| | Essentially, in 2017 Dan Jones, through his Penn Quarter Group, took over funding for Fusion-GPS and Glenn Simpson and kept paying Christopher Steele. The payments to these entities and Steele always looked more like a pay-off to keep their mouths shut. Jones was essentially the bag-man for continued Trump-Russia operations outside government.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/10/08/evidence-surfaces-of-john-durham-grand-jury-team-following-deep-state-rabbit-hole-leading-to-ssci-effort/</ref> | | Essentially, in 2017 Dan Jones, through his Penn Quarter Group, took over funding for Fusion-GPS and Glenn Simpson and kept paying Christopher Steele. The payments to these entities and Steele always looked more like a pay-off to keep their mouths shut. Jones was essentially the bag-man for continued Trump-Russia operations outside government.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/10/08/evidence-surfaces-of-john-durham-grand-jury-team-following-deep-state-rabbit-hole-leading-to-ssci-effort/</ref> |
| | With help from Sullivan and Podesta in 2017, Jones launched a nonprofit group called The [[Democracy Integrity Project]], which raised some $7 million mainly from Silicon Valley tech executives. TDIP hired computer researchers, as well as FusionGPS opposition researchers and [[Christopher Steele]], the foreign author of the now-discredited ''[[Steele dossier]]'', to “prove” the rumors in the dossier. As they sought new dirt on Trump, they fed their information to [[fake news]] [[media]] outlets, leading [[Democrat]]s on the [[Senate Intelligence Committee]], namely Sens. [[Mark Warner]] and [[Ron Wyden]], and the FBI. | | With help from Sullivan and Podesta in 2017, Jones launched a nonprofit group called The [[Democracy Integrity Project]], which raised some $7 million mainly from Silicon Valley tech executives. TDIP hired computer researchers, as well as FusionGPS opposition researchers and [[Christopher Steele]], the foreign author of the now-discredited ''[[Steele dossier]]'', to “prove” the rumors in the dossier. As they sought new dirt on Trump, they fed their information to [[fake news]] [[media]] outlets, leading [[Democrat]]s on the [[Senate Intelligence Committee]], namely Sens. [[Mark Warner]] and [[Ron Wyden]], and the FBI. |
| − | As Realclearinvestigations first reported,<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/03/11/trump-russia_20_dossier-tied_firm_sending_dc_journalists_daily_collusion_briefings.html</ref> Jones emailed a daily news bulletin known as "TDIP Research" to prominent Beltway journalists to keep the Trump-Russia “collusion” rumor-mill going, including the debunked rumor about the "secret server." John Durham subpoenaed Jones to testify before his [[grand jury]] hearing the case, along with computer experts and researchers recruited by Michael Sussmann for the Clinton campaign project. | + | As Realclearinvestigations first reported,<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/03/11/trump-russia_20_dossier-tied_firm_sending_dc_journalists_daily_collusion_briefings.html</ref> Jones emailed a daily news bulletin known as "TDIP Research" to prominent Beltway journalists to keep the Trump-Russia “collusion” rumor-mill going, including the debunked rumor about the "secret server." John Durham subpoenaed Jones to testify before his [[grand jury]] hearing the case, along with computer experts and researchers recruited by Michael Sussmann for the Clinton campaign project.<ref>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-contested-afterlife-of-the-trump-alfa-bank-story</ref> |