Remember the now-discredited “dirty dossier” on President Trump that the mainstream news media breathlessly reported on in January? Well, it turns out that Fusion GPS, the political research firm that funded the creation of the dossier, may have committed a crime by not registering with the government under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Former hedge fund manager William Browder — whose firm Hermitage Capital had invested in Russian companies — complained that Fusion needed to register under FARA because it did work that served Russian government interests.
Why is all this important?
Browder claims Fusion and its founder Glenn Simpson targeted him with false stories spread to the media because he blew the whistle on a tax fraud scheme perpetrated by Russian holding company called Prevezon. Prevezon was represented by Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
You may recall Veselnitskaya is the same lawyer that arranged a meeting with Donald Trump, Jr., former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner last June over supposed opposition research on Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. That research never materialized, and the gathering has now been declared a big nothing-burger. But by getting Trump, Jr., Manafort and Kushner to the meeting in the first place, Veselnitskaya was doing dirty work for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), to which she has significant ties.
Who allowed a rare exception to visa regulations specifically for Veselnitskaya? It was none other than Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
These connections prove that the DNC was trying to entrap Trump via his campaign team, and Fusion GPS is connected to these efforts. Watch as Trump Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls out the media for not reporting on these facts at a White House daily news briefing.