With the Mueller report finished and the Barr summary public, many questions remain as to who financed all of this? Who financed the oppo research? Who suggested and promoted the Steele Dossier, and most importantly, who financed both the dossier and Fusion GPS? Hint, it wasn’t Hillary Clinton and the DNC, although they did pay both. Nope, instead its some guy named George Soros.

No guys, this isn’t a tinfoil conspiracy. Instead actual IRS filings shed a bright light on the issue.

“A nonprofit group partially funded by billionaire activist George Soros paid firms tied to Fusion GPS and dossier author Christopher Steele more than $3.8 million in 2017 to provide research and analysis to “government entities,” according to IRS filings.

The payments made by The Democracy Integrity Project are more than three times what the DNC and the Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS and Steele during the 2016 presidential campaign to investigate Donald Trump’s possible ties to Russia.”

This is my shocked face.

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It was more than just  rumor that it was a Soros-financed group that funded Fusion and Steele, it was fact. Due to Chuck Ross’s legwork we learn there’s more to the story.

“Daniel J. Jones, a former staffer to California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein, founded TDIP on Jan. 31, 2017, seemingly to resume Democrats’ investigation of Trump’s possible links to Russia.

Jones operated what he called a “shadow media organization helping the government” to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election. He also told the FBI in March 2017 that he received funding from a group of between seven and 10 wealthy donors and that he planned to provide information to federal investigators, the press and lawmakers.”

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“The group paid $3.3 million to Bean LLC., the holding company that controls Fusion GPS. Another $250,000 was paid to Walsingham Partners Ltd., a London-based firm owned by Steele and his partner, Christopher Burrows.

TDIP paid another London-based intelligence firm called Istok Associates Ltd. nearly $150,000, also for “research consulting.” The company has released investigative reports looking into whether Russia helped fund the Brexit campaign.

Nearly $130,000 was paid to Edward Austin Ltd., a London-based intelligence consultancy operated by Edward Baumgartner, a Fusion GPS contractor. Another $148,000 was paid to the law firm Zuckerman Spaeder, which has represented Fusion GPS in a variety of dossier-related legal matters.”

Well…isn’t that something? Yet everyone is bellyaching about the Mueller report and that not releasing the full details is shortchanging the public!

Yeah, it’s certainly time for the Democrats to move on to policy. Hell, it’s time for them to ummm …go back to work. Or maybe START working for those they represent? Shut UP AOC!

One other item to note. George Soros has his fingers in lots of pies. Brexit anyone?

Democracy Integrity Project paid $150k in 2017 to an intelligence firm called Istok Associates, whose founder, Neil Barnett, has pushed the narrative that Putin is backing the Brexit campaign. https://t.co/8co01QG2mD @dailycaller

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) April 2, 2019

Oh boy, given all that is going on in England right now as the majority of Parliament completely ignores the will of the people, that’s not good.

As for the media who 100% wanted Trump to be the bad guy in all this? Not gonna happen. Sorry Rachel.

Tip for @Maddow: if you're going to keep misleading your audience, make sure your producers aren't correcting you in real-time. Here, the chyron accurately states Friday's news Mueller is "assisting" Barr w/ redactions. Meanwhile, @Maddow is falsely claiming the exact opposite: pic.twitter.com/rTSAABngp2

— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 1, 2019

OOF. That ended well.

Here’s the thing, far too many fell for the whole Steele Dossier/Fusion schtick. 

“An outlandish theory that Donald Trump was a traitor who had conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 election gripped much of the nation’s media for more than two years. Countless “bombshells” in support of this theory were published and broadcast. Media outlets won numerous awards for publishing leaks they received from partisan government officials and other operatives.”

Oh but that’s not all. Hillary’s private server! But TRUMP!!

“The private server was a prime target for foreign hacking, and Trump joked at a press conference that if Russia had those 30,000 deleted emails from the now-destroyed server, they should share them with the world. Immediately the media pretended, all evidence to the contrary, that he’d been calling on Russia to hack some current server that housed current Clinton emails.”

Carter Page wants his reputation back. But the Democrats and idiotic leftist media are much happier swimming in a boatload of Steele Dossier crap they bought. It will be a long time as in NEVER that anyone who bought into this mess, thanks to Fusion GPS and George Soros, will recant and repent for the mess they inflicted upon our country.

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