By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--March 21, 2019
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“TDIP is led by Daniel J. Jones, a former FBI investigator, Clinton administration volunteer and top staffer to California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. (RealClearInvestigations) “It employs the key opposition-research figures behind the salacious and unverified dossier: Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. “Its financial backers include the Hollywood actor and director Reiner and billionaire activist Soros.“Steele and Simpson, funded by the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign created the “dossier” of unsubstantiated claims about then-candidate Trump during the 2016 election. The Obama Justice Department and FBI then used it as evidence to obtain a court order to spy on Trump’s campaign.
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"Jones is also paying Steele, another anti-Trump partisan, to continue to dig up dirt on the president." “Simpson and Steele have a history of feeding the FBI and Congress unsubstantiated allegations and rumors, sending investigators down rabbit holes. They have also planted several anti-Trump stories in the media that have proved unverifiable, unfounded, or just plain false,” the report said. “These include a McClatchy story asserting that “NRA attorney Cleta Mitchell” warned during the 2016 campaign that Russians had infiltrated the NRA and were using it to launder illegal donations to Trump. Mitchell called the article a "complete fabrication." "Jones did not return phone calls or messages sent to his company’s email address seeking comment.“The investigation found other leftist connections, including TDIP’s work with New Knowledge, which was funded by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, who donated to a campaign that used Russian media strategies to influence the 2018 election against the GOP. “That was after it “was secretly involved in its own disinformation campaign to influence the outcome of the 2017 Alabama Senate special election. New Knowledge operatives created thousands of fake Russian Twitter accounts programmed to follow GOP candidate Roy Moore to make it appear he was backed by Moscow.” On yesterday’s show, Limbaugh noted the “original Trump-Russia collusion theory or story came from a totally made-up piece of crap called the Steele dossier.”
“Former FBI Director James Comey briefed President Trump on the claims, saying, “You need to know the kind of things our foreign adversaries are saying about you.” Trump said, “Well, this is crazy. Why should I have to be told about this stuff? This is absolute insanity.” “Comey didn’t care about that. He called [former DNI James] Clapper on the way out of the White House and said, ‘Mission accomplished.’ Clapper then called CNN and says, ‘Trump has now seen the dossier!’
“...So CNN begins an ‘investigation’ of the dossier, BuzzFeed since publishes it, and then CNN ended up getting a Pulitzer Prize for their story on how Trump became aware of the dossier. It was a total put-up job. That dossier was Hillary Clinton opposition research.”“When that failed to unseat Trump, Limbaugh said, the Mueller investigation was launched. “It is all of those players, Limbaugh pointed out, who now are in the TDIP project attacking Trump again. “In other words, they are producing lies. They are producing total B.S. to keep the ”collusion’ narrative alive,’ even though the dossier has bombed out and even though the Mueller investigating hasn’t found any collusion,” Limbaugh said.” Most shocking of all is that Jones incorporated TDIP just 11 days after Trump took office in January 2017, and registered it as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit several months later. It enjoys that tax-exempt status because the group claimed in its mission statement to the IRS to be “non-partisan” and concerned only with protecting the integrity of elections from interference from foreign adversaries like Russia. Matthew Whitaker, President Donald Trump’s pick to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has repeatedly voiced skepticism of the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, once even outlining a way to undercut it, should move to immediately cut off TDIP’s ’s non-profit status. In fact, on this one, he should hit the ground running.
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