Dan Bongino: Russian 'Dossier' Against Trump Based On 10 Year Old Wall Street Journal Article

Former US Secret Service agent Dan Bongino told on his YouTube channel that the idea of ​​a conspiracy between US President Donald Trap and Russia was taken from Glenn Simpson articles in The Wall Street Journalwritten in 2007 year.

Screenshot from video: YouTube / Dan Bongino

“Ladies and gentlemen, the Democrats were looking for a ready-made script to attack Donald Trump, and thus the “dossier” was born. But the information in this dossier closely mirrors that of an article written by the founder of the company that produced the dossier, Glenn Simpson, who founded Fusion GPS,” Bongino said.

Simpson founded a company that received funding from Democrats to investigate Trump data long before he wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal, that is, the dossier was written at least 10 years before Trump’s presidential campaign.

The conspiracy participants in the article and in the dossier, according to Bongino, almost completely coincide.

“According to a 2007 Wall Street Journal article by Glenn Simpson and his wife, former Soviet officials are trying to influence American politics,” said the former Secret Service agent.

The April 17 article of 2017, written by Simpson and Mary Jacoby, was titled “How lobbyists helped former Soviet officials influence Washington.”

“This article is very similar to the dossier: plot, characters. Who is the article talking about? This is Manafort, Deripaska. Deripaska is not mentioned in the dossier, but he plays a big role in the whole plot of Russian influence on the US elections,” Bongino noted.

Of course, that just the very similarity is not enough. But the fact that the dossier was based on an article 10-year-old, indirectly confirmed in its testimony to Congress Nellie Or, who worked on Fusion GPS during the election campaign 2016 of the year.

She testified before Congress in the fall of 2018 of the year, but the transcript of her affidavit was made public only on March 28.

“I should mention one important aspect of my memories of him (Glenn Simpson) - he did important work as a journalist for The Wall Street Journal, in particular in researching Russian corruption and organized crime, oligarchs, etc. So I knew we were both interested in the topic. This was a kind of context for our discussion,” Or Bongino quoted Or.

“So Nellie Ohr has all but confirmed that Glenn Simpson's previous work on Manafort and what he believed to be Russian influence in the United States through Manafort and others - the fruits of his journalistic work have now been transferred to the Trump campaign. And this is the expert evidence that Simpson found. But who found Simpson? Democrats and Hillary Clinton. Democrats were looking for a ready-made narrative about the Russians to attack Donald Trump. And they found a person who had a ready-made narrative because they had already written about it in The Wall Street Journal many years ago,” Bongino said.

He added that the Democrats had already tested this idea in 2008 year against John McCain, who had become a member of the presidential election race. Then he was attacked because of alleged ties with Russia, based on the above article in The Wall Street Journal. And at the time it worked,

Bongino noted that everything looks as if the Democrats offered Simpson “to remove John McCain's name and replace him with the name of Donald Trump”, and thus received a file, and this was indirectly confirmed in his testimony by Nellie Or.

You can view the full testimony of Op. linkThe mentioned excerpt is on the 20 page.

The fact that the "dossier" on Trump is based on an old article, some media wrote back in 2017 year. Then the journalist came to this conclusion Tablet magazine Lee Smith.

“Tablet's open source investigation has revealed that the central elements of the Russiagate scandal arose not from British ex-spy Christopher Steele's top-secret Russian government 'sources', which are unlikely to exist without the full control of the Russian government, but from a series of stories that co-founder Fusion GPS Glenn Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby co-wrote The Wall Street Journal long before Fusion GPS existed, and Donald Trump was just another Manhattan real estate millionaire,” Smith wrote at the time.

Smith said that in his article Simpson and his wife called Paul Manafort a key player in representing Russian interests in the United States.

“They continued to write it over the years. So when Manafort was hired as Trump's chief of staff, Simpson — now running Fusion GPS — made him the focus of his research and knew enough background information to build a credible dossier,” Smith said.

In his article, Smith emphasized that Fusion GPS had few sources in Russia. Nellie Or, who also worked with Fusion GPS and was married to a senior official in the Department of Justice under the Obama administration, was not in Russia for several decades, and Christopher Steele, a former British spy who was hired to work on the dossier, had very little reliable contacts.

“Simpson's previous articles in The Wall Street Journal were probably his best resource. And if the CIA and FBI believed him, then they probably didn’t have reliable sources on Russia either,” Smith suggested.

