Conservative website funded initial Fusion GPS Trump opposition effort

This from the Washington Free Beacon. This is the news direct from the horse's mouth.


Since its launch in February of 2012, the Washington Free Beacon has retained third party firms to conduct research on many individuals and institutions of interest to us and our readers. In that capacity, during the 2016 election cycle we retained Fusion GPS to provide research on multiple candidates in the Republican presidential primary, just as we retained other firms to assist in our research into Hillary Clinton. All of the work that Fusion GPS provided to the Free Beacon was based on public sources, and none of the work product that the Free Beacon received appears in the Steele dossier. The Free Beacon had no knowledge of or connection to the Steele dossier, did not pay for the dossier, and never had contact with, knowledge of, or provided payment for any work performed by Christopher Steele. Nor did we have any knowledge of the relationship between Fusion GPS and the Democratic National Committee, Perkins Coie, and the Clinton campaign.

Representatives of the Free Beacon approached the House Intelligence Committee today and offered to answer what questions we can in their ongoing probe of Fusion GPS and the Steele dossier. But to be clear: We stand by our reporting, and we do not apologize for our methods. We consider it our duty to report verifiable information, not falsehoods or slander, and we believe that commitment has been well demonstrated by the quality of the journalism that we produce. The First Amendment guarantees our right to engage in news-gathering as we see fit, and we intend to continue doing just that as we have since the day we launched this project.

Matthew Continetti
Editor in Chief

We need to see the timeline. It is odd that the Democrats would have needed to conduct Opposition Research at the tune of 9 million dollars. HRC was a 90 point favorite against everyone or so the MSM poll's would have us believe. Why then after the Republican research would the Democrats need to pay for a second investigation into Trump? Still a lot of stones to turn over on this. I do find it interesting that Debbie Wasserman has gone full Hogan's Hero and she remembers nothing, so too with the guy that replaced her. No one on the Democrat side has a clue who could have authorized a 9 million dollar payment. Last comment- if anyone is looking for Opposition Research please contact me. I can write up anything you want and I'll only charge you $2 million.

Not surprising, honestly. Trump is anti-establishment.