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::*One document released Wednesday shows that former Trump lawyer John Dowd asked Rod Rosenstein to help investigate Fusion GPS.

::*One document released Wednesday shows that former Trump lawyer John Dowd asked Rod Rosenstein to help investigate Fusion GPS.

::*DOJ published email correspondence between Peter Strzok, the FBI official who opened the Trump-Russia probe, and Bruce Ohr, a DOJ official who played a key role as middleman between the FBI and dossier author Christopher Steele.  DOJ published 140 pages of documents on its website related to Fusion GPS.

::*DOJ published email correspondence between Peter Strzok, the FBI official who opened the Trump-Russia probe, and Bruce Ohr, a DOJ official who played a key role as middleman between the FBI and dossier author Christopher Steele.  DOJ published 140 pages of documents on its website related to Fusion GPS.

::*Dowd emailed Rosenstein and Scott Schools, the associate deputy attorney general, on Nov. 6, 2017, urging the pair to investigate whether Fusion GPS had paid journalists as part of the effort to attack Trump.

::*Dowd emailed Rosenstein and Scott Schools,<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/oip/foia-library/foia-processed/general_topics/fusion_gps_11_20_19_interim/dl Fusion GPS Interim], [[Epstein Library]], [[US Dept. of Justice]].</ref> the associate deputy attorney general, on Nov. 6, 2017, urging the pair to investigate whether Fusion GPS had paid journalists as part of the effort to attack Trump.

[[File:Screen-Shot-2019-10-24-at-2.54.00-PM-620x421.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Email from Trump attorney John Dowd to Rod Rosenstein, Nov. 9, 2017: “We all now know that the entire Russian drama was and is a complete concoction by the Clinton DNC buying a phony dossier with laundered money by law firms and cut outs with Fusion GPS and former WSJ reporter Glenn Simpson to nullify the results of the Presidential election....It is clear we were all duped including the DOJ and both houses of Congress." Yet Rosenstein allowed the Mueller probe to continue another year and half, impacting the [[2018 Midterm elections]].]]  

[[File:Screen-Shot-2019-10-24-at-2.54.00-PM-620x421.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Email from Trump attorney John Dowd to Rod Rosenstein, Nov. 9, 2017: “We all now know that the entire Russian drama was and is a complete concoction by the Clinton DNC buying a phony dossier with laundered money by law firms and cut outs with Fusion GPS and former WSJ reporter Glenn Simpson to nullify the results of the Presidential election....It is clear we were all duped including the DOJ and both houses of Congress." Yet Rosenstein allowed the Mueller probe to continue another year and half, impacting the [[2018 Midterm elections]].]]  

:::*“We all now know that the entire Russian drama was and is a complete concoction by the Clinton DNC buying a phony dossier with laundered money by law firms and cut outs with Fusion GPS and former WSJ reporter Glenn Simpson to nullify the results of the Presidential election,” wrote Dowd, who linked to a Washington Times article.  “It is clear we were all duped including the DOJ and both houses of Congress.”  Dowd asked why the Justice Department was not “intervening” in litigation to force Fusion GPS to disclose reporters that the firm allegedly had on its payroll.

:::*“We all now know that the entire Russian drama was and is a complete concoction by the Clinton DNC buying a phony dossier with laundered money by law firms and cut outs with Fusion GPS and former WSJ reporter Glenn Simpson to nullify the results of the Presidential election,” wrote Dowd, who linked to a Washington Times article.  “It is clear we were all duped including the DOJ and both houses of Congress.”  Dowd asked why the Justice Department was not “intervening” in litigation to force Fusion GPS to disclose reporters that the firm allegedly had on its payroll.