{"id":1417077,"date":"2022-04-03T17:59:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T21:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417077"},"modified":"2022-04-03T17:59:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T21:59:56","slug":"chuck-todd-fails-to-ask-hillary-clinton-about-fec-fine-for-steele-dossier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chuck-todd-fails-to-ask-hillary-clinton-about-fec-fine-for-steele-dossier\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Todd Fails to Ask Hillary Clinton About FEC Fine for Steele &#039;Dossier&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchuck-todd-fails-to-ask-hillary-clinton-about-fec-fine-for-steele-dossier%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417077&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was fined last week by the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) for paying for the fraudulent \u201cRussia dossier\u201d \u2014 but NBC\u2019s Chuck Todd failed to ask her about it on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/31\/hillary-clinton-campaign-dnc-fined-113k-for-falsifying-steele-dossier-expense\/\">reported<\/a> last week:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign and the Democrat National Committee were fined on Tuesday $113,000 by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for hiding their spending on the fraudulent Russia \u201cdossier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hillary\u2019s campaign and DNC allegedly reported payments to Democrat law firm Perkins Coie as legal expenses instead of earmarking them accurately as\u00a0\u201cpaying Fusion GPS through Perkins Coie to conduct opposition research on Donald Trump,\u201d according to the original <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/campaignlegal.org\/sites\/default\/files\/10-25-17%20CLC%20DNC%20Clinton%20%28Filed%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">complaint<\/a> of\u00a0Campaign Legal Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">First reported by the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, the DNC and Clinton campaign agreed to jointly pay $113,000. Hillary\u2019s campaign would pay $8,000, and the DNC will pay $105,000, a small sum for allegedly\u00a0\u201cmisreporting the purpose of certain disbursements\u201d related to the \u201cSteele dossier.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The dossier formed the basis for the \u201cRussia collusion\u201d hoax, which falsely claimed that Trump worked with Russia to win the 2016 election. Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of the hoax when he completed his inquiry in 2019.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Clinton campaign had provided the dossier to the FBI and leaked it to fellow Democrats and the media, which led the FBI to conduct surveillance on Trump aides and undermined the incoming administration in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Todd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meet-press-april-3-2022-n1293952\">interviewed<\/a> Clinton on\u00a0<em>Meet the Press<\/em> and asked her about foreign policy and domestic politics. At one point, Clinton even said that the Republican Party \u201chas now gone to the, you know, to the extreme and are saying and doing things that have no basis in reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite her own role in funding and perpetuating the \u201cRussia collusion\u201d hoax, Todd did not follow up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was fined last week by the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) for paying for the fraudulent \u201cRussia dossier\u201d \u2014 but NBC\u2019s Chuck Todd failed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}