This article first appeared at American Lens News on November 1, 2017.
Editorial: Russian Dossier Firm Linked to Cooper, Redistricting, Voter ID
Last week the Washington Post reported that Marc Elias of the Perkins-Coie law firm was the same person who commissioned and disseminated the now infamous Russian dossier on President Trump compiled by Fusion GPS.
After indictments were handed down on Paul Manafort and his associate John Gates, it seems the Podestas are on the run. John Podesta’s brother, Tony Podesta, has folded up his shop in wake of the Mueller indictments.
Meanwhile, the media has pivoted to a low-level staffer named Papadopolous, who might have worn a wire for the FBI, in hopes of salvaging their nearly year-long Russia collusion narratives.
All those cries of ‘Russian interference’. All the collusion claims. Looks like the Russian dossier and the ‘fight against Trump’ themes have boomeranged on Clinton, Elias and the Democrats.
But what most people don’t know is that Perkins Coie and Elias have also been fighting to throw-out NC’s congressional and state legislative districts. Further complicating the matter is the fact that that this is the same firm that challenged NC’s Voter Id law. To make things even more sketchy, around that same time Elias was Governor Roy Cooper’s attorney.
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