Originally Posted by Rochard

So when you say "They (the Republicans) hired Fusion GPS" it means... They didn't partially fund this opposition research?

You seem to think this is two different things when it's not. The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative political website (most likely funded by Rubio), originally hired Fusion GPS to do opposition research on Trump. When Trump won the primary the DNC started to pick up the tab. The information Fusion GPS collected when it was being funded by The Washington Free Beacon wasn't thrown out, but instead was used in the Steele Dossier. The Washington Free Beacon in fact partially funded the Steele Dossier.

All of this is a smoke screen. It doesn't matter who funded it. It doesn't matter if it is politically biased. It's opposition research. Both sides does it. It's not illegal. It's standard in all Presidential elections. The Republican Party (and Fox News) is trying poke holes in who funded this, and frankly it's completely irrelevant. The investigation started three years before Trump announced he was running for office. The investigation had nothing to do with Trump - the investigation had to do with a US citizen working as a spy for Moscow. The investigation started to look at Trump because members of his campaign - namely Flynn and Sessions - talking to the Russian government. Again, nothing to do with Trump. Flynn and Sessions weren't targeted, but instead got picked up in the intelligence community routinely monitoring Russian agents on US soil. The investigation continued when a foreign government told the United States government an American citizen in London was bragging about how the Russians have dirt on Hillary, and how Russia was helping the Trump campaign.

This is nothing more than obstruction of justice by the Republican party.