George Soros Confirmed as Funding Source for Fusion GPS, Steele Dossier

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A George Soros spokesperson has confirmed that the billionaire globalist has been funding Fusion GPS - the firm responsible for the phony Trump/Russia dossier authored by the former British spy, Christopher Steele.

A spokesman for the liberal financier admitted that Soros has indirectly backed the opposition research company that compiled the infamous dossier which led to the Trump Campaign being investigated for allegedly colluding with Russia.

Soros aide, Michael Vachon, told David Ignatius of the Washington Post that Soros provided a grant to a nonprofit organization called the Democracy Integrity Project.

That group, which was formed by Daniel Jones in 2017, paid Fusion GPS as a contractor to investigate whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.

Before forming the DIP group, Jones was a Senate Intelligence Committee staffer for Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.

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According to the Daily Caller, Ignatius's column in The Post confirms what a Washington, D.C., lawyer named Adam Waldman told TheDCNF about a conversation he had with Jones in March 2017.

Waldman was a lawyer for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

He also worked in some capacity for Christopher Steele, according to text message correspondence with Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence panel.

In what the Post’s Ignatius noted was an “incestuous” relationship, Steele, a former MI6 officer, has done work for the Kremlin-linked Deripaska in the past.

Waldman told TheDCNF that Jones approached him on March 15, 2017, through a text message asking to meet.

“Dan Jones here from the Democracy Integrity Project. Chris wanted us to connect,” he wrote, seemingly referring to Steele.

At a meeting two days later, Waldman said that Jones told him that he was working with Steele and Fusion GPS and that their project was being funded by Soros and an assembly of Silicon Valley billionaires.

Jones told the FBI in interviews in March 2017 that his organization was paid around $50 million by a group of billionaires to conduct the investigation.

Jones’ statements to the FBI were first exposed in a report released by Republican members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on April 27.

“In late March 2017, Jones met with FBI regarding PQG, which he described as ‘exposing foreign influence in Western election,'” reads the committee’s report, referring to Jones’ consulting firm, Penn Quarter Group.

“[Redacted] told FBI that PQG was being funded by 7 to 10 wealthy donors located primarily in New York and California, who provided approximately $50 million,” the report continues.

“[Redacted] further stated that PQG had secured the services of Steele, his associate [redacted], and Fusion GPS to continue exposing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.”

Jones said that he “planned to share the information he obtained with policymakers … and with the press.”

He also offered to provide all materials to the FBI.

It is unclear what information Jones & Co. have provided to the media. But he did send text messages to Waldman linking to news articles that he claimed his team was behind.

“Our team helped with this,” he wrote, linking to a March 17, 2017, Reuters article about Russians investing in Trump property in Florida.

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Jones also sent Waldman a link to a March 20, 2017 article at McClatchy, which reported that federal investigators were looking into whether right-wing news sites like Breitbart and Infowars played a part in Russia’s election-oriented cyber operations.

The article cited “two sources familiar” with the matter.

The same McClatchy reporters, Greg Gordon, and Peter Stone relied on the same sourcing for other controversial stories about the Russia probe, including one report that special counsel Robert Mueller has evidence that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen traveled to Prague during the campaign, as alleged in the Steele dossier.

The same reporters also wrote a story on March 15 alleging that conservative lawyer Cleta Mitchell expressed concerns about Russian funding of the National Rifle Association.

Mitchell vehemently denied the report, noting that she was not an NRA lawyer during the campaign season, as McClatchy reported.

It has since been revealed that Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, provided similar information about Mitchell to Bruce Ohr, a Department of Justice official who served as a back channel between Steele and the FBI.

Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS on the anti-Trump project.

Vachon, the Soros spokesman, did not respond to requests for comment.