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Once more, for good measure: Conservatives didn’t fund the Steele dossier

By Becket Adams
Published February 5, 2018 7:51pm ET
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Once more, for good measure: Conservatives didn’t fund the Steele dossier
After Trump had won the nomination, the Free Beacon dropped the project. It was at that point that Democratic operatives swooped in, bringing along with them former British spy Christopher Steele. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP) | Victoria Jones

The Washington Free Beacon did not bankroll the Steele dossier, a highly dubious work of opposition research alleging the Russians have compromising personal and financial information on Donald Trump.

Rather, the conservative newsroom hired the same research firm that later created it, Fusion GPS, in 2016 to investigate Trump and other Republican candidates during the GOP primaries.

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