Fox News Discovers Key Person Behind Steele Dossier Donated To Hillary Clinton And John Kerry
Fox News did some digging and what they found is bad news for failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. They discovered that a key person involved the infamous Steele dossier gave thousands of dollars to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other Democrats.
FEC filings Fox looked at show Charles Dolan gave over $60,000 to Democrats. Besides giving to Hillary, Dolan has given to Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, and multiple House Democrat campaigns. He gave to John Kerry failed effort 2004 and Bill Clinton in 1996.
Dolan bragged on his now-deleted Twitter profile that worked on “every Democrat Presidential Campaign since 1980,” according to Fox News. Trump said of the recent arrest of Igor Danchenko and the naming of Dolan: “It really has come out. In all fairness, while it has taken a long time, hats off to John Durham.”
“Hats off, because, it’s coming out, and it is coming out at a level, Durham has come out with things that are absolutely amazing. We all sort of knew that happened, and now we have facts, and I think they’re only going to get deeper and deeper, and it all leads back to the Democrats, Hillary and the dirty lawyers.”
“What they did was so illegal, at a level that you’ve rarely seen before. Now, in all fairness, it looks to me like this is just the early building blocks,” Trump said.
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley wrote: “Thus, Durham clearly seems to be making a meticulous case that the Steele dossier was a political hit job orchestrated by Clinton operatives. His latest indictment connects Danchenko to several intriguing figures and groups that, in turn, relate to the Clinton campaign.
“Former British spy Christopher Steele himself has been extensively interviewed by investigators over the years — a long record that comes with inherent risks of contradictions.
“Notably, Steele recently defended his dossier in a bizarre interview. While admitting that it might have been used by Russian intelligence for disinformation, he stood by the accounts of its most sensational details, such as former President Trump’s “golden shower tape,” despite Durham’s findings to the contrary.
“Dolan is the latest direct connection between the campaign and the infamous Steele dossier to surface in Durham’s investigation. Dolan had close ties not only to the Clintons but to the Russians as well; he and the public relations firm where he worked had represented the Russian government and registered as foreign agents for Russia.
“Durham alleges that it was Dolan, not Russian sources, who gave Danchenko key allegations to put into the Steele dossier, including some of its most salacious claims.
“Dolan is described as traveling to Moscow to meet with Russian officials who were paying his firm. The connection is notable because American intelligence believed that sources used in the dossier were, in fact, Russian agents and that the dossier may have been a vehicle for Russian intelligence to spread misinformation.
“However, Dolan reportedly admitted to “fabricating” facts given to Danchenko. Dolan’s attorney now describes him as a “witness” in the investigation.
“Danchenko worked for several years at the Brookings Institution, a leading liberal think tank in Washington, as an analyst in Russian and Eurasian affairs — and, as a result, Brookings features prominently in this latest indictment.
“Around 2010, another Brookings employee had introduced Danchenko to Steele, who subsequently retained him as a contract investigator.
“Steele testified in London in a 2019 defamation suit that he had disclosed some of his dossier’s details to Strobe Talbott, then the president of Brookings.
“Talbott had his own longstanding Clinton ties. Among those, he was an ambassador-at-large and a deputy secretary of state under President Clinton; when Hillary Clinton was secretary of State, Talbott was named chairman of the State Department’s foreign affairs advisory board.
“Then there is Hillary Clinton herself. Steele also has testified that it was his understanding that Clinton was aware of his work and the development of the dossier. Yet during the campaign and long afterward, Clinton never admitted that her campaign funded the dossier, despite media and congressional inquiries about that fact. No less an official than campaign chairman John Podesta denied any connection in testimony before Congress.
“More importantly, before the Steele dossier was given to the FBI and the press, then-CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Obama on Clinton’s alleged “plan” to tie candidate Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”
“Now, with Danchenko’s indictment, Dolan’s name has been added to a seemingly growing array of Clinton associates whom Durham has referenced in the development of the Russia collusion scandal,” he wrote.