After Mr. Trump secured the nomination, Fusion GPS was hired on behalf of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign and the D.N.C. by their law firm, Perkins Coie, to compile research about Mr. Trump, his businesses and associates — including possible connections with Russia. It was at that point that Fusion GPS hired Mr. Steele, who has deep sourcing in Russia, to gather information.
Yes, and they paid $5 Million of campaign funds to Perkins Coie to pay Fusion GPS, which the Clinton Campaign expensed as a legal expense.
And knowing full well that the Steele Dossier was a political hit job, the Obama administration went ahead and opened an FBI investigation into Trump, placed operatives inside his campaign, and lied to the FISA Court to secure eavesdropping warrants on Carter Page who they knew was a CIA informant.
Those FISA warrants are much more intrusive than a normal warrant- they allow the FBI to reach down 3 or 4 levels deep on the contact lists and spy on everyone who has contacts with the subject, and everyone they have contacts with, etc, down 3 or 4 levels.
IOW, the warrant on Carter Page meant everyone in Trump's circle and campaign were under constant surveillance.
After the election, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation morphed into the Mueller investigation, knowing full well that the Russian Collusion narrative was a hoax.
The FBI agent (Kevin Clinesmith) who lied to the FISA court (a felony) got off with a slap on the wrist, while people like Popadopolous were sent to jail for "lying to the FBI" because he got a date mixed up on the phony meeting in London (that meeting was a setup from the start).
The lady Russian lawyer from the infamous "Trump Tower Meeting" was a client of Fusion GPS, who she had hired to lobby for the removal of the Magnitsky Act sanctions against Russian oligarchs. She went straight from that meeting to Glen Simpson (Fusion GPS) to make her report.
Igor Danchenko was the source of the "pee tapes" lie. He was another dem operative and Brookings Fellow, who got off scot-free because Durham didn't make a serious case against him.
And this entire fiasco was supported by the so-called "IC assessment" which was equally fraudulent, because the CIA, NSA, and FBI were all aware that the Collusion story was made-up and they were participating in the witch hunt.
Nixon resigned over the Watergate break-in, which was nothing in comparison to the lying and spying on the Trump campaign by the Obama Administration.
No one was punished because they were working for the dems, and it's all just fine to lie and break the law when it's for a "worthy cause" like taking down Trump...
