White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday claimed the “real Russia scandal” was that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee partly paid for the research that led to the so-called Trump dossier.
“The real Russia scandal?” Sanders tweeted. “Clinton campaign paid for the fake Russia dossier, then lied about it & covered it up.”
The real Russia scandal? Clinton campaign paid for the fake Russia dossier, then lied about it & covered it up. https://t.co/kR8z2zsZ7Q
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) October 25, 2017
Hours earlier, Sanders told a reporter, “I wouldn’t use the Washington Post as my source.”
Sanders linked to a tweet by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who in turn linked to a report by the Washington Post on the DNC’s and Clinton campaign’s funding of research firm Fusion GPS’ work.
Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year https://t.co/vXKRV1wRJc
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 24, 2017
New York Times reporter Kenneth Vogel on Tuesday said Clinton campaign attorney Marc Elias, who, with his law firm Perkins Coie, retained Fusion GPS, “pushed back vigorously” when Vogel tried to report on the connection.
When I tried to report this story, Clinton campaign lawyer @marceelias pushed back vigorously, saying "You (or your sources) are wrong." https://t.co/B5BZwoaNhI
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) October 24, 2017
The Washington Post reported that Elias’ firm did not inform Clinton’s campaign or the DNC of the research firm’s role, and noted it is “standard practice” for political campaigns to hire researchers using law firms in order to guarantee the protection of “attorney-client and work product privileges.”
Who fucking cares who funded the dossiers. Either its true or it isnt. Based on the attempts to discredit it, methinks its the former. Also why did everyone in DOPUS’s campaign lie about meeting with Russians multiple times?
This is just a lame attempt to discredit dossier before big shoe drops from it
I especially found this interesting in the WaPo story
in light of the $88 million paid to a no-name, no-skills, digital campaign coordinator by the Dump campaign.
Sarah Stinkeye’s working overtime today. That dossier must really be terrifying them.
Oh, White House! You do not get to complain about anyone else lying! That category has been retired—to YOU!
I think we need to take this seriously. If there is anyone who is an expert on lies, it is the White House.