John Solomon
Congressional investigators have confirmed that a top FBI
official met with Democratic Party lawyers to talk about allegations of
Donald Trump-Russia collusion weeks before the 2016 election, and before
the bureau secured a search warrant targeting Trump’s campaign.
Former
FBI general counsel James Baker met during the 2016 season with at
least one attorney from Perkins Coie, the Democratic National
Committee’s private law firm.
That’s the firm used by the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign to secretly pay research firm
Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence
operative, to compile a dossier of uncorroborated raw intelligence
alleging Trump and Moscow were colluding to hijack the presidential
election.
The dossier, though mostly unverified, was then used by the FBI
as the main evidence seeking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA) warrant targeting the Trump campaign in the final days of the
campaign.
The revelation was confirmed both in
contemporaneous evidence and testimony secured by a joint investigation
by Republicans on the House Judiciary and Government Oversight
committees, my source tells me.
It means the FBI had
good reason to suspect the dossier was connected to the DNC’s main law
firm and was the product of a Democratic opposition-research effort to
defeat Trump — yet failed to disclose that information to the FISA court
in October 2016, when the bureau applied for a FISA warrant to surveil
Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
“This is a bombshell
that unequivocally shows the real collusion was between the FBI and
Donald Trump’s opposition — the DNC, Hillary and a Trump-hating British
intel officer — to hijack the election, rather than some conspiracy
between Putin and Trump,” a knowledgeable source told me.
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