FLASHBACK: Remember when Dems lied about funding the Steele dossier? Here's a reminder from Maggie Haberman (!!!)

Greg P. | 2:10 PM on June 13, 2019

Matt Wolking, Deputy Director of Communications for the Trump campaign, has a brutal reminder for all those libs out there today talking about the Steele dossier today that Dems lied to cover up their involvement with it.

Everybody takes it for granted that the DNC/Hillary paid for the creation of Christopher Steele’s dossier.

But as @maggieNYT reported when that fact finally became public, “Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year.”

Yep:

Everybody takes it for granted that the DNC/Hillary paid for the creation of Christopher Steele's dossier.

But as @maggieNYT reported when that fact finally became public, "Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year."

They tried to cover it up pic.twitter.com/DEObnwUF6B

— Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) June 13, 2019

And here’s a link to the article:

Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year https://t.co/vXKRV1wRJc

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 24, 2017

From the article:

The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about President Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.

Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.

After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to those people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the company in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Before that agreement, Fusion GPS’s research into Trump was funded by an unknown Republican client during the GOP primary.

The Clinton campaign and the DNC, through the law firm, continued to fund Fusion GPS’s research through the end of October 2016, days before Election Day.

Fusion GPS gave Steele’s reports and other research documents to Elias, the people familiar with the matter said. It is unclear how or how much of that information was shared with the campaign and the DNC and who in those organizations was aware of the roles of Fusion GPS and Steele. One person close to the matter said the campaign and the DNC were not informed by the law firm of Fusion GPS’s role.