How Fusion GPS' Glenn Simpson Lied In His Congressional Testimony

Here's how he lied: Baldfacedly!

From Powerline:

This is what Glenn Simpson had to say about his dealings with Bruce Ohr, when Ohr was a senior member of the Department of Justice:

Q You’ve never heard from anyone in the U.S. Government in relation to those matters i.e., the fake Trump dossier], either the FBI or the Department of Justice?

A After the election. I mean, during the election, no.

Q What did you hear after and from whom and when?

A I was asked to provide some information to the Justice Department.

Q By whom and when?

A It was by a prosecutor named Bruce Ohr, who was following up. You know, l can’t remember when. It was sometime after Thanksgiving, I think.

Q Thanksgiving of 2016?

A Yes.

Consider the monumental dishonesty of Simpson’s answer. He “was asked to provide some information to the Justice Department” by “a prosecutor named Bruce Ohr.” Simpson neglects to mention that Ohr’s wife, one of only a handful of employees of Fusion GPS, had been paid to work on the Trump “investigation” at Simpson’s direction. According to Simpson, Ohr was just a “prosecutor” who was “following up.”

Q Did Mr. Ohr reach out to you, or how did that shake out?

A I think Chris–it was someone that Chris Steele knows. I think —

Q I’m sorry. Chris Steele knows who?

A Bruce Ohr.

This testimony is absurd. Simpson has testified that Fusion GPS has approximately 10 employees, one of whom was Nellie Ohr. His testimony that Bruce Ohr was “someone that Chris Steele knows” was at best deliberately deceptive, at worst outright perjury.