Although the firm says it didn’t know anything about that meeting, Veselnitskaya implied that Trump’s son was set up.ĭonald Trump Jr. Recently, a spokesman for the Trump’s legal team accused Fusion GPS of being associated with Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who held a controversial meeting with Donald Trump Jr. Among other unverified details, the controversial dossier noted that Russian authorities tried to influence President Trump by preparing to bribe him with business deals and blackmail him with sex tapes. He was paid by Simpson’s firm and later by Hillary Clinton supporters to compile the information as opposition research. The author of the controversial dossier was former MI-6 officer Christopher Steele, who once served in Russia. The committee is investigating Russia’s interference in the presidential election and whether President Trump’s campaign worked along with Moscow. The request for Simpson to testify was voluntary and it remains unclear if the committee will seek to subpoena him to appear. Intelligence agencies presented then-President elect Donald Trump a summary of the dossier in January. Most of the major media outlets only reported on the existence of the discredited dossier (leaving out specific information and details) after the chiefs of U.S. Naturally, this request raised the expectation that Simpson would provide sensitive details about the unverified dossier, which was said to have been collected during the 2016 presidential campaign. On Wednesday, the committee had announced a July 19 hearing that included him as a witness. Glenn Simpson, the co-.founder of political and corporate intelligence firm Fusion GPS, which was behind the discredited dossier about President Trump and his links with Russia, decided not to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week, after he was scheduled to do so.
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