March 29, 2019

NELLIE OHR: ‘I FAVORED HILLARY CLINTON’


  • Former Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr told Congress in October that she “favored” Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. 
  • A transcript of Ohr’s testimony was published Thursday.
  • Nellie Ohr, whose husband is DOJ official Bruce Ohr, detailed her work for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that commissioned the Steele dossier.
  • Nellie Ohr said that a Ukrainian lawmaker was one of Fusion GPS’s sources.

Nellie Ohr, a former Fusion GPS contractor and wife to Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, told Congress that she “favored” Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign, and would not have researched the Democrat as she did Donald Trump.

“I would probably have been less comfortable doing opposition research that would have gone against Hillary Clinton,” Nellie Ohr told a congressional task force on Oct. 19, according to a transcript released Thursday.

“And why is that?” a congressional staffer asked Nellie Ohr.

“Because I favored Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate,” said Nellie Ohr.

She gave research she did on Trump and his associates to her husband, Bruce Ohr, in hopes that he would provide it to the FBI.

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