The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about Donald Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.
Marc Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington, D.C., firm, to conduct the research. Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community.
Elias and his law firm, Seattle-based Perkins Coie, retained the firm in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Before that agreement, Fusion GPS’ research into Trump was funded by a still unknown Republican client during the GOP primary.
The Clinton campaign and the DNC, through the law firm, continued to fund Fusion GPS’ research through the end of October 2016, days before Election Day.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-...sia-and-trump/
The entire "Russian collusion" angle is nothing more than Clinton / DNC bull shit that started as a way to undermine the Trump campaign. It has now morphed into political cover for the Clintons and the DNC to excuse their "unexpected" loss in the 2016 election.
If there was any "Russian collusion", it more likely was between the Clinton State Dept and Russian interests, with the Clinton Foundation as the money-laundering operation.
Oh, and remember a week or so ago when Trump was skewered by the media for suggesting that the FBI paid Steele? From the linked article:
After the election, the FBI agreed to pay Steele to continue gathering intelligence, but the bureau pulled out of the arrangement after Steele was publicly identified.