In his highly anticipated interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, fired FBI Director James Comey admitted that he never told President Donald Trump that the Steele dossier was funded by his political opponents.

Partial transcript via Charlie Spiering of Breitbart News:

STEPHANOPOULOS: “Did you tell him that the Steele dossier had been financed by his political opponents?”

COMEY: “No. I didn’t.”

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STEPHANOPOULOS: “But did he have a right to know that?”

COMEY: “That it had been financed by his political opponents? I don’t know the answer to that.”

As The Gateway Pundit’s Kristinn Taylor previously reported, WaPo revealed last October that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee paid for the Fusion GPS dossier alleging Russian ties with the presidential campaign of Republican Donald Trump and sordid phony personal smears of Trump.

In fact, Paul Sperry of the New York Post has said both the DNC and Clinton campaign had more control over the dossier than most people realize.

Sperry tweeted, “DNC & Hillary Clinton campaign had contractual control over how the product they paid for was used & disseminated. That means Simpson & Steele had to first consult with Clinton campaign lawyers before taking the dossier to the FBI & to the media. Ergo, Hillary coordinated FBI hit”