The founders of Fusion GPS speak out

[Anonymous]

Basically they called Nunes a liar and accuse the GOP of ignoring Trump's various money laundering schemes.

Good times! #maga

Damn
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/opinion/republicans-investigation-fusion-gps.html

[Anonymous]

Congressional Republicans got some ‘splainin’ to do.

[Anonymous]

Here are some important paragraphs in the NYT op-ed written by Fusion GPS:

The intelligence committees have known for months that credible allegations of collusion between the Trump camp and Russia were pouring in from independent sources during the campaign. Yet lawmakers in the thrall of the president continue to wage a cynical campaign to portray us as the unwitting victims of Kremlin disinformation.

We suggested investigators look into the bank records of Deutsche Bank and others that were funding Mr. Trump’s businesses. Congress appears uninterested in that tip: Reportedly, ours are the only bank records the House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed.

We told Congress that from Manhattan to Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., and from Toronto to Panama, we found widespread evidence that Mr. Trump and his organization had worked with a wide array of dubious Russians in arrangements that often raised questions about money laundering. Likewise, those deals don’t seem to interest Congress.

We explained how, from our past journalistic work in Europe, we were deeply familiar with the political operative Paul Manafort’s coziness with Moscow and his financial ties to Russian oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin.

--Glenn R. Simpson and Peter Fritsch, both former journalists, are the founders of the research firm Fusion GPS.

[Anonymous]

Expect a tweet soon calling this "fake". T-Corrupt has a shrinking vocabulary.

Wow, this is really stunning.

[Anonymous]

FBI was investigating the Trump-Russia connection BEFORE they were aware of the dossier.

GOP has been sitting on this knowledge since the summer of 2016 and have been complicit in keeping it under wraps.

Someone on the inside of the Trump campaign was sharing information.


There is a lot to unpack here, but the GOP needs to release the transcripts of the proceedings. The public has a right to know.

And this is a bad look for Grassley.

[Anonymous]

Their testimony should be made public, in full, just like they asked to do.

[Anonymous]

Republicans: party over country every single time.

[Anonymous]

And there's a mole in the Trump camp. Ha ha ha ha ha ha

[Anonymous]

Trump will no doubt nominate this story for his big Fake News Award show on Monday. What the hell even is that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And there's a mole in the Trump camp. Ha ha ha ha ha ha

Best part of the whole story. Mueller must be loaded for bear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump will no doubt nominate this story for his big Fake News Award show on Monday. What the hell even is that?

Was that serious? I assumed it was more of his insensible ranting.

[Anonymous]

So many holes in this opinion piece.

1) Did Fusion GPS meet with the Russian lawyer before and after the Trump Jr meeting. No denial from the two founders in this article- so we can conclude they did meet with the Russian lawyer.

2) How does Fusion GPS know if Russians are paid or not? Even if they didn’t pay Russians, they still used our foreign adversaries as sources (collusion) to interfere with our election.

3) why did they involve John McCain after the election?

4) why did they refuse to testify and plead the fifth? What deal got them to testify? Congress needs to publish the deal they struck?

5) How does Fusion GPS know the dossier was not the source of the FBI investigation? Did they see the FISA application?

Their bank record needs to be made public. Campaign finance law may have been broken.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many holes in this opinion piece.

1) Did Fusion GPS meet with the Russian lawyer before and after the Trump Jr meeting. No denial from the two founders in this article- so we can conclude they did meet with the Russian lawyer.

2) How does Fusion GPS know if Russians are paid or not? Even if they didn’t pay Russians, they still used our foreign adversaries as sources (collusion) to interfere with our election.

3) why did they involve John McCain after the election?

4) why did they refuse to testify and plead the fifth? What deal got them to testify? Congress needs to publish the deal they struck?

5) How does Fusion GPS know the dossier was not the source of the FBI investigation? Did they see the FISA application?

Their bank record needs to be made public. Campaign finance law may have been broken.

Nice try at spinning. Grassley told his constituents that he would release the transcript. The Republicans are covering or running scared. Devin Nunez is behaving like a man who is guilty as sin, scared sh**less, and frantically trying to save his own skin. I think that the Russians or someone else have a boatload of dirt on many Republicans in the House and Senate. How else do you explain Lyndsey Graham’s about face to become a boot licking sycophant to Trump. Orrin Hatch was kissing Trump’s butt so hard he probably left a hickey (maybe he was channeling Pence).

You know whose bank records we need? Trump’s and little Jared. Know whose tax forms we need? Trump’s and Jared’s. The only members of the Trump family I feel sorry for are Barron and Trump’s grandkids. The rest of them know their father/father-in-law/husband and his business is shady as hell. They’ve enabled his delusions and crazy for years.



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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many holes in this opinion piece.

1) Did Fusion GPS meet with the Russian lawyer before and after the Trump Jr meeting. No denial from the two founders in this article- so we can conclude they did meet with the Russian lawyer. Thy didn't discuss this in the article, but they probably answered the question in testimony - the GOP should release the transcripts. Further, what they DID say was that the information in the dossier confirmed elements that they were already reasearching, independent of any work FusionGPS were doing

2) How does Fusion GPS know if Russians are paid or not? Even if they didn’t pay Russians, they still used our foreign adversaries as sources (collusion) to interfere with our election. The information was collected BECAUSE the Trump people were having these meetings and running the money. True, FusionGPS doesn't know if Russians were paid for their information. THEY were not paying any money for the information beyond what they had paid Steel

3) why did they involve John McCain after the election? They said because they felt it important that the Intelligence apparatus in the country should have whatever information was available - suppose they DIDN't share it with McCain, then they would be sitting on information related to international crimes. That isn't how it is supposed to work. Why are yu upset that the information shared with a GOP Senator?

4) why did they refuse to testify and plead the fifth? What deal got them to testify? Congress needs to publish the deal they struck? They said in th article that the GOP was fishing for information from a private company about clients and transactions that had nothing to do with THIS case; likely they wanted to ensure the privacy of their other clients - that makes sense, doesn't it, or should any company open themselves up to questioning for things wildly outside of the scope of the inquiry?

5) How does Fusion GPS know the dossier was not the source of the FBI investigation? Did they see the FISA application? Read the article - they said that the information from the dossier confirmed elements that were already in the hands of investigators, primarily from people WITHIN the Trump campaign. Do you know how FISA works? The dossier wouldn't even be close to cornerstone elements necessary to get a warrant. Do you know what would be evidence? Things like Trump campaign operatives on video or audio conspiring with Russians.

Their bank record needs to be made public. Campaign finance law may have been broken. Highly unlikely, but if you want to go down that road, then the Trump Orgnization and the Kushner Company both need to disclose its records, and the Trumps personally, all of them as well as Kushner, need to disclose their taxes and records as well

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