DOJ Official Who Was Demoted Over Undisclosed Meetings With Fusion GPS Is Married To A Fusion GPS Employee

Bruce Ohr. Ring a bell? It should. He’s the DOJ official who was canned (OK, OK…demoted) last week for meeting with men involved with Fusion GPS and keeping those meetings on the DL. (He met with the author of the dossier, Christopher Steele, as well as Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of the sketchy firm.) Yeah, him. Buckle up. It gets worse. As it turns out, his wife worked for Fusion GPS DURING THE ELECTION.

Contacted by Fox News, investigators for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) confirmed that Nellie H. Ohr, wife of the demoted official, Bruce G. Ohr, worked for the opposition research firm last year. The precise nature of Mrs. Ohr’s duties – including whether she worked on the dossier – remains unclear but a review of her published works available online reveals Mrs. Ohr has written extensively on Russia-related subjects. HPSCI staff confirmed to Fox News that she was paid by Fusion GPS through the summer and fall of 2016.

You hear that? There’s a chance this woman was directly involved in the fake Trump dossier. The dude was a DOJ official, and this is who he’s married to. She was apparently a “Russia expert.”

The disclosure by Fox News that Bruce Ohr met with Simpson and Steele last year expanded the reach of the dossier’s creators from the FBI into the top echelons of the Justice Department. Initial investigation suggested that Steele, a longtime FBI informant whose contacts with Mr. Ohr are said to date back a decade, might have played the central role in putting Simpson together with the associate deputy attorney general. Now, the revelation that Mrs. Ohr worked for Simpson calls that account into question.

A review of open source materials shows Mrs. Ohr was described as a Russia expert at the Wilson Center, a Washington think tank, when she worked there, briefly, a decade ago. The Center’s website said her project focused on the experiences of Russian farmers during Stalin’s collectivization program and following the invasion of Russia by Nazi forces in 1941. She has also reviewed a number of books about twentieth century Russia, including Reconstructing the State: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia (2000), by Gerald Easter, a political scientist at Boston College, and Bertrand M. Patenaude’s The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (2002).

Let that all sink in for a hot minute.

No wonder Trump is always on the defense. He has to be. These people cannot be trusted.

h/t Fox News