So let me get this straight: FEC levies a fine against the DNC

[dutch508]

Tommy Carcetti (41,026 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216548941

So let me get this straight: FEC levies a fine against the DNC and the 2016 Clinton Campaign for billing information regarding the Steele Dossier as "legal services" when it should have been billed as "opposition research" (i.e., a billing error):

"OH MY GOD, WE KNEW IT! THIS ABSOLUTELY PROVES WITHOUT A DOUBT THAT THE TRUMP-RUSSIA COLLUSION STORY WAS A COMPLETE HOAX/WITCH-HUNT/FAKE NEWS/REALLY TERRIBLE MEAN LIE AND HOW DARE THEY SLANDER DONALD TRUMP LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!"


Meanwhile, that very same day...

In an interview, Donald Trump tells Vladimir Putin--fresh in the middle of a war where his army is slaughtering untold numbers of Ukrainian civilians--that he ought to release whatever dirt he claims to have on the Biden family since he's "not exactly a fan of our country":

"Come on, that's just Trump being Trump. Can't you give him a break already?"

 

Star Member 2naSalit (56,518 posts)

1. You've got it straight.

That is what it is.

Should be plain as day to anyone with two functioning brain cells.

Star Member uponit7771 (83,846 posts)

3. K&R, DOJ is busy with Hunter Biden's laptop so Putin's Whore will have to wait.

real crimes vs made up bullshit...

Star Member Baitball Blogger (41,191 posts)

4. I am going to post my own thread if someone doesn't answer this right now:

If it was the Clinton campaign's responsibility to log it as "opposition research", then it must have also been the responsibility of the Republican campaign that initially ordered the Steel dossier to do the same. Did they do it? And if not, were they also fined by the FEC?

yeah... they didn't

Star Member onenote (36,911 posts)

7. The origins of the Steele dossier weren't directly with any campaign.

The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, first hired Fusion to dig up damaging information about a number of Republican presidential candidates, including Trump. So I doubt there was any obligation for any campaign to report it since it wasn't done for or paid by those campaigns.

 

[SVPete]

It was money laundering to conceal the fact that the "Steele Dossier" the FBI relied on for its Trump-Russia Collusion Shamvestigation was bought and paid for with Clinton Campaign $$.

[DefiantSix]

It was money laundering to conceal the fact that the "Steele Dossier" the FBI relied on for its Trump-Russia Collusion Shamvestigation was bought and paid for with Clinton Campaign $$.

This is neither the place nor the time to be confusing the DUmmies with facts.  [/DUmp Monkey]