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Any way you cut it, the Clinton campaign lied about the dossier

By Becket Adams
Published October 26, 2017 12:34am ET
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Any way you cut it, the Clinton campaign lied about the dossier
It's unclear who on Hillary Clinton's staff was in on the Trump dossier, but people in her orbit definitely knew. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) | Andrew Harnik

Hillary Clinton and her associates are in a bad spot.

The Democratic National Committee and Clinton’s presidential campaign financed the infamous Trump-Russia dossier, the Washington Post reported this week. True, the dossier was launched by a still-unknown GOP donor during the 2016 Republican primaries, but Clinton’s team and the DNC took it from there and gave us what we know today as the highly contested 35-page document containing supposedly damning financial and personal information about President Trump that is allegedly in the hands of the Russians.

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