

The dossier had been funded by the firm Fusion GPS, which itself had been hired by the Democratic National Committee to conduct opposition research on the then-Republican candidate Trump.ĭanchenko is accused of lying to FBI agents when he told them he never communicated with a public relations executive active in Democratic politics about allegations in Steele's reports. Steele's dossier was used by the FBI to justify a warrant application to tap the phone of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page a month before Election Day in 2016. The Republican Trump faced off in that race against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee. The Virginia resident Danchenko was charged last week with five counts of making false statements to the FBI during interviews in 2017 about his work providing information to Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the dossier.ĭanchenko is the third person charged as part of a probe by special counsel John Durham, who was appointed during the Trump administration to investigate the origins of the federal probe into the Trump campaign's suspected coordination with Russian agents to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
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Strassel, a 2014 Bradley Prize recipient, is a regular contributor to Sunday political shows, including CBS's "Face the Nation," Fox News Sunday, and NBC's "Meet the Press." She is the author of "The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech," which chronicles recent attacks on conservative nonprofits, businesses and donors.Īn Oregon native, Ms.

She assumed her current position in 2005.

She moved to New York in 1999 and soon thereafter joined the Journal's editorial page, working as a features editor, and then as an editorial writer. in 1994, working in the news department of The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels, and then in London. She writes editorials, as well as the weekly Potomac Watch political column, from her base in Alaska. Kimberley Strassel is a member of the editorial board for The Wall Street Journal.
