The New York Post and other media outlets are reporting that the Federal Election Commission has fined both Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee for lying about how they spent money used to pay for the phony Steele dossier on former President Donald Trump.The Clinton campaign and the DNC will be forced to pay $8,000 and $105,000 respectively for labeling payments for the dossier “legal advice and services” rather than opposition research. The money ultimately went to Fusion GPS, the consulting firm that commissioned the dossier, according to FEC documents viewed by the Post. Clinton’s campaign and the DNC together paid more than $1 million combined to the Democrat law firm Perkins Coie, which paid Fusion GPS to dig for dirt on Trump.
Fusion GPS, in turn, hired former British spy Christopher Steele who came up with the phony allegations. Former President Donald Trump says the ruling confirmed his belief that Clinton and the DNC perpetrated a major hoax against his campaign. “This was done to create, as I have stated many times, and is now confirmed, a Hoax funded by the DNC and the Clinton Campaign. This corruption is only beginning to be revealed, is un-American, and must never be allowed to happen again.” Trump’s legal team tells Fox News it is now suing Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and 26 other people and entities for tens of millions of dollars in attorneys fees, damages exceeding $100 million, and “for our democracy.”