Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign has hired notorious election meddler Marc Elias to join their legal team to focus on potential recounts.
Elias is bringing along “lawyers from his growing firm” this go-around after having previously served as general counsel for Harris’ primary campaign during the 2020 election cycle, The New York Times (NYT) reported. Other members of Harris’ legal team include Bob Bauer, “who served as personal counsel to President Biden for years,” Dana Remus, who served as general counsel to Biden’s 2020 campaign, and Vanita Gupta, a former “top Biden Justice Department official” who will serve as an “informal adviser,” The Times reported.
But if Elias’ past (and present) tells us anything, it’s that Harris’ team is gearing up to fight tooth and nail to win this election in the courts if it can’t win at the ballot box.
Russia Collusion
Elias is perhaps best known for helping construct the Russia collusion hoax, which was one of the first explicit instances of Democrat election interference targeting Donald Trump. Elias commissioned the discredited Steele Dossier that was funded by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. Elias was a top lawyer for Clinton in 2016.
Fusion GPS was hired by Elias — yet funded by Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee — to get dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump. Fusion GPS hired former British spy Christopher Steele, who later disseminated uncorroborated allegations that Trump was a Russian asset to media and U.S. spy agencies. The dossier’s primary source was