“Thus, the entire investigation into Russia may not be based on factual data, but on information that is ten years out of date. Manafort's strong ties to Russia certainly provided the basis for special counsel Robert Mueller, but the general theory that Russia may have colluded with the Trump campaign is extremely unconvincing,” Smith wrote in a 2017 article in 2019. year it was confirmed that there was no collusion. But a year and a half ago, almost no attention was paid to Smith’s article, since everyone was busy inflating the scandal about Russia's interference in American elections.

It is worth noting that in her testimony Nellie Or admitted that in 2016 she sympathized with Hillary Clinton, so collecting information against Trump as part of her work on Fusion GPS was not unpleasant for her, writes Daily Caller.

“I might be less comfortable doing a reverse study that would be against Hillary Clinton,” Ohr said.

When asked why, she replied: “Because I preferred Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate.”

Recall, in addition to the article 10-year-old from the testimony of Nelly Or in Congress, it became known one of the sources of the dossier against Trump was the Ukrainian parliamentarian Sergey Leschenko. This is not the only time that Ukrainians tried to play for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 elections. Details of the Ukrainian intervention in the American elections, read on link.

Nelli Or, a former employee of Fusion GPS in Washington, said that Sergey Leshchenko, a former investigative journalist who became a Ukrainian parliamentarian, was the source of Fusion GPS during the 2016 presidential election campaign of the year.

Fusion GPS is known for its work on compiling a dossier against Donald Trump, claiming that Trump and his campaign headquarters have colluded with the Russian authorities to influence the outcome of the 2016 election of the year.

Having received 1 a million dollars from the National Democratic Party Committee and Hillary Clinton's headquarters, Fusion GPS hired former British spy Christopher Steele to investigate Trump's ties to Russia. While this investigation lasted, Fusion GPS was digging into Trump's dirty underwear, the members of his headquarters and his family.

Or also told Congress that Fusion GPS commissioned her study of the travel and business activities of Trump's children. Op and some of the company's employees also focused on finding information about Paul Manaforte, who served as head of Trump's campaign headquarters from April to August 2016.

In addition to gathering information and intelligence about people involved in the Trump campaign, Fusion GPS also distributed its investigation findings in the press.

In addition, Nelli Or stated that Leshchenko also provided Fusion GPS with information about Manaforte.

Leshchenko, a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Preventing and Combating Corruption, is widely known for publishing the so-called “black ledger”, which was intended to show that Manafort received $ 2012 million of illegal cash payments from former President Viktor Viktor in 12,7. Yanukovych. Manafort worked as a public relations consultant for Yanukovich and his political party from 2004 to 2014.

Leshchenko was widely represented in the media during and after the US presidential campaign 2016. He actively accused Manafort and sought to portray Trump as a “pro-Russian candidate.”

In connection with his actions, it was established that Leshchenko had illegally interfered in the US 2016 election of the year. 11 December 2018, a court in Kiev ruled that the disclosure of Leshchenko of information about Manaforte "led to interference in the US electoral processes in 2016, and caused damage to the interests of Ukraine as a state."

In response, Leshchenko accused the president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, that he was stifling the investigation of the Manafort case in order to enlist the support of the Trump administration.

The very “black bookkeeping” of Yanukovich, which Leshchenko published, was subjected to a thorough analysis, and its authenticity has not yet been confirmed.

The head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, Nazar Kholodnitsky, told 27 on June 2017 of the year that the investigators did not have evidence that Manafort had received illegal payments from Yanukovych, as indicated in a document published by Leshchenko.

Although the credibility of “black bookkeeping” remains controversial, the disclosure of this document Leshchenko played an important role in Manafort’s departure from the Trump campaign and probably aroused the interest of American prosecutors as a possible interference with the elections. Foreign Policy magazine called Leshchenko "the Ukrainian who drowned Paul Manafort."

Leshchenko's aggressive tactics also subjected his actions to additional verification.

According to Politico sources, Leshchenko tried to blackmail Manafort by contacting his daughter and informing her that he was aware of Manafort’s deals with Ukraine, the 23 February issue of 2017 says.

“Given all the facts and evidence that are at my disposal, before making a decision whether to transfer this to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine or the FBI, I would like to know your opinion on this matter and perhaps you will find a way to convince me to act differently,” said a message sent to Manafort from an email address associated with Leshchenko.

Leshchenko categorically denied having contacted the Manafort family or threatened with extortion.

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