake News ($12,000,000).

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 02:02 PM

Nov 2017

The present occupant of the White House is a pathological liar, and a two-bit TV celebrity hustler.

Nothing more.

Thank you, you deplorable assholes.

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

11. Yeah Donnie, I'm sure your little cult of Faux-Bots and Dittoheads are massively outraged ...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 02:33 PM

Nov 2017

... and calling for 'investigations' cause ZOMG NASTY CORRUPT HILLARY!!!

However, the actual pseudo-grown-ups on Capitol Hill are all well-aware that there's absolutely nothing illegal or even untoward about what the Clinton Campaign did, that it happens ALL THE TIME in politics, and most have done the exact same kind of thing in their own campaigns.

You can fairly well count on virtually none of them doing jack shit about it ... sure maybe a toady like Rohrbacher or a nutter like Steve King will make some ridiculous public statement at some point, implying she did something wrong ... but there ain't be any 'investigation of the investigation' in Congress. Bet on that ...

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