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    Hillary Clinton Defends Campaign: Yes, We Paid for Trump Dossier. So What?

    Hillary Clinton Defends Campaign: Yes, We Paid for Trump Dossier. So What?

    By Andrew Kerr
    November 2, 2017 at 11:19am

    Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton defended her campaign Wednesday evening for funding the salacious Fusion GPS dossier that claimed there were ties between then-candidate Donald Trump and Russia during the 2016 election.

    Clinton told Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah that “of course” there was a difference between her campaign paying for the opposition research, which relied on high-level sources within the Kremlin, and allegations that members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the outcome of the election.

    “I think most serious people understand that,” Clinton said. “This was research started by a Republican donor during the Republican primary, and then when Trump got the nomination for the Republican Party, the people doing it came to my campaign lawyer.”

    “He said ‘yes,’” Clinton said of her campaign lawyer, Marc Elias. “He’s an experienced lawyer, he knows what the law is, he knows what opposition research is.”



    The Washington Post reported last week that Elias had retained Fusion GPS in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to conduct opposition research into Trump.

    Fusion GPS, in turn, retained former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele between June 20 and Dec. 13, 2016.

    Current reporting indicates that the unnamed Republican donor Clinton was referring to was long removed from the picture by the time Steele began compiling the dossier.

    Steele produced a collection of 17 memos concerning Trump and Russia, including the infamous and unsubstantiated allegation that Trump solicited prostitutes to perform lewd acts on a hotel bed where former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, had previously stayed.

    Elias emphatically denied any knowledge of the dossier for a whole year, according to Maggie Haberman of The New York Times.

    The Times’ Kenneth Vogel added that he received vigorous pushback from Elias when he tried to report the story earlier this year.

    Clinton pivoted to “an even bigger problem” after noting that the dossier wasn’t made public until after the election.

    “The American people didn’t even know that the FBI was investigating the Trump campaign because of connections with Russia starting in the summer of 2016,” Clinton said. “I know that voters should have had that information.”

    However, the fact that the Clinton campaign and the DNC had obfuscated from the public its payments to Fusion GPS for opposition research into Trump is an issue in and of itself, according to the Campaign Legal Center, which filed a Federal Election Commission complaint last week against the campaign and the DNC.

    “They failed to accurately disclose the purpose and recipient of payments for the dossier of research alleging connections between then-candidate Donald Trump and Russia, effectively hiding these payments from public scrutiny, contrary to the requirements of federal law,” the CLC said in a statement.

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    Twitter Jumps Ship, Admits It Suppressed Clinton Scandal

    By K. Campbell
    November 2, 2017 at 1:27pm

    Nearly a year after President Donald Trump defeated Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Twitter has admitted it helped Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
    The social media giant reportedly buried significant portions of tweets related to hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta during the last two months of the campaign, according to testimony given to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Oct. 31.

    Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett explained that his company’s systems hid 48 percent of tweets that included the #DNCLeak hashtag and 25 percent of tweets using #PodestaEmails.

    For the Clinton campaign, some of the most detrimental revelations that came from those emails were that DNC officials secretly aided Clinton during the primaries against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and that “neutral” journalists were actually pro-Clinton partisans working to get her elected.

    In fact, the exposure of those emails and Clinton’s reprehensible behind-the-scenes behavior almost certainly played a role in her defeat.

    Twitter leadership had reportedly detected this activity as part of alleged efforts to interfere with the 2016 election.
    In the two months leading up to the November election, roughly 57,000 users posted approximately 426,000 tweets mentioning variations of the #PodestaEmails hashtag.

    “Approximately one quarter (25%) of those Tweets received internal tags form our automation detection systems that hid them from searches,” Edgett wrote.
    Those same systems also detected and hid nearly half of all tweets mentioning variants of the #DNCLeak hashtag, which referred to the disclosure of leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee.
    But, apparently, Twitter wasn’t concerned about targeting the alleged source of the leaks or election interference, as only two percent of the tweets using the #DNCLeak hashtag were found to have come from “potentially Russian-linked accounts,” Edgett said.

    Fortunately — and quite embarrassingly for Clinton — she still managed to lose the election, despite Twitter’s assistance in covering up the exposure of her wrongdoings.
    Perhaps that’s why people have been lining up to distance themselves from Clinton’s sinking ship, such as former interim DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile whose upcoming book exposes details of Clinton cheating in the primary race against Sanders.

    The truth is that Twitter censored information from voters regarding important information about a presidential candidate. Fortunately, that censorship wasn’t enough to help Clinton be victorious, but it certainly doesn’t sit well with those of us who appreciate freedom of information and speech.

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    “I think most serious people understand that,” Clinton said. “This was research started by a Republican donor during the Republican primary, and then when Trump got the nomination for the Republican Party, the people doing it came to my campaign lawyer.”

    “He said ‘yes,’” Clinton said of her campaign lawyer, Marc Elias. “He’s an experienced lawyer, he knows what the law is, he knows what opposition research is.”
    I think you need a new lawyer, i. e., you lost the election, because you were a terrible tiresome crooked candidate and Trump was a fantastic, fearless, feisty, fun candidate. No amount of "opposition research" was going to turn this election away from Trump. He's smarter than you, he's more accomplished, he's more earnest, he's more committed, he's more loyal, he's more caring, he's more intelligent, and he's a much harder worker than you are and he had a nearly perfect Agenda to fix our country. The best man won, fair and square. That is WHAT HAPPENED.
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