{"id":1916561,"date":"2023-04-19T04:55:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T08:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-sec-boss-confronted-over-steele-dossier-payment\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T04:56:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T08:56:35","slug":"bidens-sec-boss-confronted-over-steele-dossier-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-sec-boss-confronted-over-steele-dossier-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s SEC Boss Confronted Over Steele Dossier Payment"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fbidens-sec-boss-confronted-over-steele-dossier-payment%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=1916561&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--><p>A House Republican threw one curveball of a question at Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler, asking the Biden administration official on Tuesday to answer under oath whether he facilitated payment for British ex-spy Christopher Steele\u2019s now-discredited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fbi-offered-christopher-steele-1m-for-evidence-backing-up-dossier-claims-about-trump-fbi-analyst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-Trump dossier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) ended his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?527459-1\/sec-chair-testifies-house-oversight-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contentious line of questioning<\/a> during the final moments of a House Financial Services Committee hearing by hearkening back to Gensler\u2019s role as chief financial officer on Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you facilitate the payment for the Steele dossier since you were CFO of the Hillary Clinton campaign?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Gensler, who was shaking his head, began to answer with, \u201cSir,\u201d after which Donalds said, \u201cYes or no.\u201d This happened twice before Donalds reminded the witness that he was under oath. \u201cI know,\u201d Gensler replied before offering an answer: \u201cIt was not something I was aware of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The exchange, and the hearing at large, ended there.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Rockstar with a MEGA BOMBDROP emerges! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepDonaldsPress?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepDonaldsPress<\/a> WOWZERS!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ncMZcCZWpz\">pic.twitter.com\/ncMZcCZWpz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Digital Asset Investor (@digitalassetbuy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/digitalassetbuy\/status\/1648409072226664449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is already well established that funds from Clinton\u2019s failed campaign and the Democratic National Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-dnc-hillary-campaign-paid-compile-trump-ben-shapiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">went toward Steele\u2019s<\/a> dossier, which was packed with salacious allegations tying former President Donald Trump to Russia that have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/christopher-steele-holds-firm-on-defending-discredited-dossier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">picked apart<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-report-dismisses-many-steele-dossier-claims-11555710147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal investigators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, both parties <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/fec-fines-dnc-clinton-for-trump-dossier-hoax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were fined by the Federal Election Commission<\/a> for not properly disclosing the roughly $1 million that made its way to Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired Steele, from the Perkins Coie law firm.<\/p>\n<p>Gensler\u2019s name came up when the Clinton campaign\u2019s chairman, John Podesta, testified to the House Intelligence Committee in 2017. Podesta mentioned Gensler as being the person who \u201cestablished the financial controls\u201d and he stressed that \u201cGary\u201d was \u201cat the top,\u201d handling payments to Perkins Coie, <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-09\/PodestaInterview.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a transcript shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Nunes, the Republican former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who left Congress to head Trump\u2019s media company, said this week that his panel \u201couted\u201d Gensler as the individual who \u201cwrote the check to Fusion GPS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a \u201cJust the News Not Noise\u201d interview, Nunes also criticized Gensler and the SEC for the extended holdup on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/22\/trump-sec-truth-social-public-company-00070444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planned merger<\/a> between the Trump Media &#038; Technology Group, which runs the social media platform called Truth Social, and Digital World Acquisition Corp.<\/p>\n<p>This follows Trump Media\u2019s general counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-02\/23.02.27%20TMTG%20to%20Congress%20FINAL%20w%20Attachments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">requesting in February<\/a> that Congress investigate the SEC over an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trumps-new-social-media-venture-is-under-sec-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cendless\u201d review<\/a> described as \u201can unprecedented attempt to kill the deal without any finding of wrongdoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donalds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/byron-donalds-endorses-trump-president-strength-resolve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsed Trump earlier this month<\/a>, at the time making him the third GOP lawmaker from Florida to back the former president\u2019s 2024 White House campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A House Republican threw one curveball of a question at Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler, asking the Biden administration official on Tuesday to answer under oath whether he facilitated payment for British ex-spy Christopher Steele\u2019s now-discredited anti-Trump dossier. 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