Clinton paid for dirt on Trump - The Washington Post

A lawyer who represented Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) helped fund the controversial dossier on President Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia, writes "Voice of America", with reference to The Washington Post.

Newspaper writes that lawyer Mark Elias, representing Clinton headquarters and NKDP, in April 2016 offered the company Fusion gps continue to work on collecting information about Trump.

Fusion gps - a private research company established in 2011 by a former journalist Wall Street Journal. In the past, the company collected political information about Republicans, including Mitt Romney, when he was a presidential candidate in the 2012 election of the year.

Headquarters Clinton and NKDP financed the work of the company until the end of October 2016, when there were only a few days left before the election, writes The Washington Post.

Newspaper sources reported that Fusion gps hired a former British intelligence officer with FBI ties to Christopher Steele, after Elias and his law firm Perkins Coie hired Fusion gps for investigating Trump.

The National Committee of the Democratic Party on Tuesday evening issued a statement in which it distanced the current leadership of the party from a private research firm.

“Tom Perez and the new leadership of the NKDP did not participate in decision-making concerning Fusion gpsand did not know that Perkins Coie I worked with this organization, ”said the representative of the NKDP, Sochil Inojosa.

Collected Fusion gps The file contained vulgar unverified allegations concerning Trump. It has been reported that an 35-page document circulated around Washington several months before it was fully published. BuzzFeed in January.

There were reports that special prosecutor Robert Muller talked with Steele about the dossier in the framework of the federal investigation of contacts between Trump's associates in the election campaign and Russia during last year’s election last summer.

Recall that publication publication of Buzzfeed unverified "dossier" about the contacts of the elected President of the United States Donald Trump and his entourage with the Kremlin, as well as about the presence of incriminating evidence on the Kremlin caused a strong reaction in the United States.