{"id":36466,"date":"2019-07-02T12:08:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36466"},"modified":"2019-07-02T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T16:08:08","slug":"what-does-this-say-about-the-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36466","title":{"rendered":"What Does This Say About The Candidate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kamala Harris is currently considered the up-and-coming Democrat candidate for President in 2020. She achieved that status after an attack on Joe Biden that stretched the truth more than a little. Well, Ms. Harris is serious about her campaign. The Washington Examiner<\/a> is reporting today that the Harris campaign hired Marc Elias, who heads Perkins Coie\u2019s political law group.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

…Elias, who held the same position in Clinton’s campaign, is named in two pending Federal Election Commission complaints<\/a> and in a recent federal lawsuit alleging that the Clinton campaign broke campaign finance laws when it used Perkins Coie to hire Fusion GPS<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fusion GPS went on to hire British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who compiled an unverified dossier allegedly based on sources close to the Kremlin which was disseminated to the media and used by the FBI to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants targeting former Trump campaign associate Carter Page. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is reviewing alleged FISA abuse<\/a> related to the dossier and Attorney General William Barr launched his \u201cinvestigation of the investigators\u201d<\/a> earlier this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clinton\u2019s former presidential campaign manager Robby Mook said in 2017<\/a> that he authorized Elias to hire an outside firm to dig up dirt on Trump\u2019s connections with Russia. \u201cI asked our lawyer and I gave him a budget allocation to investigate this, particularly the international aspect,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mook said Elias was receiving information from Fusion GPS or directly from Steele himself about the research into Trump and Russia in 2016, and that Elias then periodically briefed the Clinton campaign about the findings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Elias is a fixture in Democratic politics. Aside from working for Harris, Clinton, and the DNC, Elias has said<\/a> that he and his colleagues at Perkins Coie have represented the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Governors Association, various Democratic PACs, the pro-abortion EMILY\u2019s List, dozens of Democratic senators, and more than a hundred Democratic members of the House.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neither the Harris campaign nor Elias responded to the Washington Examiner<\/i>\u2019s request for comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wonder if Mr. Elias’ name is going to come up during the release of the Inspector General’s Report or the questioning of Robert Mueller. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kamala Harris is currently considered the up-and-coming Democrat candidate for President in 2020. She achieved that status after an attack on Joe Biden that stretched the truth more than a little. Well, Ms. Harris is serious about her campaign. The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9778,11438,10802,9245,3655,3559,5598,10685,10959,1619,8625,9507,12073,11778,3035,2720,430],"class_list":["post-36466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-campaign-finance-laws","tag-carter-page","tag-christopher-steele","tag-clinton-campaign","tag-democratic-congressional-campaign-committee","tag-democratic-senatorial-campaign-committee","tag-federal-election-commission","tag-foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act","tag-fusion-gps","tag-inspector-general","tag-kamala-harris","tag-marc-elias","tag-michael-horowitz","tag-perkins-coie","tag-robert-mueller","tag-the-washington-examiner","tag-washington-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36467,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36466\/revisions\/36467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}