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“Mr. Steele was on the payroll of Fusion GPS, who was being paid by the Democratic Party to do opposition research on Donald Trump. That while he was working with the FBI, he was shopping this dossier all over the world. That’s not what an informant should do.”
✓the-washington-post-fact-checker rating: not verifiable; published on 2018-01-09
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2018-01-09
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