Well now, how about them apples?

Seems that the original funder of the Trump-Russia dossier, as reported by The Hill, was the Washington Free Beacon! A media publication!

A conservative publication set in motion the research that lead to a dossier that includes unverified claims regarding ties between President Trump and Russia, the publication told a House committee on Friday.

The Washington Free Beacon originally funded the project through the firm Fusion GPS, a connection the publication’s lawyers revealed for the first time to the House Intelligence Committee on Friday, according to The Washington Examiner.

According to reports, including Byron York’s at the Washington Examiner, the Free Beacon started the project with Fusion GPS in the fall of 2015 and then canceled it in spring of 2016.

Sources close to the Free Beacon stress that the project, when the Free Beacon funded it, had nothing to do with Russia and did not involve Christopher Steele, the former British spy who gathered anti-Trump dirt in Russia. Steele was retained by Fusion GPS when the project was funded by Democrats, and not in its initial phase, when the Free Beacon was involved. [Emphasis Added]