Former Clinton campaign manager says he was unaware of dossier payments

Source: The Hill




BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 11/03/17 09:40 PM EDT

Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager Robby Mook said on Friday evening that he did not know who funded the controversial, unverified dossier about President Trump, despite revelations that the law firm representing the campaign sponsored the document.

"I didn't know that we were paying the contractor that created that document," Mook told CNN's Anderson Cooper.

"When we started to look into Donald Trump's business dealings, it was this massive tree of LLCs and shell companies. We were overwhelmed, we were on it, frankly," he continued.

"I asked our lawyer and I gave him a budget allocation to investigate this, particularly the international aspect. My understanding is that the dossier is the product of not just research that funded by our campaign, but also by Republican donors," he said. Mook added that the campaign received briefings from the law firm during the campaign.

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