![]() ![]() Trump has derided the dossier as a politically motivated hit job. ![]() ![]() The dossier is a compilation of memos written by Steele during the 2016 campaign that contained allegations of connections between Trump and Russia, including that Trump had been compromised by the Kremlin. Simpson has denied that it did, and, according to the transcript, told investigators that the FBI told Steele that the government had intelligence from “an internal Trump campaign source.” Simpson would not name the source. Several GOP-led committees are now investigating whether the dossier formed the basis for the FBI’s initial investigations. Mueller hears a Trump-Russia revelation: The president had a lawyer tell Sessions not to recuse himselfĪnalysis: Seven things to know about the juicy Trump book that’s rocked Washington GOP senators call for charges against author of Trump dossier, the first known criminal referral from Congress’s Russia probes Simpson said Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the dossier, took it to the FBI in July 2016, and said his concern was “whether or not there was blackmail going on, whether a political candidate was being blackmailed or had been compromised.” Simpson’s firm commissioned the dossier, which was initially paid for by a conservative website tied to Republicans and then later by Democrats, including Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Chuck Grassley - from an August closed-door interview with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, released a transcript Tuesday - over the objections of the committee’s Republican chairman, Iowa Sen. President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia told congressional investigators that its author took it to the FBI because of a concern about “whether a political candidate was being blackmailed.”Ĭalifornia Sen. WASHINGTON-The founder of a firm that commissioned a dossier of allegations about U.S. ![]()
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