Trump Dossier Author: Hillary Clinton Hired Me to Discredit Election Results
Christopher Steele says he was paid to delegitimize the 2016 presidential election
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The former British spy, Christopher Steele, who authored the damaging anti-Trump dossier, triggering the Russia probe, says he was hired by Hillary Clinton's campaign team to delegitimize the 2016 presidential election results.
Ex-MI6 agent Steele has testified before a London court that he was commissioned in the run-up to the election to provide a basis to challenge the legitimacy of results in the event that Donald Trump should win.
The law firm used by the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Perkins Coie, allegedly hired the ex-spy to "unearth evidence" of the Trump campaign conspiring with Moscow on election interference, according to Steele.
If Steele's testimony is correct, it suggests that the Clinton Campaign seemingly planned the Russia probe in advance of the election, as a plan B in case Trump won.
The unverified dossier compiled by Steele has led to more than two years of investigations into President Donald Trump’s campaign since it was published in full by BuzzFeed on January 10, 2017, shortly after damaging details were reported by CNN.
Just this week, a leaked FBI email has revealed that a leak from the Bureau, regarding James Comey's briefing with President Trump on the unverified claims in the now-infamous anti-Trump dossier, was the trigger for CNN to publish the salacious and unsubstantiated story.
CNN broke the Trump Dossier (aka Steele Dossier) story on January 10, 2017, and was the first to report details of the dossier that were presented during classified briefings one week earlier to Trump and then-President Barack Obama after they were leaked to the press.
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According to the Washington Times, Steele testified in court that the law firm Perkins Coie wanted to be in a position to contest the results based on evidence he unearthed on the Trump campaign conspiring with Moscow on election interference.
His scenario is contained in a sealed Aug. 2 declaration in a defamation lawsuit brought by three Russian bankers in London.
The trio’s American attorneys filed his answers Tuesday in a libel lawsuit in Washington against the investigative firm Fusion GPS, which handled the former British intelligence officer.
In an answer to interrogatories, Mr. Steele wrote: “Fusion’s immediate client was law firm Perkins Coie.
"It engaged Fusion to obtain information necessary for Perkins Coie LLP to provide legal advice on the potential impact of Russian involvement on the legal validity of the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential election.
“Based on that advice, parties such as the Democratic National Committee and HFACC Inc. (also known as ‘Hillary for America’) could consider steps they would be legally entitled to take to challenge the validity of the outcome of that election.”
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According to Breitbart, Steele’s dossier was used by the FBI to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on several Trump associates.
The FBI never told the FISA court explicitly that the Democratic National Committee or the Hillary Clinton campaign had paid for the dossier, though it did indicate that the document had been compiled as opposition research.
The dossier, and rumors of its contents, circulated widely throughout elite Beltway circles both before and during the election.
The document — whose main claims have never been corroborated — is directly responsible for claims about Russian interference in the election, which Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party, and the media have used to cast doubt on the 2016 election — just as Steele’s employers had allegedly intended.
In the last months of the election, Trump hinted he might not accept “rigged” results — a suggestion that earned him the ire of the Clinton campaign, which expected to win.
Then-President Barack Obama said: “I have never seen in my lifetime, or in modern political history, any presidential candidate trying to discredit the elections and the election process before votes have even taken place.”
Hillary Clinton and the DNC were allegedly doing just that.
