Lawyers for Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum and U.S. Senate candidate Bill Nelson fought on Friday to allow a non-citizen’s vote to count in the state’s election races.
.@lukerosiak: A Democrat lawyer tied to past election scandals is now involved in the Florida recount pic.twitter.com/j0XTqFn10N
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) November 10, 2018
Luke Rosiak, who first reported on the story, joined Fox News’ “FOX & Friends”on Saturday morning where he explained Elias’ alleged role in past election scandals.
The Daily Wire reports:
In October 2017, The Washington Post reported that Elias, who represented Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), hired Fusion GPS to produce the salacious and unverified dossier on then-candidate Donald Trump:
“The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about President Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said. Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research. After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to those people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.”
“Clinton campaign lawyer Elias allegedly denied for a year that he had anything to do with the dossier,” Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro wrote at the time, adding that, according to Maggie Haberman of The New York Times, that claim appeared to by a lie:
Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year https://t.co/vXKRV1wRJc
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) 24 October 2017
When thousands of DNC emails were leaked in 2016, The Washington Post reported that some of the most damaging emails involved Elias and his role in crafting the DNC’s response to accusations made by the Sanders campaign that the Clinton campaign “was improperly using its joint fundraising committee with the DNC to benefit itself.”
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