President Trump blamed the “fake news media” for not covering meetings between Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr and Trump dossier author Christopher Steele in a tweet Saturday.
Steele, a former British intelligence officer, put together the controversial dossier for Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm that employed Ohr’s wife, Nellie. It was revealed last year that over the summer of 2016, the firm was retained by lawyer Mark Elias, who represented the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Additionally, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released a memo earlier this year that claimed Bruce Ohr met Steele in 2016 and gave the Justice Department information about Steele’s political persuasions.
“The big story that the Fake News Media refuses to report is lowlife Christopher Steele’s many meetings with Deputy A.G. Bruce Ohr and his beautiful wife, Nelly. It was Fusion GPS that hired Steele to write the phony & discredited Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary & the DNC….,” Trump tweeted Saturday afternoon.
“….Do you believe Nelly worked for Fusion and her husband STILL WORKS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ‘JUSTICE.’ I have never seen anything so Rigged in my life. Our A.G. is scared stiff and Missing in Action. It is all starting to be revealed – not pretty. IG Report soon? Witch Hunt!” he said in a separate tweet.
The big story that the Fake News Media refuses to report is lowlife Christopher Steele’s many meetings with Deputy A.G. Bruce Ohr and his beautiful wife, Nelly. It was Fusion GPS that hired Steele to write the phony & discredited Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary & the DNC….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 11, 2018
….Do you believe Nelly worked for Fusion and her husband STILL WORKS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF “JUSTICE.” I have never seen anything so Rigged in my life. Our A.G. is scared stiff and Missing in Action. It is all starting to be revealed – not pretty. IG Report soon? Witch Hunt!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 11, 2018
It was recently reported that Bruce Ohr remained in contact with Steele after the FBI severed ties with the former spy. According to emails originally obtained by The Hill, Bruce Ohr was still receiving information from Steele after the 2016 election.
Additionally, the Washington Examiner‘s Byron York reported earlier this week that Bruce Ohr also remained in touch with Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, after President Trump was elected.
Republican investigators in Congress have raised concerns about the use of the dossier, which contains unverified claims tying Trump to Russia, by FBI officials to obtain the authority to spy on onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Fox News reported in December that Bruce Ohr was demoted from his post as associate deputy attorney general after it came to light he met with Steele and Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson. Bruce Ohr kept his job as Organized Crime Task Force director at the Justice Department, according to Judicial Watch.
