The Republicans’ Fake Investigations<br />In those sessions, we toppled the far right’s conspiracy theories<br />and explained how The Washington Free Beacon and the Clinton campaign — the Republican and Democratic funders of our Trump research — separately came to hire us in the first place.<br />The committee chairman, Sam Ervin, a Democrat, said that would be “as foolish as the man who went bear hunting and stopped to chase rabbits.”<br />Today, amid a growing criminal inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, congressional Republicans are again chasing rabbits.<br />As we told the Senate Judiciary Committee in August, our sources said the dossier was taken so seriously<br />because it corroborated reports the bureau had received from other sources, including one inside the Trump camp.<br />Mr. Steele’s sources in Russia (who were not paid) reported on an extensive —<br />and now confirmed — effort by the Kremlin to help elect Mr. Trump president.<br />They also know that these Russians were unaware of the former British intelligence<br />officer Christopher Steele’s work for us and were not sources for his reports.<br />And we handed over our relevant bank records — while drawing the line at a fishing expedition<br />for the records of companies we work for that have nothing to do with the Trump case.<br />His allies in Congress have dug through our bank records and sought to tarnish our firm to punish us for highlighting his links to Russia.
