<p>A House Republican threw one curveball of a question at Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler, asking the Biden administration official on Tuesday to answer under oath whether he facilitated payment for British ex-spy Christopher Steele&#8217;s now-discredited <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-offered-christopher-steele-1m-for-evidence-backing-up-dossier-claims-about-trump-fbi-analyst" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Trump dossier</a>.</p>
<p>Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) ended his <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?527459-1/sec-chair-testifies-house-oversight-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contentious line of questioning</a> during the final moments of a House Financial Services Committee hearing by hearkening back to Gensler&#8217;s role as chief financial officer on Hillary Clinton&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign.</p>
<p>&#8220;Did you facilitate the payment for the Steele dossier since you were CFO of the Hillary Clinton campaign?&#8221; he asked.</p>
<p>Gensler, who was shaking his head, began to answer with, &#8220;Sir,&#8221; after which Donalds said, &#8220;Yes or no.&#8221; This happened twice before Donalds reminded the witness that he was under oath. &#8220;I know,&#8221; Gensler replied before offering an answer: &#8220;It was not something I was aware of.&#8221;</p>
<p>The exchange, and the hearing at large, ended there.</p>
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<p>It is already well established that funds from Clinton&#8217;s failed campaign and the Democratic National Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-dnc-hillary-campaign-paid-compile-trump-ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went toward Steele&#8217;s</a> dossier, which was packed with salacious allegations tying former President Donald Trump to Russia that have been <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/christopher-steele-holds-firm-on-defending-discredited-dossier" target="_blank" rel="noopener">picked apart</a> by <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/mueller-report-dismisses-many-steele-dossier-claims-11555710147" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal investigators</a>.</p>
<p>In fact, both parties <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fec-fines-dnc-clinton-for-trump-dossier-hoax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were fined by the Federal Election Commission</a> for not properly disclosing the roughly $1 million that made its way to Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired Steele, from the Perkins Coie law firm.</p>
<p>Gensler&#8217;s name came up when the Clinton campaign&#8217;s chairman, John Podesta, testified to the House Intelligence Committee in 2017. Podesta mentioned Gensler as being the person who &#8220;established the financial controls&#8221; and he stressed that &#8220;Gary&#8221; was &#8220;at the top,&#8221; handling payments to Perkins Coie, <a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-09/PodestaInterview.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a transcript shows</a>.</p>
<p>Devin Nunes, the Republican former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who left Congress to head Trump&#8217;s media company, said this week that his panel &#8220;outed&#8221; Gensler as the individual who &#8220;wrote the check to Fusion GPS.&#8221;</p>
<p>During a &#8220;Just the News Not Noise&#8221; interview, Nunes also criticized Gensler and the SEC for the extended holdup on a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/22/trump-sec-truth-social-public-company-00070444" target="_blank" rel="noopener">planned merger</a> between the Trump Media &amp; Technology Group, which runs the social media platform called Truth Social, and Digital World Acquisition Corp.</p>
<p>This follows Trump Media&#8217;s general counsel <a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-02/23.02.27%20TMTG%20to%20Congress%20FINAL%20w%20Attachments.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requesting in February</a> that Congress investigate the SEC over an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-new-social-media-venture-is-under-sec-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;endless&#8221; review</a> described as &#8220;an unprecedented attempt to kill the deal without any finding of wrongdoing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Donalds <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/byron-donalds-endorses-trump-president-strength-resolve" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed Trump earlier this month</a>, at the time making him the third GOP lawmaker from Florida to back the former president&#8217;s 2024 White House campaign.</p>

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