FEC Fines Hillary Clinton, DNC Over Steele Dossier Hoax

FEC Fines Hillary Clinton, DNC Over Steele Dossier Hoax

ZeroHedge

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has fined both Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for lying about funding the Russian “dossier” which underpinned the collusion hoax that hijacked headlines throughout the Trump presidency, according to the Washington Examiner.

The Clinton-funded dossier was also used by the FBI to justify seeking a FISA surveillance (spy) warrant on the Trump campaign.

According to the FEC, Clinton and the DNC violated strict rules governing disclosure of expenditures on opposition research, when they paid opposition research firm Fusion GPS to contract with Steele and cook up propaganda against Trump.

A combined $1,024,407.97 was paid by the treasurers of the DNC and Clinton campaign to law firm Perkins Coie for Fusion GPS’s information, and the party and campaign hid the reason, claiming it was for legal services, not opposition research.

Instead, the DNC’s $849,407.97 and the Clinton campaign’s $175,000 covered Fusion GPS’s opposition research on the dossier, a basis for the so-called “Russia hoax” that dogged Trump’s first term. -Washington Examiner

The dossier, which was assembled by former (?) UK spook Christopher Steele and used now-indicted Russian national Igor Danchenko as its primary source, made wide ranging and salacious allegations against former President Donald Trump, most of which have been debunked.

Somehow we doubt the ‘election interference’ crowd is going to pipe up over Clinton’s meddling in the 2016 US election, using a dossier that undermined Trump’s presidency every step of the way.

According to the FEC memo to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation – which filed a complaint over three years ago, Clinton’s campaign and the DNC argued that they were simply paying for “legal advice and services,” since it was Perkins Coie that actually hired Fusion GPS. The agency, however, says that the law is clear and was violated.

The fines themselves are minuscule – with Clinton’s treasurer hit for $8,000 and the DNC’s treasurer for $105,000.

Read FEC document at SCRIBD

“This may well be the first time that Hillary Clinton — one of the most evidently corrupt politicians in American history — has actually been held legally accountable, and I’m proud to have forced the FEC to do their job for once. The Coolidge Reagan Foundation proved that with pluck and grit, Americans who stand with integrity can stand up to the Clinton machine and other corrupt political elites,” said Dan Backer, who brought the complaint on behalf of the foundation.

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(TLB) published this article from ZeroHedge as written and compiled by Tyler Durden

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