A week ago, the Dems wasnted an open hearing when they grilled Paul Manafort and Don Jr.
WSJ: It has been 10 days since Democrats received the glorious
news that Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley would require Donald
Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort to explain their meeting with Russian
operators at Trump Tower last year. The left was salivating at the
prospect of watching two Trump insiders being grilled about Russian
“collusion” under the klieg lights.
Suddenly, it is fine with them if the two sessions are closed
Yet Democrats now have meekly and noiselessly retreated, agreeing to
let both men speak to the committee in private.
Why? Maybe the WSJ has the answer, here.
Why would they so
suddenly be willing to let go of this moment of political opportunity?Fusion GPS. That’s the oppo-research outfit behind the infamous and discredited “Trump dossier,” ginned up by a former British spook.
Fusion co-founder Glenn Simpson also was supposed to testify at the Grassley hearing, where he might have been asked in public to reveal who hired him to put together the hit job on Mr. Trump, which was based largely on anonymous Russian sources. Turns out Democrats are willing to give up just about anything—including their Manafort moment—to protect Mr. Simpson from having to answer that question.
WSJ asks this critical question, something we
have been arguing from the beginning
What if, all this time, Washington and the media have had the Russia
collusion story backward? What if it wasn’t the Trump campaign playing
footsie with the Vladimir Putin regime, but Democrats? The more we learn
about Fusion, the more this seems a possibility.We know Fusion is a for-hire political outfit, paid to dig up dirt on targets. This column first outed Fusion in 2012, detailing its efforts to tar a Mitt Romney donor. At the time Fusion insisted that the donor was “a legitimate subject of public records research.”
