If the director of the FBI can read that citation at least 3

Posted on: July 24, 2018 at 20:20:08 CT

times in the course of assessing the application for his personal certification and not come away from it assuming that Clinton’s campaign and the DNC were the ones who commissioned it, how on earth can anyone argue the judge would make that assumption?

Baier: When did you learn that the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign had funded Christopher Steele’s work?

Comey: Yes, I still don’t know that for a fact.

Baier: What do you mean?

Comey: I’ve only seen it in the media. I never knew exactly which Democrats has funded – I knew it was funded first by Republicans –

(Crosstalk)

Baier: But that’s not true.

Comey: I’m sorry?

Baier: That’s not true that the dossier that Christopher Steele worked on was funded by Republicans.

Comey: My understanding was his work started funded by – as oppo research funded by the Republicans.

Baier: So Free Beacon and – said that they had Glen Simpson and Fusion GPS on account of a retainer but they did not fund the Christopher Steele memo or the dossier. That was initiated by Democrats.

Comey: Ok, my understanding was the activity was begun that Steele was hired to look into was first funded by Republicans then picked up – the important thing was picked up by Democrats opposed to Donald Trump.

Baier: So it that why – did you tell President Obama that the dossier was – who it was funded by?

Comey: No, not to my recollection.

Baier: Did you want to know who it was funded by?

Comey: I wanted to know what I knew which was it was funded by people politically opposed to Donald Trump.

Baier: Ok.

Comey: Which particular opponents wasn’t that important to me.

Baier: But when did you – So you, still, to this day, don’t know that it was funded by the DNC or the (inaudible)?

Comey: I’ve read that in the media, but I don’t know for a fact and didn’t know, when I was at the FBI, which exact opponent of the president’s funded that.

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