WP: Clinton and the Democratic Committee were customers of the dossier on Trump

Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee financed the investigation that now formed that US President Donald Trump is associated with Russia. About this writes The Washington Post with reference to sources.

Lawyer Mark E. Elias, representing the interests of Clinton and Democrats, hired the Washington Fusion GPS, which conducted an investigation. After that, Fusion GPS hired the author of the Dossier Christopher Steel, a former British intelligence officer with ties in the FBI and American intelligence.

Elias and his lawyer company Perkins Coie began working on Fusion GPS in April 2016, representing the interests of Clinton and the Democratic Committee. Prior to this, during the primaries of the Republican Party, the Fusion GPS investigation was funded by a certain Republican.

Clinton and the Democratic Committee through the law firm financed the Fusion GPS investigation until the end of October 2016, a few days before the election day.

Fusion GPS transmitted the styles and other documents to Elias.

In January 2017, the dossier was published by BuzzFeed. It was said that the members of Trump’s headquarters during the election campaign met with representatives of the Russian authorities, and the Kremlin has a compromise on the American president. Trump refutes this information.

Special Prosecutor Robert Müller, who heads the investigation of Russia's intervention in the US presidential election, is engaged in the study of dossier. In September, it became known that he was talking with the styl about the document. Fusion GPS received a summons from the US Congress in the case of “Russian intervention”, but is trying to challenge the requirement of the turnout. According to Reuters, the three committees in the Congress called into question the authenticity of the dossier compiled by the company.