NYT reporter says Clinton Campaign lawyer VIGOROUSLY denied being behind the dossier

by The Right Scoop

A New York Times reporter tweeted after the big Clinton/DNC dossier story broke last night that when he tried to run the story at the Times, the lawyer in question, Marc Elias, vigorously denied that the was behind the story (h/t: The DC):

Vogel also tweeted this document from Perkins Coie LLP admitting this:

Did you notice the very last line? It was similar to what WAPO reported last night:

Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the company in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Before that agreement, Fusion GPS’s research into Trump was funded by an unknown Republican client during the GOP primary.

So some Republican donor was funding this in the primary and then Hillary and the DNC apparently took it off their hands and began funding it themselves.

None of this takes away from the fact that Hillary and the DNC’s hands are dirty in this, but I just wanted to make sure you knew that some Republican donor (Never Trumper?) has dirty hands too.

It’s also worth pointing out that Maggie Haberman basically said the same thing as Vogel above:

So the Democrats have been lying about this all year, from Hillary to Elias to whoever runs the DNC these days – with sanctimony.

You know if I were a betting man, I’d put big money on the excuse ‘Hillary didn’t know’ being used all over the place in the next few days. I mean, she didn’t know about Benghazi, right? That’s what they kept telling us anyway. So what makes us think she knew how her own campaign was spending her money? [sce emoji=”facepalm” /]


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