Trump bashes Obama camp for alleged role in dossier
President Trump on Monday tweeted out recent reports that the Obama campaign had paid nearly a million dollars to a law firm that hired Fusion GPS, the company behind a dossier containing unverified claims linking Trump to Russian involvement in the 2016 election.
“Report out that Obama Campaign paid $972,000 to Fusion GPS. The firm also got $12,400,000 (really?) from DNC. Nobody knows who OK’d!,” Trump posted on Twitter on Monday.
“Report out that Obama Campaign paid $972,000 to Fusion GPS. The firm also got $12,400,000 (really?) from DNC. Nobody knows who OK’d!,” Trump posted on Twitter on Monday.
The Washington Post last week reported that the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid a law firm, Perkins Coie, to commission Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump in the spring of 2016.
Fusion then reached out to former British spy Christopher Steele, who put together the controversial dossier that includes salacious but unsubstantiated tidbits about Trump and his connection to the Kremlin.
Over the weekend, The Federalist website reported that the Obama campaign paid $972,000 to the law firm.
Reports also revealed that the conservative Washington Free Beacon first contacted Fusion to carry out opposition research on Trump but abandoned the efforts early in 2016 when it seemed likely that Trump would win the presidential nomination.
Trump’s tweets come as news broke that his former campaign manager Paul Manafort has been told by federal authorities to turn himself in as the first charges come from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the election.
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