Thread by @SeekerOTL

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Someone in a DM pointed out to me an interesting discrepancy between the Simpson/Steele version of the timeline and the Danchenko indictment.

So I did some digging and here's what I found.

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According to Glenn Simpson's & Peter Fritsch's book, Crime in Progress, Marc Elias first met with them on April 20, 2016, the day after Donald Trump won the New York primary.

He loved their pitch and agreed to contract with them, but formalizing the agreement took "weeks."

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Next: "By the time Fusion decided to turn to Christopher Steele in May 2016, the firm had amassed a mountain of research about Trump's business past..."

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Later they write: "Simpson traveled to the U.K. in mid-May of 2016 to broach the Trump work to Steele."

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In Danchenko's indictment, we learn that Danchenko met with Dolan in April 2016.

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On April 29th, Danchenko sent Dolan an email containing a report on Russia that he was "conducting with U.K. Investigative Firm-1."

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So was Orbis working with Fusion in April 2016? If so, that's ahead of the time Simpson claims he even contacted Steele about investigating Trump's Russia connection.

Or was Danchenko working on a investigation for a separate client? Who was the client?

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