Goldfarb was deputy communications director on John McCain’s presidential campaign. The website and its leaders have strong ties throughout the Republican establishment.
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The Free Beacon first retained Fusion to investigate Trump in the fall of 2015 and ended its relationship after Trump secured the Republican presidential nomination in late spring of 2016, according to a person close to Goldfarb, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share private discussions. The veteran spoke on condition of anonymity to detail the newspaper’s financial background. The Center for American Freedom was organized as a 501(c)4 and did not reveal its donors, but Singer was the sole funder of the site as recently as 2014, according to a Republican political veteran familiar with the site.
The Washington Free Beacon was initially founded as a project of the conservative nonprofit group Center for American Freedom, as an alternative to liberal news sites run by progressive nonprofits. The White House had no immediate comment Friday night about the Free Beacon’s involvement. The president himself hinted that he knew the Republican source earlier in the week, but he refused to share it. But the original source of the research remained a secret. Trump this week called it a “disgrace” that Democrats had helped pay for research that produced the document. They continued: “The Free Beacon had no knowledge of or connection to the Steele dossier, did not pay for the dossier, and never had contact with, knowledge of, or provided payment for any work performed by Christopher Steele.”Įarlier in the week, reports revealed that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee continued funding Fusion’s work after the original GOP source lost interest. “During the 2016 election cycle we retained Fusion GPS to provide research on multiple candidates in the Republican presidential primary, just as we retained other firms to assist in our research into Hillary Clinton,” wrote the site’s editor-in-chief, Matthew Continetti, and chairman Michael Goldfarb. Leaders from the Free Beacon, which is funded largely by Republican billionaire Paul Singer, insisted none of the early material it collected appeared in the dossier released later in the year detailing explosive allegations, many uncorroborated, about Trump compiled by a former British spy. The Washington Free Beacon on Friday confirmed it originally retained the political research firm Fusion GPS to scour then-candidate Trump’s background for negative information, a common practice known as “opposition research” in politics. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at more stories like this, check our news page.NEW YORK - A conservative website with strong ties to the Republican establishment triggered the investigation into Donald Trump’s past that ultimately produced the dossier that alleged a compromised relationship between the president and the Kremlin. Sussmann is accused of lying to the FBI about who he was working for when he raised concerns to the agency about possible ties between Trump and Russia. This, I think, it’s slander.’ĭanchenko’s arrest comes after Durham in September indicted cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann. ‘I’ve never been a Russian agent,’ Danchenko added at the time. Trump administration Attorney General Bill Barr appointed Durham as special counsel in October 2020, to investigate whether the FBI’s probe on the ex-president and Russia was carried out legally.ĭanchenko in a 2020 interview with The Times defended his work and said he was asked to provide ‘raw intelligence’ to Steele. Trump has denied conspiring with Russia during his 2016 campaign and blamed his political opponents for the allegations. Trump hosts $100,000-a-plate fundraiser to help struggling ex-lawyer Giuliani
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