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Democrats find a sneaky way to pass on ‘free’ opposition research to their favored candidates

The Hill’s John Solomon, a top investigative reporter, has come up with a new one, showing how Democrats create and pay for opposition research, and then find a sneaky way to pass it onto their favorite candidates without having to declare it a campaign contribution:

He begins:

When the Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee in summer 2016, one of the crown jewels obtained by Vladimir Putin’s team was the party’s opposition research files on then-GOP candidate Donald Trump.

It was quite a blow to the DNC, because political parties usually guard their research zealously, hoping to use it with the news media and political commercials to help ding their political rivals without leaving fingerprints.

But the Democratic Party committee that helps elects candidates to U.S. House seats has exposed scores of its own opposition research files on GOP candidates, past and present, on the internet. They just aren’t easy to find.

Read the full story from American Thinker


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