But the biggest revelation from the Washington Post report is the direct link between the Clinton campaign and the lawyer who retained Fusion GPS, which later funded the dossier.
After the election, the Federal Bureau of Investigation under former director James Comey agreed to fund Steele, the British spy, but reneged on the deal after he was identified in the press as the source of the Trump dossier.
Still, the president and his supporters have seized on the new details about the DNC-Clinton role to push their view that the various Russian Federation investigations - from Capitol Hill to Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller - are based on a fraudulent, politically inspired hit job. The report alleges the Russian government had cultivated compromising information on Trump and that Trump's campaign colluded with the Russian government. "The victim here is the President".
The president's allies have also taken up the message.
Trump has also attacked the findings of the FBI, NSA and Central Intelligence Agency that Russian Federation waged a large-scale influence campaign to interfere in the election.
For months, Republicans on the Hill have been trying to discover who specifically was behind the dossier. Later, a former British spy named Christopher Steele was hired and compiled a dossier document that claimed Russian Federation had information it could use to blackmail Trump, among other things.
Perkins Coie said Fusion GPS' research on Trump was initially funded "for one or more other clients".
The Russian dossier is back in the news.
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The finance minister also said that the National Democratic Alliance Government's policy has been to take steps towards ending or mitigating the black money economy in the country.
Nunes stepped aside from the House intelligence committee's investigation into Russia's interference in the election in April following an ethics investigation into his handling of classified information. "It is much more relevant who relied upon it", Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., told Fox News on Wednesday. I think I would know but I won't say.
In August, ABC News reported that the same private research firm, Fusion GPS, was paid during the heated Republican primaries by wealthy Republicans and then later worked for Democrats, all of whom wanted to dig up dirt on Trump and plant negative news stories, according to political operatives.
Elias and Fusion GPS declined to comment on the arrangement.
Information included within the Trump dossier reportedly began making the rounds in Washington in the thick of the 2016 presidential campaign, just as the intelligence community began looking into potential connections between the Kremlin and Trump - connections Trump has consistently denied.
Former FBI director James Comey briefed Trump and former President Obama on the existence of the dossier and told a Congressional panel that none of the allegations have been verified.
The scale of the Russian efforts has come into focus in recent weeks as social media companies like Facebook and Twitter have revealed how Moscow's minions used their platforms to try to influence Americans and amplify divisions in USA society.
What is the Trump dossier?
The House Intelligence Committee is now embroiled in a legal battle over records that could provide further information about who originally financed the dossier investigation. He was due to meet with the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
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