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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