Glenn Simpson > Quotes

“Devin Nunes of California, who served on Trump’s transition team, would soon use his chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee to try to gut the inquiries into Trump’s Russia ties and to create multiple diversionary smoke screens.”
― Glenn Simpson, Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump

“Simpson veered off-script and predicted darkness ahead. “We’re in for a pretty mean time,” he said. Fritsch said the incoming one-party government under a vindictive person like Trump might well seek to use its powers against its critics.”
― Glenn Simpson, Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump

“Been through some rough spots in life, this is rougher than any,” Bagwell wrote to his colleagues of Trump’s victory. “Didn’t think this country could sink this low.”
― Glenn Simpson, Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump

“But once again, Mitch McConnell staunchly refused, going so far as to threaten that if the White House made such a declaration, he would put out his own statement accusing Obama of playing politics.”
― Glenn Simpson, Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump

“In Trump, Putin found the perfect opportunity to exploit Russia’s newfound propaganda powers with a long-shot bid to install an ally in the White House. Falling short of that, Russia would at least sow distrust among Americans in their electoral system. As it turned out, Putin succeeded on both counts.”
― Glenn Simpson, Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump

“Steele would ask Simpson and Fritsch again and again: Is maintaining the appearance of impartiality in this election so important to you Americans that you are willing to risk electing a Russian asset?”
― Glenn Simpson, Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump

“A “Buy American” proponent whose own clothing line was made in Mexico. A proud straight-talker with a long history of prevarication and outright fabrications—including under oath.”
― Glenn Simpson, Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump

“The hiring of Nellie Ohr made perfect sense for Project Bangor, but it would later help fuel an elaborate right-wing conspiracy theory. In this version of events, the effort to research and understand Trump’s curious interactions with the Russian underworld was actually a nefarious liberal plot—reaching from the Clinton campaign to career officials and Nellie’s husband at the Justice Department—to undermine the future Trump presidency. A presidency not even Donald Trump himself thought would happen.”
― Glenn Simpson, Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump

“Historic intelligence failures such as Pearl Harbor and September 11, 2001, have often been attributed to “failures of imagination.” The same could be said of the Russian attack on the 2016 presidential elections. Neither the U.S. government nor the media nor the public were prepared to grapple with a sweeping foreign intrusion into our fragile electoral system. The efforts by Steele and Fusion to raise the alarm initially struck many as wide-eyed paranoia.”
― Glenn Simpson, Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump

“Project Charlemagne, as Orbis called it, had chronicled signs of extensive Russian electoral interference in support of right-wing parties all across Western Europe.”
― Glenn Simpson, Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump

“A supposed self-made entrepreneur whose wealth actually sprang from an accident of birth. An immigrant basher who employed countless immigrants—and was even married to one.”
― Glenn Simpson, Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump

“incoming leader of the free world”
― Glenn Simpson, Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump