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Founder of Fusion GPS/Pissgate dossier to plead FIF @ Senate hearing Wed
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:25 am
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:25 am
LINK
Recon why this ole baw is doing this?
What's he hiding Dems? Lets hear it.
quote:
Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, the firm that commissioned the Trump dossier, will plead the Fifth at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled for Wednesday, his lawyers say. Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, was subpoenaed by the committee on Friday after his lawyers said that he would be out of the country on vacation at the time of the hearing, which will explore shortcomings in the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the committee, has been interested in speaking to Simpson about Fusion GPS’s role in two matters: the salacious and uncorroborated Trump dossier, and a lobbying campaign carried out last year against the Magnitsky Act, a law that places sanctions against Russian human rights abusers.
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Fusion GPS was hired last June by a supporter of Hillary Clinton’s to investigate Trump’s dealings in Russia. The firm then hired former British spy Christopher Steele to conduct the research. Simpson was initially scheduled to testify on Wednesday alongside Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort, but the latter two reached a deal with the committee to avoid appearing in public. Instead, they will talk to the committee in a closed session.
Recon why this ole baw is doing this?
What's he hiding Dems? Lets hear it.
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Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:27 am to bamarep
In other news, Donald Trump was seen this morning with Russian salad dressing. I'm Wolf Blitzer.
This post was edited on 7/23/17 at 10:28 am
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:28 am to bamarep
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:28 am to bamarep
Why didn't a want post this?
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:29 am to Deuces
Memo to the retards at the DOJ, this probably means said individual IS HIDING SOMETHING ILLEGAL.
Hint
Hint
Hint
Hint
Hint
Hint
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:30 am to BeeFense5
quote:
Why didn't a want post this?
He only posts at his government job Monday thru Friday
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:31 am to bamarep
You have a massive effort to hang Trump while protecting KNEE deep politicians on both sides.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:33 am to bamarep
Put him under oath and make him do it.
Mueller will ignore this, of course.
Mueller will ignore this, of course.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:43 am to bamarep
quote:Fusion GPS started only 6 years ago and has been involved in a lot of lawsuits. There were a lot of legal issues surrounding their efforts with the Russian lawyer in opposition to the Magnitsky Act.
What's he hiding Dems? Lets hear it.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:47 am to bamarep
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Fusion GPS was hired last June by a supporter of Hillary Clinton’s to investigate Trump’s dealings in Russia. The firm then hired former British spy Christopher Steele to conduct the research.
i have sort of a legal-philosophical question
the regs that keep being brought up against Trump related to foreign donations to campaigns involve an allegation that information collected by a foreign entity/person cannot be given to/used by a Presidential campaign. on a conceptual level, how much different is hiring a foreign national to do the collection? now in this specific instance you'd have to prove a direct relation b/w the HRC campaign and these groups, and i get that, but i'm just speaking conceptually
assuming people associated with Trump's campaign broke FEC laws when they got information from Russians and assuming that HRCs campaign can be linked to the creation of this dossier, what's the real difference in the 2 scenarios?
are liberals trying to say that it's illegal if a campaign receives information that was already collected by a foreign actor, but it's not illegal if we use foreign actors to then acquire information?
This post was edited on 7/23/17 at 10:48 am
Posted on 7/23/17 at 10:48 am to mmcgrath
quote:
There were a lot of legal issues surrounding their efforts with the Russian lawyer in opposition to the Magnitsky Act.
In which Dems and HRC were involved with
Posted on 7/23/17 at 11:40 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:Good question.
assuming people associated with Trump's campaign broke FEC laws when they got information from Russians and assuming that HRCs campaign can be linked to the creation of this dossier, what's the real difference in the 2 scenarios?
The main difference is that Steele provided a service for compensation. You can buy t-shirts, hire artists, etc for a campaign as long as you are paying for that service or product and it does not involve any management or decision making in a campaign.
The dossier itself can be used by the Clinton campaign (doesn't look like it was) but Steele can't provide it for free or get involved in any meetings with management.
In the case of the Russia meeting at Trump Tower, there was clear discussions with management and documents were "left behind".
Posted on 7/23/17 at 11:43 am to MButterfly
quote:The Obama administration opposed it during their "reset" efforts but eventually signed it and started prosecuting people which led to Fusion GPS getting hired by the Russians.quote:
There were a lot of legal issues surrounding their efforts with the Russian lawyer in opposition to the Magnitsky Act.
In which Dems and HRC were involved with
Posted on 7/23/17 at 11:45 am to mmcgrath
quote:
The main difference is that Steele provided a service for compensation. You can buy t-shirts, hire artists, etc for a campaign as long as you are paying for that service or product and it does not involve any management or decision making in a campaign.
but this raises more issues
so Trump's campaign would have been OK had they paid the agents for the hacked data?
isn't the REAL issue whether Trump promised some sort of compensation for this exchange? that's what we really fear, right? if all Trump's people did was receive the information for nothing in exchange, this is, at best, a small FEC violation and not anywhere near the conspiracy (all the way up to treason, as many have suggested) that's been created
Posted on 7/23/17 at 11:48 am to bamarep
What happens if Manafort and Jared plead da fif? They are further tried in the media as KGB agents.
This post was edited on 7/23/17 at 11:49 am
Posted on 7/23/17 at 11:53 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:It probably frees them up from the election law violation and throws them into a co-conspirator on the hacking. Depends on what was in the papers the left behind.
so Trump's campaign would have been OK had they paid the agents for the hacked data?
quote:Coordinating with a foreign national in a us election is a felony, not some small civil violation. It's not the same as treason, but it is serious enough by itself.
isn't the REAL issue whether Trump promised some sort of compensation for this exchange? that's what we really fear, right? if all Trump's people did was receive the information for nothing in exchange, this is, at best, a small FEC violation and not anywhere near the conspiracy (all the way up to treason, as many have suggested) that's been created
Posted on 7/23/17 at 12:19 pm to mmcgrath
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Coordinating with a foreign national in a us election is a felony, not some small civil violation. It's not the same as treason, but it is serious enough by itself.
and STILL no fricking evidence whatsoever
Posted on 7/23/17 at 12:24 pm to gthog61
quote:We have evidence of the senior leaders of the Trump campaign in a meeting with a foreign national where the intention was to receive information to help their campaign.
and STILL no fricking evidence whatsoever
We also know that the meeting was not disclosed, then denied, then lied about. That is evidence as well.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 12:29 pm to mmcgrath
It's going to be hilarious when this turns up nothing and you wasted months of your life obsessing over something that doesn't affect your every day life either way.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 12:31 pm to bamarep
quote:
Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, the firm that commissioned the Trump dossier
Lock Him Up!
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