Democratic dirty trickster Marc Elias is trying to steal a Senate seat

Marc Elias is back and that is not good news.Despite the Pennsylvania race called by the AP almost a week ago, Elias is working with Democratic Sen.Bob Casey to try to change that outcome.

It is not surprising that Casey was left with Elias.For many, Elias is a notorious figure who captures the hypocrisy of the “save democracy” crowd. Ellias is an attorney who has been sanctioned in court and denounced by critics as a Democratic “dirty trickster” and even an “election denier.”Despite his checkered history, Elias remains the go-to lawyer for many Democratic campaigns.It was Elias who was the general counsel to the Clinton presidential campaign when it funded the infamous Steele Dossier, which falsely pushed the idea that Donald Trump was a Russian asset.During the campaign, reporters asked about the possible connection to the campaign, but Clinton campaign officials denied any involvement in the Steele Dossier.

When journalists discovered after the election that the Clinton campaign hid payments for the dossier as “legal fees” among the $5.6 million paid to Perkins Coie, they met with nothing but shrugs from the Clinton staff.New York Times reporter Ken Vogel accused Elias of denying involvement in the anti-Trump dossier.When Vogel tried to report the story, he said, Elias “pushed back vigorously, saying ‘You (or your sources) are wrong.’” Times reporter Maggie Haberman declared, “Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year.”Elias was back when John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, was questioned by Congress on the Steele Dossier and denied categorically any contractual agreement with Fusion GPS.

Sitting beside him was Elias, who reportedly said nothing to correct the misleading information given to Congress.The Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee were ultimately sanctioned by the FEC over the handling of the funding of the dossier through his prior firm.The...