Glenn Simpson, Fusion GPS co-founder. Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Images On the fourth floor of an unremarkable building off Dupont Circle, above a Starbucks, a second-hand clothing store, and a podiatrist, and behind an unmarked door dimpled with a peephole, is a fairly small and modest office space.
The truth is, it wasn’t just Republicans who viewed Fusion’s work with skepticism. When BuzzFeed published the Steele dossier, its 17 memos became a Rorschach Test for politicos, conspiracy theorists, and anyone else who had an opinion about Trump . Simpson and Fritsch say that the dossier was never intended to be read as a perfectly factual document meant for public consumption — it was a summary of notes meant to be a starting point of an investigation.
Years later, their dynamic is still that of a dogged reporter and his even-keeled editor. Simpson, who the New York Times once described as “brash, obsessive, and occasionally paranoid,” Juuls throughout our interview, eventually leaving to retrieve a pod refill from his office. While his partner and I talk, he looks at his phone, until Fritsch, like a parent scolding his teenage son, tells him to put it away.
By the spring of 2016, it was clear that Trump would be the Republican nominee. The Washington Free Beacon pulled its funding, presumably because it didn’t want to finance opposition research for the Democrats. Simpson and Fritsch felt it was important to continue investigating Trump, but Simpson wasn’t thrilled about the one person who would likely be interested in funding that work.
It seemed like a one-in-a-million coincidence and it was seized on by conspiracy theorists who claimed Fusion had set up the Trump Tower meeting, another piece of evidence in the growing deep-state conspiracy against Trump. “The Democrats colluded with Russian sources to develop the Steele dossier,” Nunes said during the House Intelligence Committee’s questioning of Robert Mueller. “And Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya colluded with the dossier’s key architect, Fusion GPS head Glenn Simpson.
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