Marc Elias is a Washington attorney at the firm of Perkins Coie. He was also the counsel for the Clinton campaign in 2016 and represented the DNC too. He also seems to be in the center of some really big problems for both the DNC and Hillary and also for the Trump-Russia investigation. Here's what we know:
1. In March of 2016, Elias retained Fusion GPS to work for the DNC and the Clinton campaign.
2. Fusion GPS was paid over 9 million bucks to create the Trump dossier, a file filled with false smear stories attempting to connect Donald Trump to the Russians. The payments were hidden by having the DNC and Clinton campaign pay Elias' law firm which, in turn, paid Fusion GPS.
3. Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya had apparent connections with the Putin regime. She also had worked in the past on more than one occasion with Fusion GPS.
4. Veselnitskaya lured Donald Trump, Jr. to a meeting by claiming to have information detrimental to Hillary Clinton, but at the meeting she just talked about laws regarding adoptions.
5. In the spring of 2016, the servers at the DNC were hacked and email of all sorts were taken by the intruders. Attorney Elias hired a firm called Crowd Strike to come to the DNC and review the computer system. Crowd Strike said that the hack was the work of the Russians.
6. When the FBI learned of the hack at the DNC, they asked to have their experts see the DNC computers. Attorney Elias, acting for the DNC, refused to give the FBI access to those computers. Instead, he gave the FBI the report from Crowd Strike which blamed the Russians. To this day, the FBI has NOT seen the DNC computers. The only basis for the intelligence community saying that the Russians hacked the DNC computers is what Crowd Strike said.
7. Until a few days ago, attorney Elias claimed consistently that he did not know who had hired Fusion GPS to write the phony Trump Dossier. Elias also sat next to John Podesta as his attorney when Podesta testified that he did not know who paid for the Trump Dossier.
Let's now put this together (and remember, none of the facts listed above is contested.)
Elias, working on behalf of Hillary and the DNC, arranged for the creation of a phony dossier of misinformation obtained from the Russians in order to try to discredit Donald Trump. Elias, working on behalf of Hillary and the DNC, thwarted every effort by the FBI to see the hacked computer systems at the DNC. As a result, we have no way of really knowing who hacked those computers. A Russian lawyer who often worked with Fusion GPS lured the President's son into a meeting that looked like some sort of effort at collusion even though nothing untoward happened at the meeting. Oh, and we also know that Julian Assange of Wikileaks has said for over a year that the emails that Wikileaks published on the internet were NOT obtained from the Russians. This means that the entire Trump-Russia connection could be nothing more than some dishonest and disgusting dirty trick put together by Hillary and the DNC to try to damage Trump. We don't know who hacked the DNC computers. The FBI and CIA and NSA don't know either since they have been kept from reviewing those computers. We don't know if the Veselnitskaya meeting was a set up arranged by Elias (or someone else at the DNC) in order to "create facts" usable against Trump. We don't know how involved Hillary herself was in this entire mess.
One thing is certain though: there was a great deal of collusion with regard to the Trump Russia matter. The only thing is that it seems none of the collusion was between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
1. In March of 2016, Elias retained Fusion GPS to work for the DNC and the Clinton campaign.
2. Fusion GPS was paid over 9 million bucks to create the Trump dossier, a file filled with false smear stories attempting to connect Donald Trump to the Russians. The payments were hidden by having the DNC and Clinton campaign pay Elias' law firm which, in turn, paid Fusion GPS.
3. Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya had apparent connections with the Putin regime. She also had worked in the past on more than one occasion with Fusion GPS.
4. Veselnitskaya lured Donald Trump, Jr. to a meeting by claiming to have information detrimental to Hillary Clinton, but at the meeting she just talked about laws regarding adoptions.
5. In the spring of 2016, the servers at the DNC were hacked and email of all sorts were taken by the intruders. Attorney Elias hired a firm called Crowd Strike to come to the DNC and review the computer system. Crowd Strike said that the hack was the work of the Russians.
6. When the FBI learned of the hack at the DNC, they asked to have their experts see the DNC computers. Attorney Elias, acting for the DNC, refused to give the FBI access to those computers. Instead, he gave the FBI the report from Crowd Strike which blamed the Russians. To this day, the FBI has NOT seen the DNC computers. The only basis for the intelligence community saying that the Russians hacked the DNC computers is what Crowd Strike said.
7. Until a few days ago, attorney Elias claimed consistently that he did not know who had hired Fusion GPS to write the phony Trump Dossier. Elias also sat next to John Podesta as his attorney when Podesta testified that he did not know who paid for the Trump Dossier.
Let's now put this together (and remember, none of the facts listed above is contested.)
Elias, working on behalf of Hillary and the DNC, arranged for the creation of a phony dossier of misinformation obtained from the Russians in order to try to discredit Donald Trump. Elias, working on behalf of Hillary and the DNC, thwarted every effort by the FBI to see the hacked computer systems at the DNC. As a result, we have no way of really knowing who hacked those computers. A Russian lawyer who often worked with Fusion GPS lured the President's son into a meeting that looked like some sort of effort at collusion even though nothing untoward happened at the meeting. Oh, and we also know that Julian Assange of Wikileaks has said for over a year that the emails that Wikileaks published on the internet were NOT obtained from the Russians. This means that the entire Trump-Russia connection could be nothing more than some dishonest and disgusting dirty trick put together by Hillary and the DNC to try to damage Trump. We don't know who hacked the DNC computers. The FBI and CIA and NSA don't know either since they have been kept from reviewing those computers. We don't know if the Veselnitskaya meeting was a set up arranged by Elias (or someone else at the DNC) in order to "create facts" usable against Trump. We don't know how involved Hillary herself was in this entire mess.
One thing is certain though: there was a great deal of collusion with regard to the Trump Russia matter. The only thing is that it seems none of the collusion was between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
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