Comey’s version of the facts conflicts with the historical record

Fired FBI director James Comey has provided a number of assertions about the Trump-Russia probe that conflict with the historical record.

Whether it involves who paid for the anti-Trump dossier, what Mr. Comey knew about the funding and when its author, Christopher Steele, first met with the FBI, the former director has provided his version of facts that critics say are wrong.

Mr. Comey is on a media tour selling his memoir, “A Higher Loyalty.”

Dossier Funding

Mr. Comey told Fox News anchor Bret Baier this week that Republicans first funded the Steele dossier and then later the money flow shifted to unknown Democrats.

This assertion is one often repeated by liberals to cast blame on Republicans for a dossier that makes a series of election collusion charges that remain unconfirmed publicly today: