The disclosure comes shortly after Trump sued Clinton and the DNC, alleging they invented connections between his 2016 campaign and Russia beginning in July 2016. Hillary Clintons campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped pay for research. A DNC rep confirms to CNN that the 'aging and silly' complaints were settled. Sources would not confirm how much was paid to Fusion GPS, but said the campaign and DNC shared the cost. 16, per Politico-while Republicans Trey Trainor and Allen Dickerson were opposed, Axios reports. Instead, the DNC’s 849,407.97 and the Clinton campaign’s 175,000 covered Fusion GPS’s opposition research on the dossier, a basis for the so-called Russia hoax that dogged Trump’s first. That’s the firm used by the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign to secretly pay research firm Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence operative, to compile a dossier of. Sean Cooksey, one of the FEC's Republican commissioners, joined two Democrats and an independent in voting for the agreement-which was signed for the Democratic groups on Feb. The Clinton campaign paid Perkins Coie 5.6 million in legal fees from June 2015 to December 2016, according to campaign-finance records, and the DNC paid the firm 3.6 million in legal and. It adds the Clinton campaign and DNC agreed to pay the civil fines, but without admitting to misreporting of spending. campaign volunteer based on a document they knew or should have known was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC. In its letter, the FEC notes complaints against Steele, Fusion GPS, and Perkins Coie were dismissed. Steele was paid 160,000 to create the Trump dossier for Fusion. The FEC found the money used to fund the dossier compiled by retired British spy Christopher Steele-which claimed, among other things, that Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election-was misreported as 'legal services' and 'legal and compliance consulting.' The Clinton campaign and DNC paid just over $1 million to Seattle-based law firm Perkins Coie, which hired opposition research company Fusion GPS, which in turn hired Steele. DNC nor Clinton put that dossier together, nor are they foolish enough to put money into it if there was not a solid reason to do so.

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