"In October 2015, before the official start of the 2016 Republican primary campaign, the founders of Fusion GPS were seeking political work and wrote an email to "a big conservative donor they knew who disliked Trump, [and] they were hired". He arranged for them to use The Washington Free Beacon, an American conservative political journalism website, for their general opposition research on several Republican presidential candidates, including Trump.[37][38] It is primarily funded by Republican donor Paul Singer.[38] The Free Beacon and Singer were "part of the conservative never-Trump movement".[39]" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_dossier)