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Sometime around Thanksgiving 2016 Simpson of met with Obama Dep. Attn. Gen. Bruce Ohr while President-elect Trump was selecting his cabinet, and discussed the ''Steele dossier'', the FBI's Russia meddling investigation, and what Simpson considered the distressing development of Trump’s victory.
Sometime around Thanksgiving 2016 Simpson of met with Obama Dep. Attn. Gen. Bruce Ohr while President-elect Trump was selecting his cabinet, and discussed the ''Steele dossier'', the FBI's Russia meddling investigation, and what Simpson considered the distressing development of Trump’s victory.
On October 18, 2017 Peter Fritsch and Thomas Catan, co-founders of FusionGPS, refused to identify the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC as the sponsors of ''Steele dossier''. The FusionGPS founders plead the [[Fifth Amendment]] right against self-incrimination “to every question asked of them" in House Intelligence Committee investigation.<ref>http://www.dailywire.com/news/22445/firm-connected-russia-and-democrats-made-trump-ryan-saavedra</ref> The ''Washington Post'' finally admited on October 24 that the "Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee funded the research that resulted in a now-infamous dossier containing allegations about President Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the [[Kremlin]]...The Clinton campaign paid Perkins Coie $5.6 million in legal fees from June 2015 to December 2016, according to campaign finance records, and the DNC paid the firm $3.6 million in “legal and compliance consulting’’ since November 2015.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier/2017/10/24/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.458088f4d37c</ref><ref>https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/10/24/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-russia-dossier/WfYqXZf9lvbL5ujqnpp2FJ/story.html</ref> ''WaPo'' published an Oped claiming the "Steele's dossier does include information it says was obtained from "a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure and a former top level Russian intelligence officer still active inside the Kremlin." In other words, the Clinton camp and the DNC colluded with the Russian government."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/25/the-clinton-camp-and-the-dnc-helped-pay-for-that-trump-russia-dossier-heres-what-it-means/?utm_term=.44ba2d3fe34b</ref>
On October 26 CNN reported that Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta was asked by Congressional nvestigators in his September "whether the Clinton campaign had a contractual agreement with Fusion GPS, and he said he was not aware of one, according to one of the sources. Sitting next to Podesta during the interview: his attorney Marc Elias, who worked for the law firm that hired Fusion GPS" to write the ''Steele dossier'' for the Clinton campaign and DNC.<ref>http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/politics/john-podesta-debbie-wasserman-schultz-trump-dossier/index.html</ref> Former Obama CIA Dir. [[Leon Panetta]] called for the Senate Intelligence Committee to look into the Clinton campaign and DNC funding of the ''Steele dossier.''<ref>http://ntknetwork.com/panetta-intelligence-committee-needs-to-look-into-clintondnc-dossier-payment/</ref> The ''Daily Caller'' reported on ''CNN's undisclosed ties to FusionGPS''.<ref>http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/28/cnns-undisclosed-ties-to-fusion-gps/</ref> The ''New York Post reported ''How team Hillary hoaxed the press''.<ref>http://nypost.com/2017/10/26/how-team-hillary-played-the-press-for-fools-on-russia/</ref>
FEC records show Hillary For America paid just under $5.1 million and the DNC paid nearly $5.4 million to the law firm of Perkins Coie in 2016. FEC records also Obama for America also paid $972,000 to Perkins Coie beginning in April 2016, the same time Hillary for America & DNC hired FusionGPS through Perkins Coie.<ref>http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/29/obamas-campaign-gave-972000-law-firm-funneled-money-fusion-gps/</ref> The Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the [[FEC]] alleging the DNC and [[2016 Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign]] committee violated campaign finance law. They failed to accurately disclose the purpose and recipient of payments for the ''Steele dossier'' alleging connections between then-candidate Donald Trump and Russia, effectively hiding these payments from public scrutiny, contrary to the requirements of federal law.<ref>http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/document/fec-complaint-hillary-america-dnc-failure-disclose</ref>
==Trump Tower meeting==
==Trump Tower meeting==