DNC Denies Involvement in Trump-Russia Dossier in Awkward Press Release

NEW: @DNC on @washingtonpost : "new leadership of DNC were not involved in decision-making regarding #FusionGPS" what about old? #dossier pic.twitter.com/gHftnFHF0x

— Brooke Singman (@brookefoxnews) October 25, 2017

... the  Washington Post article claims the 2016 presidential campaign of Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee paid for the Fusion GPS dossier alleging Russian ties with the presidential campaign of Republican Donald Trump and sordid phony personal smears of Trump. 

The Post reported that Clinton campaign and DNC lawyer Marc Elias and his law firm Perkins Coie paid Fusion GPS to continue researching Trump after a Republican donor who originally funded the research pulled out in April 2016. 

The DNC released an awkward statement following WaPo’s bombshell report claiming the DNC was involved in the funding of the debunked dossier. In true Democrat fashion, the DNC split hairs by saying: 

Tom Perez and the new leadership of the DNC were not involved in any decision-making regarding Fusion GPS, nor were they aware that Perkins Coie was working with the organization. But let’s be clear, there is a serious federal investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, and the American public deserves to know what happened.”

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