Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch are the men behind research firm Fusion GPS.
Campaign ActionIn the year since the publication of the so-called Steele dossier — the collection of intelligence reports we commissioned about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia — the president has repeatedly attacked us on Twitter. His allies in Congress have dug through our bank records and sought to tarnish our firm to punish us for highlighting his links to Russia. Conservative news outlets and even our former employer, The Wall Street Journal, have spun a succession of mendacious conspiracy theories about our motives and backers.
According to two former journalists, it’s not the dossier that is “fake.” And it’s not the news. What’s fake is Republican investigations into the Trump-Russia connection. The idea that the dossier was a political hit job whose contents have been disproved has become a key Republican talking point. So much so, that recent revelations showing that FBI investigations began when a drunken George Papadopoulos mouthed-off to an Australian diplomat have been greeted by complaints, not over their accuracy, but over the fact that they interrupted Republicans’ daily attack on “the dossier.”
But Simpson and Fritsch stand by both their process and their product.
Three congressional committees have heard over 21 hours of testimony from our firm, Fusion GPS. In those sessions, we toppled the far right’s conspiracy theories and explained how The Washington Free Beacon and the Clinton campaign — the Republican and Democratic funders of our Trump research — separately came to hire us in the first place.
Republicans don’t want to let facts interfere with their narrative—especially when all the facts are against them.