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deep state, DNC, Fusion GPS, Hillary Clinton, Progressive collaborators, Russians, smear campaigns
A great article this morning by Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly A. Strassel, excerpt below.
Enter Fusion GPS’ co-founder Glenn Simpson who suddenly opted out of this week’s testimony on Capitol Hill, no doubt at the suggestion of Progressives.
…What if, all this time, Washington and the media have had the Russia collusion story backward? What if it wasn’t the Trump campaign playing footsie with the Vladimir Putin regime, but Democrats? The more we learn about Fusion, the more this seems a possibility.
We know Fusion is a for-hire political outfit, paid to dig up dirt on targets. This column first outed Fusion in 2012, detailing its efforts to tar a Mitt Romney donor. At the time Fusion insisted that the donor was “a legitimate subject of public records research.”
Mr. Grassley’s call for testimony has uncovered more such stories. Thor Halvorssen, a prominent human-rights activist, has submitted sworn testimony outlining a Fusion attempt to undercut his investigation of Venezuelan corruption. Mr. Halvorssen claims Fusion “devised smear campaigns, prepared dossiers containing false information,” and “carefully placed slanderous news items” to malign him and his activity[…]